Today Joseph is sitting alone, with occasional nods to the waitress 今天约瑟夫独自坐着，偶尔点头女服务员

She tops off his cup while she's snapping her gum, making her rounds on the lunch shift 她顶了他的杯子，而她的贴紧她的牙龈，使她发上的午餐移

Counting out coins, he leaves them arranged, in neat lines and circles and arcs 数着硬币，他离开他们安排的，整齐的直线和圆和圆弧

She just stares at the tip that spells out her name and ideas are like stars 她只是盯着那阐明了她的名字的提示和想法犹如天上的星星

   

And yesterday pedaling down 4th Avenue, between the stalls and the bookshops 昨天蹬倒第四大街，摊位和书店之间

The sepia tones of a lost afternoon cradled a curio storefront 丢失下午的棕褐色调怀抱古玩店面

And inside the air was thick with the past, as the dust settled onto his heart 而里面的空气里弥漫着过去，由于尘埃落定到他的心脏

And here for a moment is every place in the world and ideas are like stars 在这里，一会是在世界上每一个地方，意念像星星

   

They fall from the sky, they run round your head 他们从天上掉下来，他们跑圆你的头

They litter your sleep as they beckon 这些垃圾你的睡眠，因为他们招手

They'd teach you to fly without wires or thread 他们会教你不线或飞线

They promise if only you'd let them 他们承诺，只要你愿意让他们

   

For the language of longing never had words, so how did you speak from your heart 对于向往的语言从未有过的话，那么你是如何从你的心脏说话

Yet here is a box that swears it has heard that ideas are like stars 然而，这里有一个盒子，发誓它已经听说的想法是像星星

   

Tonight Joseph stood out in the yard, as Debussy played from the kitchen 今晚约瑟夫站了出来，在院子里，因为德彪西从厨房打

Celestial companions `til mornings first lark, shone overhead and he listened 天体的同伴`直到早晨第一云雀，照的开销和他听了

And who was that shadow there by the gate, who was that there standing guard 而谁是影子那里的门，谁是有站岗

It was only loneliness, and loneliness waits, and ideas are like stars 这是唯一的孤独和寂寞等待和思想，犹如天上的星星

Ideas are like stars 理想就象星星