Downstairs they're playing Kenton 楼下他们正在玩肯顿

The house set to swing 屋内设置摆动

I lay in my bed 我躺在我的床上

And listen to everything 并听取一切

Cause Leo's in rare form tonight 造成狮子座在罕见今晚

His trombone sings so sweet 他的长号唱这么甜

This is the room 这是在室内

Where they all come to meet 在那里，他们都来迎接

   

He said 他说，

I do what I can 我做我能

I live for the moment 我住的那一刻

And that's who I am 这就是我是谁

Yeah that's who I am 是啊，那是我是谁

   

And isn't it good 而且是不是好

If we could freeze moments in time 如果我们能够冻结的时刻，时间

We all would 我们所希望

But I do what I can 但我尽我所能

I do what I can 我做我能

   

Downstairs he's playing Kenton 楼下，他的演奏肯顿

The Magnavox sighs 该Magnavox公司叹息

But oh how the music has changed 但是，唉怎么音乐已经改变

In all of our lives 在我们生活的全部

He says "nobody listens 他说：“没有人听

To modern jazz" 以现代爵士乐“

And I'll never have what those guys have 我永远不会有什么那些家伙有

   

He says 他说，

I do what I can 我做我能

I work for a living 我换了工作，生活

And that's who I am 这就是我是谁

Yeah that's who I am 是啊，那是我是谁

   

And it's good to be alive 而且它好好地活着

But everything's different since Leo died 但是，一切都不同了，因为狮子座的死

I do what I can 我做我能

   

Is this the end of the modern world 这是现代世界的尽头

What could it mean for a young girl 还有什么比它意味着一个年轻的女孩

Who sees the pain on his face 谁看到痛苦在他的脸上

He does what he can 他做什么，他可以

   

The procession on the TV screen 在电视屏幕上游行

What could it possibly mean for a man 还有什么比这可能意味着一个人

Who's come this far just to turn around 谁在走到这一步只是为了扭亏为盈

Could there still be life in Kenton's swing 莫不是仍然生活在肯顿的挥杆

With the Kennedys gone and everything 随着走了肯尼迪和一切

Those sad rows of houses with their optimistic colors 那些忧伤排房子与他们的乐观色彩

Democrat grandparents and draft-dodging brothers 民主党的祖父母和选秀躲着兄弟

Riots down the street and discontented mothers 骚乱在街上，不满母亲

We do what we can 我们竭尽所能

   

Downstairs it's quiet 楼下很安静

Less alive somehow 少莫名其妙地活着

Somehow he was everything that I am now 那我现在不知怎么的，他的一切

   

And he says 他说：

I do what I can 我做我能

I work for a living 我换了工作，生活

And that's who I am 这就是我是谁

And that's who I am 这就是我是谁

   

But it's good to be alive 但它好好地活着

And these are the choices 而这些都是选择

We make to survive 我们做生存

You do what you can 你做什么都可以