Snow in a soulless city covers up the cracks in the road 斯诺在一个没有灵魂的城市覆盖在路面裂缝

As a wastrel buys her cigarettes and wipes her pretty nose 作为一个败家子买了香烟和湿巾她漂亮的鼻子

Like a part-time Elvis imitator these streets I knew so well 就像一个兼职猫王的模仿者这些街道我知道这么好

Have been pasted beyond recognition with a temporary smell 已贴得面目全非了一个临时的气味

   

Now the midnight train eases out leaving everyone marooned 现在的午夜列车简化了出去，把每个人被困

And without her it might as well be the surface of the moon 而如果没有她，这很可能会成为在月球表面

   

From the well-swept streets of Jackson Heights to the dockside drudgery 从杰克逊高地的良好风靡大街小巷的码头苦差事

Everything's now a replica of what it used to be 一切现在什么它曾经是一个副本

And since they tarted up the trenches and painted the bridges blue 而且，由于他们tarted了战壕和画的蓝桥

It seems less like a home to me than just a place they bury you 这似乎不像一个家对我来说不只是一个地方，他们埋葬你

   

Now we're lit up like a cathedral in our frozen concrete ruin 现在，我们照得如同在我们的冷冻混凝土废墟大教堂

And without her it might as well be the surface of the moon 而如果没有她，这很可能会成为在月球表面

   

So I need her and I love her that is true 所以，我需要她，我爱她是真的

But I'm stuck here like some shipwreck still holding on to you 但我坚持在这里像一些沉船仍然拿着你

So when they beat out the tramps and patch up the slums 因此，当他们击败了流浪者和修补贫民窟

Everything will be fine 一切都会好起来的

There'll be a new facade for us to hide behind 就会有一个新的门面，我们躲在后面

   

So on the ancient trails of our coupling in the places we used to meet 因此，在我们的耦合在地的古步道，我们用来满足

I am amazed by the lack of memories that I thought would flood through me 我对缺少的回忆，我认为将淹没通过我惊讶

And the riverside where we first kissed has now been reduced 当我们第一次吻了江边现在已经减少

To a phoney old world market where only shoppers get seduced 一个虚假的旧世界市场上，只有得到消费者的诱惑

   

Now your arms embrace me strangely in your unfamiliar room 现在，你的双臂拥抱我很奇怪，你不熟悉的房间

And for all I care it might as well be the surface of the moon 而且，我才不在乎它也可能是月球表面

Yeah for all I care it might as well be the surface of the moon 是的，我才不在乎它也可能是月球表面