If you reach back in your memory 如果你伸出手在你的记忆

A little bell might ring 小钟会响

About a time that once existed 关于曾经存在一段时间

When money wasn't king 当钱不是王

If you stretch your imagination 如果你伸展你的想象力

I'll tell you all a tale 我会告诉你一个故事

About a time when everything 约的时候，一切都

Wasn't up for sale 不出售

   

There was this cat named Johnny 有这猫叫强尼

Who loved to play and sing 谁喜欢弹琴唱歌

When money wasn't king. 当钱不是国王。

   

We'd all get so excited 我们都会这么激动

When John would give a show 当约翰会做秀

We'd raise the cash between us 我们会提高我们之间的现金

And down the road we'd go 而在路上，我们会去

To hear him play that music 听到他弹奏的音乐

It spoke right to my soul 这说话的权利，我的灵魂

Every verse a diamond 每首诗的钻石

And every chorus gold 和每一个合唱团金牌

   

The sound was my salvation 声音是我的救赎

It was only everything 这只是一切

Before money became king. 在金钱面前成为国王。

   

Well I ain't sure how it happened 好吧，我是不知道怎么回事呢

And I don't know exactly when 我并不确切地知道什么时候

But everything got bigger 但是，一切都得到了较大的

And the rules began to bend 而规则也开始弯曲

And the TV taught the people 和电视教人

How to get their hair to shine 如何让自己的头发闪耀

And how sweet life can be 如何甜蜜的生活可以

If you keep a tight behind 如果你保持一个紧密的背后

   

And they raised the cost of living 他们提出的生活费

And how could we have known 而我们怎么能知道

They'd double the price of tickets 他们会加倍的门票价格

To go see Johnny's show? 去看看约翰尼的表演？

   

So we hocked all our possessions 因此，我们hocked我们所有的财产

And we sold a little dope 我们卖一点点涂料

And went off to rock 'n' roll. ，去了摇滚摇滚乐。

   

We arrived there early 我们到了那里早

In time to see rehearsal 在一次看排练

And John came out and lip-synched 和约翰走了出来，唇同步的

His new lite-beer commercial 他的精简版，啤酒广告

And as the crowd arrived 而随着人群来到

As far as I could see 至于我能看到

The faces were all different 脸上都是不同的

There was no one there like me 有没有人有像我这样的

   

They sat in golden circles 他们坐在金色的圆圈

And waiters served them wine 和服务员为他们服务的酒

And talked through all the music 并通过所有的音乐聊

And to John paid little mind 和约翰付一点心意

And way up in the nosebleeds 而一路上涨的流鼻血

We watched upon the screen 我们在观看屏幕

They hung between the billboards 他们挂的广告牌之间

So cheaper seats could see 因此，便宜的座位可以看到

   

Johnny, rock that golden circle 约翰尼，岩石金环

And all those VIPs 而所有这些贵宾

And that music that had freed us 而且音乐释放了我们

Became a tired routine 成为例行累

And I saw his face in close-up 我看到他的脸的特写

Tryin' to give it all he had 试着给它所有的他

And sometimes his eyes betrayed him 有时他的眼神出卖了他

You could see that he was sad 你可以看到，他很伤心

   

And I tried to rock on with him 我试图岩石上与他

But I slowly became bored 但我慢慢变得无聊

Could that man on stage with everything 莫非是男子的一切阶段

Somehow need some more? 不知怎的，需要多一些？

   

There was no use in pretending 有没有用在假装

No magic left to hear 没有神奇的左听

All the music gave me 所有的音乐给了我

Was a craving for lite-beer 是一个渴望精简版啤酒

As I walked out of the arena 当我走出舞台

My ears began to ring 我的耳朵就开始响

And money became king. 和金钱成为国王。