Nineteen-hundred-sixty-four 十九百64

We were kids, didn't know about the war 我们还是孩子，不知道战争

Still wasting time in school 还在浪费时间在学校

There were Joe and Sue, Jack and Jim 有乔和苏，杰克和吉姆

A couple more in the second string 一对夫妇更在第二个字符串

All the rest just weren't cool 所有剩下的只是没有凉

Ah, we'd hang around in our little gang 嗯，我们会在我们的小帮派厮混

Having dreams, making plans 有梦想，拍图

For the outside world 对于外界

But when I see us now 但是，当我看到我们现在

I really find it strange 我真的觉得很奇怪

How little, how much we've changed 怎么少了多少，我们已经改变了

In the years gone by 在过去了的岁月

I guess it's meant to be that way 我猜它的意思是这样

   

Jimmy always played the clown 吉米一直扮演小丑

It was his way of hanging on to the crowd 这是他挂在人群的方式

But when he was down he'd come around 但是，当他下来，他会来到我身边

To get his hands on every agent known to man 为了得到他的手在每一个人类已知的代理

No matter how from aspirin to zylatoll 不管如何，从阿司匹林到zylatoll

Crazy Jimmy tried them all 疯狂吉米尝试所有

And he was dying but now he's fine 他快死了，但现在他的罚款

For he gets up at five o'clock 对于他起床五点

Runs ten miles in the L.A. smog 运行10英里在洛杉矶烟雾

Still crazy 还是疯狂

   

I've heard him say that anything worth really doing 我听到他说，没有什么值得真正做

Should be done until you're falling down 应该做，直到你倒下

And though he left the road to ruin 虽然他离开了绝路

He's found a new way to the ground 他发现了一种新的方式向地面

He still ain't found his balance 他仍然没有找到自己的平衡

   

Joe was never hard to please 乔永远难以取悦

When they said "Go" he went overseas into battle 当他们说“去”，他出国上阵

He stuck it out to the bitter end 他坚持了你死我活

Lived like a dog, fought like a man in the saddle 过着像狗，像是一个人在鞍

   

And when he came home from Vietnam 而当他回家从越南

They said "The war did him no harm" 他们说， “这场战争没有他没有伤害”

They're lying 他们在撒谎

He's known to cry and scream at times, in his dreams 他知道哭泣和尖叫的时候，在他的梦想

Holding off the nightmares that he sees 持观望态度，他认为该做恶梦

   

Time may heal the nightly screaming 时间可以医治每晚尖叫

But the scars will still remain 但疤痕仍保持

He fights so hard to kill his demon 他打架这么难杀了他的恶魔

At times the pain drives him insane 有时疼痛驱使他疯狂

Trying to regain his balance 试图恢复他的平衡

   

Jack and Susie lost no tome 杰克和Susie不失时机的大部头

They went to college and carried signs in the rally 他们上了大学，并在集会上举着标语

And finally with cap and gown 最后用帽子和袍子

They tied the knot and settled down in the valley 他们喜结连理，并在山谷定居下来

Oh but now they've got two little boys 哦，但现在他们已经有了两个小男孩

The place is filled with broken toys and dreams 这个地方充满了破碎的玩具和梦想

For it seems that Jack, in spite of his degree 对于似乎杰克，尽管他的学位

Moonlights at night, in the factory 月光的夜晚，在工厂

   

Susie's got the house and the children 苏西的得到了房子和孩子

But no time for her to grow 但是，没有时间陪伴她成长

And Jack is making their first million 和杰克正在自己的第一个一百万

And until they can't let go 直到他们不能放过

I guess they'll owe the balance 我猜他们会欠平衡

   

We don't talk much anymore 我们不说多了

Seems our little gang is bored with callin' 看来我们的小团伙是无聊的呼唤

Anyway we're too busy with gettin' on 反正我们忙于刚开了上

And looking out for number one 看着窗外的头号

Is all we got in common 就是我们的共同点了

With business, home, family 与企业，家庭，家庭

Are we ever all that we could be? 难道我们曾经的所有，我们可能是什么？

Trading in our fantasy 在我们的幻想交易

We live this part time life 我们住这部分时间生活

Of false security 虚假的安全

Seems to me that doers never dream enough 在我看来，实干家从未想过不够

And dreamers often do nothing at all 和梦想家往往什么也不做

And to find that middle ground is rough 并发现，中间地带是粗糙

But I'll be damned if I let go 但我如果我松手被定罪

Stop looking for the balance 停止寻找平衡