Why are some men born 为什么有些人天生

With minds that earn degrees 用头脑赚取度

The loving cups 慈爱杯

Gilded plaques 镀金斑

Grace their study walls 恩他们的研究墙

Hide the cracks 隐藏的裂缝

While their genius is turned 而他们的天才开启

To works of tyranny then 暴政的作品则

Off to market to market 关市场市场

Go selling these 去销售这些

   

With words so fiery and persuasive 有话让火热的，有说服力的

They steal cunningly 他们偷奸

Riches no one can exceed 财富无人能超越

   

And why are some men born 而为什么有些男人天生

With a fate of poverty 随着贫困的命运

One firm bed 一个坚定的床

For a swollen back 对于退肿

Year by year 逐年

The bodies wracked while 该机构同时肆虐

Their obedience is had 他们顺服了

With gradual defeat 随着逐渐失利

By the pace by the pace 通过步伐的节奏

And the urgency 和紧迫性

   

Through a muddled thought 通过一个糊涂的思想

They phrase it 他们这句话

God knows we're deceived 上帝知道我们被骗

Barter for 以货易货的

What they need 他们需要什么

   

And where they go 他们去的地方

Disdain and jeering 不屑与嘲笑

For fools to call 愚人打电话

The noble peasantry 高贵的农民

   

O how it puzzles me Ø如何令我费解

   

I pressed flat the accordion pleats 我按平手风琴褶

That had gathered in his cotton sleeves 这已经聚集在他的棉袖

While he thumbed 当他翻阅

Yes thumbed I wouldn't say caressed 是翻阅我不会说爱抚

   

The final piece 最后一块

A mountain's crest 一座山的顶峰

Soon to reply assuredly 不久，确切地答复

   

O for man aged ninety years o对于男人年龄90年

No words to waste on sermons 没有的话浪费在布道

He'd be pleased to answer 他会很乐意回答

Short and sincere 短期和真诚

   

Girl there's a nonsense 女孩有一个胡说八道

In all these heaven measures 在所有这些措施的天堂

It's a heathen creed 这是一个异教徒的信仰

So your grandma says 所以，你的奶奶说：

But better to live by... 但是，更好的生活的...

Drink it all in before it's dry 喝这一切在以前是干

   

He ended there with a rattle 他用拨浪鼓结束还有

Cough cough 咳嗽

I took away the long gone cold coffee cup 我带着走长了冷咖啡一杯

As a trail of Camel ashes fell 至于骆驼灰的痕迹下跌

On the floor 在地板上