In another life 在另一種生活

You and I worked West Virginia coal mines 你和我工作過西弗吉尼亞州煤礦

Side by side 并排

Collecting the black dust like sin 收集黑色粉塵狀的罪

The day the main shaft caved in 在主軸塌陷的天

I caught your eye 我抓住你的眼球

As the lantern light guttered out 由于燈會亮槽形出

And the afterdamp swallowed us slowly 而afterdamp吞噬我們慢慢

I gripped your hand 我握著你的手

And caught a glance 并抓住了一個眼神

Of the next time 'round 下一次的輪

   

In another life 在另一種生活

You and I were Red Guards in training 你和我在訓(xùn)練中被紅衛(wèi)兵

Side by side 并排

We marched on Tiananmen 我們繼續(xù)前進天安門

Turned our own parents in 把我們自己的父母

For hoarding rice 對于囤積大米

And in the Great Leap forward 而在大躍進

We crawled on our bellies and died 我們爬在我們的肚子和死亡

A blood orange sky A型血橙天

Gave a cry 叫了一聲

Of next time 'round 下一次的輪

   

In another life 在另一種生活

I was married at thirteen 我結(jié)婚13

You were killed at twenty-one 你在21人遇難

On a minor battlefield 在一個小戰(zhàn)場

I was buried beside my second stillborn child 我埋葬了我的第二個胎死腹中的孩子身邊

My last thought it seemed 我最后想它似乎

A fever dream 發(fā)燒夢

   

Now we sink into a summer afternoon 現(xiàn)在，我們陷入一個夏日的午后

Central Park in June 中央公園在六月

Marveling at the bounty our days contain 在驚嘆賞金我們的日子包含

And we feel it like the shiver 而我們覺得它像哆嗦

Of a passing train 路過的列車

That other life 其他生活

Deep underground 地下深處

You and I 你和我

Side by side 并排

We are the next time 'round 我們下一次輪