Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel 现在回来时，这个地球是一个蓝色的银宝石

and back when your grandfather's father was young, 而回来时，你爷爷的父亲年轻的时候，

men of these shores made and gave up their lives pulling up fish from the sea. 这些海岸的男子提出，放弃了自己的生命从海中拉起鱼。

   

While down in the African slavery trade, stealing young men to cut sugar cane, 而倒在了非洲奴隶贸易，窃取年轻男子砍甘蔗，

rum to New Bedford and codfish from Maine, 糖酒会新贝德福德和鳕鱼来自缅因州，

they were building a wall that will always remain. 他们正在建造一堵墙，将永远存在。

   

Oh, the crown and the cross the musket and chain, 呵呵，表冠和交叉步枪和链

the white man's religion, the family name. 白人的宗教，姓氏。

Two hundred years later and who is to blame? 两百年后，谁的错？

The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane? 船长或货物或甘蔗汁？

   

The doryman he knows when the riptides will run, 他知道什么时候该riptides将运行doryman ，

he sets out his nets and he sits in the sun. 他阐述了他的网，他坐在阳光下。

He thinks of his family and drinks of his rum and he waits for the codfish to come. 他认为，他的家人和他的朗姆酒的饮料，他等待的鳕鱼来。

   

It's the same goddamned ocean that keeps them alive, 这是相同的该死的海洋，保持它们活着，

it will swallow you up, it will let you survive. 它会吞噬你，它会让你生存。

It will heal you and steal you and take you away 它会为你疗伤，窃取你，带你走

like a note in a bottle with nothing to say 就像在一个瓶子没什么可说的记

   

Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel 现在回来时，这个地球是一个蓝色的银宝石

And back when your grandfather's father was young, 而回来时，你爷爷的父亲年轻的时候，

Men of these shores made and gave up their lives pulling up fish from the sea. 男人这些海岸制成，放弃了自己的生命从海中拉起鱼。