Life's For the Living - Passenger
Well grey clouds wrapped round the town like elastic
灰色的云团像橡皮圈包围着小城
Cars stood like toys made of Taiwanese plastic
小轿车就像台湾人的塑料玩具立在街头
The boy laughed at the spastic dancing around in the rain
男孩在雨中大笑狂舞
While laundrettes cleaned clothes
自动洗衣店在洗衣服
High heals rub toes
摩擦着脚趾上的伤口
Puddles splashed huddles of bus stop crows
汽车停下溅起一处水涡
Dressed in their suits and their boots well
穿着得体的人
They all look the same
他们看起来都一样
I took myself down to the cafe to find
我在咖啡厅看见
All the boys lost in books and crackling vinyl
所有的男孩沉迷在书里
And carved out a poem above the urinal that read
在厕所里创造出一首诗
Don't you cry for the lost
不要为了失去而哭泣
Smile for the living
要为了生活而微笑
Get what you need and give what you're given
得到你想要的，给出你已得到的
Life's for the living so live it
去享受生活
Or you're better off dead
你会更好地死去
While the evening pulled the moon out of it's packet
晚上月亮破云而出
Stars shone like buttons on an old man's jacket
闪耀的星星就像老人衣服上的纽扣
We needed a nail but we tacked it 'til it fell of the wall
我们需要一枚钉子但是我们钉住它直到它从墙上掉落
While pigeon's pecked trains
当鸽子去啄火车
Sparks flew like planes
火花飞溅
The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains
雨中的彩虹就如一条油迹
And we all had new iPhones but no one had no one to call
我们都有新的苹果手机但是没有人打电话
And I stumbled down to the stomach of the town
我走在这座城市的中央
Where the widow takes memories to slowly drown
这里寡妇沉溺在回忆之中
With a hand to the sky and a mist in her eye she said
她一只手指向天，泪眼模糊地说
Don't you cry for the lost
不要为了失去的而哭泣
Smile for the living
要为了生活而微笑
Get what you need and give what you're given
得到你想要的，给出你已得到的
Life's for the living so live it
去享受生活
Or you're better off dead
你会更好地死去
Well I'm sick of this town
我厌恶这座城
This blind man's forage
盲人在寻找
They take your dreams down and stick them in storage
他们带走你的梦想 把他们藏起来
You can have them back son
你会找到他们
When you've paid off your mortgage and loans
当你还清你的贷款
Oh hell with this place
这个如同地狱的地方
I'll go it my own way
我将要离开
I'll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway
我要坚持 我沿着高速公路长途跋涉
Someday someone must be going my way home
某天某人一定会顺着我的路回家
Till then I'll make my bed from a disused car
直到我把废旧的车当成我自己的床
With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars
树叶为被星星为毯
And I'll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread
我会对这个世界只字不提
Don't you cry for the lost
不要为了失去而哭泣
Smile for the living
要为了生活而微笑
Get what you need and give what you're given
得到你想要的，给出你已得到的
You know life's for the living so live it
去享受生活
Or you're better off dead
你会更好地死去
Don't you cry for the lost
不要为了失去而哭泣
Smile for the living
要为了生活而微笑
Get what you need and give what you're given
得到你想要的，给出你已得到的
Life's for the living so live it
去享受生活
Or you're better off dead
你会更好地死去
