Nelson Algren came to Paddy at some party at the dead end alley 纳尔逊·阿尔格雷来到稻田一些政党在死胡同的小巷

Yeah, he told him what to celebrate 是啊，他跟他庆祝什么

And I met William Butler Yeats, Sunday night dance party, summer 1988 我遇到了威廉·巴特勒·叶芝，周日晚上歌舞晚会，1988夏季

At first I thought it might be William Blake 起初我以为这可能是威廉·布莱克

   

We mix our own mythologies, we push them out through PA systems 我们搭配我们自己的神话，我们推他们出来，通过扩音系统

We dictate our doxologies and try to get sleeping kids to sit up and listen 我们决定我们的doxologies ，并试图让沉睡的孩子坐起来听

And I'm not saying we could save you, but we could put you in a place where you could save yourself 我并不是说我们可以救你，但我们可以让你在一个地方，你可以救自己

If you don't get born again at least you'll get high as hell 如果你没有得到重生，至少你会得到较高的地狱

   

Yeah, and sweet St. Paul, that must be the hardest luck saint of them all 是的，甜的圣保罗，那一定是他们全部的最难的运气圣人

We met him at some suburban St. Paul mall 我们遇见了他一些郊区圣保罗商场

But when St. Theresa came to Holly, I wasn't even at that party 但是，当圣特里萨来到冬青，我什至没有在该方

I'd already moved out to New York City 我已经搬到了纽约城

   

When Judas went up and kissed him 当犹大上去与他亲嘴

I almost got sick 我几乎得了病

I guess I knew what was coming 我想我知道什么是未来

I guess I knew it was coming 我想我知道这是未来

   

We gather our gospels from gossip and bar talk then we declare them the truth 我们收集我们从八卦和酒吧谈福音那么我们宣布他们真相

We salvage our sermons from message boards and scene reports and we sic them on the youth 我们的留言板和报告，现场抢救我们的说教，我们SIC他们的青春

We try out new testaments on the guys sitting next to us in the bars with the bars on the windows, alright 我们尝试的家伙窗户上，酒吧坐在酒吧旁边给我们新约好吗

Even if you don't get converted tonight, you gotta admit the band's pretty tight 即使你没有得到转换后的今晚，你得承认乐队的很紧

   

They did "She's Got Legs" into "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" 他们没有“她有腿”到“是不是太骄傲乞求”

Into something by the Dixie Dregs 弄成了迪克西渣

And they faked their way through "Fairytale of New York" 他们通过“纽约童话”伪造自己的方式

When the band finished playing we howled out for more 当乐队演奏完毕，我们怒吼出更多的

   

Hey Nelson Algren, Chicago seemed tired last night 嘿尼尔森阿尔格雷，芝加哥似乎累了，昨晚

They had cigarettes where there were supposed to be eyes 他们有香烟那里被认为是眼睛

Hey William Butler Yeats, all the Irish seemed wired last night 嘿威廉·巴特勒·叶芝，所有的爱尔兰人似乎有线昨晚

They tried to separate our girls from our guys 他们试图以我们的女孩从我们的球员分开

   

They had cigarettes where there were supposed to be eyes 他们有香烟那里被认为是眼睛