When the sky was the color of cream, 当天空是奶油的颜色，

And you started leaving messages on my answering machine 你们是留在我的答录机留言

Telling me that you were way across town and 告诉我，你是这样穿过市区，

Would be home in a night or two. 会是家居中的一个或两个晚上。

I started keeping track of my losses. 我开始跟踪我的损失。

There were only one or two i couldn't cover. 只有一两个我不能覆盖。

And up there against the milk while sky i saw 并在那里对豆浆的同时天空中只见

Fleeting vestiges of you. 你流年的痕迹。

The way you vanished gradually 你渐渐消失的方式

Has made a bitter man of me. 做了一个痛苦的男人我。

And the way you vanished gradually, 和你的方式逐渐消失，

Has made a bitter man of me. 做了一个痛苦的男人我。

   

Well, the ocean cleaves the rocks real clean. 那么，海洋切割岩石真正的清洁。

I dropped my answering machine. 我放弃了我的答录机。

I watched the waves chew it into tiny little pieces of seafoam hissing in the air. 我看着海浪咀嚼到空气中的微小碎片水蓝嗤笑。

In the balance sheet i'd been keeping in my mind 在资产负债表中我一直保留在我的脑海会

I entered two hundred kroners to the left of the debit line. 我进入200 kroners的借记行的左侧。

It was what the machine had cost me. 这是什么机器花了我。

It was a greater loss than i could bear. 它比我能承受更大的损失。

I hear the wheels and knobs whirring down to this very day, 我听到车轮和旋钮呼呼下来到今天，

Long after the ocean has washed it all away. 时隔不久海洋已经洗了这一切。

I heard the train go by last night. 我听到了火车去了昨晚。

And it's a slow train outta here, alright. 这是一个缓慢的火车离开这儿，好吗。

But the way you disappeared in slow degrees, 但是，你慢度消失的方式，

Has made a very patient man of me. 已经让我非常有耐心的人。

Yeah 是啊