You walk past an activist, who is talking on the street 你走过去的活动家，谁在说在大街上

About political prisoners, locked up in your own home state 关于政治犯，关在自己的家乡

And you think just for a minute, you think just a second 当你觉得只是一分钟，你觉得只是一个第二

Then you say, "That can't be true! 然后你说， “这不是真的！

Cause I live in the land of the freedom... where no one gets the screw!" 因为我住的自由......在那里没有人会螺钉的土地！ “

   

You turn your face, you turn your back 你把你的脸，你把你的背部

You say, "That can't be true!" 你说， “这不是真的！ ”

You stay safe lost in your prefab world 您的安全迷失在你的预制世界

Cause you're sure it won't happen to you 因为你肯定不会发生在你身上

You're sure it won't happen to you 你确定它不会发生在你身上

Just wait till it happens to you! 只是等待，直到它发生在你身上！

   

You’ve heard it every day, since the first day of your life 你每天都听见了，因为你的生命的第一天

But you never stopped to think, what you heard was full of lies 但你永远不会停下来思考，你所听到的是充满了谎言

You can't think just for a minute, can't think just for a second 你可别以为只是一分钟，想不到仅仅一秒钟

Cause you're nothing but a tool 因为你只是一个工具

Whose thoughts are tailored and fashioned 其想法是量身定制的，并塑造

Each night by the evening news 每天晚上的晚间新闻

   

You turn your face, you turn your back 你把你的脸，你把你的背部

You say, "That can't be true!" 你说， “这不是真的！ ”

You stay safe lost in your prefab world 您的安全迷失在你的预制世界

Cause you're sure it won't happen to you 因为你肯定不会发生在你身上

You're sure it won't happen to you 你确定它不会发生在你身上

Just wait till it happens to you! 只是等待，直到它发生在你身上！

   

You could stand on the street, talk 'til you're blue in the face 你可以站在大街上，说话，直到你脸色发青

And they would not make you stop, cause you have no power base 他们不会让你停下来，因为你没有权力基础

But if Dan Rather got on the Evening News, 但是，如果丹·拉瑟在晚间新闻了，

And said, "It’s time for revolution!" 并说， “这是一次革命！ ”

The F.B.I. would fuck him up so bad 在联邦调查局就他妈的他，如此糟糕

He’d wish he wasn't living! 他会想他是不是活！

   

They call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave" 他们称之为美国的“自由，家庭勇敢地”

And they call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave" 他们把它称为美国“自由，家庭勇敢地”

Yeah they call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave" 是的，他们把它称为美国“自由，家庭勇敢地”

More to the truth it's a murderer, it's the land of the Enslaved! 更重要的事实是一个杀人犯，这是被奴役的土地！

   

You turn your face, you turn your back 你把你的脸，你把你的背部

You say, "That can't be true!" 你说， “这不是真的！ ”

You stay safe lost in your prefab world 您的安全迷失在你的预制世界

Cause you're sure it won't happen to you 因为你肯定不会发生在你身上

You're sure it won't happen to you 你确定它不会发生在你身上

You’re sure it won’t happen to 你确定它不会发生在

Sure it won’t happen 当然它不会发生

Sure it won’t happen to you! 当然它不会发生在你身上！