Tell you a thing 告诉你的事

That you ought to know 那你应该知道

Two minutes of your time 两分钟的时间

Then on you go 然后你去

   

Tell tale of the man 告诉男人的故事

All dressed in black 在全黑装扮

That most of them 他们大多数

Not coming back 不回来了

   

Sent off to war 被罚下场战争

To play little games 玩小游戏

And on their return 并在他们返回

Can't name no names 不能说出任何名字

   

Some strange yellow gas 一些奇怪的黄气

Has played with their minds 曾与他们的头脑

Has reddened their eyes 已经涨红的眼睛

Removed all the lies 删除了所有的谎言

   

And strange as it sounds 而且听起来似乎很奇怪

Death knows no bounds 死亡无国界

How many get well 有多少好起来

Only time will tell 只有时间才能告诉我们

Only time will tell 只有时间才能告诉我们

   

You lie in your death bed now 你躺在你的床上死亡，现在

But what did you bring to the table 但是你带来什么表

Brought us only holy sin 给我们带来的只有神圣的罪

Utter trust is a deadly thing 完全信任是一种致命的事情

   

To the prayer of holy peace 为了神圣的和平祈祷

We didn't know what was lying underneath 我们不知道发生了什么躺在下面

So how could we be such fools 所以，我们怎么会是这样的傻瓜

And to think that we thought you knew the answer 想想看，我们认为你知道答案

   

I can't begin to understand in all the lies 我不能开始在所有的谎言要了解

But on your death bed I can see it in your eyes 但是，在你临终，我可以看到它在你的眼睛

Just as clear as all the sweat upon your brow 正如清楚在你的额头都出汗

It really makes sense I can see it clearly now 这真的是有道理的，我可以看到它现在清楚

   

Tangled up in a web of lies 纠结在谎言的罗网

Could have been a way to prophecies 本来是一个方法来预言

Unaware of the consequence 不知道后果的

Not aware of the secrets that you kept 不知道，你一直在秘密

   

Nothing that we could believe 没有什么我们可以相信，

To reveal the facade of faceless men 揭示见不着人的门面

Not a thing that we could foresee 不顺心的事情，我们可以预见

Now a sign that would tell us the outcome 现在是一个迹象，表明会告诉我们结果

   

You had us all strung out with promises of peace 你把我们都精神不振与和平的承诺

But all along your cover plan was to deceive 但一直以来你的求职计划是欺骗

Can it be put to rights now only time will tell 它可以被治权现在只有时间才能告诉我们

Your prophecies will send us all to hell as well 你的预言将发送给我们所有的地狱，以及

   

Left to all our golden sons 留给我们所有的黄金儿子

All to pick up on the peace 大家拿起和平

You could have given all of them 你可以给所有的人

A little chance...at least 一点机会......至少

   

Take the world to a better place 就拿世界变得更美好

Given them all just a little hope 给了他们所有的只是一点点的希望

Just think what a legacy 试想想，什么是遗产

You now...will leave 现在，您...会离开

   

We seem destined to live in fear 我们似乎注定要生活在恐惧中

And some that would say Armageddon is near 有的认为会说世界末日就在附近

But where there's a life while there's hope 但其中有一个生命，同时还有希望

That man won't self destruct 人类不会自毁

   

Why can't we treat our fellow men 为什么我们不能把我们的同胞

With more respect and a shake of their hands 随着越来越多的尊重，他们的手的抖动

But anger and loathing is rife 但是，愤怒和厌恶盛行

The death on all sides is becoming a way of life 在各方面的死亡成为一种生活方式

   

We live in an uncertain world 我们生活在一个不确定的世界

Fear understanding and ignorance is leading to death 了解恐惧和无知是导致死亡

Only the corpses are left 只有尸体被留下

For vultures that prey on their bones 对于捕食他们的骨头秃鹰

   

But some are just not wanting peace 但有些只是不希望和平

Their whole life is death and misery 他们的一生是死亡和苦难

The only thing that they know 他们知道的唯一的事

Fight fire with fire life is cheap 以火攻火的生活很便宜

   

But if they do stop to think 不过，如果他们停下来思考

That man is teetering right on the brink 这名男子是在边缘摇摇欲坠的权利

But do you think that they care 但你认为他们在乎

They benefit from death and pain and despair 他们受益于死亡，痛苦和绝望