What’s A Boy To Do - Mat Kearney

I'm sure that I'm moving to St Louis
我确信自己即将启程前往圣路易斯
Three long years wondering here in New York City
在纽约城彷徨游荡的漫长三年里
I guess I'm looking for the right way to do this
或许我仍在寻找正确的生存方式
I guess I'm looking for the right things to call pretty
或许我仍在寻觅值得称之为美好的事物
Young boys playing in the park turning their backs to take a shot
少年们在公园背身投篮的身影
You know I'll stay sharp around here 'cause they're stoning and leaving type
我必须保持警惕 因他们投石后便转身离去
It's the kind of love that comes and goes when there's company coming around
这种爱来得快去得也快 如同过客般短暂
What's a boy to do who knows no man now
一个失去父亲指引的男孩该如何自处
What's a boy to do who knows no man now
一个失去父亲指引的男孩该如何自处
Daddy's been looking down his nose at all of them
父亲总以轻蔑目光俯视众生
And I've been looking round for someone to tell me who I am
我四处寻觅能定义我的人
He kept saying I was too young to finish a fight
他总说我太年轻 无法战斗到底
I'd die each time they came I never got to draw my knife
每次冲突未及拔刀便已溃败
Well it was just a pair of shoes in a middle school room with the world watching in
不过是中学教室里 被全世界围观的球鞋
An angel is crying I'm dying just a little inside as they ran away
天使在哭泣 他们逃离时 我的心渐渐死去
Funny which words stick around 20 years down when you're driving alone
多么讽刺 那些话语萦绕二十年 当你独自驱车时
What's a boy to do when there's no man at home
家中无父的男孩该如何自处
What's a boy to do when there's no man at home
家中无父的男孩该如何自处
Well I'll stack all my books into perfect rows
我将所有书籍整齐排列成行
From the biggest down to the smallest ones
从最厚重到最单薄
And I buy all the perfect clothes
购置完美无瑕的衣裳
Bullet proof and black where I look like a son
防弹黑衣 让我像个有父亲的孩子
Well it was just a rainy night at his house
那不过是他家一个雨夜
A bottle spinning around the room
酒瓶在房间里旋转打转
And everybody's singing and slipping down the bottom of a halfway rush of blood
众人高歌 醉意渐浓 热血冲昏了头脑
And I was grabbing Missy but I was trying to find the light switch in the dark
我紧拥着蜜西 却在黑暗中摸索电灯开关
What's a boy to do with no man in his heart
没有父亲指引的男孩该如何自处
What's a boy to do with no man in his heart
没有父亲指引的男孩该如何自处
It's all quiet for the first time
此刻万籁俱寂
With no voices left to fall
再无人声可倾听
I saw a boy at the bottom of the bridge
桥下有个孤独的男孩
His car was left there on the top
他的车还停在桥头
It's four o'clock in the morning
凌晨四点的纽约城
Didn't need to be like this
本不该如此收场
There's a white sheet left to cover up
白布覆盖着
What should have been a holy kiss
本该神圣的吻
It's not like those days
再不像从前
It's not like I'm scared of you
也并非畏惧你
What's the son of man and a boy to do
人子与少年 该何去何从
What's the son of man and a boy to you
在你眼中 人子与少年又算什么