In town [repeat 3X] 在小镇[重复3倍]

   

Something in the way of things 在一些事情的方式

Something that will quit and won't start 东西，将退出并不会启动

Something you know but can't stand 有些事情，你知道，但不能忍受

Can't know get along with 不知道相处

Like death 像死亡

Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue 透过挡风玻璃，他提示骑在车上对等之上

Something entirely fictitious and true 东西完全是虚假的真实

That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways 跨越路径小兵hallowing的恶行

Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling 像他们自己通过自己不要笑

The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss 死去的人，你看见我说话是你的老板

I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate 我试图把一个法术在他身上，但他的精神是文盲

   

I know things you know and nothing you don't know 我知道你知道的事情，没有什么你不知道

'cept I saw something in the way of things CEPT我看到的东西的东西的方式

Something grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it funny? 东西笑嘻嘻地看着我，我想知道，是很可笑？

Was it so funny it followed me down the street 是不是太好笑了它跟着我在街上

Greeting everybody like the good humor man 问候大家喜欢幽默的男人

But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream 而是他们得到了很好的幽默的味道，但没有冰淇淋

It was like dat 这就像DAT

Me talking across people into the houses 我整个人谈论到房子

And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks 并没有看到我身边挤了冰锥的众生

You could see them 你可以看到他们

But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral 但他们看起来像重要的黑人在路上你的葬礼

Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction 看起来重要jiggaboos的道路上您的拍卖

And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth 并让他们念诵的数量和使用象牙指针来算你的牙齿

Remember Steppen Fetchit 记住Steppen Fetchit

Remember Steppen Fetchit how we laughed 记住Steppen Fetchit我们如何笑了

An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling 在所有的主日学校的形象给人肉和傻笑

With the ice pick high off his head 用冰锥高了他的头

Made ya laugh anyway 反正做雅笑

   

I can see something in the way of our selves 我能看到的东西在我们自己的方式

I can see something in the way of our selves 我能看到的东西在我们自己的方式

That's why I say the things I do, you know it 这就是为什么我说我做的事情，你知道它

But its something else to you 但它的东西给你

Like that job 这样的工作

This morning when you got there and it was quiet 今天早上，当你到了那里，它是安静

And the machines were yearning soft behind you 和机器被你身后的软向往

Yearning for that nigga to come and give up his life 向往那个黑鬼来，放弃自己的生命

Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and troubled 站在有贝因 dissed ，并打破和困扰

   

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was proof that God didn't exist" 我的错误是我一直在说“ ，这是证明上帝不存在”

And you told me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do" 而你对我说， “不，这是证明魔鬼做”

But still, its like I see something I hear things 但尽管如此，它就像我看到一些我听到的东西

I saw words in the white boy's lying rag 我在白人男孩的躺在破布看到的话

said he was gonna die poor and frustrated 说他会死的穷人和沮丧

That them dreams walk which you 'cross town 那他们的梦想走你的跨镇

S'gonna die from over work Sgonna来自作模具

There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't shit 有垃圾上的泰兰“街头你，你是不是狗屎

And you almost believe it 和你差不多相信

Broke and mistaken all the time 破了，误以为所有的时间

You know some of the words but they ain't the right ones 你知道一些的话，但他们是不正确的人

Your cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see 您的电缆回，但没什么，你可以看到

But I see something in the way of things 但我看到的东西的东西的方式

Something to make us stumble 什么使我们绊倒

Something get us drunk from noise and addicted to sadness 什么让我们从噪音喝醉了，沉迷于悲伤

I see something and feel something stalking us 我看到的东西和感觉的东西跟踪我们

Like and ugly thing floating at our back calling us names 喜欢和丑陋的东西漂浮在我们后面呼唤我们的名字

You see it and hear it too 你看到它，听到它太

But you say it got a right to exist just like you and if God made it 但是你说它有一个生存权，就像你，如果上帝造它

But then we got to argue 但是，我们得说

And the light gon' come down around us 和光坤下来我们身边

Even though we remember where the (light or mic) is 尽管我们还记得那里的（光或MIC）是

Remember the Negro squinting at us through the cage 记住黑人透笼眯眼看着我们

You seen what I see too? 你看到我所看到的吗？

The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks 这不是一个笑容，但牙齿飞对我们的脖子微笑

You see something too but can't call its name 你看到的东西太多，但不能调用它的名字

   

Ain't it too bad y'all said 是不是太糟糕了你们说

Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy always kind to his motha 是不是太糟糕，这样一个漂亮的男孩总是善待自己Motha博士

Always say good morning to everybody on his way to work 总是说早安大家在上班途中

But that last time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad 但是，这一次之前，他被锁起来，伤害，真正的坏

I seen him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling 我瞧见他走着对他的房子，他没有微笑

And he didn't even say hello 他甚至没有打个招呼

But I knew he'd seen something 但我知道他看到的东西

Something in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in will 东西在它的工作对他做事的方式喜欢它会做

And he kept marching faster and faster away from us 他远离我们前进的速度越来越快

And never even muttered a word 甚至从来没有嘀咕了一句话

Then the next day he was gone 然后第二天，他就不见了

You wanna know what 你想知道什么

You wanna know what I'm talkin' about 你想知道我说的对

Sayin' "I seen something in the way of things" 在说“ ”我看到的东西在事物的方式“

And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him away 如何男生脸上神情那一天，他们把他带走之前

The is? in that face and remember now, remember all them other faces 的是？在脸上，记住了，记住所有这些其他的面孔

And all the many places you've seen him or the sister with his child 和所有的许多地方，你见过他或他的孩子的姐姐

Wandering up the street 游荡在街上

Remember what you seen in your own mirror and didn't for a second recognize 还记得你在你自己的镜子看到的，并没有一秒钟认识

The face, your own face 脸，自己的脸

Straining to get out from behind the glass 使劲地从玻璃后面走出

Open your mouth like you was gon' say somethin' 打开你的嘴像你坤说事端

Close your eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like 闭上你的眼睛，记得你看到了什么，是什么让你觉得像

Now, don't you see something else 现在，你不看别的东西

Something cold and ugly 冷的东西又丑

Not invisible but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man 没有看不见的，但混合的影子纵横交错的老男人

Squatting by the drug store at the corner 在药妆店在角落蹲

With is head resting uneasily on his folded arms 随着被头枕不安地对他袖手旁观

And the boy that smiled and the girl he went with 那微笑的男孩和他同去的女孩

   

And in my eyes too 在我眼里太

A waving craziness splitting them into the jet stream of a black bird 飘扬的疯狂分裂成一个黑色的鸟的喷流

Wit his ass on fire 机智他的屁股着火了

Or the solomNOTness of where we go to know we gonna be happy 或者我们去solomNOTness知道我们会是幸福的

   

I seen something 我已经看到的东西

I SEEN something 我看到的东西

And you seen it too 而你看到的太

You seen it too 你见过太

You just can't call it's name name name name name name name 你不能把它的名字名名名名名名