Back in 1953 早在1953年

We stole a car old merle and me 我们偷了一辆旧芸石色和我

Never thinking wed be put in jail 从未想过结婚要入狱

You might say that we were green 你可能会说，我们是绿色的

I was barely seventeen 我几乎17

When they put those bars between old merle and me 当他们把旧的梅尔和我之间的那些酒吧

   

Late one night we hit the wall 一天晚上，我们打墙

Twenty feet we had to fall 两丈我们必须跌倒

To the ground where we could craw into the weeds 到了那里，我们可以克劳入杂草地

Waiting for that shotgun blast 等待那猎枪爆炸

Never thinking we could last 千万不要以为我们会持续

We sure had to grow up fast, old merle and me 我们肯定不得不快速成长起来，老默尔和我

   

We were young and crazy then 我们很年轻，然后疯狂

It was easy to pretend 这是很容易假装

Acting like wed never been in reform school 像个周三从未在学校改革

Looking danger in the eye 在眼睛寻找危险

Walking with our heads held high 与我们的头步行高举

We were not afraid to die, old merle and me 我们不怕死，老默尔和我

   

We were living by the gun 我们住的枪

Never caring what wed done 从来没有关心什么结婚做起来难

Swearing it was all just fun and games you know 发誓这一切只是好玩，你知道游戏

We would die and go to hell 我们会死，去地狱

Before we broke our vow to tell 之前，我们打破了我们的誓言，告诉

How we escaped that prison cell. old merle and me 我们如何逃脱的监狱牢房。老梅尔和我

   

How was merle or me to know 如何为梅尔还是我知道

We would end up on death row 我们最终会在死囚牢房

Waiting for our turn in the electric chair 等待轮到我们在电椅上

Shot down in a grocery store 在一家杂货店被击落

We got busted at the door 我们得到的是非法在门外

Praying wasn't easy for old merle and me 祈祷是不容易的老默尔和我