He was an accident waiting to happen 他是一个等待发生的事故

Most accidents happen at home 大多数事故发生在家里

Maybe he should've gone out more often 也许他应该已经更经常出去

Maybe he should've answered the phone 也许他应该已经接了电话

   

Hip-shakin' shoutin' in gold lame' 臀部颤抖黄金跛脚“叫喊着

That's how he earned his regal sobriquet 这就是他赢得了他的绰号富豪

Then he threw it all away 然后，他把一切都带走

For a porcelain monkey 对于瓷猴

   

He threw it away for a porcelain monkey 他把它扔了一个瓷猴

Gave it all up for a figurine 放弃这一切的雕像

He traded it in for a night in Las Vegas 他换它在拉斯维加斯一晚

And his face on velveteen 他的脸在平绒

   

From a shotgun shack singing Pentecostal hymns 从猎枪窝棚里唱赞美诗的五旬节

Through the wrought iron gates to the TV room 通过铁艺大门到电视室

He had a little world, it was smaller than your hand 他有一个小世界，它比你的小手

It's a rockabilly ride from the glitter to the gloom 这是从闪闪发光à乡村摇滚乐乘车前往黑暗

   

Left behind by the latest trends 留下的最新趋势

Eating fried chicken with his regicidal friends 吃炸鸡和他的朋友们regicidal

That's how the story ends 这就是故事的结局

With a porcelain monkey 带瓷猴

   

He threw it away for a porcelain monkey 他把它扔了一个瓷猴

Gave it all up for a figurine 放弃这一切的雕像

He traded it in for a night in Las Vegas 他换它在拉斯维加斯一晚

And his face on velveteen 他的脸在平绒

   

Hip-shakin' shoutin' in gold lame' 臀部颤抖黄金跛脚“叫喊着

That's how he earned his regal sobriquet 这就是他赢得了他的绰号富豪

Then he threw it all away 然后，他把一切都带走

For a porcelain monkey 对于瓷猴

   

He threw it away for a porcelain monkey 他把它扔了一个瓷猴

Gave it all up for a figurine 放弃这一切的雕像

He traded it in for a night in Las Vegas 他换它在拉斯维加斯一晚

And his face on velveteen 他的脸在平绒