City on the Hill - Desaparecidos

City on the Hill - Desaparecidos

All the founding fathers sowed their seeds
开国元勋们将他们的种子
Into servant girls
撒向了他们的女仆
All the godless heathens had to leave
所有的异教徒不得不离开
To make a newer world
去开创一个新的世界
So we could live together in america
所以我们才会在美洲共同生活
Justice is blind man
正义是盲目的
So is love
爱情也是
Oh-oh oh-oh

Oh-oh oh-oh

All the stolen melodies they played
他们演奏着遗失的旋律
In the hit parade
在一堆流行乐榜单中
All the power spirituals they fade
他们掩盖了精神的力量
In the salad days
在青春年少的时候
So we could sing together in america
所以我们才会在美洲共同生活
The price of an anthem paid in blood
这首赞美诗是用鲜血换来的
Bodies stacked like hundred dollar bills
尸体就像百元大钞那样摞在一起
To build that shining city on the hill
只为建造山上那座闪亮的城市
There's no guilt regret or shame
没有内疚，后悔或羞耻
It just had to be this way
这只是必经之路
Oh-oh oh-oh

Oh-oh oh-oh

If you steal and hustle don't get caught
如果你坑蒙拐骗，别被抓到
Gotta risk it all
你要冒生命危险
Or hang on every number they read off
要么就带着编号上绞架
For the power ball
那些拥有权力的人
Well all get rich together in america
他们都在美洲变得富有
Moneys indifferent
钱变得不再一样
So is love
爱情也是
Trash bags full of hundred dollar bills
垃圾袋里装着百元大钞
We left that broke down city on the hill
我们离开了破败的山间之城
Had to relocate the past
必须重新安置我们的过去
Because were never going back
因为已没有回头路
Oh-oh oh-oh