Five-hundred channels and there ain't much on tonight 五百渠道，没有太多今晚

Except reality shows about some folk's so-called lives 除了现实表明一些民间的所谓的生活

A pretty girl cries 'cause she don't get a rose 一个漂亮的女孩哭，因为她没有得到一朵玫瑰

But she'll find love next year on her own show 但是，她会发现，明年的爱情在她自己的节目

   

And they call that real 他们称，真正的

   

Real is a hand you hold fifty-seven years 真正的是你的手按住57年

Real is a band of gold tremblin' with fear 真正的金子tremblin的乐队恐惧

It's the first long tear down an old man's face, watchin' his angel slippin' away 这是第一长推倒一个老人的脸，凝视着“他的天使跌到走

His heart's so broke, it's never gonna heal 他的心脏的那么坏，它永远不会愈合

   

I call that real 我叫真正的

   

Where I live, housewives don't act like that 我住的地方，家庭主妇不采取行动，这样的

And the survivors are farmers in John Deere hats 而幸存者农民约翰迪尔帽子

Our amazin' race is beatin' the check 我们amazin “种族是beatin 检查

Prayin' that the bank ain't ran it through yet 祈祷“ ，银行不通过还跑了

   

Real, like too much rain fallin' from the sky 真实的，就像从天上雨水过多落下的

Real, like the drought that came around here last July 真正的，像来到这儿去年七月干旱

It's the damn boll weevils and the market and the weeds, 这该死的棉子象鼻虫和市场的杂草，

the prayer they're sayin' when they plant the seeds 他们说时，他们厂生产的种子祈祷

And the chance they take to bring us our next meal 他们抓住这个机会给我们带来我们的下一顿饭

   

I call that real 我叫真正的

   

Real, like a job you lose 'cause it moves to Mexico 真实的，就像一个工作，你失去因为它移动到墨西哥

Like a mama and a baby with no safe place to go 就像一个妈妈和一个婴儿，没有安全的地方去

Like a little dream-house with a big old foreclosed sign 像一个小梦想的房子有一个大的老抵债标志

Like a flag-draped coffin and a twenty-one gun goodbye 像国旗覆盖的棺材和一个21枪再见

   

I call that real 我叫真正的

Man, I call that real 伙计，我称之为真正的

Oh, I call that real 哦，我称之为真正的