The light blue flickering rhythm 淡蓝色的闪烁节奏

Of the neighbor's big console T.V. 邻居家的大台T.V.的

Is basking on the ceiling 在天花板上被晒着

Of another insomniac spree 另一种失眠大礼包

And outside sleep's open window 内外睡眠的打开窗口

Between the drops of rain 雨水的滴之间

History is writing a recipe book 历史是写食谱

For every earthly pain 对于每一个尘世的痛苦

   

Oh to clean up the clutter of echoes 哦清理回声杂乱

Coming in and out of focus 进出焦点

Words spoken 话说尽

Like locusts 像蝗虫

Sing and sing 唱歌唱

In my head 在我的脑海

   

And thing is 而就是

They often seem 他们似乎经常

In my memory's long dream 在我的记忆中的长梦

To be superfluous to 是多余的

The true story of what was 什么是真实的故事

   

Cuz CUZ

   

Real is real regardless 真正的现实是，无论

Of what you try to say 你想对我说的

Or say away 还是说走

Real is real relentless 真正的现实是无情的

While words distract and dismay 虽然话分散和沮丧

Words that change their tune 话改弦更张

Though the story remains the same 虽然故事保持相同

Words that fill me quickly 话很快填满了我

And then are slow to drain 然后缓慢地漏

Dialogues that dither down reminiscent 这倒抖动让人联想到对话

Of the way it likes to rain 的方式，喜欢下雨

Every screen 每个屏幕

A smoke screen 烟幕

Oh to dream 呵呵做梦

Just for a moment 只是片刻

The picture 图片

Outside the frame 在框架外

   

Then in a flash 然后在一瞬间

The light blue horizon 淡蓝色的地平线

Spanning a sudden black 跨越突然黑

Is sucked into the vanishing point 被吸入到消失点

And quiet rushes back 和安静的冲回

To search for the downbeat 要搜索悲观

In a tabla symphony 在塔布拉交响乐

To search in the darkness 在黑暗中搜索

For someone who looks like me 人谁像我

   

(Though I'm not really who I said I was （虽然我不是真的谁，我说我是

Or who I thought I'd be) 或者谁，我想我可以）

   

Just a collection of recollections 回忆只是一个集合

Conversations consisting 对话由

Of the kind of marks we make 那种标志的，我们做

When we're trying to get a pen to work again 当我们试图让笔重新工作

   

A lifetime of them! 一生的人！

   

Cough...cough...ahem... 咳...咳...咳...

   

I say to me 我说我

Now here listening 现在这里听

I say to the locusts 我说的蝗虫

That sing and sing to me sitting 那唱歌，唱歌给我坐

Now here on the front porch swing of my eyes... 现在，这里对我的眼睛前面门廊秋千...

I hereby amend 我在此修改

Whatever I've ever said 无论我曾经说：

With this sigh 有了这个叹息