I was three years old sitting in the seat of a Greyhound bus 我三岁的时候坐在灰狗巴士的座位

My brother and me, Mama's tears falling like a Carolina rain 我和弟弟，妈妈的眼泪落下像卡罗莱纳雨

   

Cause she pulled out a gun the night before 因为她前一天晚上掏出枪

Said he ain't gonna drink and hit me no more 说他是不是要去喝酒，打我没有更多的

She pulled the trigger on my father in a moment's rain 她拉着我的父亲触发了片刻的雨

   

Thank God that gun wasn't loaded 感谢上帝，枪没有被加载

Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive 不知道去哪里或她是如何生存

Didn't care, anywhere but there that night 也没在意，任何地方，但那里晚上

   

Now she held her babies tight 现在，她抱着她的婴儿紧

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue 我们通过午夜蓝的冷骑

She was scared, she was broke 她很害怕，她被爆出

But all she knew was she was gonna do 不过，她只知道她是怎么做

What she had to 她只好

   

She got her a job in a trailer out west 她得到了她在拖车工作在西部

It wasn't much but she was doing her best 这是不是很多，但她在做她最好的

Putting food on the table for her family 把餐桌上的食物，她的家人

   

But then one day I came home from school 但后来有一天，我放学回家

My Mama was crying alone in her room 我妈妈独自哭泣在她的房间

She said, I lost my job and we're gonna lose the trailer too 她说，我失去了我的工作，我们会失去太多的拖车

And she got that volkswagon loaded 而且她得到了大众装

Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive 不知道去哪里或她是如何生存

Didn't care, anywhere but there that night 也没在意，任何地方，但那里晚上

   

She held her babies tight 她认为她的孩子紧

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue 我们通过午夜蓝的冷骑

She was scared, she was broke 她很害怕，她被爆出

But all she knew was she was gonna do 不过，她只知道她是怎么做

What she had to 她只好

   

Whenever things go wrong in my life 每当不如意的事情在我的生命

I just think of her, what it took that night 我只是觉得她的，什么样的代价，那天晚上

To get on that bus in a Carolina rain 为了得到该总线上的卡罗来纳州雨

   

Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive 不知道去哪里或她是如何生存

Didn't care, anywhere but there that night 也没在意，任何地方，但那里晚上

   

She held her babies tight 她认为她的孩子紧

(She held her babies tight) （她认为她的孩子紧）

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue 我们通过午夜蓝的冷骑

She was scared, she was broke 她很害怕，她被爆出

But all she knew was she was gonna do 不过，她只知道她是怎么做

What she had to 她只好

What she had to (what she had to) 是什么让她（她不得不）

Yeah, yeah, ooooh, what she had to 是啊，是啊， OOOOH ，她只好

What she had to 她只好