I'm cutting up her pure white dress 我割了她的纯白色礼服

That I dyed red 我染成红色

That I dyed red 我染成红色

I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets 我把废料廉价锡鸡心

What time erases and memory mocks 什么时候擦除记忆嘲笑

I'll send them over the ocean foam 我会送他们在海洋泡沫

Right into those gentle European homes 右为那些温柔的欧洲家园

   

The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool 奴隶船“祝福”来自利物浦滑落

Over the waves the Royal Navy rules 在波皇家海军规则

To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin 去掠夺贝宁王国

Where certain history ends and shame begins 凡一定的历史结束和开始的耻辱

   

Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot 粉末和拍摄达荷美支付交易

Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots 排队的战俘，他们在许多出售

They packed them tight inside those coffin ships 他们收拾他们紧张的内棺船

And they took them to the brand new world of 他们把他们带到了全新的世界

Auction blocks and whips 拍卖区块和鞭子

   

I'm cutting up her pure white dress 我割了她的纯白色礼服

That I dyed red 我染成红色

That I dyed red 我染成红色

I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets 我把废料廉价锡鸡心

What time erases and memory mocks 什么时候擦除记忆嘲笑

I'll send them over the ocean foam 我会送他们在海洋泡沫

Right into those gentle European homes 右为那些温柔的欧洲家园

   

White is the sheet on your fine linen bed 白色是你的细麻布床表

The blood stained red on each cotton thread 血液染成红色每个棉线

The merchants gather at St. George's Hall 商人聚集在圣乔治音乐厅

To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall 揭开谁是雕刻在墙壁上的跪着的奴隶

   

Picture the scene at the Old Salt House docks 现场图片在老盐屋码头

Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks 在那里装了铁枷锁和锁

Between a sandstone crocodile, a barrel and a bale 之间的砂岩鳄鱼，桶和一个大包

You will see the nameless faces they were offering for sale 您将看到无名的面孔，他们出售的

   

So, I sing the praises of God's glory 所以，我为您歌唱神的荣耀赞美

As a blue cetacean floats in the basement 作为一个蓝色的鲸鱼浮在地下室

An elephant on the second storey 在第二层的大象

And they queue all day to see him 他们排队一整天看他

In my American Museum 在我的美国馆

   

But the Lord will judge us with fire and thunder 但主会审判我们用火与雷

As man continues in all his blunders 作为人继续在他所有的失误

It's only money 这只是钱

It's only numbers 这只是数字

Maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wonders 也许是时候抛开这些虚构的奇迹

   

But man is feeble 但是，人是软弱的

Man is puny 人是微不足道

And if it should divide the Union 如果它应该划分联盟

There is no man that should own another 有没有说要自己另外一个男人

When he can't even recognise his sister and his brother 当他甚至无法识别他的姐姐和弟弟