Once a week I make the drive, two hours east 一周一次我做驱动，二小时东

To check the Austin post office box 要检查奥斯汀邮政信箱

And I make the detour through our old neighborhood 我做绕道通过我们的老邻居

See all the Chevy Impalas in their front yards up on blocks 查看所有雪佛兰黑斑羚在他们的前院上街区

   

And I park in an alley 我停在一条小巷

And I read through the postcards you continue to send 我通过你继续发送明信片读

Where as indirectly as you can, you ask what I remember 凡以间接的，你可以，你问什么我记得

I like these torture devices from my old best friend 我喜欢从我的老最好的朋友，这些刑具

   

Well, I'll tell you what I know, like I swore I always would 好吧，我会告诉你我所知道的，像我发誓我会永远

I don't think it's gonna do you any good 我不认为这会你有什么好处

I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok 我记得往南出曼谷的火车

Down toward the water 向下朝向水

   

I always get a late start when the sun's going down 我总是在太阳的走下去起步较晚

And the traffic's thinning out and the glare is hard to take 和流量的稀化和眩光是难以接受的

I wish the West Texas Highway was a mobius strip 祝西得克萨斯高速公路是一个莫比乌斯环

I could ride it out forever 我可以骑它永远

   

When I feel my heart break, I almost swear I hear it happen, in fact, clean and not hard 当我觉得我的心脏休息一下，我差点发誓我听到这一点，其实，清洁，不硬

I come in off the highway and I park in my front yard 我可以进来了高速公路，我停在我家前院

Fall out of the car like a hostage from a plane 秋季下了车就像从飞机人质

Think of you a while, start wishing it would rain 想你时，开始希望会下雨

   

And I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok 我记得往南出曼谷的火车

Down toward the water 向下朝向水

   

I come into the house, put on a pot of coffee 我来进了屋子，放在咖啡壶

Walk the floors a little while 走在地板一小会儿

I set your postcard on the table with all the others like it 我把你的明信片放在桌子上的所有其他类似

I start sorting through the pile 我开始通过堆排序

   

I check the pictures and the postmarks and the captions and the stamps 我检查了图片和邮戳和字幕和邮票

For signs of any pattern at all 对于任何模式的迹象可言

When I come up empty-handed the feeling almost overwhelms me 当我拿出空手的感觉几乎淹没了我

I let a few of my defenses fall 我让我的几个防御下降

   

And I smile a bitter smile 我一笑而过

It's not a pretty thing to see 这不是一个漂亮的东西，看

I think about a railroad platform 我认为，关于铁路平台

Back in 1983 早在1983

   

And I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok 我记得往南出曼谷的火车

Down, down toward the water 下来，下来对水