I died in a car crash two days ago 我是在车祸前两天死了

Was unrecognizable 已面目全非

When they pulled me from the gears 当他们把我从齿轮

No one's fault, no one's bottle 任何人的错，没有任何一个人的瓶

No one's teenage pride or throttle 没有一个十几岁的骄傲或油门

Our innocence is all the worse for fears 我们的清白是所有恐惧的差

The other walked away alive 另走开活着

Arms wrapped now around his wife 现在手臂缠在他的妻子

   

My lover sits, the silent eye 我的爱人坐，沉默的眼睛

In a hurricane of warmth and word 在温暖和词的飓风

My mother trembles with the sobs 我的母亲用颤抖的呜咽

Whose absence seems absurd 谁缺席似乎很荒谬

My sister shouts to let her see 我姐姐喊来，让她看看

Through the cloud of crowd surrounding me 经过众人的云我周围

My colleagues call for silence in my name 我的同事们呼吁沉默的我的名字

   

I died in a car crash three months ago 我在一个车祸三个月前去世

They burned me until I glowed 他们烧了我，直到我闪耀

And crumbled to a fine gray sand 而土崩瓦解罚款灰砂

Now I am nothing, everywhere 现在我什么都没有，到处都是

Several breaths of strangers' air 对陌生人的空气几个深呼吸

And all thoughts ever written in my hand 和所有的想法永远写在我的手

They plant my tree out in the yard 他们种下我的树在院子里

It grows but takes the winter hard 它生长，但以冬季硬

   

My lover holds a knife to wrist 我的爱人拥有一把刀到手腕

Says tomorrow comes, hold on a while 说：明天到来，坚持一段时间

My mother tosses in the sheets 我的母亲扔在张

And dreams me holding my own child 与梦想我抱着我的孩子

My sister plays our homemade tapes 我妹妹玩我们的自制录音带

Laughs as tears run down her face 笑的眼泪往下跑她的脸

My office door now wears a different name 我的办公室的门，现在穿的是不同的名字

   

I died in a car crash four years ago 我在一个车祸四年前去世

My tree drinks melted snow 我的树饮品融化的雪

Just eight feet tall a pale and fragile thing 只是身高八尺苍白和脆弱的东西

Bee stings beaches bright vacations 蜂蜇伤的海滩度假光明

Sunburnt high-school graduations 晒伤的高中毕业典礼

A sparrow healing from a broken wing 来自一个破碎的翅膀麻雀愈合

This year a glimpse of second chances 今年的第二次机会一窥

Tiny apples on my tree's branches 在我的树的树枝的小苹果

   

My lover hears the open wind 我的爱人听到风吹开

And crawls blinking into the sun 并抓取到闪烁的阳光

My mother leafs through photographs 我的母亲翻看照片

And thinks "yes she was a lovely one" 并认为， “是的，她是一个可爱的人”

My sister can't decide her truth 我姐姐不能决定她的真相

Asks aloud what I might do 问出声我可以做什么

In a conference hall my brief efforts engraved 在会议大厅我简短的努力刻

   

I died in a car crash 我死于车祸

A lifetime ago it seems 是上辈子似乎

Been a decade or two or three 去过一，二十年，三

They've just release a new design 他们刚刚发布了全新的设计

Bars and bags front and behind 酒吧和包包前面和后面

My fate now an impossibility 现在，我的命运是不可能

Safely packaged hurtling down 安全包装飞驰而下

The highway hardly make a sound 这条公路几乎没有发出声音

   

My lover very much alive 我的爱人非常活跃

Arms wrapped now around his wife 现在手臂缠在他的妻子