Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors 酒店的爱好填充黎明镂空走廊

A typewriter cackles out a stream of memories 打字机咯咯出来的记忆流

Drying out a conscience, evicting a nightmare 晒出一个有良知，赶走噩梦

Opening the doors for the dreams to come home 打开门的梦想回家

We live out lives in private shells 我们活出生命的私营弹

Ignore our senses and fool ourselves 忽略我们的感官和自欺欺人

To thinking that out there there's someone else cares 要以为那里有别人的关心

Someone to answer all our prayers 有人回答我们所有的祷告

   

Are we too far gone, are we so irresponsible 难道我们太远了，我们这么不负责任

Have we lost our balls, or do we just not care 我们失去了我们的球，还是我们只是不小心

We're terminal cases that keep talking medicine 我们认为继续谈判药品终端病例

Pretending the end isn't quite that near 假装自己到底是不是想象中的那么近

   

We make futile gestures, act to the cameras 我们做徒劳的手势，动作的摄像头

With our made up faces and PR smiles 随着我国由面孔和笑容公关

And when the angel comes down, down to deliver us 而当天使下来，下来救我们

We'll find out that after all, we're only men of straw 我们会发现，毕竟，我们只有男人稻草

   

But everything is still the same 但是，一切都还是一样

Passing the time passing the blame 薪火传递的怪的时候

We carry on in the same old way 我们继续在同样的老办法

We'll find out we left it too late one day to say what we meant to say 我们会发现，我们离开时为时已晚一天说我们想说的话

   

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water 正当你认为它是安全的回到水

Those problems seem to arise the ones you never really thought of 这些问题似乎出现那些你从来没有真正想过

The feeling you get is similar to something like drowning 你的感觉是类似像溺水

Out of your mind, you're out of your depth, you should have taken soundings 你的头脑，你出你的深度，你应该采取探测

Clutching at straws, we're clutching at straws 抓着救命稻草，我们抓着救命稻草

   

And if you ever come across us don't give us your sympathy 如果你曾经遇到我们不给我们你的同情

You can buy us a drink and just shake our hands 您可以帮我们买饮料，只是摇摇手

And you'll recognise by the reflection in our eyes 而且你会在我们的眼睛反射识别

That deep down inside we're all one and the same 在内心深处，我们都是同一个

   

We're clutching at straws 我们抓着救命稻草

We're still drowning Clutching at straws 救命稻草我们还在抓着落水