You said you couldn't keep me when you were seventeen 你说你能不能让我当你是17

Too young to be a father 太年轻了，当爸爸了

You kissed my hand and took your leave 你吻了我的手，把你的假期

And you taught me how to make believe 而你教我如何使信

   

Make believe I was a gift to you from heaven 请相信，我是给你的礼物从天上

Make believe that you would take me as your own 请相信，你会带我为自己

Make believe that you would set the mark of what a man should be 请相信，你会设定一个什么样的人应该是标志

You taught me how to make believe 你教我如何使信

   

And now that I've grown older 而现在，我已经长大老年人

I long for us to meet 我渴望我们能够满足

I have a million questions 我有一百万个问题

But most of all I want to see 但最重要的是我希望看到

If all of it was make believe 如果这一切是虚构

   

Another year has come and gone 又是一年来去匆匆

I am living with your family 我的生活与你的家人

And I feel right at home 我有宾至如归的感觉

In the place where I always wanted to be 在那里我一直想待的地方

   

I'm going out this evening 我要出去今晚

I check the mirror twice 我检查了两次镜

You stop me on the staircase 你阻止我上楼梯

You kiss my hand and say that I look beautiful tonight 你吻我的手，说，我看今晚美

   

And I believe I was a gift to you from heaven 我相信我是一个礼物给你从天上

And I believe that you would take me as your own 而且我相信，你会拿我当自己

I believe that you set the mark of what a man should be 我相信你定一个什么样的人应该是标志

Now I don't have to make believe 现在，我不必假装