Under the ruins of a walled city 在一个有围墙的城市废墟

Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light 摇摇欲坠的黄光塔和梁

No flags of truce, no cries of pity 休战没有标志，没有哭声怜

The siege guns had been pounding all through the night 攻城炮已经冲击通宵达旦

It took a day to build the city 我花了一天建城

We walked through its streets in the afternoon 我们通过它的街道，下午走

As I returned across the lands I'd known 当我穿过的土地归还我早知道

I recognized the fields where I'd once played 我认出，我想曾经玩过领域

I had to stop in my tracks for fear 我不得不停下了脚步，生怕

Of walking on the mines I'd laid 行走在地雷我已经奠定

   

And if I built this fortress around your heart 如果我建立了这个堡垒在你的心脏

Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire 在壕沟和铁丝网包围你

Then let me build a bridge 然后让我建一座桥

For I cannot fill the chasm 因为我无法填补的鸿沟

And let me set the battlements on fire 让我放火的城垛

   

Then I went off to fight some battle 然后我去了一些战斗的战斗

That I'd invented inside my head 我想创造我的脑海里

Away so long for years and years 离开这么久好多年

You probably thought or even wished that I was dead 你可能会想到，甚至希望我已经死了

While the armies are all sleeping 虽然军队都在睡觉

Beneath the tattered flag we'd made 下方的破烂标志，我们就做

I had to stop in my track for fear 我不得不停止在我的轨道，生怕

Of walking on the mines I'd laid 行走在地雷我已经奠定

   

And if I built this fortress around your heart 如果我建立了这个堡垒在你的心脏

Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire 在壕沟和铁丝网包围你

Then let me build a bridge 然后让我建一座桥

For I cannot fill the chasm 因为我无法填补的鸿沟

And let me set the battlements on fire 让我放火的城垛

   

This prison has now become your home 现在，这所监狱已经成为你的家

A sentence you seem prepared to pay 一句话，你似乎愿意支付

It took a day to build the city 我花了一天建城

We walked through its streets in the afternoon 我们通过它的街道，下午走

As I returned across the lands I'd known 当我穿过的土地归还我早知道

I recognized the fields where I'd once played 我认出，我想曾经玩过领域

I had to stop in my tracks for fear 我不得不停下了脚步，生怕

Of walking on the mines I'd laid 行走在地雷我已经奠定

   

And if I built this fortress around your heart 如果我建立了这个堡垒在你的心脏

Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire 在壕沟和铁丝网包围你

Then let me build a bridge 然后让我建一座桥

For I cannot fill the chasm 因为我无法填补的鸿沟

And let me set the battlements on fire 让我放火的城垛