How am I going to explain it to him 我怎么解释给他

What am I going to say when it's something that grim 那我要说，当它的东西，严峻

How the hell do you tell them there comes an end 到底如何，你告诉他们，总会有终结

How are you going to handle it and still be their friend 你打算怎么处理它，仍然是他们的朋友

How do you explain this world we face 你怎么解释这个世界，我们面临

To all of the innocents we brought to this place 向所有无辜的，我们带到这个地方

   

These and other questions stand in a row 这些和其他问题站成一排

And I'm not satisfied with the answers I know 而且我不满意，我知道的答案

What are you going to say to those eyes 你有什么要说的那些眼睛

I can't even get close to the lies 我什至不能接近的谎言

That are easier to tell, you just say oh, well 这是比较容易分辨，你刚才说的哦，

I'll explain it when he's older 我会解释时，他的年长

But somehow that's colder than I want to be 但不知何故，这是寒冷的，比我想

   

I am uncomfortable lying to a child 我感到不舒服的躺了孩子

Feels like building a trap for something wild 感觉就像建立一个陷阱野生的东西

Feels like building your house on the sand 感觉就像在沙滩上建造你的房子

And expecting the ocean to let it stand 并期望大海，让它站立

   

Somehow I must come up with better stuff 不知怎的，我必须拿出更好的东西

You see, I'm just not satisfied with all that simplified guff 你看，我只是不满意一切简化的废话

That they shovel at the kids by the handful 他们在孩子们的少数铲

Like candy they buy at the stand full 像糖果，他们在展台全买

Of flags by the side of the road 标志由路边的

It's not good for them to hand them that load of crap like they do 这不是对他们有好处，随手废话他们，负载像他们这样做

   

You see, I want a world where I can tell him the truth 你看，我想这个世界上，我可以告诉他真相

About everything from Jesus to John Wilkes booth 一切从耶稣对约翰·威尔克斯·布斯

How they lie in the house and the senate too 他们怎么倒在众议院和参议院也

Only get close to the truth when it suits them to 只有接近真相时，它适合他们

And the very next day 而就在第二天

They're back to lying that way 他们又回到了躺在这样

   

Of course it doesn't seem to matter what I want 当然，这似乎并不重要我想要的

But I look at some of the faces all haggard and gaunt 但是我看一些面孔都憔悴面容憔悴的

I wonder which thing made them lose their dreams 我不知道这件事使他们失去了自己的梦想

'Caus mine is alive very much it would seem “ CAUS矿是活的很这似乎

And I would just like to be able to hand it to him 我只是想能够把它交给他

Without the light in those eyes ever getting dim 如果没有那双眼睛的光所得到暗淡

I want a dream for him 我希望有一个梦想，他

   

(Dream for him) （梦给他）