I heard it in the wind last night 我在风听到了昨晚

It sounded like applause 这听起来像掌声

Did you get a round resounding for you 你得到一个响亮的圆你

Way up here 路在这里

It seems like many dim years ago 这似乎是许多昏暗年前

Since I heard that face to face 因为我听说面对面

Or seen you face to face 或看到你面对面

Though tonight I can feel you here 虽然今晚我能感觉到你在这里

I get these notes 我得到这些笔记

On butterflies and lilac sprays 在蝴蝶和淡紫色喷雾剂

From girls who just have to tell me 从谁只是要告诉我的女孩

They saw you somewhere 他们看到你的地方

   

In some office sits a poet 在一些办公室坐着一位诗人

And he trembles as he sings 他颤抖，因为他唱

And he asks some guy 他问了一些人

To circulate his soul around 要围绕循环他的灵魂

On your mark red ribbon runner 在你的商标的红丝带亚军

The caressing rev of motors 电机的转速爱抚

Finely tuned like fancy women 微调喜欢花哨的女人

In thirties evening gowns 在三十多岁的小礼服

Up the charts 截至排行榜

Off to the airport 关机场

Your name's in the news 你的名字是在新闻中

Everything's first class 一切的头等

The lights go down 灯光暗下

And it's just you up there 它只是你在那里

Getting them to feel like that 让他们觉得自己是

   

Remember the days when you used to sit 还记得，当你习惯坐在

And make up your tunes for love 并弥补你的音乐爱情

And pour your simple sorrow 倒你简单的悲哀

To the soundhole and your knee 到音孔和你的膝盖

And now you're seen 现在你看到的

On giant screens 在巨型屏幕上

And at parties for the press 而在各方的新闻

And for people who have slices of you 而对于人谁拥有你的切片

From the company 从公司

They toss around your latest golden egg 他们抛在你最新的金蛋

Speculation well who's to know 投机以及谁的知道

If the next one in the nest 如果下一次在鸟巢

Will glitter for them so 会闪烁，或者他们，

   

I guess I seem ungrateful 我想我似乎不领情

With my teeth sunk in the hand 用我的牙齿沉没在手

That brings me things 这使我想到的东西

I really can't give up just yet 我真的不能放弃，只是还没有

Now I sit up here the critic 现在，我坐在了这里的评论家

And they introduce some band 他们介绍一些带

But they seem so much confetti 但他们似乎这么多的五彩纸屑

Looking at them on my TV set 看着他们在我的电视机

Oh the power and the glory 哦，权力和荣耀

Just when you're getting a taste for worship 只是当你得到崇拜的味道

They start bringing out the hammers 他们开始带出锤

And the boards 和板

And the nails 和指甲

   

I heard it in the wind last night 我在风听到了昨晚

It sounded like applause 这听起来像掌声

Chilly now 现在冷飕飕

End of summer 夏天结束

No more shiny hot nights 没有更多闪亮的热夜

It was just the arbutus rustling 这只是杨梅萧萧

And the bumping of the logs 和日志的凸点

And the moon swept down black water 和月亮冲下黑水

Like an empty spotlight 像一个空的聚光灯