You can't make mother cry 你不能让妈妈哭了

You can't make her twist her ragged hair 你不能让她拧她的衣衫褴褛的头发

You can't make mother groan 你不能让母亲的呻吟声

Even when her soldier sonny 即使她的士兵小子

shakes his iron cocktail in the air... 摇摇铁鸡尾酒在空中...

You can't make mother cry 你不能让妈妈哭了

You can't make her give consent 你不能让她同意

Though she flounders at the drainboard 虽然她手足无措的滴水板

Though her back be down there and bent 虽然她的背下来，并有弯曲

If sleeping brings relief 如果睡觉带来的救灾

She can go lie down and slumber 她可以躺下入睡

If sleeping brings relief 如果睡觉带来的救灾

She can go lie down and slumber 她可以躺下入睡

If sleeping brings relief 如果睡觉带来的救灾

She can go... lie down and slumber... 她可以去...躺下入睡......

Slumber 沉睡

She puts her hands down into the sink 她把她的手，下入水槽

Scrapes the grunge up off the bottom 擦伤的垃圾了断底

Down there beneath the dishes 那边下的菜

Where the knives lie crossed and waiting 凡刀躺在越过等待

She can't stop the kiddies talking 她无法阻止小子说话

Their tongues be loosed upon the world 世界在他们的舌头也要释放

They flap until they lather 他们拍打，直到起泡沫

For the agony of millions 对于数以百万计的痛苦

And if sleeping brings relief 如果睡觉带来的救灾

They can go lie down and slumber 他们可以去躺下入睡

And if sleeping brings relief 如果睡觉带来的救灾

They can go lie down and slumber 他们可以去躺下入睡

And if sleeping brings relief 如果睡觉带来的救灾

They can... go lie down and slumber 他们可以...去躺下入睡

Slumber... 沉睡...

And there be no release from anguish 有没有从痛苦释放

For this slapstick generation 对于这个闹剧的产生

And there be no peace for all the kiddies 有没有和平一切小子

'Cause they're too satisfied to care 因为他们太满意的照顾

And the field of gorgeous bodies 华丽机构领域

Primed and ready in the sun 蓄势待发，准备在阳光下

And the white flag of peace 与和平的白旗

That is hanging 这是挂

Limp and useless in the air... 瘫软在空中没用...

And the white flag of peace 与和平的白旗

That is hanging 这是挂

Limp and useless in the air, yeah! 瘫软在空中没用，耶！

And if sleeping brings relief 如果睡觉带来的救灾

You can all go lie down and slumber 你都可以去躺下入睡

And if sleeping brings relief 如果睡觉带来的救灾

You can go lie down and slumber... 你可以去躺下入睡......

Slumber... 沉睡...