One fine day near the end of the tax year 附近的税务年底在一个晴朗的一天

Mr Richards was gripped by a new fear 理查兹先生抓住了新的恐惧

Who would be at his retirement party 会是谁在他的退休派对

And though he still had years to go before he 虽然他仍然有几年，他才去

Slipped over the edge of the workforce 滑过劳动力的优势

The question remained and in his wake there came an army 但问题依然存在，在他之后出现了一支军队

   

What price creature comforts – what is this life really all about? 什么价位的物质享受 - 这是什么生活真的一回事呢？

He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out 他把工作和生活之间的界限，而工作是胜出

And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out 他工作了半生，花到底只是感觉累了

That’s when his roof caved in 这时候，他的屋顶塌陷

   

And so he made a list of all the people he worked with 于是他做了所有他曾与人的名单

And cut it down to the ones he got on with 切下来的那些他得到了与

Paired each one off with the decade of his career 他的职业生涯的十年配对每一个关

And then he thought of all his friends from back home 然后他想到了他所有的朋友回家

The crazies, the ladies, the lovers he’d known 疯子，女士们，他已经知道恋人

And then he looked around his office and wondered why he was still here 然后他看了看在他的办公室，不知道他为什么还在这里

   

What price creature comforts – what is this life really all about? 什么价位的物质享受 - 这是什么生活真的一回事呢？

He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out 他把工作和生活之间的界限，而工作是胜出

And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out 他工作了半生，花到底只是感觉累了

That’s when he realised that he scrimped and saved all his precious days 这时候，他意识到自己省吃俭用他的所有珍贵的日子

So he could buy icers and microwaves 这样他就可以买冰器和微波炉

And he only looks forward to his holidays 他只期待着他的假期

   

That’s when his roof caved in 这时候，他的屋顶塌陷

   

And it would be nice to have holiday homes and healthy bank statements and fat little kids, 这将是不错的度假屋和健康的银行对账单和脂肪的小孩，

And I guess you can be happy to dream all your dreams as camcorder records of the things that you did, 我猜你可以幸福的梦想你的梦想为你所做的事摄像机记录，

But as soon as your sleeping does it really matter what mattress you happen to be sleeping on? 但只要你的睡眠是否真的不管你发生什么床垫在睡觉吗？

As long as your living and your having fun; he always laughed at the drop-outs, that he could never live that way. 只要你的生活和玩乐的;他总是嘲笑辍学学生，他可以永远这样的生活。

But the truth is Mr Richards was a coward, he was afraid. 但事实是，理查兹先生是个胆小鬼，他害怕。

   

Mr Richards decided on the very next morning 理查兹先生决定在第二天早上

To make his life and work the same thing 为了使他的生活和工作一样的东西

Cleared his desk, he hit the road and he never retired. 清理自己的办公桌，他上路了，他从来没有退休。