Started out like any one of you 开始时像任何一个你

Good intentions and a degree 良好的愿望和一定程度的

But one hot night under the neon lights 但在霓虹灯下一个炎热的夜晚

Killed a boy just seventeen 杀了一个男孩刚刚17

   

Now I sit here rainin' on my Maker 现在我坐在这里RAININ “我的设备

Reprieve is all I'm praying for 死缓是所有我祈祷

Lord I fear the hangman's steps approachin' 主啊，我怕刽子手的步骤approachin “

Will the priest knock gently on my door 会牧师轻轻敲我的门

   

And I know I've let my daddy down 我知道我让我爸爸倒

and I broke my mother's heart 而我打破了我母亲的心脏

I'd give anything turn back time again 我愿意付出一切时光倒流再次

Just give me one more start 只要给我一次启动

   

I don't need no trial humiliation 我不需要任何审判的耻辱

Just tell me that I'm heaven bound 只要告诉我，我是天上界

I don't want no two faced consolation 我不希望任何两个面安慰

What use is that to me six feet underground 有什么用，要我6英尺地下

   

I'm going down to the engine shed 我要下去给发动机棚

Put a gun up to my head 把枪到了我的头上

Blow myself into the promised land 吹自己进入应许之地

We call it scarred and scared 我们把它叫做伤痕累累和害怕

And if you ever see my son again 如果你见过我的儿子再次

Don't let on just how I fared 不要让对我表现如何

Tell him, tell him I went down big and strong 告诉他，告诉他我去了大而强

I was never, never, never scarred or scared 我从来没有，从来没有，从来没有疤痕或害怕

   

All the girls that once did gather 'round me 所有曾经做过收集“圆了我的女孩

have moved along to someone else 已经跟着别人感动

Sitting here desperation is my close friend 坐在这里的绝望是我的亲密朋友

What I'd give to kiss one of them now 我想给亲吻其中一人现在

Oo yeah I'll take you there 哦哦是的，我带你去

I'll take ya there 我要雅有