We stand here in ceremonial dress, 我们站在这里的礼服，

With a knife in the garter. 随着袜带刀。

Like the love you never get to feel, 像爱你永远不会觉得，

This is the fame of the martyr. 这是烈士的名声。

You are the California smile, 你是加州的笑容，

You’re the cake decorator. 你的蛋糕装饰。

   

“He has this plan which is keep doing exactly what it is you’re doing “他有这个计划，是继续做它正是你在做

and somehow everything’s going to be alright. 不知何故一切都会好起来的。

And I was like, I’m growing stalagmites, I’ don’t want to be here anymore. 我当时想，我长大石笋，我不想在这里了。

So I guess we’re going to live in this haunted city forever more, 所以我想我们要生活在这个城市的闹鬼永远较多，

Where the gray creeps through your front door and all the houses 凡通过您的前门灰野怪和所有的房子

look like jack’o’lanterns, exactly the same all stood in a row. 看起来像jackolanterns ，一模一样全都站成一排。

Glowing with the mundanity of an early evening being lived out inside.” 与傍晚的mundanity泛着正在里面活出来。 “

   

Like the rabbits with ointment in their eyes 喜欢用软膏，在他们眼中的兔

Trying to focus in cages. 努力集中在笼子里。

The lives are lived so what is it? 生命是如此生活是什么呢？

An hourglass or two faces? 沙漏或两副面孔？

We’re only human is our excuse, 我们是人之常情，是我们的借口，

Let’s just keep blaming nature. 让我们只是不停埋怨性质。

My heart melts less over the years, 我的心脏融化少，多年来，

Whilst the past rings in my ears. 虽然过去环在我的耳边。

You are the California smile, 你是加州的笑容，

You’re the cake decorator. 你的蛋糕装饰。

   

“So if needs be I’ll batter you with unrelenting dignity, “所以，如果需要的话，我会连击你无情的尊严，

My mouth will be sealed tighter than a nervous clam. 我的嘴将密封比一个紧张的蛤更紧。

Because all words will be meaningless when you’re washed up on the sand. 因为所有的话就失去了意义，当你在沙滩上冲上来。

Try not to think about the future. 尽量不要去想未来。

Try not to live in the past.” 尽量不要活在过去。 “

   

In the meantime I’ll write down all of these words 在此期间，我会记下所有的这些话

And sing songs of being lost then found, 唱的丢失，然后找到歌曲，

Being loved and lost. 被爱而失去。