While you were sleeping 当你在睡觉

They came and took it all away 他们来了，把一切都带走

The lanes and the meadows 车道和草地

The places where you used to play 在这里你经常玩的地方

   

It was an inside job 这是一种监守自盗

By the well-connected 由连接良好的

Your little protest 你的小抗议

Summarily rejected 断然拒绝

   

It was an inside job 这是一种监守自盗

Like it always is 喜欢它始终是

Chalk it up to business as usual 记在照常营业

   

While we are dreaming 虽然我们是在做梦

This little island disappears 这个小岛屿消失

While you are looking the other way 当你正在寻找其他的方式

They'll take your right to own your own ideas 他们会带你到拥有自己的想法的权利

   

And it's an inside job 而且它的内部工作

Favors collected 收集到的恩惠

Your trusted servants 您值得信赖的公仆

Have left you unprotected 留下您不受保护

   

It was an inside job 这是一种监守自盗

Like it always is 喜欢它始终是

Just chalk it up 只是粉笔它

To business as usual 一切照旧

   

You think that you're so smart 你以为你很聪明

But you don't have a fucking clue 但是你没有一个他妈的线索

What those men up in the towers 这些是什么人在塔

Are doing to me and you 在做我和你

And they'll keep doin' it and doin' it 他们会继续做就行了，并做就行了

And doin' it and doin' it 并做就行了，并做就行了

And doin' it and doin' it 并做就行了，并做就行了

And doin' it and doin' it 并做就行了，并做就行了

Until we all wake up 等到大家都醒了

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up 醒醒，醒醒，醒醒，醒醒

   

I know what I've done wrong 我知道我做了什么错

I am acquainted with the night 我认识的夜

I know how hard it is 我知道这有多难

To always walk out in the light 要始终走在光

   

And it's an inside job 而且它的内部工作

To learn about forgiving 欲了解更多宽容

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

To hang on to the joy of living 挂到生活的乐趣

   

They know the road by which you came 他们知道了，你来的路

They know your mother's maiden name 他们知道你母亲的娘家姓

And what you had for breakfast 而你早饭吃了什么

And what you've hidden in the mattress 而你所隐藏在床垫

   

Insect politics 昆虫政治

Indifferent universe 冷漠的宇宙

Bang your head against the wall 砰你的头撞墙

But apathy is worse 但冷漠更糟糕的是

   

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

Yeh, yeah 叶耶

   

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

   

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作

It's an inside job 这是一个内部的工作