You see that endless line? They're victims of our time 你看到了无尽的线？他们是我们这个时代的受害者

Who's only crime was to bank on their fathers dreams 谁是唯一的罪行是他们父辈的梦想到银行

To work hard all your life, to raise your family with your wife 要努力工作，你的生活，以提高你的家人与你的妻子

And to survive all the heartaches and bad breaks fate may bring 和生存的所有心痛和休息不好的命运可能会带来

But dreams are seldom real and an aching heart won't heal 但梦想是很少真正和心脏疼痛不会愈合

Standing in a line for a meal at a strangers door 站在一条线，一顿饭在门口的陌生人

As night begins to fall, they lay down in the hall of the mission 夜幕开始下降，他们在任务大厅放下

Of the Salvation Army that is loosing the war 的救世军所失去的战争

   

And they dream of home, where someone's waitin' 他们梦想的家，一个人的等待着

Waitin' by the phone at the end of their rope 在他们穷途末路等着的手机

But come early dawn as dreams are fading 但到了清晨的梦想正在消退

They're hanging by a slender thread of hope 他们命悬希望的修长线

   

Now it's closing time again, she turns her collar to the wind 现在，它再次关闭时间，她把她领风

Goes running in the rain to a friend on the way back home 云在下雨的道路上运行的一个朋友回家

To hold the only joy the world did not destroy 要保持只有欢乐世界没有毁灭

A laughing little brown eyed boy she calls her own 笑的小棕眼睛的男孩，她称自己

Though he leads her by the hand and tries to be her little man 虽然他带领她的手，试图将她的小男人

He's really still too young to understand her quiet fears 他真的还太小，不明白她安静的恐惧

Oh bills weigh on her mind and she hates her daily grind 哦法案打压她的心，她恨她每天磨

'Cause time for romance was impossible to find these last few years 因为时间的恋情是不可能发现这些过去的几年里

   

Now they're goin' home, where no one's waiting 现在他们要走了家，在那里没有人的等待

Weary to the bone, she tries to cope 疲惫到骨头，她试图以应付

Sitting there alone, while slowly fading 坐在那里独自一人，一边慢慢褪色

She rocks to sleep her slender thread of hope 她奇石睡觉希望她纤细的线

   

The news comes on at ten, the public servant will explain 该消息是在十，公职人员会解释

How pouring water on the drowning little man will solve the mess 如何对溺水的小男人浇一次水就能解决乱

To save our way of life and to help us all survive 为了节省我们的生活方式，并帮助我们生存

Those with nothing will now have to stay alive on even less 那些什么现在必须活下去的就更少了

   

And as he spoke these words of wisdom 当他说话的智慧这些话

Like a cruel joke beyond his scope 像超出了他的范围，一个残酷的玩笑

With just one stroke from his fountain pen 从他的钢笔只需一招

He cut the last and final thread of hope 他希望削减的最后，并最终螺纹