Showtime 欣欣

Hang a guitar on my shoulder 挂一把吉他在我的肩膀上

Check the vacant drooling faces round the room 检查空流口水的脸圆了房

Another heartbreak battle 另一种心碎的战斗

And I'm only getting older 而我只是变老

Jesus help me when I say I'll give it all up pretty soon 耶稣帮助我，当我说我会放弃一切很快

Daytime 白天

Time to fight the morning's headache 时间打上午的头痛

Gulp an aspirin bang together one more song 吞下一片阿司匹林一起爆炸多了一个歌

Inspiration cauterised 灵感cauterised

By years of useeless heartache 经过多年useeless心痛

Every shallow nights reaction sounding twisted up and wrong 每一个浅浅的夜晚反应拉响扭曲和错

   

These last years 这些过去的几年

Years gone down to the showtime 去年下降到欣欣

   

Showtime 欣欣

Try to catch the spark 试图抓住火花

That got me hooked so many years ago and died 这让我大呼过瘾多年前去世

Second-rate musicians 二流音乐家

Feeding infantile illusions 喂养婴幼儿的幻想

Reading music magazines to keep the habit satisfied 阅读音乐杂志保持满意的习惯

Pitching 投球

To some demographic average 一些人口平均

What the hell he's staying home for, I don't see him here tonight 什么是地狱，他是呆在家里的，我没有看到他今晚在这里

Thirteen years and over 十三岁及以上

Tuned to radio between the hours 调谐电台时之间

Of six and seven-thirty, AM programmer's delight 六及七点半，下午程序员的喜悦

   

These last years 这些过去的几年

Years gone down to the showtime 去年下降到欣欣

   

I never knew it could be 我从来不知道它可能是

So misleading 因此误导

Waiting for the final song to end 等待最后的歌曲来结束

In this dirty nightclub 在这个肮脏的夜总会

All the souls are bleeding 所有的灵魂都在流血

Reaching for the big decision 深远的重大决定

Disco floor or television 迪斯科舞厅地板或电视

Time and time again 一次又一次

You hear the so-called friends 你听到的所谓的朋友

The smug de-facto critics in their movie backdrop cities 在他们的电影背景下的城市踌躇满志事实上的批评

Sneering sitdown and listen 冷笑sitdown ，听

Life's a lonely escalator 生命是一个孤独的自动扶梯

It's a fool who doesn't know he has to leap off at the end 这是一个傻瓜，谁不知道他在最后跳下

Well they were never at the guesthouse 好了，他们从来没有在宾馆

With the ghost of Jimmy Rodgers 与吉米·罗杰斯的鬼

Watching Townsville sugar sunsets back in 1959 看汤斯维尔糖日落早在1959年

And they'll all be gone when the end is come 他们会全部消失时，到底是来

And I'm kneeling in the backroom 而我跪在幕后

Crying Lord I'm just a trouper, let me play it one more time 哭主我只是一个马戏团，让我玩一次