licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders 甘草纹身转身跨过肩膀潦草枪金属蓝

of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks 一个垂死的城镇跨越铁轨一个独眼龙

and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through 并在其肚子上的疤痕拉到陌生人路过

he was a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave 他是个不良少年从来没有学会如何做人

but the cops would never think to look in 但警察绝不会想看看在

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and the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone 和道路就像一个色带和月亮就像一个骨头

he didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known 他似乎并不像她所认识的任何人

he kinda looked like farley granger with his hair slicked back 他看起来有点像法利格兰杰，他的头发梳背

she says i'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat 她说我是一个吸盘在牛仔帽子家伙

how far are you going he said depends on what you mean 有多远，你打算，他说，要看你是什么意思

he says i'm going thataway just as long as it's paved 他说我要去thataway只要你将它铺的

i guess you'd say i'm on my way to 我猜你会说我对我的方式

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and her knees up on the glove compartment 而她的膝盖上的杂物箱

took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer 拿出她的发夹，她的头发流出来一样rootbeer

and she popped her gum and arched her back 她突然出现了牙龈和拱形她回来

hell marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road 地狱马里斯维尔不只是在路上很宽点

some night my heart pounds just like thunder 有些晚上我的心脏英镑就像打雷

i don't know why it don't explode 我不知道为什么它不爆炸

cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave 使大家在这个臭镇得到了一只脚在坟墓

and i'd rather take my chances out in 我宁愿把我的机会在

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presley's what i go by why don't you change the station 普雷斯利的我去了你为什么不改站

count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror 算上在后视镜的粮仓

mister anywhere you point this thing 老总在任何地方你点这个东西

has got to beat the hell out of the sting 得到了击败地狱的刺痛

of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin 上床与每一个梦想，死在这里每一个清晨

and so drill me a hole with a barber pole 等我钻了理发杆洞

i'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight 我跳我的假释就像今晚逃犯

why don't you have another swig 你为什么不有另一个痛饮

and pass that car if you're so brave 并通过了汽车，如果你那么勇敢

i wanna get there before the sun comes up in 我想到达那里之前，太阳升起在

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and the spider web crack and the mustang screamed 和蜘蛛网裂纹和野马尖叫

smoke from the tires and the twisted machine 从轮胎和加捻机抽

just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved 只是镍的梦想和价值，他们保存的每一个横臂

lie swindled from them on the way to 从他们的谎言被骗的道路上

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and the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow 和太阳打井架蒙上了蝙蝠翅膀的影子

up against the car door on the shot gun side 靠在车门上弹枪侧

and when they pulled her from the wreck you know she 而当他们把她从沉船你知道她

still had on her shades 还是对她的阴影

they say that dreams are growing wild just this side of 他们说，梦是野地只是这一面

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