How long does a promise last? 多长时间的承诺持续多久？

How long can a lie be told? 多久可以谎言被告知？

What would I take in exchange for my soul? 我会怎么走，以换取我的灵魂？

Would I notice when it was sold? 我也注意到，当它被出售？

   

Wake me up 叫我起床

Wake me up 叫我起床

Wake me up with a slap or a kiss 叫我起床了一巴掌或者一个吻

There must be something better than this 一定有什么比这更好的

'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse 因为我看不出它如何能变得更糟

What do we have to do to send 我们有什么做派

The river in reverse 相反的河流

   

Every man a crawling kingsnake 每个人爬行kingsnake

Every girl a half a heartbreak 每个女孩半心碎

Every woman sold into shame 每售出变为羞辱的女人

To any son without a name 要没有名字的任何儿子

   

Are your arms too weak to lift? 你胳膊太弱解除？

Another shovel on the graveyard shift 上大夜班的另一个铲

Here comes the flood if you catch my drift 这里谈到的洪水，如果你明白我的意思

Where the things that they promised are not a gift 在那里，他们承诺的事情没有一件礼物

   

If man falls through the mirror of a lake 如果人漏网湖的镜子

They fish him out quick and they call him a fake 这些鱼他出快速，他们称他为假

Give him all the temptations he can take 给他一切他可以采取的诱惑

Tie him up high 'til his bones break 配合他的高，直到他的骨头断裂

   

Wake me up 叫我起床

Wake me up 叫我起床

Wake me up with a slap or a kiss 叫我起床了一巴掌或者一个吻

There must be something better than this 一定有什么比这更好的

'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse 因为我看不出它如何能变得更糟

What do we have to do to send 我们有什么做派

The river in reverse 相反的河流

   

I thought I heard somebody laugh 我好像听到有人笑

Look out your window 当心你的窗口

They're chasing shadows in the dark 他们追影在黑暗中

They're counting widows 他们计算寡妇

   

I felt a sliver of glass 我觉得玻璃的条子

Saw a cross in splinters 看到碎片跨

I felt the truce of spring 我觉得春天的休战

Dig me out of the trench of winter 我挖了冬天的沟槽

   

So count your blessings when they ask permission 因此，计算你的祝福，当他们问权限

To govern with money and superstition 执政金钱和迷信

They tell you it's all for your own protection 他们会告诉你这一切都为自己的保护

'Til you fear your own reflection 直到你担心自己的倒影

But the times are passing from illumination 但时间是从照明通过

Like bodies falling from a constellation 像团体的星座落

An uncivil war divides the nation 不文明战争划分全国

So erase the tape on that final ape running down creation 因此抹去了最后猿带跑下来创作

Running down creation 顺着创作

   

Wake me up 叫我起床

Wake me up 叫我起床

Wake me up with a slap or a kiss 叫我起床了一巴掌或者一个吻

There must be something better than this 一定有什么比这更好的

Wake me up 叫我起床

Wake me up with a slap or a kiss 叫我起床了一巴掌或者一个吻

There must be something better than this 一定有什么比这更好的