After these processions comes the sweeping up 这些游行后，接着打扫

The rag and bone possessions, an old tin cup 抹布和骨的财产，老锡杯

The army trucks have hauled away the newly slain 军队的卡车运走新被杀

The angry crowd retreats, but They'll be back again 愤怒的群众撤退，但他们会再回来

   

And the prisoner in the palace does not understand 而在宫殿里的囚犯不明白

The ingratitude around him after all he's done and planned 他周围的忘恩负义毕竟他做的和计划

But if this the way that it must be then he'll be damned 但是，如果这种方式，它必须那么他会被定罪

If he will let them take away his perfect dream 如果他将让他们拿走了他完美的梦

   

Ministers stuff bank notes into leather bags 部长的东西钞票到皮包

Their wives have packed the jewelry and the luggage tanks 他们的妻子已经挤满了珠宝和行李舱

The word is on the street now, growing day by day 这个词是在大街上，现在，与日俱增

And even the informers know the stay away 甚至线人知道敬而远之

   

And the prisoner in the palace is appalled by this charade 而在宫殿里的囚犯被这个把戏感到震惊

Feeling strangely unprotected by his miles of golden braid 感觉由他的英里的金色编织的奇怪未受保护

And if this is the way that it must be then I'm afraid 如果是这样的方式，它必须是那么恐怕

He will not let them take away his perfect dream 他不会让他们拿走了他完美的梦

   

And these mountains of equipment brought from foreign lands 而这些设备的山脉从国外带来的土地

Are now stacked up in the desert being buried by the sand 现在堆放在沙漠中被掩埋的沙子

These rows of helicopters rusting where they stand 拔地而起这些行的直升机生锈

Are butterflies to take away the perfect dream 是蝴蝶带走了完美的梦

   

He cried inside the limousine and at the airport too 他哭了内部的豪华轿车，并在机场过

Where the soldier knelt before him and kissed his shoe 当士兵在他面前跪下来亲吻他的鞋子

He flew across the desert and the open sea 他飞越沙漠和大海

While they tore down all his statues and his legacy 虽然他们拆毁了他所有的雕像和他的遗产

   

And the victor greets the newsmen with a strange and stoic style 而胜利者迎接一个陌生而坚忍的风格新闻记者

They take a hundred thousand pictures and in none of them a smile 他们采取了十万的照片和他们没有笑容

But this is just the way that it must be now for a while 但是，这仅仅是这样，它必须是现在一段时间

he's only come to bring another perfect dream 他唯一能给人们带来另一种完美的梦