Ripping along towards middle age 剥开一起迈向中年

And my music career kind of missed a page 我的音乐生涯种错过页面

Record sales began to drop 唱片销量开始下降

The management all began to hop 管理层都开始跳

Not worry, they said, you'll see 不用担心，他们说，你会看到

What you need is some fresh publicity 你需要的是一些新鲜的宣传

Just give us a nod and we'll all leap 只要给我们一点头，我们将所有的飞跃

Towards putting you back at the top of the heap 对把你背在堆顶

I said, Fine, I'll give it a whack 我说，好吧，我给它一个重击

I hung up the phone and I turned my back 我挂了电话，我把我的背

Began daydreaming I was somebody else 开始做白日梦我是别人

When the phone jumped over from the wall to the shelf 当手机跃过从墙上的架子

We just had a break, this is really fine 我们刚刚有了一个突破，这是真的没事

We can make the January issue of TIME 我们可以腾出时间的一月号

If you'll give us Monday, a week from today 如果你一个星期给我们周一，从今天

From two to four, now what do you say? 从两个增加到四个，现在你说什么？

   

I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag 我说，时间，时弹匣，弹匣

You got me on the rag, rag 你让我的抹布，抹布

Take your insults about the queen 把你的侮辱对女王

And shove them up your royal Timese machine 搡起来的皇家Timese机

   

But I scribbled it down on the wall calendar 不过，我潦草下来挂在墙上的日历

And wondered about my interviewer 并想知道我的面试官

Maybe he'd be just a real nice guy 也许他只是一个真正的好人

Bright and sympathetic with a roving eye 明亮的同情与眼睛滴溜溜

We'd forget all about the assignment due 我们会忘记所有关于交作业

Formalities, photos, and the interview 手续，照片和采访

We'd hop on into his big rent-a-car 我们想跳上了他的大租赁车

Go for a lovely drive, not far....maybe France 去了一个可爱的车程，不远处....也许法国

As the big day approached it slipped my mind 当大喜的日子接近我忘了

Till my secretary showed up at the house to remind 直到我的秘书出现在屋子提醒

Me to switch into gear for the big coup de gras 我切换到齿轮的大政变鹅肝

The meeting with the man from the media 与该男子从媒体会议

I swept the driveway and polished the phone í风靡车道和抛光的手机

Put on a Kenzo knit in two-tone 换上了针织贤三双色调

Fluffed the pillows in the burgundy chair 拍过了枕头在勃艮第的椅子

Made up my eyes and brushed my hair...all in that order 做了我的眼睛，刷我的头发......一切的顺序

When he called to say he was three hours late 当他打电话来，说他是三个小时了

My cheerful facade began to disintegrate 我的性格开朗门面开始解体

The photographer'd be even later still 该photographerd甚至后来还

She was hopelessly lost in the nearby hills 她绝望地丢在了附近的山上

He arrived not exactly the man of my dreams 他来到不正是我梦想中的男人

Not bad for a rep from the Timese machine 不坏的Timese机代理商

Asked me a wandering question or three 问了我一个问题徘徊，三

And I thought he was actually listening to me 我还以为他真的在听我说话

   

And I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag 我说，时间，时弹匣，弹匣

You got me on the rag, rag 你让我的抹布，抹布

Take your insults about the queen 把你的侮辱对女王

And shove them up your royal Timese machine 搡起来的皇家Timese机

   

Curious about his interest 好奇他的兴趣

I babbled my way through the worldwide list 我在世界各地的清单胡说我的方式

Ireland, Chile and the African states 爱尔兰，智利和非洲国家

Poetry, politics and how they relate 诗歌，政治以及它们与

Motherhood, music and Moog synthesizers 孔雀东南飞，音乐和穆格合成器

Political prisoners and Commie sympathizers 政治犯和共产党员的同情者

Hetero, homo and bisexuality 杂， HOMO和双性恋

Where they all stand in the nineteen-seventies 在那里，他们都站在十九七十

Then suddenly it stopped and he started to lobby 然后突然它停了下来，他开始游说

Said, Tell me some inside stuff about Bobby 说，你告诉我，鲍比一些内幕的东西

Bobby who? I smiled and said 鲍比是谁？我笑着说：

And the TIME man's face was laced with red 和时人的脸上镶有红

I know you guys used to know each other 我知道你们以前认识对方

I know you refer to him as being your brother 我知道你是指他作为你的兄弟

And I know that you know where he's coming from 我知道，你知道他是从哪里来

I said, You know alot for being so Goddamned dumb 我说，你知道了很多，总是很挨千刀的哑巴

   

And I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag 我说，时间，时弹匣，弹匣

You got me on the rag, rag 你让我的抹布，抹布

Take your insults about the queen 把你的侮辱对女王

And shove them up your royal Timese machine 搡起来的皇家Timese机

   

Well I never gave him quite what he came for 嗯，我从来没有给过他不少东西，他来到了

The inside story and it's really a shame 里面的故事，它是一个真正的耻辱

For I never made the January issue of TIME 因为我从来没有时间的一月号

And just before I run out of words that rhyme 而就在我跑出去韵词

I really should tell you that deep in my heart 我真的要告诉你，在我的心脏深

I don't give a damn where I stand on the charts 我不给一个该死的，我站在排行榜

Not as long as the sun sinks into the west 没有限制，只要在太阳沉入西

And that's going to be a pretty serious test.....of time 而这将是一段非常严峻的考验.....