Miguel came from a small town in northen Mexico 米格尔来自一个小城镇期北方墨西哥

He came north with his brother Louis to California three years ago 他来到北与他的兄弟路易加州三年前

They crossed at the river levee when Louis was just sixteen 他们穿过在河大堤时，路易斯只是16

And found work together in the fields of the San Joaquin 并找到了工作一起在圣华金领域

   

They left their homes and family 他们离开自己的家园和家人

Their father said "My sons one thing you will learn 他们的父亲说： “儿子们一件事，你将学习

For everything the north gives it exacts a price in return." 对于一切北部赋予它需要付出的代价换来的。 “

They worked side by side in the orchards 他们在果园并肩工作

From morning till the day was through 从早忙到一天就是通过

Doing the work the hueros wouldn't do. 做工作的hueros不会做。

   

Word was out some men in from Sinaloa were looking for some hands 道就是在一些人从锡那罗亚州正在寻找一些手

Well deep in Fresno county there was a deserted chicken ranch 在弗雷斯诺县以及深有一个废弃的农场鸡

There in a small tin shack on the edge of a ravine 有一个小棚子锡在山沟边

Miguel and Louis stood cooking methamphetamine. 米格尔和路易斯站在烹饪甲基苯丙胺。

   

You could spend a year in the orchards 你可以在果园花一年

Or make half as much in one ten-hour shift 或使一半的在一个10小时轮班

Working for the men from Sinaloa 工作从锡那罗亚州的男人

But if you slipped the hydriodic acid 但是如果你悄悄地把氢碘酸

Could burn right through your skin 可以通过你的皮肤烧伤权

They'd leave you spittin' up blood in the desert 他们会离开你吐口水了血液在沙漠中

If you breathed those fumes in 如果在吸入这些烟雾

   

It was early one winter evening as Miguel stood watch outside 这是早期的一个冬天的晚上，因为米格尔站在外面观看

When the shack exploded lighting up the valley night 当窝棚炸开照亮了夜谷

Miguel carried Louis' body over his shoulder down a swale 米格尔·路易斯进行的身体在他的肩膀下了洼地

To the creekside and there in the tall grass Louis Rosales died 到溪畔有在草丛路易斯·罗萨莱斯死亡

   

Miguel lifted Louis' body into his truck and then he drove 米格尔·路易斯解禁的身体到他的车，然后他开车

To where the morning sunlight fell on a eucalyptus grove 到早晨的阳光落在了桉树林

There in the dirt he dug up ten thousand dollars all that they'd saved 那里的泥土，他挖出了10000美元的所有，他们会得救

Kissed his brother's lips and placed him in his grave 吻了他弟弟的嘴唇，使他在他的坟墓