Hello old friend, what a strange coincidence to find you 您好老朋友，有什么奇怪的巧合找到你

It's been fifteen years since we last met, but I still recognised you 它已经十五年，我们上次见面，但我还是认出你

So call the barman over here, and let us fill our glasses 所以叫酒保过来，让我们填写我们的眼镜

And drink a toast to olden times where all our memories lie 和祝酒从古至今，所有我们的记忆说谎

Where all our memories lie 我们所有的回忆撒谎

   

Do you remember the time we were young? 你还记得我们小时候的时候？

Lowly, lowly, low 低，低，低

Outside the window the frosty moonlight hung 窗外寒冷的月光挂

On the midnight snow 在午夜的雪

So we pulled our scarves around our faces in the night 因此，我们把我们拉到围巾绕我们的脸在黑夜

Huddled on the doorsteps where the fairylights shone bright 蜷缩在那里的fairylights透出明亮的家门口

Singing Christmas carols while our breath hung in the light 唱圣诞颂歌，而我们的呼吸挂在光

It all comes back like yesterday 这一切又回到昨天一样

It almost seems like yesterday 它似乎像昨天

   

Do you remember the changes as we grew? 你还记得的变化，因为我们长大？

Slowly, slowly, slow 慢慢的，慢慢的，慢

Sneaking in the back way into movies after school 偷偷在后面的方式进入学校后的电影

For the evening show 对于晚会

Chasing skinny blue jean girls across the building-site 追瘦蓝色牛仔女孩整个建筑现场

Checking out the dance floor while the band played "Hold Me Tight" 检查出的舞池，而乐队奏起“抱紧我”

See the blonde one over there: I bet she'd be alright 看到金发女郎在那里：我敢打赌，她会好起来的

It all comes back like yesterday 这一切又回到昨天一样

It almost seems like yesterday 它似乎像昨天

   

While I talked he sat and he never made a sound 虽然我跟他坐下来，他从来没有发出声音

Staring at the glass beside me 盯着我旁边的玻璃

Hey old friend, tell me what's on your mind? 嘿老朋友，告诉我什么是对你的想法？

Silence grows on you like ivy 沉默生长在你喜欢的常春藤

Ivy 常春藤

   

Do you remember the church across the sands? 你还记得在整个沙滩的教会？

Holy, holy, ho 圣哉，圣哉，何

You stood outside and planned to travel the lands 你站在外面，计划出行的土地

Where the pilgrims go 凡朝圣者去

So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack 所以，你装你的世界了帆布袋内

Set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac 掀起来跟你的戒指和凯鲁亚克的公路

Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back 有人说，他们看到你在尼泊尔很长一段时间回来

Tell me why you look away 告诉我你为什么看远

Don't you have a word to say? 你不是有一句话说什么？

   

He said, "I don't remember ... I Don't want to remember 他说：“我不记得......我不想记住

In fact I've heard too much already 事实上，我已经听到太多了

I don't want to think, just leave me here to drink 我不想多想，就这样离开我这里喝

Wrapped up in the warmth of New York City 结束了在纽约的温暖

Oh, oh, it seems you just don't know 哦，哦，看来你只是不知道

And you just don't understand me 而你只是不理解我

I've got no use for the tricks of modern times 我有没有用现代的技巧

They tangle all my thoughts like ivy 他们纠结我所有的思绪像常春藤

Ivy" 常春藤“

   

So I left him, and I went out to the street 所以，我离开了他，我出去到街上

Lowly, lowly, low 低，低，低

Where the red light girls were coming after me 凡在我之后红灯姑娘们来了

Forty dollar show 四元秀

All across the city's heart the lights were coming on 整个城市的心脏在灯火阑珊的

The hotel lift softly hummed a Cole Porter song 酒店的电梯轻轻哼出科尔·波特的歌

If I went to look for him I knew he would be gone 如果我去找他，我知道他会消失

A picture-card of yesterday 子母卡昨天

A photograph of yesterday 昨天的照片

And far off in a deserted part of town 再远处，在镇一个废弃的一部分

The shadows like a silent army 就像一个沉默的军队阴影

Flooded out the rooms in pools of blue and brown 充斥了房间的蓝色和棕色池

And stuck to all the walls like ivy 并坚持像所有的常春藤的墙壁

Ivy 常春藤

Ivy 常春藤