Cast your eyes into the distance 蒙上你的眼睛向远方

Try to focus on it all 把注意力放在这一切

Find a spirit of resistance 寻找抵抗的精神，

Instead of pride before the fall 相反，堕落前的骄傲

Forge some opposition 伪造一些反对

From disparate strands 从不同股

It ain't the prettiest position 它是不是最漂亮的位置

As a century ends 在一个世纪结束

   

Unstable situation 局势不稳

Faces made of wax 蜡做的面

Streams of melting glass 熔融玻璃流

Sheets of butchered facts 屠杀的事实表

The roar of the machine 在机器的轰鸣声

Hooded hearts and jewelled hands 连帽的心灵和双手珠宝

And anger spilling out like gasoline 和愤怒倾泄而出如汽油

As a century ends 在一个世纪结束

   

Everything I seen, everything that I heard 所有我看到的，我听到的一切

It ain't even the tip of the iceberg 这不是冰山的连尖

Fire down memory lane 火降记忆里

So pass me my rose tinted glasses again 所以，再一次递给我我的玫瑰有色眼镜

   

Through a fog of contradiction 通过矛盾的迷雾

Out to the lake of tears 出来的眼泪湖

See society admiring it's own reflection 看到社会欣赏它的自己的倒影

Chase a light that shines and disappears 追光照射和消失

Careful what you say, 'cos reality offends 小心你说什么， 因为现实冒犯

Just sit back and let your soul decay 刚坐下来，让你的灵魂腐烂

As a century ends 在一个世纪结束

   

And it's easy to get weary 而且很容易让疲惫

As you fight to get it done 当你打的这一切

Gainst a popular theory Gainst一种流行的理论

That it's over 'fore it's even begun 这一切都结束了前它甚至开始

Strain the limit of compassion 应变慈悲的限制

Tend a wound that never mends 往往伤口永不门兹

And honesty still out of fashion 和诚实还是过时

As a century ends 在一个世纪结束