It fell from midnight skies 它从午夜的天空下跌

It drummed on the galvanized 它敲打在镀锌

In the washroom, women tracked the rain 在卫生间，女跟踪雨

Up to the make-up mirror 截至化妆镜子

Liquid soap and grass 液体肥皂草

And Jungle Gardenia crash 和丛林栀子崩溃

On Pine-Sol and beer ... 在松树溶胶和啤酒...

It's stifling in here ... 它扼杀在这里...

I've got to get some air ... 我有得到一些空气...

I'm going outside to get some air 我去外面弄点空气

   

Back in my hometown 回到我的家乡

They would have cleared the floor 他们将被清除地板

Just to watch the rain come down! 只为了看雨降下来！

They're such sky oriented people-- 他们是这样的天空导向people--

Geared to changing weather ... 面向不断变化的天气...

I'm floating off in time 我在一次对开海面

I'm floating off 我飘了

I'm floating off in time 我在一次对开海面

   

When I was three feet tall 当我是三英尺高

And wide eyed open to it all 而宽看着开这一切

With their tasseled teams they came 他们的流苏队，他们来了

To McGee's General Store 要麦基的一般商店

All in their beaded leathers 所有的皮革珠饰

I would tie on colored feathers 我系上彩色的羽毛

And I'd beat the drum like war ... 而且我喜欢打战争的鼓...

I would beat the drum like war 我会击败像战争鼓

I'd beat the drum 我会打鼓

I'd beat the drum like war 我喜欢打战争的鼓

   

But when the church got through 但是，当教会通过了

They traded their beads for bottles 他们交易的珠瓶

Smashed--on Railway Avenue 被砸 - 铁路大道

And they cut off their braids 他们切断他们的辫子

And lost some link with nature 而失去了与大自然的一些链接

I'm floating into dreams 我飘入梦境

I'm floating off 我飘了

I'm floating into my dreams 我飘入我的梦

   

I dream paprika plains 我梦见红辣椒平原

Vast and bleak and God forsaken 广袤和荒凉的上帝离弃

Paprika plains 辣椒平原

And a turquoise river snaking 和绿松石河流蜿蜒

   

(Where crows gaze--vigilant on wires （凡乌鸦凝视 - 警惕上线

Where cattle graze the grasses 凡牛吃草的草

Far from the digits of business hours 远的营业时间数字

The moon clock wanes and waxes-- 月亮阴晴圆缺的时钟和waxes--

But here all time is stripped away 但这里所有的时间剥夺

Nowhere on these plains 无处这些平原

Is a sprout or an egg in evidence 是豆芽或证据鸡蛋

To measure loss or gain ... 为了测量损益...

Only a little Indian band 只有一点点的印带

Come down from some windy mesa 一些多风台面回落

No women to make them food and child 没有妇女，使他们的食品和儿童

No expressions on their faces 在他们的脸上没有任何表情

I'm low in a helicopter 我是低直升机

And the wind from whirling blades 从旋转叶片的风

Flaps their woven blankets 襟翼自己编织的毛毯

And flags their raven braids 和标志的乌鸦辫子

How came they to this emptiness? 如何来到他们这个空虚？

How came they to this dream? 如何来到他们对这个梦想？

How came I to this view 怎么来的我对这种看法

From a flying machine 从飞行机

Of earth and air and water 地球与空气和水

And a band of Indian men 和印度裔男子带

Without herds or flocks or crops 如果没有牛羊成群或作物或

Or families or fires to tend? 或者家庭或火灾趋向？

Like a phoenix up from ashes now 就像从灰烬现在凤凰起来

A blanket figure springs 制毯的身影弹簧

With a fist raised up to turquoise skies 用拳头举起来绿松石天空

Like liberty 喜欢自由

And at the point of vanishing 和在消失点

Where the sky and the earth meet 这里的天空和大地相遇

A bomb blooms 炸弹开花

Deadly mushroom 致命的蘑菇

White 白

Gold 黄金

Heat 热

Like a phoenix up from ashes 就像从灰烬凤凰起来

Up from violent mysteries 从暴力的奥秘

And growing 'till the giant blast 而越来越多“ ，直到巨型爆炸

Is to it like a golfer's tee 是它就像一个高尔夫球员的发球

there comes a child's beach ball 总会有一个孩子的沙滩球

And memory takes me back 记忆把我带回到

to the beach to toss it up 到海边折腾了

to the garage to get it patched 到车库取它打补丁

A pink and yellow beach ball 粉红色和黄色的沙滩球

Rolling 滚动

Grand 大

Detached 独立

Turning the blues and greens of earth 打开蓝色和地球的绿色

From space probe photographs 从太空探测照片

I float out of the hovercraft 我飘飘荡荡了气垫船

Naked as infancy 赤裸的婴儿期

And weightless 和失重

And drifting 和漂流

Horizontally 水平

Like a filing to a magnet 就像是档案，以磁铁

Like the long descent of rain 喜欢下雨的长期下降

I am drawn 我画

I fall against the ball 我跌倒对球

And lose paprika plains 而失去辣椒平原

I suckle at my mother's breast í在吸吮妈妈的乳房

I embrace my mother earth 我拥抱我的母亲地球

I remember perforated blinds 我记得穿孔百叶窗

Over the crib of my birth 在我出生的婴儿床

And just as Eve succumbed 而且，正如夏娃屈服于

To reckless curiosity 鲁莽的好奇心

I take my sharpest fingernail 我把我最锐利的指甲

And slash the globe to see 并大幅削减全球范围内看

Below me-- 下面我 -

Vast Paprika plains 广袤的平原辣椒

And the snake the river traces 和蛇河的痕迹

And a little band of Indian men 和印度裔男子表带小

With no expressions on their faces.) 随着他们的脸上没有任何表情。 ）

   

The rain retreats 雨撤退

Like troops to fall on other fields and streets 像部队落在其他领域和街道

Meanwhile they're sweet talking and name calling 同时他们甜蜜的说话和对骂

And brawling on the fringes of the floor 和争吵在地板上的条纹

I spot you through the smoke 我看见你穿过浓烟

With your eyes on fire 用你的眼睛着火

From J&B and coke 从J＆B和焦炭

As I'm coming through the door 当我进门来

I'm coming back 我回来了

I'm coming back for more! 我回来更多！

The band plugs in again 带插头的再

You see that mirrored ball begin to sputter lights 你看，镜面球开始溅射灯

And spin 和旋

Dizzy on the dancers 头昏眼花的舞者

Geared to changing rhythms 面向不断变化的节奏

No matter what you do 不管你做什么

I'm floating back 我飘回

I'm floating back to you! 我飘回到你身边！