Let me watch by the fire and remember my days 让我在火看，记住我的天

And it may be a trick of the firelight 它可能是火光的绝招

But the flickering pages that trouble my sight 但闪烁页面的麻烦我的视线

Is a book I'm afraid to write 是一本书，我怕写

   

It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life 这是我天的书，这是我一生的书

And it's cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife 而且它切成像刀刀片水果

And it's all there to see as the section reveals 而这一切都没有看到的部分显示

There's some sorrow in every life 这里也有一些悲哀的每一个生命

   

If it reads like a puzzle, a wandering maze 如果它读起来就像一个谜，一个流浪的迷宫

Then I won't understand 'til the end of my days 然后，我会不知道，直到我的天结束

I'm still forced to remember, 我还是被迫要记住，

Remember the words of my life 记住我的生活的话

   

There are promises broken and promises kept 有破碎的承诺和信守承诺

Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept 从前所说，当我应该哭泣的气话

There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess 有秘密的一章，和文字交代

If I lose everything that I possess 如果我输了，我拥有的一切

There's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die 有一个关于损失的一章，谁不会死鬼

There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry 有爱的一章，其中墨是永不干涸

There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies. 还有在监狱里我建出来的谎言服刑。

   

Though the pages are numbered 虽然页面进行编号

I can't see where they lead 我看不出他们走向何处

For the end is a mystery no-one can read 对于到底是一个谜，没有人能读

In the book of my life 在我的生命之书

   

There's a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons 有一个关于父亲一章关于儿子的一章

There are pages of conflicts that nobody won 有冲突，没有人赢得页

And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat, 而你失去了战斗，而你惨痛的失利，

There's a page where we fail to meet 还有就是我们不能满足一个页面

   

There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be planned 有好运的故事不能被规划

There's a chapter on god that I don't understand 有上帝的一章，我不明白

There's a promise of Heaven and Hell but I'm damned if I see 有天堂与地狱的希望，但是如果我看到我该死

   

Though the pages are numbered 虽然页面进行编号

I can't see where they lead 我看不出他们走向何处

For the end is a mystery no-one can read 对于到底是一个谜，没有人能读

In the book of my life 在我的生命之书

   

Now the daylight's returning 现在白天的回归

And if one sentence is true 如果一个句子为真

All these pages are burning 所有这些页面正在燃烧

And all that's left is you 和所有剩下的就是你

   

Though the pages are numbered 虽然页面进行编号

I can't see where they lead 我看不出他们走向何处

For the end is a mystery no-one can read 对于到底是一个谜，没有人能读

In the book of my life 在我的生命之书