I was wandering through the streets of the city 我是通过城市的街道上游荡

Rambling through the the avenues of time 经过时间的门路东拉西扯

When from nowhere my eyes fell onto a girl 当从无处我的目光落在上一个女孩

And by chance her eyes fell onto mine 而一次偶然的机会她的目光落在矿上

Ah... 啊...

   

So I sat and I acted all nonchalant 于是我坐下来，我的行为都满不在乎

She smoked her lavender cigarette 她抽了一支烟薰衣草

Reading the future that lay in my hands 看在我手中打下未来

My shadow played a bass clarinet 我的影子起到了低音单簧管

Where are you going with this, Bret? 你去哪儿了这一点，布雷特？

   

We waltzed down a moonlit boulevard 我们舞着下来月光大道

Just two silhouettes in the mist 在雾中只有两个剪影

Ah. yes? 啊。是吗？

Days went by and years went by 几天过去了，岁月的流逝

Moments went by when we kissed 瞬间流逝，当我们亲吻

When was this? 什么时候？

   

She said, "Your beard is woven of heartache 她说， “你的胡子是编织的心痛

And we'll drink for the lonely tonight." 我们会喝寂寞今晚。 “

And the moon is a horny old drunkard 而月亮是一个老角质酒鬼

Ah, Bret. Could you please move over to your right? 嗯，布雷特。请您在移动到您的权利？

   

We drank dandelion wine and we reminisced 我们喝蒲公英酒和我们叙旧

About the moment when we first met that day 什么时候我们第一次见面的那一天的那一刻

I'm trying to watch TV 我想要看电视

Then we reminisced about how we first reminisced 然后我们回忆起如何，我们首先回忆

Ah yeah. Sounds a bit gay 嗯，是的。听起来有点同性恋

   

She handed me a broken memory 她递给我一张破碎的记忆

A keepsake to forevermore say 信物到永远说

That a brief taste of love is as sweet as any 爱情的简单味道是甜的任

And with that, she made her way 有了这样的，她做她的方式

Oh yeah. What was her name? 哦耶。她叫什么名字？

   

She said her name was a secret 她说，她的名字是一个秘密

Then she said her name was Cherie 然后她说她叫切丽

Is her middle name Cherie, so It's a Secret Cherie, maybe? 是她的中间名切丽，所以这是一个秘密的切丽，也许？

Mm .. Maybe What did she look like? 嗯..也许她看的是什么样的呢？

   

She looked like a Parisian river 她看起来像一个巴黎人河

What? dirty? 什么？脏？

She looked like a chocolate eclair 她看起来像一个巧克力闪电

That's rare 这是罕见的

Her eyes were reflections of eyes 她的眼睛是眼睛的反射

Oh, nice 哦，不错的

And the rainbows danced in her hair 而彩虹跳舞在她的头发

Oh yeah.. 哦耶..

   

She reminded me of a winter's morning 她想起了一个冬天的早上我

What, frigid? 什么，性冷淡？

Her perfume was eau de toilette 她的香水是淡香水

What's that mean? 这是什么意思？

She was comparable to Cleopatra 她是堪比埃及艳后

Quite old? 很老？

She was like Shakespeare's Juliet 她很喜欢莎士比亚的茱丽叶

Thirteen?! 十三？

   

The bohemians of Soho did pirouettes 苏荷的波希米亚人没有回旋

As we waltzed through the streets of Manhattan 当我们穿过曼哈顿的街道上舞着

On rivers of ribbon and sailboats of song 在功能区的河流和歌帆船

Bret, did any of this actually happen? 布雷特，没任何这实际上发生的呢？

   

The girl I described, she's as real as the wind 我描述了这个女孩，她是真正的风

It's true I saw her today 这是真的，我今天看到她

The other details are inventions 其他细节的发明

Because I prefer her that way 因为我喜欢她这样