On the first floor… On the first floor… 一楼...一楼...

   

On the first floor there's a young girl reeling 一楼有一个小女孩缫丝

Her body's numb and without feeling 她的身体的麻木和没有感觉

As illusions dance on the midnight ceiling 由于幻想跳舞午夜天花板

Now she's falling, now she's kneeling 现在她的下落，现在她跪

   

It's almost like she's bowed in prayer 这几乎就像她低头祷告

A savior she's about to bear 一个救世主，她是即将承担

She screams for help, but no one's there… 她尖叫求救，但没有人在那里...

On the first floor… 一楼...

   

On the first floor people walk the halls 在一楼的人行走大厅

But none can hear her desperate calls 但是，没有人能够听到她绝望的呼叫

There is no sound beyond the walls 没有超出壁没有声音

So to the telephone she crawls 因此，要电话，她爬

   

She telephones her only friend 她电话她唯一的朋友

The one on whom she can depend 一来就被她可以依靠

But the phone rings on without an end 但在没有结束的手机响了

Then rings no more…On the first floor… 然后，戒指没有更多...一楼...

   

There's a party on the second floor 还有二楼的一方

And through the picture window you can see them all 并通过画面窗口，你可以看到他们所有的

They're laughing and they're dancing 他们笑，他们在跳舞

Admiring the Renoir that's hanging on the wall 慕名而来的是挂在墙上的雷诺阿

   

But in the master bedroom where the coats are piled high 但是，在主卧室，其中大衣堆高

A silent, saddened lady thinks of what it's like to die 静默，难过小姐想到什么样子死

And as she dwells on all the years she still has left to face 和她住在这些年来，她还是留下来面对

She wonders how she'll ever find someone to take his place 她想知道她怎么会永远找人来接替他的位置

   

Then suddenly she's jarred by the ringing of the phone 然后，她突然的震动被电话铃声

Oh, why do you ring now, just when I want to be alone? 哦，为什么你现在打电话，就在我想一个人呆着？

So she walks into the bathroom and drinks some water from a cup 于是她走进浴室，用杯子喝一些水

But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it up… 但电话停止振铃，她捡起来之前...

   

My family was very poor 我家里很穷

So I worked hard to be secure 所以我努力是安全的

I married one I had to wed 我嫁给了一个我不得不结婚

And not the one I loved instead 而不是一个我爱的，而不是

   

When I was young my blood ran wild 我年轻的时候我的血横行

But we stayed married for the child 但是我们住结婚孩子

Now three flights up, I'm all alone 现在，三个航班后，我独自一人

My wife is dead, my child is grown 我的妻子死了，我的孩子长大

   

My daughter leads a wayward life 我的女儿过着任性的生活

She's been a failure as a wife 她是一个失败的妻子

And though she lives just one floor down 虽然她就住一层楼倒

She never calls or comes around… 她从来没有要求或恶有恶报......

   

Step off the platform and onto the train 走下平台和上火车

Look out your window and into the rain 看的出来你的窗口，进入雨

Watch all the buildings that pass as you ride 关注所有通过你坐的建筑物

And count all the stories that go on inside 而算上所有的去里面的故事

And then ask yourself if it must be this way 然后问自己，如果它必须是这样

Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings 如若墙壁和门，石膏天花板

Separate us from each others' feelings? 从彼此的感情把我们分开？