Lost in a strange city 迷失在一个陌生的城市

Nowhere to turn 无门

Far cry from the streets that 从街头相去甚远

I came from 我来自

It can get lonely 它可以让寂寞

When you're travelling hard 当你出门在外辛苦

But you can even be lonely 但是，你甚至可以是孤独的

Standing in your own back yard 站在自己的后院

   

Nobody knows the existential dread 没有人知道生存的恐惧

Of the things that go on inside 的事情，去里面的

Someone else's head 别人的脑袋

Whether it be trivial 无论是微不足道的

Or something that Dante said 或者一些但丁说：

But baby nobody knows the meaning of loneliness 但是亲爱的，没有人知道寂寞的意义

   

No matter how well you know someone 无论多么好，你知道有人

You can only ever guess 你永远只能猜测

How can you ever really know somebody else? 如何你真的知道别人？

It takes more than a lifetime 它超过了一辈子

Just to get to know yourself 只是去了解自己

Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness 没有人知道寂寞的意义

   

[Instrumental break] [器乐休息]

   

I have to say a word about solitude 我不得不说一个关于孤独字

For the soul it sometimes they say can be good 灵魂有时他们说能好

And I'm partial to it myself, well I must confess 而我偏爱它自己，以及我必须承认

Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness 没有人知道寂寞的意义

   

Well there's Sartre and Camus, Nietzsche and Hesse 那么有萨特和加缪，尼采和黑森

If you dig deep enough 如果你挖够深

You gonna end up in distress 你会在危难结束

And no one escapes having to live life under duress 无一逃脱其胁迫下，以鲜活的生命

And no one escapes the meaning of loneliness 没有人逃脱寂寞的意义

   

Well they say keep it simple when it gets to be a mess 嗯，他们说保持它的简单，当它到达一个烂摊子

And fame and fortune 和名利

Never brought anyone happiness 从来没有任何人带来幸福

I must be lucky 我一定是幸运的

Some of my friends think that I'm really blessed 我的一些朋友认为我很幸运

Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness 没有人知道寂寞的意义

   

[Scatting and instrumental break] [ Scatting和器乐休息]

   

No, no, no, no, nobody knows the meaning of loneliness 不，不，不，不，没有人知道寂寞的意义

No, no, no, nobody knows the meaning of loneliness 不，不，不，没有人知道寂寞的意义

Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness 没有人知道寂寞的意义

   

[The published lyrics include the following verses:] [从已公布的歌词包括下列诗句： ]

   

Bright lights, big city nowhere to turn 明亮的灯光，大市无门

Far cry from the streets where I was born 从街头相去甚远我出生的地方

I've been doing some travelling 我一直在做一些旅行

Sometimes the road gets hard 有时，路越走越难

But you can also be lonely 但你也可以是孤独的

Standing in your own backyard 站立在自己的后院

   

No, no, no, no, no, no, nobody knows 不，不，不，不，不，不，没有人知道

The meaning of loneliness 孤独的意义

No, no, no, no, nobody knows 不，不，不，不，没有人知道

The meaning of loneliness 孤独的意义

Nobody knows the meaning of loneliness 没有人知道寂寞的意义