If I could just get it on paper 如果我能得到它在纸面上

The things that have happened tonight 今晚发生的事

But that seems to me to be the big key 但是，在我看来，是大关键

I'm havin' too good a time to ever turn 我就吃太好的时候曾经关闭

Out the lights. 灭灯。

   

Go to bed wake up with a clear head 睡觉醒来后，清醒的头脑

Recalling what made it a ball 回顾是什么让这一个球

If I could just get it on paper 如果我能得到它在纸面上

I might make some sense of it all 我可能会做这一切某种意义上

   

If I could tell half of the stories 如果我能告诉一半的故事

The funny way most things begin 有趣的方式最开始的事情

Figure ways to disguise all the half truths and lies 图的方式来掩盖所有的半真理和谎言

Find the heart of my song with the point of a pen 查找我的歌的心脏用笔点

Simple words can be come clever phrases 简单的话可以来巧妙的短语

And chapters could turn into books 和章节可能变成书

Yes if I could just get it on paper 是的，如果我可以得到它在纸面上

But it's harder than it ever looks. 但它的难度比以往任何时候的样子。

   

All alone in the edge of the water 在水的边缘都单独

Hidin' out by the Sea of Cortez 躲到由Cortez海

With my sketch pads and Flairs 与我的素描垫和Flairs

Tapes and battery spares 磁带和电池备件

   

It's just no comprehendo to what everyone says 它只是没有comprehendo什么大家说

   

Time alone seemed to work well for Faulkner 独处的时间似乎很好的工作福克纳

Time away seems to work for the kid 时间客队似乎工作的孩子

Life and ink they run out at the same time 生活和墨水耗尽的同时

Or so said my old friend the squid 或者这么说的我的老朋友了鱿鱼

   

Yes if I could just get it on paper tonight 是的，如果我能得到它今晚纸

I could tell you what I think I did. 我可以告诉你，我想我做到了。