Tennessee Plates(Live) - John Hiatt

Tennessee Plates (Live) - John Hiatt

I woke up in a hotel and didn't know what to do
我在酒店醒来觉得百无聊赖
I turned the TV on wrote a letter to you
我打开电视然后写封信给你
The news was talkin' 'bout a dead man upon the interstate
新闻在报道州际公路上拉开了搜索网
Seems they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
据说他们在寻找一辆田纳西州牌照的凯迪拉克车
Well since I left California baby things have gotten worse
宝贝 我离开加利福利亚后 际遇每况愈下
Seems the land of opportunity for me it's just a curse
这块充满机会的土地对我而言似乎只是个诅咒
Tell that judge in Bakersfield my trial'll have to wait
告诉贝克斯菲尔德的法官 我的裁决还得等等
Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
眼下他们正在寻找一辆田纳西州牌照的凯迪拉克
It was somewhere in Nevada it was cold outside
这里是内华达州的某地 室外寒凉
She was shiverin' in the dark so I offered her a ride
她在黑夜中瑟瑟发抖 于是我送了她一程
Three bank jobs later four cars hot wired
抢了三家银行四辆车
We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire
我们如油上燃烧的火一般越过密西西比
If they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't let us in
如果知道我们在做什么 他们不会让我们入境
And now we landed in Memphis like original sin
当我们像原罪一样飞抵孟菲斯
Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates
从埃维斯普雷斯利大道到格雷斯兰门
See we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
这下是我们在找那辆田纳西州牌照的凯迪拉克了
Well there must have been a dozen of them
想必他们在车库停放了
Parked in that garage
几十部车
And there wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge
那没有一台林肯或者道奇
And there wasn't one Japanese model or make
也没有一台是日本车型或者日本制造
Just pretty pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates
全是相当漂亮 挂田纳西牌照的凯迪拉克
She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
她十七岁是曾看过他唱歌
And ever since that day she's been living in between
从那天以后她就一直生活在这这车库里
I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend
我几乎一无所有只有这个狂野的周末例外
Anyway he wouldn't care hell he gave them to his friends
无所谓 他不在乎 该死的他把它们都送给了他的朋友们
This ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from
好吧 我给你写信的地方根本没有酒店
I'm at the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain
这里是布鲁西山上的田纳西监狱
Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight
此致敬礼于5点至8点
I'm just stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates
盖邮戳之时我正在制作田纳西牌照
I want you
我需要你