Older brother, restless soul, lie down 哥哥，不安的灵魂，躺下

Lie for a while with your ear against the earth 谎言与对地球的耳朵一阵

And you’ll hear your sister sleep talking 你会听到你的妹妹梦呓

Say, “Your hair is long but not long enough to reach 说， “你的头发很长，但不够长，达到

Home to me 回家给我

But your beard 但是，你的胡子

Someday might be” 有一天，可能是“

   

And she woke up in a cold sweat on the floor 她在地板上的冷汗醒了

Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four 旁边的一张全家福，当你有四个抽

And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more 和两分的硬币一个罐子旁边是没有好没有更多

She’ll lay it aside 她会躺在一旁

   

Older father, weary soul, you’ll drive 年长的父亲，疲惫的灵魂，你会开车

Back to the home you made on the mountainside 回到家里，你就在山腰

With that ugly, terrible thing 与丑陋，可怕的事情

Those papers for divorce 那些纸离婚

And a lonely ring 和一个孤独的环

A lonely ring 一个孤独的环

Sit on your porch 坐在你的门廊

And pluck your strings 并摘下你的字符串

   

Oh, and you’ll find somebody you can blame 哦，你会发现一个你可以怪

And you’ll follow the creek that runs out into the sea 而且你会遵循用完入海的小溪

And you’ll find the peace of the Lord. 你会发现上帝的和平。

   

Grandfather, weary soul, you’ll fly 祖父，疲惫的灵魂，你就能飞

Over your life once more before you die 在你的生命在你死之前再一次

Since our grandma passed away 由于我们的奶奶过世

You’ve waited for forever and a day 你等待永远和一天

Just to die 只是死

And someday soon 而在不久的将来

You will die 你会死

   

It was the only woman you ever loved 这是你曾经爱过的唯一的女人

That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young 这让太阳晒黑了太频繁，当她是年轻

And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood 与癌症扩散，它跑进她的身体和她的血液

And there’s nothing you can do about it now 还有就是你可以做的，现在什么