have you been to the desert? 你去过沙漠？

have you walked with the dead? 你走的死了吗？

there's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread 有一个十万儿童被杀害他们的面包

   

and the figures don't lie they speak of human disease 而数字是不会说谎的，他们说人类疾病

but we do what we want and we think what we please 但我们做我们想要的，我们认为我们讨

   

have you lived the experience? 你生活的经历吗？

have you witnessed the plague? 你见证了瘟疫？

people making babies sometimes just to escape 人们做婴儿有时只是逃避

in this land of competition the compassion is gone 在竞争的这片土地上的爱心是走了

yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on 但我们忽略了有需要的人，我们继续推

we keep pushing on 我们不断推

   

this is just a punk rock song 这仅仅是一个朋克摇滚歌曲

written for the people who can see something's wrong 为人民谁可以看到写的东西是错的

like ants in a colony we do our share 就像一个殖民地蚂蚁，我们做我们的份额

but there's so many other fuckin' insects out there 但有这么多其他的该死的虫子在那里

and this is just a punk rock song 而这仅仅是一个朋克摇滚歌曲

(like workers in a factory we do our share （如工人在工厂，我们做我们的份额

but there's so many other fuckin' robots out there) 但有这么多其他的该死的机器人在那里）

   

have you visited the quagmire? 你参观过的泥潭？

have you swam in the shit? 你的狗屎游？

the party conventions and the real politik 当事人约定和实际politik

the faces always different, the rhetoric the same 脸上总是不同的，修辞相同

but we swallow it, and we see nothing change 但我们吞下它，我们什么也看不到变化

nothing has changed... 一切都没有改变......

   

10 million dollars on a losing campaign 千万美元在一个失败的战役

20 million starving and writhing in pain 20000000挨饿，扭动着疼痛

big strong people unwilling to give 大强的人不愿意放弃

small in vision and perspective 小的眼光和视角

one in five kids below the poverty line 有五分之一的孩子在贫困线以下

one population runnin' out of time 一个群体飞奔出来的时候