I am a backseat driver from America 我是一个来自美国的指手画脚

They drive to the left on Falls Road 他们开车到左边，瀑布路

And the man at the wheels name is Shamus 而该男子在车轮的名字是夏姆斯

We pass a the child on a corner he knows 我们通过一个孩子的他知道一个角落

And Shamus says "now what chance has that kid got" 和夏姆斯说： “现在什么可能性都有孩子了”

And I say from the back "I don't know" 我从后面说：“我不知道。”

   

He says "there's barbed wire at all of these exits" 他说：“有带刺铁丝网，在所有这些出口的”

There ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go 没有在贝尔法斯特没有地方那小子去

And it's a hard life, it's a hard life 这是一个艰苦的生活，这是一个艰难的生活

It's a very hard life 这是一个非常艰苦的生活

It's a hard life wherever you go 这是一个艰苦的生活无论你走到哪里

And we poison our children with hatred 我们毒害我们的孩子与仇恨

And the hard life is all that they know 和艰苦的生活是所有他们知道

   

At the dairyline in Chicago 在芝加哥的dairyline

A fat man in front of me 一个胖子在我面前

He's calling black people trash to his children 他呼吁黑人垃圾给他的孩子

And he's the only trash here I see 而他是唯一的垃圾在这里喔

And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood 而且我想这个人穿着白色的油烟机

In the night when his children should sleep 在晚上，当他的孩子应该睡

But they'll slip to their windows and see him 但他们会下滑至窗户，看到他

They'll think that white hood's all they need 他们会认为白色的引擎盖是他们所需要的

   

And it's a hard life, it's a hard life 这是一个艰苦的生活，这是一个艰难的生活

It's a very hard life 这是一个非常艰苦的生活

It's a hard life wherever you go 这是一个艰苦的生活无论你走到哪里

And if we poison our children with hatred 如果我们毒害我们的孩子与仇恨

Then the hard life is all that they know 那么艰苦的生活是所有他们知道

   

I was a child of the sixties 我是六十年代的孩子

When dreams could be held through tears 当梦想可以通过眼泪举行

With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther 与迪斯尼和克朗凯特和马丁·路德·

And I belived, I believed, I believed 我belived ，我相信，我相信

   

Now I'm a backseat driver from America 现在我是一个来自美国的指手画脚

And I'm not at the wheel of control 而且我不是在控制轮

And I am guilty, I am worn, I am the root of all evil 我很内疚，我穿，我是一切罪恶的根源

And I can't drive on the left side of the road 我不能开车在马路的左边

   

And it's a hard life, it's a hard life 这是一个艰苦的生活，这是一个艰难的生活

It's a very hard life 这是一个非常艰苦的生活

It's a hard life wherever you go 这是一个艰苦的生活无论你走到哪里

And if we poison our children with hatred 如果我们毒害我们的孩子与仇恨

Then the hard life is all that they'll know 那么艰苦的生活是一切，他们会知道

   

And there ain't no place in this world for these kids to go 并没有在这个世界上没有任何地方对这些孩子们去

Cause it's a hard life wherever you go 因为这是一个艰苦的生活无论你走到哪里

   

Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham, 有没有人在这里看到我的老朋友亚伯拉罕，

Can you tell me where he's gone? 你能告诉我，他走了？

He freed a lotta people, but it seems the good die young 他释放洛塔人，但似乎好英年早逝

I just looked around and he's gone. 我环顾四周，他走了。

   

Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin, 有没有人在这里看到我的老朋友马丁，

Can you tell me where he's gone? 你能告诉我，他走了？

He freed a lotta people, but it seems the good die young 他释放洛塔人，但似乎好英年早逝

I just looked around and he's gone. 我环顾四周，他走了。

   

Has anybody here seen my old friend John, 有没有人在这里看到我的老朋友约翰，

Can you tell me where he's gone? 你能告诉我，他走了？

He freed a lotta people, but it seems the good die young 他释放洛塔人，但似乎好英年早逝

I just looked around and he's gone. 我环顾四周，他走了。

   

Didn't you love the things they stood for? 没有你的爱，他们主张的东西呢？

Didn't they try to find some good in you and me? 没有他们试图找到在你和我的一些好？

And we'll be free ，我们将免费

Someday soon it's gonna be one day 在不久的将来它会是1天

   

Has anybody here seen my old friend Bobby, 有没有人在这里看到我的老朋友鲍比，

Can you tell me where he's gone? 你能告诉我，他走了？

I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill 我以为我看到他走着了山那边

With Abraham and Martin and John. 与亚伯拉罕和马丁和约翰。