well you can buy me a drink and i'll tell you what i seen 那么你可以请我喝一杯，我会告诉你我看到的

and i'll give you a bargain from the edge of a maniac's dream 我会给你从一个疯子的梦想边缘的逢低

that buys a black widow spider with a riddle in his yarn 那买了黑寡妇蜘蛛在他的纱谜

that's clinging to the furrow of a blindman's brow 这是抱住盲人的额头皱纹

i'll start talking from the brim of a thimble full of whiskey 我将开始从一个顶针充满威士忌的边缘说话

on a train through the bronx that will take you just as far 通过布朗克斯一列火车，将带你，无远弗

as the empty of a bottle to the highway of a scar 作为空瓶子到疤痕的高速公路

that stretched across the blacktop of my cheek like that 那铺在我的脸颊这样的柏油路

and then ducks beneath the brim of a fugitive's hat 然后逃亡的帽檐下鸭

and you'll learn why liquor makes a stool pigeon rat on every face 你就会了解为什么白酒使得线人对大鼠每个人脸上都

that ever left his shadow down on saint marks place 那曾经留下了他的身影倒在圣痕的地方

   

hell i'd double cross my mother if it was whiskey that they payed 地狱我会双过我的母亲，如果它是威士忌，他们所许

and so an early bird says nightsticks on the hit parade 所以早期的鸟说的命中巡游警棍

and he ain't got a prayer and his days are numbered 他是不是得到了一个祷告，他的日子已经屈指可数

and you'll track him down like a dog 你会跟踪他像狗

well it's a tough customer you're getting in this trade 还有这是一个艰难的客户你要在这个行业

Óause the nightstick's heart pumps lemonade Óause的警棍的心脏泵柠檬水

well whiskey keeps a blindman talkin alright 还有威士忌保持一个盲人说话好吗

and i'm the only one who knows just where he stayed last night 而我是唯一一个谁知道刚刚在他下榻昨晚

   

he was in a wreckin yard in a switchblade storm 他是在一个乐队创作了歌曲子里的弹簧刀风暴

in a wheelbarrow with nothing but revenge to keep him warm 与只是报复，让他温暖的独轮车

and a half a million dollars in unmarked bills 和50万美元的无人盯防的法案

was the nightstick's blanket in a febuary chill 是警棍的毯子在febuary寒意

and as the buzzard drove a crooked sky 而作为秃鹰开车歪的天空

he was dealin high chicago in the mud 他的戏份大芝加哥泥

and stackin' the deck against a dragnet's eye 和stackin “对了天罗地网的眼睛甲板

a shivering nightstick in a miserable heap 在一个悲惨的堆发抖警棍

with the siren for a lullaby singing him to sleep 随着警笛的摇篮曲唱他睡觉

he was bleeding from a buttonhole 他从一个扣眼流血

torn by a slug fired from the barrel of a two dollar gun 从一两元枪杆子开了塞撕裂

that scorched a blister on the grip of a punk by now 那现在就烧焦朋克的抓地力水泡

is learnin what you have to pay to be a hero anyhow 在设计学习你所要付出成为英雄，无论如何

   

he dressed the hole in his gut with a hundred dollar bandage 他穿着他的内脏孔用百元绷带

a king's ransom for a bedspread that don't amount to nuttin 国王的赎金不等于尼坦床罩

just cobweb strings on a busted ukulele 在破获的四弦琴只是蛛网串

and the nightstick leaned on a black shillelagh 和警棍倚在黑色的橡木棍

with the poison of a junkie's broken promise on his lip 与一名吸毒者的破碎承诺在他的嘴唇毒药

   

he staggered in the shadows screaming i ain't never been afraid 他尖叫í阴影交错也不是没有过害怕

and he shot out every street light on the promenade 他拍出来的每路灯长廊

past the frozen ham and eggers at the penny arcade 过去的冷冻火腿和艾格斯在竹篙商场

throwin out handfuls of a blood stained salary 肆意出了血丝工资捧

they were dead in their tracks at the shootin gallery 他们都死在其轨道在乱射画廊

and they fired off a twenty one gun salute 和他们解雇掀起了21响礼炮

and from the corner of his eye he caught the alabaster orbs 从他的眼角，他抓住了雪花石膏球体

and from a dime a dance hall girl and stuffed a thousand dollar bill 从一毛钱一歌舞厅的女孩，塞进了一千美元的钞票

in her blouse and caught the cruel and unusual punishment of her smile 在她的上衣，并抓住了她的笑容的残酷和不寻常的惩罚

and the nightstick winked beneath a rainsoaked brim 和警棍使了个眼色à rainsoaked帽檐下

ain't no one seen hide nor hair of him see 是不是没有人见过，也没有隐藏的头发看他

no one but a spade on rikers island and me 没有人，但在赖克斯岛和我一锹

and so if you're mad enough to listen to a full of whiskey blindman 所以，如果你足够疯狂的听完整威士忌盲人的

then you're mad enough to look beyond where bloodhounds dare to go 那么你足够疯狂追求超越，其中警犬敢去

so if you want to know just where the nightstick's hidin out 所以，如果你想知道哪里的警棍的头上的棒球帽出

you be down at the ferry landin oh let's say bout half past a nightmare 你下来时摆渡landin哦，让我们说，布特点半一场噩梦

when it's twisted on a clock you tell 'em nickels sentcha 当它在扭曲的时钟，你告诉他们五分sentcha

whiskey always makes him talk 威士忌总是让他谈谈

and you ask for captain charon with the mud on his kicks 你问队长戎在他踢泥

he's the skipper of the deadline steamer 他是最后期限轮船的船长

and she sails from the bronx across the river styx 她来自全国各地的冥河布朗克斯帆

and a riddle's just a ticket for a dreamer 和一个谜语只是一个梦想家票

   

cause when the weathervane's sleepin and the moon turns his back 导致当风向标的睡觉和月亮转动他回来

you crawl on your belly long the railroad tracks 你爬在你的肚子长的铁轨

and cross your heart and hope to die and stick a needle in your eye 并用你的心脏和希望呀，把针在你的眼睛

cause he'd cut my bleedin heart out if he found out that i squealed 因为他会砍我流血心脏，如果他发现我尖叫

cause you see a scarecrow's just a hoodlum 因为你看到一个稻草人的只是一个流氓

who marked the cards that he dealed 标志着他dealed卡谁

and pulled a gypsy switch 拉着一个吉普赛人开关

out on the edge of potter's field 从波特的场边缘