If We’d All Been Living In California - Frank Zappa

If We'd All Been Living In California - Frank Zappa
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Ok now you still want to get your name in the magazines
好吧 现在你还想登上杂志版面
And he wants 500 dollars a month
而他每月要五百美金开销
Where does it come from
钱从哪儿来呢
We worked one gig this month
这个月我们只接到一场演出
And thats so what do we get
所以报酬能有多少
Two hundred dollars for this gig up here if we're lucky
走运的话这场能拿两百块
If we're lucky we'll get two hundred
要是运气好 或许能挣两百
And it will be two weeks before we get it
而且至少两周后才能结账
Probably
或许
I mean after all what is all this sh*t in the newspaper
我是说 报纸上这些报道到底算什么
If we got such a big name how come we're starving man
既然我们名声在外 为何还在挨饿
This f**king band is starving
这支乐队穷得叮当响
And we've been starving for three years
我们已经苦熬了三年
I realize it takes a long time but God damn it
我明白成功需要时间 但老天
Does it take another five ten years from now
难道还要再熬五年十年
There's some months when you're not going to work as much as other months there's some months when you're going to make a lot of money and if you average it out you do make more than two hundr
有些月份接不到活 有些月份能赚不少 平均下来确实超过两百
Llars a month
月收入微薄
Expenses are sure high to
开销却居高不下
If we'd all been living in california
若我们都住在加利福尼亚
It would have been different
情况会大不相同
If we'd all been living in california
若我们都住在加利福尼亚
We wouldn't have worked at all
我们根本找不到工作
Oh that's true
噢 确实如此
Well we're not working now anyway
反正我们现在也没在工作
We worked one gig this month frank
弗兰克 这个月我们只接了一场演出
What's wrong with getting two months in a row of this good money
连续两个月拿到丰厚报酬有什么不好
Or three months in a row
或者连续三个月
Then we could afford to take three of four months off
这样我们就能休息三四个月
And everybody can
每个人都可以
After the first month I can get just enough ahead
第一个月后我就能勉强维持
But if I had two more months man
但要是能再多两个月
I'll get ahead
我就能翻身