When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself 当你这么长时间过去了，你不能帮助自己

When you're so dead wrong 当你死定了错

Let alone no one else 别说没人

   

Well the children still dying in the streets 以及孩子们仍然死在街头

The babies still living with disease 婴儿还患有疾病

The cops got guns, the poor folks got sons 警察有枪，穷人们得到了儿子

Who work for Mr. Franklin every week 谁富兰克林先生每周工作

   

If you've come looking for hard times 如果你是来寻找艰

Hard times ain't hard to find 困难的时候是不是很难找

Cause we've been given that lifeline 因为我们已经考虑到生命线

Only once in a lifetime 只是一生一次

   

Baby we were born 宝贝，我们出生

Maybe we were born 也许我们出生

To be sure ... to endure 可以肯定的...忍受

When the storm comes 当暴风雨来临时

   

Got them sad eyes 得到了他们悲伤的眼神

Got them cat eyes 得到了他们的猫的眼睛

Got your angels tired 有你的天使累

From saving your life 从节约你的生活

   

So you would be best 所以，你会是最好的

To contain yourself 为了遏制自己

Before you end up killed 在你最终被杀

   

His bare feet 他光脚

Touch her bare feet 触摸她的脚裸

The air breaths sweet 空气呼吸甜美

At the mountains peak 在山上峰

   

And I forgot 我忘了

What the wise man said 什么是聪明的人说

About that ancient thread 关于古线

   

Baby we were born 宝贝，我们出生

Maybe we were born 也许我们出生

To be sure ... to rejoice 可以肯定的...庆幸

When it succumbs 当它屈从