Got out of prison back in '86 and I found a wife 出狱早在1986年，我发现老婆

Walked the clean and narrow 走在干净的和窄

Just tryin' to stay out and stay alive 只是试着留出活路

Got a job at the rendering plant, it ain't gonna make me rich 得到的渲染工厂工作，它是不会让我富有

In the darkness before dinner comes 在黑暗中，晚餐前来到

Sometimes I can feel the itch 有时候我能感觉到痒

I got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line 我得到了一个寒冷的心态去跳，穿过那一线之隔

I'm sick of doin' straight time 我讨厌上来的时候直

   

My uncle's at the evenin' table, makes his living runnin' hot cars 我叔叔的在evenin 表，使他的生活在天边热车

Slips me a hundred dollar bill says 塞给我一张百元钞票说

"Charlie you best remember who your friends are." “查理，你最好记住你的朋友是谁。 ”

Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line 感冒了心里去跳，穿过那一线之隔

I ain't makin' straight time 我是不是金直时间

   

Eight years in it feels like you're gonna die 八年感觉就像你是怎么死的

But you get used to anything 但你习惯了什么

Sooner or later it just becomes your life 迟早，它只是变成你的生活

   

Kitchen floor in the evening tossin' my little babies high 晚上查狱我的小宝宝大厨房地板

Mary's smiling but she's watching me out of the corner of her eye 玛丽的微笑，但她看着我从她的眼角的

Seems you can't get any more than half free 看来你不能获得超过半数没有任何更多

I step out onto the front porch and suck the cold air deep inside of me 我踏上了到前廊和吸冷空气深我的内心

Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line 感冒了心里去跳，穿过那一线之隔

I'm sick of doin' straight time 我讨厌上来的时候直

   

In the basement huntin' gun and a hacksaw 在地下室里打猎的枪和一把钢锯

Sip a beer and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor 品尝啤酒和13英寸桶跌落到地板上

   

Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands 回家在晚上，无法从我手中的气味

Lay my head down on the pillow 把我的头倒在枕头

And go driftin' off into foreign lands 去driftin “扎进外国的土地上