Tennessee Plates - John Hiatt

Tennessee Plates - John Hiatt

I woke up in a hotel and I didn't know what to do
我在酒店醒来，不知道该怎么办
I turned the tv on and wrote a letter to you
我打开电视，准备写封信给你
The news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet up on the interstate
新闻正播放着州际公路上搜捕行动的消息
Said they were lookin' for a cadillac with tennessee plates
说他们在寻找一辆挂田纳西州车牌的凯迪拉克
Since I left california baby things have gotten worse
自从我离开加州，宝贝，事情变得越来越糟
Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse
在这片充满机遇的土地，我好似遭到了诅咒
Tell that judge in bakersfield that my trial will have to wait
告诉贝克斯菲尔德的法官，我的审判将会推迟
Down here they're lookin' for a cadillac with tennessee plates
他们在这里寻找一辆挂田纳西州车牌的凯迪拉克
It was somewhere in nevada it was cold outside
在内华达的某个地方，外面寒风萧萧
She was shiverin' in the dark so I offered her a ride
她在黑暗中颤抖，因此我搭了她一程
Three bank jobs later four cars hot wired
待会还要抢劫三家银行，已经偷了四辆车
We crossed the mississippi like an oil slick fire
我们飞速驶过密西西比
If they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let us in
若他们知晓我们的意图，他们就不会放行
When we landed in memphis like original sin
降落在孟菲斯，就是我们的原罪
Up elvis presley boulevard to the graceland gates
从猫王大道到墓地雅园
See we were lookin' for a cadillac with tennessee plates
我们正在寻找一辆挂田纳西州车牌的凯迪拉克
Well there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage
嗯，肯定有人把车停在那车库
And there wasn't one lincoln and there wasn't one dodge
没有林肯，没有道奇
And there wasn't one japanese model or make
也没有日本汽车
Just pretty pretty cadillacs with tennessee plates
只有很多挂田纳西州车牌的凯迪拉克
She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
她十七岁时，就看过他唱歌的样子
And ever since that day she's been living in between
从那天起，她就一直徘徊
I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend
只有这个周末，我才这般狂野
Anyway he wouldn't care hell he gave them to his friends
然而他并不在意，他让他的朋友倍受煎熬
Well this ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from
嗯，我并未在宾馆给你写信
It's the tennessee prison up at brushy mountain
这信来自田纳西密林间的监狱
Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight
我在这里过得很好
Stampin' out my time makin' tennessee plates
消磨我的时间，制作田纳西州车牌