Well I stepped into an avalanche, 嗯，我走进了雪崩，

it covered up my soul; 它掩盖了我的灵魂;

when I am not this hunchback that you see, 当我不在这个驼背，你看，

I sleep beneath the golden hill. 我睡在金山下。

You who wish to conquer pain, 你们谁想要征服的痛苦，

you must learn, learn to serve me well. 你必须学会​​，学会为我服务好。

You strike my side by accident 您不小心打在我身边

as you go down for your gold. 因为你走你的黄金。

The cripple here that you clothe and feed 你穿暖和饲料这里的跛子

is neither starved nor cold; 既不是饿死也不冷;

he does not ask for your company, 他不问你的企业，

not at the centre, the centre of the world. 不是在中心，世界的中心。

   

When I am on a pedestal, 当我在底座上，

you did not raise me there. 你不养我。

Your laws do not compel me 您的法律不强迫我

to kneel grotesque and bare. 跪怪诞和光秃秃的。

I myself am the pedestal 我本人底座

for this ugly hump at which you stare. 对上，你盯着这个丑陋的驼背。

   

You who wish to conquer pain, 你们谁想要征服的痛苦，

you must learn what makes me kind; 你必须学会​​怎样让我的类型;

the crumbs of love that you offer me, 爱的面包屑，你给我，

they're the crumbs I've left behind. 这些都是我留下的面包屑。

Your pain is no credential here, 你的痛苦是没有凭据在这里，

it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound. 它只是影子，影子我的伤口。

   

I have begun to long for you, 我开始渴望你，

I who have no greed; í谁不贪;

I have begun to ask for you, 我开始问你，

I who have no need. í谁已经没有必要。

You say you've gone away from me, 你说你从我身边消失，

but I can feel you when you breathe. 但我能感觉到你的时候，你的呼吸。

   

Do not dress in those rags for me, 请不要在那些衣衫褴褛不穿衣服对我来说，

I know you are not poor; 我知道你不差;

you don't love me quite so fiercely now 你不爱我这么激烈，现在

when you know that you are not sure, 当你知道，你不知道，

it is your turn, beloved, 该轮到你了，亲爱的，

it is your flesh that I wear. 这是你的肉，我穿。