Now that I've used up all my ideas 现在，我已经用了我所有的想法

Here in my little house by the sea 在这里，在我的小房子在海边

I search for a usable memory but none comes to me 我搜索了可用内存，但没有到我这里来

   

In grade one, my teacher could do embalming 在一年级，我的老师可以做防腐

She'd stuff the bodies of dead little birds 她会的东西死的小鸟的尸体

She told us if ever we found one, just to bring it to her 她告诉我们，如果有的话，我们找到了一个，只是把它给她

   

And in the science room was an iguana 而在科学室是一个鬣蜥

It lay very still in its cage 它奠定非常还在笼子里

And we'd feed him living flies 我们会喂他吃活的苍蝇

   

Then she'd read the old testament to us 然后她会读旧约圣经给我们

But first she'd remind us the stories were true 但是，首先她会提醒我们的故事是真实的

And we'd hear of locusts and plagues and the tortures they knew 我们会听到蝗灾和瘟疫，他们知道折磨

   

And in the science room was an iguana 而在科学室是一个鬣蜥

I remember it now in my house by the seaside 我现在还记得它在我家在海边

Swatting flies 打苍蝇