Dark highways and the country roads 深公路和乡村公路

Don't scare you like they did 不要吓唬你像他们那样

The woods and winds now welcome you 树林里的风，现在欢迎您

To the places you once hid 到了地方，你曾经藏

You grew up and you moved away 你长大了，你搬走

Across a foreign sea 跨越国外海

And what was left was what was kept 什么留下了什么保持

Was what you gave to me 是你给我的

   

You thought you'd left it all behind 你以为你离开这一切的背后

You thought you'd up and gone 你以为你起来走了

But all you did was figure out 但是，你所做的就是弄清楚

How to take the long way home 如何带回家的路很长

   

The Southern rain was heavy 南部雨下得很大

Almost heavy as your heart 几乎重如你的心脏

A cavalcade of strangers came 陌生人的行列来了

To tear your world apart 撕你的世界除了

The bells of old St. Mary's 老圣玛丽的钟声

Are now the clang of Charcoal Hill 现在的炭山铛

And you took the old religion from 你从了旧的宗教

The woman on the hill 该名女子在山上

   

You thought you'd left it all behind 你以为你离开这一切的背后

You thought you'd up and gone 你以为你起来走了

But all you did was figure out 但是，你所做的就是弄清楚

How to take the long way home 如何带回家的路很长

   

You thought you'd left it all behind 你以为你离开这一切的背后

You thought you'd up and gone 你以为你起来走了

But all you did was figure out 但是，你所做的就是弄清楚

How to take the long way home 如何带回家的路很长

   

The long way home 回家的路很长