I've been waiting for something to happen 我一直在等待着什么发生

For a week or a month or a year 一个星期或一个月或一年

With the blood in the ink of the headlines 随着血液在头版头条的油墨

And the sound of the crowd in my ear 和人群在我耳边的声音

You might ask what it takes to remember 也许你会问如何才能记住

When you know that you've seen it before 当你知道你以前见过它

Where a government lies to a people 凡政府就在于一个人

And a country is drifting to war 一个国家的漂流战争

   

And there's a shadow on the faces 还有的在脸上阴影

Of the men who send the guns 谁送枪的男人

To the wars that are fought in places 要被打的地方战争

Where their business interest runs 在那里他们的商业利益运行

   

On the radio talk shows and the T.V. 在电台谈话节目和T.V.

You hear one thing again and again 你听到一件事连连

How the U.S.A. stands for freedom 如何U.S.A.代表自由

And we come to the aid of a friend 我们来到一个朋友的援助

But who are the ones that we call our friends 但是，谁是我们所说的我们的朋友的人

These governments killing their own? 这些国家的政府杀死自己？

Or the people who finally can't take any more 或人谁最终不能采取任何更多

And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone 他们拿起一把枪或砖或石

There are lives in the balance 有生活的平衡

There are people under fire 有下火人

There are children at the cannons 有在大炮的孩子

And there is blood on the wire 且有血线

   

There's a shadow on the faces 有在脸上阴影

Of the men who fan the flames 男子是谁煽风点火

Of the wars that are fought in places 被打的地方的战争

Where we can't even say the names 我们甚至不能说的名字

   

They sell us the President the same way 他们卖给我们的总统以同样的方式

They sell us our clothes and our cars 他们卖给我们我们的衣服和我们的汽车

They sell us every thing from youth to religion 他们卖给我们的每一件事情，从青年到宗教

The same time they sell us our wars 同时，他们卖给我们我们的战争

I want to know who the men in the shadows are 我想知道是谁的人在阴影

I want to hear somebody asking them why 我想听到有人问他们为什么

They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are 他们可以算的上告诉我们谁是我们的敌人

But they're never the ones to fight or to die 但他们从来没有那些打或死

And there are lives in the balance 并有生活的平衡

There are people under fire 有下火人

There are children at the cannons 有在大炮的孩子

And there is blood on the wire 且有血线