From the point he gazed from the choice was made, but 'walk the cave or the shore?' 从点从他的选择作出凝视，而是“走山洞，或在岸边？ ”

The oily cave seemed to breathe on him through gravestone jaws 油性洞穴似乎通过墓碑颚呼吸在他身上

His little hand grasped in anguish as he weighed up his coin 他的小手抓住了痛苦，他称他的硬币

Somewhere a blue-eyed girl in the world is just waiting for a boy 某处一个蓝眼睛的女孩在世界上只是在等待一个男孩

Footprints trailed as if trod by slaves up to the grey cave floor 落后的足迹，仿佛踩着奴隶到灰色洞穴

But not one graze from anything ever escaping this fort 但任何事情不是一轻擦过逃离这个堡垒

So with coin on hand his joy came back when ordered to take the shore 所以用硬币在手心中的喜悦回来时下令采取岸上

'Why on earth', as he wandered the warmth, 'am I obeying this coin?' “为什么地球上 ，他逛到了温暖， ”我会服从这个硬币？ “

   

Turn your life on the flip of this coin 改变你的生活在这个掷硬币

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid 打开上涨空间的选择，你通常会避免

And promise me you'll follow what it says 并答应我，你会跟着它说什么

Whatever it says 不管它说

   

Again, walk within the trusted beach or swim the swell of the sea? 同样，走在沙滩上值得信赖的内部或游泳大海的膨胀？

And again the scarier alternative looked like certain death to he 又一次的可怕替代看起来必死无疑给他

He'd never learnt to skill of swimming - it never occurred to be very easy 他从来没有学会游泳的技巧 - 它从来没有想过会很容易

And again he winced as he flipped the coin and it twirled to his feet 又一次，他退缩了，他翻转硬币，它飞旋着他的脚

'How is this sane?' he blamed the coin now aiming for the waves “这是怎么理智？ ”他指责硬币现在的目标为波

As he hesitated at the swirl of water as it raged and rained 当他在水中的漩涡犹豫了一下，因为它肆虐和下雨

Blue-eyed girls were waiting and he was drowning in the spray 蓝眼睛的女孩在等待，他被淹没在喷

Blue-eyed girls he should have been acquainted with but for shouting and flailing 蓝眼睛的女孩，他应该已经熟悉，但对于喊挥舞

   

Turn your life on the flip of this coin 改变你的生活在这个掷硬币

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid 打开上涨空间的选择，你通常会避免

And promise me you'll follow what it says 并答应我，你会跟着它说什么

Whatever it says 不管它说

   

He finally slugs it back to land feeling chewed-up and foolish 他终于蛞蝓回土地的感觉咀嚼式和愚蠢

Empties his pockets on the sand spewing a pool each 倒空他的口袋里在沙滩上喷涌每个池

Staggers back to his dad who's too cool to be 蹒跚地回到他的爸爸是谁的太爽是

So he says 'why did you have me follow this stupid rule, please?' 因此，他说， 你为什么要我跟着这个愚蠢的规则，好吗？ “

To be honest little fellow I'll tell you 说实话的小家伙，我会告诉你

I was just as afraid as you 我只是因为怕你

But you said you wanted to get with people and places ever new 但是你说你想获得与人交往，并把常新

And I got a bit scared of the fate of my baby son's future 和我有点害怕我的宝贝儿子的未来命运

So I invented a reason to see if you could ever make do 所以我发明了一个原因，看看你能过凑合

As soon as you appeared behind that rock looking angry at me 只要你看来，石头后面找生我的气

I soon realised what a hell of a man you've ended up being 我很快就意识到了什么，男人的地狱，你已经结束了

I knew you'd worked out how to swim, which I hadn't had in me 我知道你会摸索出了游泳，这是我在我还没有过

And I stand as a companion of you, proudest a man has ever been 我站在作为你的伴侣，最值得骄傲的一个人曾经被

   

Turn your life on the flip of this coin 改变你的生活在这个掷硬币

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid 打开上涨空间的选择，你通常会避免

And promise me you'll follow what it says 并答应我，你会跟着它说什么

Whatever it says 不管它说