See the ruin on the hill 看到废墟上的山

Where the smoke is hanging still 当烟雾仍挂

Like an echo of an age long forgotten. 就像一个时代的回声早已被人遗忘。

There's a story of a home 有一个家的故事

Crushed beneath those blackened stones 粉碎那些熏黑石头下

And a roof that fell before the beams were rotten. 和屋顶的横梁前下跌是烂的。

See, Saul Darby loved his wife 见扫罗美爱他的妻子

And he laboured all his life 他劳苦了一辈子

To provide her with material possessions 给她提供物质财富

And he built for her a home 他专为她一个家

Of the finest wood and stone 最好的木材和石头

And the building soon became his sole obsession. 和建筑很快就成了他唯一的痴迷。

   

Oh it took three hundred days 哦，花了300天

For the timber to be raised 为要提高木材

And the silhouette was seen for miles around 和轮廓是围绕见过哩

And the gables reached as high 和山墙高达

As the eagles in the sky 由于在天空中的鹰

But it only took one night to bring it down -- 但只用了一个晚上把它放下 -

When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground. 当美的城堡翻滚落地。

   

Though the shared a common bed 虽然有着共同的床

There was precious little said 有珍贵的小说

In the moments that were set aside for sleeping. 在这被留作睡眠的时刻。

For his busy dreams were filled 对于他忙碌的梦想充满

With the rooms he'd yet to build 随着他的房间倒是还没有建立

And he never heard young Helen Darby weeping. 他从来没有听说过的年轻海伦美哭泣。

Then one night he heard a sound 后来有一天晚上，他听到了一个声音

As he laid his pencil down 当他把他的铅笔下来

And he traced it to her door and turned the handle, 他追溯了她的门，转动把手，

And the pale light of the moon, 和苍白的光的月亮，

Through the windows of the room, 通过房间的窗户，

Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled. 分裂的阴影，其中两具尸体躺在纠缠。

   

Oh it took three hundred days 哦，花了300天

For the timber to be raised 为要提高木材

And the silhouette was seen for miles around 和轮廓是围绕见过哩

And the gables reached as high 和山墙高达

As the eagles in the sky 由于在天空中的鹰

But it only took one night to bring it down -- 但只用了一个晚上把它放下 -

When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground. 当美的城堡翻滚落地。