Well, the songs you sung spiraled and hung round like echoes or ripples on a pond 嗯，你唱的歌曲盘旋，挂轮就像在一个池塘回声或涟漪

So you circled the globe spent a year on the road without ever going home 所以，你绕地球花了一年时间在路上而没有回家

More than a couple of days then you leave right away 超过一两天，那么你马上离开

Run to a girl you barely know 运行到一个女孩，你几乎不知道

But you like how she sings and you can't help but think 但你想她怎么唱，你不禁想

That there is something that she knows and could teach you 这里面的东西，她知道和可以教你

Well, you're sleeping in that southern state 好了，你睡在南方的状态

where the bars are filled with people you can't hate 那里的酒吧都挤满了人，你能不恨

But try as you try and you still can't relate to them 但尝试当你尝试，你仍然可以不涉及到他们

You drink that whiskey down as they ask you 你喝威士忌下来，因为他们问你

Are you who you say you are? 你你说你是谁？

The fact that we can't tell makes us like you even more 事实上，我们不能告诉让我们像你一样，甚至更

So you are trying again or just visiting friends 所以，你会再次尝试，或只是探亲访友

One had just had his heart broke 一个刚刚过他的心脏破裂

For the first time in his life he realized there are times 对于第一次在他的生活，他意识到有次

When you can't make it alone 当你不能让它孤独

So now you are giving advice as if you had the right 所以，现在你给的建议是，如果你有正确的

To use a word like love 使用像爱一个字

It's a negotiable term, what gets said is not what is heard 这是一个流通期限的，能说的是不是听到

So it's different then for everyone 因此，它是不同的，然后给大家

But you've been hanging around that college town 但你已经挂在了大学城

with your new life your new lover you found 你的新生活的新情人，你发现

And you are keeping her up at night bringing her down 而你让她在晚上把她打倒

She'll watch you drink yourself to death but she won't ask you 她会看着你自己喝死，但她不会问你

Is this really what you want? 这真的是你想要的吗？

Or are you just sticking with it now cause it's all you got? 或者仅仅是与它坚持现在的原因，而是你得到了什么？