Yeah, I've seen you face in magazines 是的，我已经看到你在杂志上面对

Yeah I've read all of those press room queens descriptions 是的，我读过所有的新闻发布厅皇后描述

I can't believe the lies they tell 我不相信他们说的谎言

But truth is not the way to sell subscriptions 但事实是不卖的订阅方式

   

After all the smoke had cleared away 在所有的烟都清掉

Did not take me long to find out what you had to say 没多久，我发现你不得不说

This is just a game 这只是一个游戏

And I'm glad I finally learned to play 我很高兴我终于学会了打

By the rules 按规则

Do they think we're fools 难道他们以为我们是傻子

   

They put you down behind my back 他们把你放下我背后

Distorting all the honest facts about you 扭曲的所有诚实的事实，你

While searching through your lyric sheets 同时通过你的歌词张搜索

For secret meanings too discreet to doubt you 秘密的含义过于谨慎怀疑您

   

Isn't it a shame they never heard 这难道不是一种耻辱，他们从来没有听说过

They finally wrote you off as really being too absurd 他们终于写了，你过的真是太荒唐

While all the time you sacrificed your rhymes 虽然所有的时间，你牺牲了你的押韵

To find a word they could not see 为了找到一个词，他们都看不到

Hidden in your melodies 藏在你的旋律

   

Like a tree that could bend with the wind 这样可以随风弯曲树

Like a river that flows around the bend 像周围的弯曲流动的河

Like a dream 像做梦一样

Like a song 喜欢的一首歌

They all cross right or wrong 他们全部为十字对还是错

They just keep on building castles in the sand 他们只是不停地在建筑城堡在沙滩上

   

Then just like you they told me lies 然后，就像你自己告诉我的谎言

And offered corporate alibis to change me 并提供企业的借口来改变我

My songs were taken through the mill 我的歌曲，通过磨取

While managers were hired to rearrange me 虽然经理人聘用我重新安排

   

They led me to the slaughter like a lamb 他们使我如同羊羔宰杀

I just kept pretending that I did not give a damn 我只是不停地假装我并不在乎

Now this situations gotten too far out of hand 现在这个情况变得太远了手

To be real 是真实的

I don't wanna make a deal 我不想做个交易

   

Parasites reach for your heart 寄生虫到达你的心脏

Each one must try do their part to drain you 每个人都必须尽力做好自己的本分，以你后腿

You give them your best autograph 你给他们你最好的亲笔签名

On pictures knowing well they're gonna frame you 在照片上明知他们会框你

   

Don't you know it happens every time 难道你不知道它发生的每一次

Little did they know I could read between the line 他们不知道我行念之间

You told them times were changing 你告诉他们，时间被改变

But they did not heed the signs 但是他们没有注意到的迹象

I'm not that green 我没那么绿

Bobby do you know what I mean 鲍比你知道我是什么意思

   

I'm Like a tree that can bend with the wind 我很喜欢，可以随风弯曲树

I'm like a river that flows around the bend 我很喜欢这周围的弯曲流动的河

I'm like a dream 我就像一个梦

Like a song 喜欢的一首歌

That I've crossed right or wrong 我已经越过对还是错

And I'll just keep on building castles in the sand 而我就继续建设城堡在沙滩上

   

They drove me in their limousines 他们把我在他们的豪华座驾

My pockets bursting at the seems with money 我的口袋里绽放的似乎与金钱

They said I could take your place 他们说我可以取代你的位置

By putting make up on my face like honey 通过将弥补我的脸像蜂蜜

   

Now don't you know it chilled me to the bone 现在，你不知道它冷冻了我的骨头

They even had the nerve to ask me 他们甚至还好意思问我

if I could re-write like a rolling stone 如果我能重新写像一个滚动的石头

That's when I told they the should leave my ass alone 这时候，我告诉他们的应独自离开我的屁股

Its plan to see 其计划看

I just wanted to be free 我只是想自由

   

Like a tree that can bend with the wind 这样可以随风弯曲树

Like a river that flows around the bend 像周围的弯曲流动的河

Like a dream 像做梦一样

Like a song 喜欢的一首歌

That I cross right or wrong 那我过对或错

And I'll just keep on building castles in the sand 而我就继续建设城堡在沙滩上

   

And every song I write my friend 而且每首歌我写我的朋友

I play it with my band 我和我的乐队玩