There are bridges over rivers 有跨河桥

There are moments of collapse 有崩溃的时刻

There are drivers with their feet on the glass 有在玻璃上用自己的脚司机

You can kick but you can’t get out 你可以踢，但你无法脱身

There is history in the rooms of the house 有历史的房子的房间

   

After dinner 晚餐后

Do the dishes 做的菜

Mother hums 母亲嗡嗡声

The coffeemaker hisses on the stove 咖啡机嘶嘶声炉子上

The steam a crescendo 蒸汽高潮

The radio emergency bulletins and 无线电紧急公告和

Everywhere wind 无处不在的风

   

You took the train down to Terra Haute, Indiana 你坐火车下来到兵马俑高级定制，印第安纳

Visit family, your childhood home 走亲访友，你童年的家

Give your mother her grandkid and father a kiss 给你妈妈她grandkid和父亲一吻

Put your luggage in your bedroom in the kitchen sit 把你的行李在你的卧室在厨房坐

With your husband still up in Hudsonville 与你的丈夫还住在哈得孙

Until the weekend when his shift ends at the furniture mill 直到上周末，当他转变的家具边角料

Running water for the dishes and the coffee on the stove 炉子上自来水的菜肴和咖啡

Heard a warning from the corner on the radio 听到收音机角落警告

And the glass starts to rattle in the window frames 和玻璃开始在窗框嘎嘎

   

So you went underground 所以，你去地下

Took the staircase down 把楼梯下来

To the cellar full of hunting equipment 地窖充满了狩猎装备

Held your baby in your arms 保持你的宝宝在你的怀抱

Read the labels on mason jars 请仔细阅读石匠罐子的标签

Try not to think about your husband in Michigan 尽量不要去想你在密歇根州的丈夫

   

Stay calm 保持冷静

Keep the radio loud 保持无线电大声

Take care 照顾自己

Wind howls 风呼啸而过

Father piles blankets in the corner by the furnace 父亲被炉被子堆积在角落里

Mother lights candles 母亲点亮蜡烛

It’s a miracle the baby doesn’t cry 这是一个奇迹宝宝没有哭

   

Back home doing yard work outside 回到家里做院子外面工作

Husband being stubborn under dark skies 丈夫被在黑暗的天空固执

Saw the fence by the neighbor’s shed split 看到栅栏被邻居的棚分裂

Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in 只见厨房的窗户开始在弯曲

   

So you went down to the back steps then to the basement 所以，你就下到后面的步骤，然后到地下室

There were bookshelf plans on the workbench 有工作台上书架计划

And a flashlight shining bright all night try not to think about your son and your wife 和手电筒闪亮亮一整夜尽量不去想你的儿子和你的妻子

And the lightning that scattered the night sky 那散落在夜空的闪电

And the wind bursts that tore up the power lines 风阵阵的撕毁了电源线

At the workbench in the basement 在地下室的工作台

Where you sat and tried to wait out the night 你在哪里坐，并试图等待了一夜

You called for three straight days 你叫连续三天

Still with your family back home 还是与家人回老家

Up in Hudsonville the worst of the storms touched ground 在哈得孙维尔最糟糕的暴风雨感动地

And the phone lines were down 和电话线下降

Turn the radio up 打开收音机了

There’s a woman who got thrown from her car into a barbed wire fence 还有谁接到了她的车扔进铁丝网女人

She was 6-months pregnant 她是6个月的身孕

Both her and the baby lived 她和孩子住

You tried but the line or… 你尝试过，但该行还是...

   

I remember those nights 我记得那些夜晚

I couldn’t get through to you when quiet storms came rattled the window panes 我无法打通你的时候安静的风暴来了叮叮当当的玻璃窗

Couldn’t keep a thing the same way when the storm blew in and the furniture rearranged 不能保持一点相同的方式，当风暴吹在与家具重新排列

I can see lightning there and a funnel cloud 我可以看到有闪电和漏斗云

And her mother said “I swear I saw lightning in your eyes 而她的母亲说：“我发誓，我看到闪电在你的眼睛

When that call got through to the other side.” 当通过调用到了另一边。 “

   

Stay calm 保持冷静

Keep the radio loud 保持无线电大声

Stay down 停留下来

There are bridges over rivers 有跨河桥

Sirens in the distant 在遥远的警报器

Wind howls 风呼啸而过

Keep down 保留下来

Then 然后，

After dinner do the dishes 晚餐后做的菜

Mother hums 母亲嗡嗡声

Wires snap 线扣

Metal gets twisted 金属被扭曲

There’s the rattle of the window glass 有窗玻璃的拨浪鼓

Bending in 弯曲

Take the children down 带着孩子下来

Terra Haute 高级泰拉

Coffee 咖啡

Thanksgiving 感恩节

Stay calm 保持冷静

Keep down 保留下来

At the workbench 在工作台

Stay 入住

And the coffeemaker hisses 和咖啡机嘶嘶声

Stay calm 保持冷静

Keep down 保留下来

Turn the radio 打开收音机

There are 有

There are moments of collapse 有崩溃的时刻