What are you? 你是做什么的？

What are you becoming? 你在成为？

What have you become? 你有什么变成什么？

   

Once you sang your own song 一旦你唱自己的歌

Now you're dancing to the same drum 现在你跳舞一样鼓

What have you become? 你有什么变成什么？

   

And what is that you're wearing? 什么是你穿？

Money's ugly confidence Money的丑陋信心

   

You sacrificed the poem of your imagination 你牺牲了你的想象力的诗

For these pounds and pence 对于这些英镑和便士

   

Me I take the cynic's role 我，我走了愤世嫉俗的角色

Throw scorn on your empty mind 投掷蔑视你的心里空

I've seen this monotonous world 我已经看到了这种单调的世界

Make dull what used to shine 让沉闷什么用闪耀

You lost interest 你失去了兴趣

You lost your spine 你失去了你的脊椎

Oh that spine fine fine 噢，那脊柱精精

   

Yeah 是啊

When there' nothing left 当“所剩无几

On this plate you're handed 在这片你手

You find yourself 你会发现自己

Running the gauntlet 运行了战书

Of all of these double standards 所有这些双重标准

It's very thin ice over which you're skating 这是非常薄的冰过的你溜冰

And after this black winter the thaw 而这个黑色的冬天解冻后

   

So what are you 所以，你是什么

Tell me tell me what are you 告诉我，告诉我你是什么

And what have you become 和你变成什么样