Did you ever hear about the great deception 你有没有听说过伟大的欺骗

Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run 以及塑料革命者拿钱走人

Have you ever been down to love city 您曾经下降到爱城市

Where they rip you off with a smile 在那里他们撕裂你了面带微笑

And it don't take a gun 它不走枪

   

Don't it hurt so bad in love city 不痛的爱情城市那么糟糕

Don't it make you not want to bother at all 难道不是让你不想打扰在所有

And don't they look so self righteous 和他们不显得那么自以为是

When they pin you up against the wall 当他们你脚靠在墙上

   

Did you ever, ever see the people 你有没有想过，从来没见过的人

With the tear drops in their eyes 随着泪落在他们眼里

I just can't stand it, stand it no how 我只是不能忍受，忍受没怎么

Living in this world of lies 生活在这个世界上的谎言

   

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singers 你有没有听说过的摇滚歌手

Got three or four Cadillacs 有三个或四个凯迪拉克

Saying power to the people, dance to the music 话语权的人，跳舞的音乐

Wants you to pat him on the back 希望你拍拍他的背

   

Have you ever heard about the great Rembrandt 你有没有听说过伟大的伦勃朗

Have you ever heard about how he could paint 你有没有听说过，他怎么会画画

And he didn't have enough money for his brushes 他没有足够的钱为他的画笔

And they thought it was rather quaint 他们认为这是相当古怪

   

But you know it's no use repeating 但是，你知道这是没有用的重复

And you know it's no use to think about it 而你知道这是没有用的，想想吧

'Cause when you stop to think about it “当你停下来想一想原因

You don't need it 你并不需要它

   

Have you ever heard about the great Hollywood motion picture actor 你有没有听说过一个好莱坞的电影演员

Who knew more than they did 比他们知道谁更

And the newspapers didn't cover the story 而报纸并没有涵盖的故事

Just decided to keep it hid. 刚刚决定把它藏起来。

   

Somebody started saying it was an inside job 有人开始说，这是一个内部的工作

Whatever happened to him? 无论发生在他身上？

Last time they saw him down on the Bow'ry 他们最后一次看见他倒在Bowry

With his lip hanging off an old rusty bottle of gin 随着他的嘴唇挂了一个生锈的旧瓶装杜松子酒

   

Have you ever heard about the so-called hippies 你有没有听说过所谓的嬉皮士

Down on the far side of the tracks 倒在铁轨的另一边

They take the eyeballs straight out of your head 他们采取的眼球直出你的头

Say son, kid, do you want your eyeballs back 儿子说，孩子，你想不想你的眼球回

   

Did you ever see the people 你有没有看到这些人

With the tear drops in their eyes 随着泪落在他们眼里

Just can't stand it no how 只是不能忍受它没怎么

Living in this world of lies 生活在这个世界上的谎言