Quarter in a payphone 季公用电话

Drying laundry on the line 上线烘干衣物

Watching Sun Tea in the window 在窗口看着太阳茶

Pocket watch for tellin' time 对于泰兰的时间怀表

Seems like only yesterday I'd get a blank cassette 仿佛就在昨天我得到一个空白磁带

Record the country countdown 'cause I couldn't buy it yet 记全国倒数，因为我买不起它尚未

   

If we drove all the way to Dallas just to buy an Easter dress 如果我们一路开车到达拉斯只买复活节礼服

We’d take along a Rand McNally, stand in line to pay for gas 我们会沿着兰德麦克纳利，排队支付天然气

God knows that shifting gears ain’t what it used to be 神知道，换档是不是它曾经是

I learned to drive that 55 just like a queen, three on a tree 我学会了开车，有55只是像一个女王，三一棵树

   

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn 嘿，无论发生在等着轮到你

Doing it all by hand, 做这一切的手，

'Cause when everything is handed to you 因为当一切都交给你了

It's only worth as much as the time put in 这是唯一的价值高达时间投入

It all just seemed so good the way we had it 这一切只是看起来那么好，我们有它的方式

Back before everything became automatic 返回之前，一切都变得自动化

   

If you had something to say 如果你有话要说

You'd write it on a piece of paper 你把它写在纸上

Then you'd put a stamp on it 然后你就会把邮票上

And they'd get it three days later 而且他们会三天后得到它

Boys would call the girls 男生会叫女生

And girls would turn them down 而女孩会拒绝他们

Staying married was the only way to work your problems out 原地结婚是为了工作，你的问题的唯一出路

   

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn 嘿，无论发生在等着轮到你

Doing it all by hand, 做这一切的手，

'Cause when everything is handed to you 因为当一切都交给你了

It's only worth as much as the time put in 这是唯一的价值高达时间投入

It all just seemed so good the way we had it 这一切只是看起来那么好，我们有它的方式

Back before everything became automatic 返回之前，一切都变得自动化

   

Automatic 自动

   

Let's pull the windows down 让我们拉下来的窗户

Windows with the cranks 窗户与曲柄

Come on let's take a picture 来吧，让我们拍照

The kind you gotta shake 那种你得摇

   

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn 嘿，无论发生在等着轮到你

Doing it all by hand, 做这一切的手，

'Cause when everything is handed to you 因为当一切都交给你了

It's only worth as much as the time put in 这是唯一的价值高达时间投入

It all just seemed so good the way we had it 这一切只是看起来那么好，我们有它的方式

Back before everything became automatic 返回之前，一切都变得自动化

   

Yeah 是啊

   

Automatic 自动