Come let us make bricks and burn them hard, 来吧，让我们把砖烧他们辛苦，

We'll build a city with a tower for the world 我们将构建一个城市，塔世界

and climb so we can reach anything we may propose, 爬所以我们可以达到任何我们可以提出，

anything at all 任何事情

   

Build me up, tear me down 构建了我，撕我失望

like a skyscraper 像摩天大楼

Build me up, then tear down 构建了我，然后推倒

These joining walls 这些接合壁

So they can't climb at all 因此，他们不能爬在所有

   

I know why you tore it down that day 我知道你为什么撕下来的那一天

You thought, that if you got caught we'd all go away, 你想，如果你被抓住了，我们就都走了，

Like a spoiled little baby who can't come out to play, 就像一个被宠坏的小宝贝谁也不能出来玩，

You had your revenge 你有你的报复

   

Build me up, tear me down 构建了我，撕我失望

like a skyscraper 像摩天大楼

Build me up, then tear down 构建了我，然后推倒

these joining walls 这些接合壁

So they can't climb at all 因此，他们不能爬在所有

   

Well madness reigned and paradise drowned 好疯狂统治和被淹死的天堂

When Babel's walls came crashing down 当巴别塔的围墙轰然倒塌

Now the echoes roar for a story writ ["for a story told" is the live version] 现在的轰鸣声相呼应的故事令[ “一个故事说”是真人版]

that was hardly understood 这是很难理解的

and never any good 永不什么好

   

Build me up, tear me down 构建了我，撕我失望

like a skyscraper 像摩天大楼

Build me up, then tear down 构建了我，然后推倒

these joining walls 这些接合壁

So they can't climb at all 因此，他们不能爬在所有

   

Build me up [x2] 建立了我的[X2 ]