We'd like to do an idea for you that was related to the H2OGaTe, Watergate blues 我们想要做的一个想法，你这是关系到H2OGaTe ，水门蓝调

In March of 1973, we wrote the Watergate blues, and some 17 months later, then-President Nixon resigned 在1973年3月，我们写了水门事件的蓝调，和大约17个月后，尼克松当时的总统辞职

But the story didn't end there, so we didn't stop there 但故事并没有结束，所以我们并没有就此停止

We have prepared a sequel, and it's called, and it's called "We Beg Your Pardon America" 我们已经准备了续集，而这就是所谓的，它叫做“我们请你原谅美国”

We beg your pardon because the pardon you gave this time, was not yours to give 我们请你原谅，因为原谅你了这个时候，是不是你给

   

They call it due process and some people are overdue 他们称之为正当程序和一些人逾期

We beg your pardon America 我们请你原谅美国

Somebody said "brother-man gonna break a window, gonna steal a hubcap, gonna smoke a joint, brother man gonna go to jail" 有人说： “兄弟，男人要打破一扇窗户，会偷轮毂罩，会抽烟的联合，小弟弟会去坐牢”

The man who tried to steal America is not in jail 谁试图窃取美国的人是不是在监狱里

"Get caught with a nickel bag brother-man, get caught with a nickel bag", says the lady on your way to get your hair fixed “被逮住了镍包哥人，陷入了镍包”说，在你途中的小姐让你的头发固定

"You'll do Big Ben, and Big Ben is time" “你会做的大本钟和大本钟的时间”

But the man who tried to fix America will not do time 但是，谁试图修复美国不会做时候的男人

   

Said they're going to slap his wrists, gonna retire him with 850 thousand dollars 说他们要拍他的手腕，会退他85万美元

And America was "shocked" 而美国感到“震惊”

America leads the world in shocks 美国领先于世界的冲击

Unfortunately, America does not lead the world in deciphering the cause of shock 不幸的是，美国不领导世界的破译震荡的原因

850 thousand dollars they said and the people protested and so they saw it like "we'll give him 200 thousand dollars" 85万美元，他们说，人民抗议，所以他们看到它像“我们给他20万美元”

Everybody said "OK, that's better" 每个人都说“好，那最好不过了”

   

I'd like to retire with 200 thousand dollars some day 我想退休后有一天20万美元

San Quentin not San Clemente 圣昆廷不圣克莱门特

Do not pass go, go directly to jail, do not collect 200 thousand dollars 不传去，直接去坐牢，不收20万美元

   

We beg your pardon America 我们请你原谅美国

We beg your pardon because somehow the pardon did not sit correctly 我们请你原谅，因为在某种程度上赦免没有正确坐

What were - what were the causes for this pardon? 是什么 - 请问是什么原因，该说什么？

Well now they had "flea bite us" 现在好了，他们有“跳蚤咬得”

Rats bite us, no pardon in the ghetto 鼠咬我们，没有赦免在贫民窟

They had national security, but do you feel secure with the man who tried to steal America back on the streets again? 他们有国家安全的，但你觉得安全了谁试图再偷回美国，在街道上的人吗？

What are the results of this pardon though? Because remember, when there's causes, there's results and the results is always deeper still 什么是这个赦免，虽然结果？因为记得，当有原因，有结果，结果总是更深仍

We now have Oatmeal Man 我们现在有燕麦片的人

   

Anytime you find someone in the middle, 任何时候当你发现有人在中间，

Anytime you find someone who is tepid, 每当你找到谁是不温不火，

Anytime you find someone who is lukewarm, 每当你找到谁是不冷不热，

Anytime you find someone who has been in Congress for 25 years and no one ever heard of him, 任何时候当你发现有人谁一直在国会25年，从来没有人听说过他，

You've got Oatmeal Man 你有燕麦片的人

Oatmeal Man, straddling uncomfortably, yards and feet of barbed wire 燕麦片的人，跨越不舒服，码，英尺的铁丝网

It's hard to live in the middle all the time 这是很难住在中间所有的时间

   

Oatmeal Man, the man who said you could fit all of his black friends in the trunk of his car and still have room for the Republican elephant 燕麦片的人，谁说过你可以适应他的所有黑人朋友在他的汽车后备箱仍然有足够的空间为共和党大象的男人

Oatmeal Man 燕麦片的人

But there was no crime committed 但是没有犯下的罪行

Oatmeal Man says that "America, in 1975 your president will be a 1913 Ford" 燕麦片的人说：“美国在1975年的总统将是1913年福特”

Regressive 回归

Circle up the wagons to defend yourself from nuclear attack 圈起来的货车，从核攻击为自己辩护

Oatmeal Man, reminiscent of 1964's AuH2O, Gold Water 燕麦片的人，让人想起1964年的AuH2O ，黄金水

Thank god he didn't win, but Oatmeal man didn't win 感谢上帝，他没有赢，但是燕麦片的人没赢

Did you vote for him? I didn't vote for him 你有没有投他的票？我没有投他的票

   

But that's the first results, and the second would be the Dred Rockefeller 但是，这第一的成绩，第二个将是德雷德·洛克菲勒

Doubtlessly being promoted for the job he did at Attica, 43 dead and millions of Americans once again in shock 无疑正在冲击推动的美国人，他在阿提卡， 43死做了工作，数百万人再次

Doubtlessly being promoted for the job he did on the streets of New York city where the pushers sell the drugs that the government allows in the country, and then they do time 毫无疑问的被宣传为他做了纽约市的街道上的拆卖的药品，政府允许在该国的工作，然后他们做的时间

They do life, and death or life, and death behind bars, while William Saxbe says he is going to dismiss the Lorton Furlough program 他们的生命，死亡和生命，死亡身陷囹圄，而威廉·萨克斯比说，他将解散洛顿休假计划

And brother Richard X of Buffalo New York faces 13 hundred and 65 years - did he say one thousand three hundred and sixty five years? - behind bars for participating in Attica 和布法罗纽约的兄弟理查x面临13百至65岁 - 他说了1365年？ - 身陷囹圄参与阿提卡

And Rockefeller faces being the Vice President of this country 和洛克菲勒面临的是这个国家的副总统

And all is calm and quiet along the white sands at San Clemente 和所有的平静和安静沿着白色沙滩，在圣克利门蒂

   

We beg your pardon America, we beg your pardon once again 我们请你原谅美国，我们再次请你原谅

Because we found out that seven out of every ten black men behind jail, and most of the men behind jail are black 因为我们发现， 7淘汰落后坐牢每十个黑人，而大部分的监狱背后的男人是黑

Seven out of every ten black men never went to the ninth grade 七，每十个黑人从未到九年级

Didn't have 50 dollars and hadn't had 100 for a month when they went to jail 没有50块钱，还没有100了一个月，当他们进了监狱

So the poor and the ignorant go to jail while the rich go to San Clemente 所以，穷人和无知去坐牢，而富人前往圣克利门蒂

   

We beg your pardon America because we understand now much more deeply than we understood before 我们请你原谅美国，因为我们现在明白了更加深入的比我们以前的理解

But we don't want to take the pardon back, we want to issue some more 但是，我们不想拿赦免回来了，我们要发出一些更

Pardon brother Frank Willis, the Watergate security guard, he was only doing his job 请原谅弟弟弗兰克·威利斯，水门保安，他只是在做他的工作

Pardon H. Rap Brown, it was only burglary 对不起阁下说唱布朗，那也只是窃

Pardon Robert Vesco, it was only embezzlement 原谅罗伯特·韦斯科，那也只是盗用

Pardon Charles Manson, it was only mass murder 对不起查尔斯·曼森，这只是大屠杀

And pardon us while we get sick 和原谅我们，当我们生病

Because they pardoned William Calley, 22 dead, and America in shock 因为他们赦免威廉Calley ， 22人死亡，而美国在震动

   

And we understand all the more deeply, and we beg your pardon 我们理解更深刻了，我们请你原谅

As unemployment spirals toward 7 percent, and it seems like 70 percent in my neighborhood 随着失业率螺旋朝着7 ％，而且好像70 ％的在我家附近

As unemployment spirals and as we watch cattlemen on TV shoot cows in the head and kick 'em in the graves while millions are starving in the Sahel and Honduras and maybe even next door 随着失业率螺旋和我们一样在电视上观看拍摄的奶牛养牛的头部踢时间，而在数百万人挨饿萨赫勒和洪都拉斯，甚至隔壁的坟墓

We understand all the more deeply as Boston becomes Birmingham becomes Little Rock becomes Selma becomes Philadelphia, Mississippi, becomes yesterday all over again 我们理解更加深刻波士顿成为伯明翰成为小石城成为塞尔玛成为费城，密西西比，成为昨日一遍

We understand and we beg your pardon 据我们了解，我们请你原谅

   

We beg your pardon America because we have an understanding of karma 我们请你原谅美国，因为我们有因缘的理解

What goes around, comes around 善有善报，恶有恶报

And we beg your pardon for all of the lies and all of the people who've been ruined and who look forward to next year because they can't stand to look at this one 我们请你原谅所有的谎言谁一直在破坏，谁期待明年，因为他们无法忍受看这个人的全部

We beg your pardon America because the pardon you gave this time was not yours to give 我们请你原谅美国，因为你给了原谅这一次是不是你给

   

Thank you very much. Thank you very much. 非常感谢。非常感谢。