Why all these bugles cry 为什么所有这些军号哭

These squads of young men drill 年轻男子钻这些敢死队

To kill and to be killed 杀与被杀

Stood waiting by the train 站在等候的列车

   

Why the orders loud and hoarse 为什么订单响亮而嘶哑

Why the engine's groaning cough 为什么发动机的呻吟咳嗽

As it strains to drag us all 至于这株拖我们所有人

Into the holocaust 走进大屠杀

   

Why crowds who sing and cry 为什么群众谁唱哭了

And shout and fling us flowers 和欢呼一扔我们花

And trade their rights for ours 而他们的交易为我们的权利

To murder and to die 谋杀和死亡

   

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The dove has torn her wing 鸽子撕裂她的翅膀

So no more songs of love 爱所以没有更多的歌曲

We are not here to sing 我们在这里不是唱歌

We're here to kill the dove 我们在这里杀鸽子

   

Why must this moment come 为什么一定要这一刻到来

When childhood has to die 童年时已经不行了

When hope shrinks to a sigh 当希望缩小到叹息

And speech into a drum 和语音到鼓

   

Why are they pale and still 为什么他们脸色苍白，仍

Young boys trained over night 培训了晚上男孩

Concripts payed to kill Concripts所许杀

And dressed in gray to fight 而身着灰色打

   

These rainclouds massing tight 这些rainclouds集结紧

This train load battle bound 这列火车装载的战斗束缚

This moving burial ground 该移动墓区

Goes thundering to the night 去雷鸣的夜晚

   

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Why statues towering grave 为什么雕像高耸的坟墓

Above the last defeat 上面最后惨败

Old words and lies repeat 旧词和谎言重复

Across a new made grave 跨越作出新的坟墓

   

And why the same still birds 而为什么同样还是鸟

That victory always brought 胜利总是带给

These hours of glory bought 这几个小时的荣耀买

By men with mounds of earth 男人与一个个土墩

   

Dead ash without a spark 无火花死灰

Where cities used to be 其中城市曾经是

Where guns probe every spark 凡枪探头每火花

And crush it into dust 并粉碎成尘埃

   

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And while your face undone 虽然你的脸撤消

With jagged lines of tears 随着眼泪锯齿线

That gave in those first years 这给了那些在第一年

All the peace I'd ever want 所有我所希望的和平

   

Your body in the gloom 你的身体在黑暗中

The platform fading back 该平台遁入

Your shadow on the track 你的影子在赛道上

A flower upon a tomb 在墓花

   

And why these days ahead 而为什么未来这几天

When I must let you cry 当我必须让你哭

And live prepared to die 和现场准备赴死

And to.... 并且....

   

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