I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw... 我坐在我的走火，我看到...

Sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeons 坚固的桥梁，装饰着肮脏的鸽子

A vagabond begging for three pennies and a princess 流浪乞讨三便士和公主

A junkie tourniquet surgeon urging the needle in 发烧友止血带外科医生敦促在针

A batty senior citizen flashing that awful teethless grin à古怪老人闪烁的那个可怕的缺齿的笑容

I saw a corner store merchant rest on a milk crate with a stog' 我看到了一个牛奶箱有stog “一角店商家休息

A pierced nose, a model with a stalker, cheap hooker, jay walkers 刺穿鼻子，用死缠烂打的模式，价格便宜的妓女，周杰伦步行者

A table on a sidewalk with four old men slappin' dominos down 人行道上的表格有四个老男人slappin “多米诺骨牌倒

A city, a village, a neighborhood, a ghost town 一个城市，一个村，一个社区，一座空城

I saw vandals catching tags and Puerto Rican flags 我看到了破坏者醒目的标签和波多黎各的国旗

I saw a pregnant woman on the verge of bursting (boom) 我看到一个孕妇在爆破的边缘（臂）

I saw a blind man with a dog screaming 'someday I'll see it all' 我看到一个盲人与狗尖叫“有一天我会看到这一切”

And then he sat down with his hammer and saw 然后他坐下来与他的锤子和锯

Business men with multi-colored ties, cashmere checks 商务男士多彩色领带，羊绒检查

A nazi with tattoos on his neck, a Vietnam war vet 在他的脖子上，越战兽医纹身纳粹

A Caucasian man with a limp and a cane, a pimp with his names 白人男子一跛一跛和拐杖，他的名字皮条客

A thug circus, a pack of shook tourists hugging their purses 暴徒马戏团，一包摇摇游客拥抱自己的钱包

I saw freaks with rainbow streaks in dayglo hair 我看见彩虹条纹怪胎在DAYGLO发

A mother smackin' the grin off her child, replaced it with a stare 一位母亲smackin 的笑容了她的孩子，一瞪眼取而代之

A pothole, a storefront with a broken open sign 坑洞，用破开的迹象店面

A hole in the wall bar kicking drunks to the gutter, it's closing time 在墙上吧踢醉鬼到阴沟里一个孔，它的关闭时间

I see a fuck up, a bum knuckle up with a taxi driver 我看到一个他妈的了，一个流浪折角了一个出租车司机

A squatter, a grandfather, an angry right-to-lifer 寮屋，爷爷，愤怒从右至无期徒刑

I can see the roof garden on the apartment across the street 我可以看到街对面的公寓屋顶花园

And kick myself because somewhere along the way I lost my seeds 踢自己，因为一路上我失去了我的种子的地方

I see a rat, a roach, a bat approach, a happy student 我看到一只老鼠，蟑螂，蝙蝠的方法，一个幸福的学生

A black man with a horn and a will to make you sit and listen to it 一个黑人男子用喇叭和意志，让你坐下来听吧

I see a little girl on the corner with bubbles, braids and barrettes 我看到一个小女孩与气泡，辫子和发夹角落

I see a teen mother with similak pacifier and regrets 我看到一个十几岁的母亲similak奶嘴和遗憾

Oh, a day turned stale, a hammer with a rusty nail, a failed marriage 哦，一天翻陈旧，锤子与钉子生锈，一次失败的婚姻

A universe of brick buildings slightly off balance 砖房稍微偏离平衡的宇宙

A challenge, I see a chance to add real colors to my favorite palette 一个挑战，我看到一个机会，真正的颜色添加到我最喜欢的调色板

Raise my mighty mallet towards the gods and swing my talents 提高我的威猛槌对神和摆动我的才华

I see a crack in the sidewalk 我看到一个裂缝在人行道上

A slide show of six civilians gripping bottles of gideon 幻灯片放映六名平民夹持瓶基甸

Sitting inside bent meridian 坐在弯曲的经脉内

There's a fun house ooh, a sun spout 有一个有趣的房子哦，太阳壶嘴

Spraying yellow beams above yellow back dreams 喷施黄梁上面的黄背梦想

And children in the hydrants 和孩子在消防栓

Tyrants[?], I see sirens 霸[？] ，我看到警报器

The wall to the glamor standard 墙上的魅力标准

A dead bird, a bent curb 一只死鸟，弯曲的路边

A bus stop of commuters waiting to have their souls towed off to work 乘客等待有自己的灵魂的一个公共汽车站拖掉工作

I seen the slap dash habits of bike messengers paws 我已经看到了自行车信使爪子拍击破折号习惯

And hug that good leaf on the way to damaged packages, dependence 拥抱好叶的道路上损坏的包，依赖

Oh my lord, I see bandwagons, all aboard 哦，我的上帝，我看到bandwagons ，船上所有

A carnival amusement park where a heart is a luxury 嘉年华游乐园，其中一个心脏是一种奢侈

I see a gas galaxy huddled behind those pearly doors 我看到了气体的星系藏身于那些珍珠门

Maybe I should sit up on my fire escape a little more 也许我应该坐起来对我的火逃生多一点