It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go(Album Version) - Nanci Griffith

It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version) - Nanci Griffith
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I am a backseat driver from America
我是来自美国的后座乘客
They drive to the left on falls road
他们在福尔斯路上靠左行驶
The man at the wheel's name is Shamus
方向盘前的男人名叫谢默斯
We pass a child on the corner he knows
我们经过一个他认识的街角孩童
And Shamus says
谢默斯说道
"Now what chance has that kid got "
"那孩子能有什么机会"
And I say from the back
我在后座回应
"I don't know"
"我不知道"
He says
他说
"There's barbed wire at all these exits
"每个出口都布满铁丝网
And there ain't no place
这孩子在贝尔法斯特
In Belfast for that kid to go"
无处可去"
It's a hard life it's a hard life
生活艰难 生活艰难
It's a very hard life
生活如此艰难
It's a hard life wherever you go
无论身在何处都举步维艰
If we poison our children with hatred
若我们用仇恨毒害孩子
Then the hard life is all
艰难生活就是他们
That they'll know
唯一知晓的全部
And there ain't no place
这孩子在贝尔法斯特
In Belfast for that kid to go
无处容那孩子栖身
A cafeteria line in Chicago
芝加哥食堂排队长龙
The fat man in front of me
身前肥胖的男人
Is calling black people trash to his children
正对子女辱骂黑人是垃圾
And he's the only trash here I see
而他才是我眼中唯一的渣滓
And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood
我想到这个男人戴着白色头罩
In the night when the children should sleep
在孩子们本该安睡的夜晚
But they'll slip to their window
但他们悄悄溜到窗边
And they'll see him
看见了他
And they'll think
他们会以为
That white hood's all they need
那白色头罩就是一切
It's a hard life it's a hard life
生活艰难 生活艰难
It's a very hard life
生活如此艰难
It's a hard life wherever you go
无论身在何处都举步维艰
If we poison our children with hatred
若我们用仇恨毒害孩子
Then the hard life is all
艰难生活就是他们
That they'll know
唯一知晓的全部
And there ain't no place
这孩子在贝尔法斯特
In Chicago for those kids to go
无处容得下这些孩童
I was a child in the sixties
六十年代的我曾是孩童
Dreams could be held through TV
梦想曾通过电视荧屏传递
With Disney and Cronkite and martin Luther
迪士尼 克朗凯特 还有马丁路德金
And I believed I believed I believed
我曾深信 我曾坚信 我曾笃信
Now I am the backstreet driver from America
如今我成了美国街头游荡的司机
I am not at the wheel of control
却无法掌控人生方向盘
I am guilty I am war
我有罪 我就是战争
I am the root of all evil
我是万恶之源
Lord I can't drive
主啊 我已无力前行
On the left side of the road
在道路的左侧
It's a hard life it's a hard life
生活艰难 生活艰难
It's a very hard life
生活如此艰难
It's a hard life wherever you go
无论身在何处都举步维艰
If we poison our children with hatred
若我们用仇恨毒害孩子
Then the hard life is all that they'll know
那么艰难的生活将成为他们唯一的认知
And there ain't no place
这孩子在贝尔法斯特
In this world for these kids to go
在这个世界 孩子们无处可去
It's a hard life wherever you go
无论身在何处都举步维艰