Back in the long stretch of loneliness 早在长长的寂寞

I have come to call a living, 我是来叫生活，

I'm getting something for all this love's labor, 我得到的东西全部的爱劳动，

even when I am forgetting. 甚至当我忘了。

   

Oh we oh oh little perennials 哦，我们哦，哦，有点多年生植物

where'd you come from? 你从哪儿来的？

   

Daughter of my father's second cousin, 我父亲的第二个表弟的女儿，

loyalties, I got em by the dozen. 忠诚，我得到了EM的打。

We share a past, we share a blood relation 我们有着过去，我们有着血缘关系

and that's as good as an invitation. 这就是不如邀请。

   

Oh we oh oh little perennials 哦，我们哦，哦，有点多年生植物

where'd you come from? 你从哪儿来的？

   

I'm in the North Carolina Mountains, 我在北卡罗莱纳州的山，

just to the west of where I met my calling. 只是在那里我遇见了我的呼唤西部。

If you look south to the foothills of these mountains rising, 如果你看看南到这些高山耸立的山脚下，

that's the place where it feels good falling. 这就是它的感觉很好坠落的地方。

That's the place that I know. 这是我所知道的地方。

   

I look for words to fill the empty spaces, 我找的话，以填补空出的空间，

all the life revealed in these back stages. 所有生活在这些后面的阶段显现出来。

I reach for names like little puzzle pieces; 我达到了像小拼图名称;

oh perennial, come to me. 常年哦，到我这里来。

   

Oh we oh oh little perennials 哦，我们哦，哦，有点多年生植物

where'd you come from? 你从哪儿来的？