Ive been waiting for something to happen 我一直在等待著什么發(fā)生

For a week or a month or a year 一個星期或一個月或一年

With the blood in the ink of the headlines 隨著血液在頭版頭條的油墨

And the sound of the crowd in my ear 和人群在我耳邊的聲音

You might ask what it takes to remember 也許你會問如何才能記住

When you know that youve seen it before 當你知道你已見過它

Where a government lies to a people 凡政府就在于一個人

And a country is drifting to war 一個國家的漂流戰(zhàn)爭

   

And theres a shadow on the faces 和theres在臉上陰影

Of the men who send the guns 誰送槍的男人

To the wars that are fought in places 要被打的地方戰(zhàn)爭

Where their business interest runs 在那里他們的商業(yè)利益運行

   

On the radio talk shows and the t.v. 在電臺談話節(jié)目和T.V.

You hear one thing again and again 你聽到一件事連連

How the USA stands for freedom 如何在美國代表自由

And we come to the aid of a friend 我們來到一個朋友的援助

But who are the ones that we call our friends- 但是，誰是我們調(diào)用我們friends-那些

These governments killing their own? 這些國家的政府殺死自己肏屄直接看？

Or the people who finally can't take any more 或人誰最終不能采取任何更多

And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone 他們拿起一把槍或磚或石

There are lives in the balance 有生活的平衡

There are people under fire 有下火人

There are children at the cannons 有在大炮的孩子

And there is blood on the wire 且有血線

   

There's a shadow on the faces 有在臉上陰影

Of the men who fan the flames 男子是誰煽風點火

Of the wars that are fought in places 被打的地方的戰(zhàn)爭

Where we can't even say the names 我們甚至不能說的名字

   

They sell us the president the same way 他們賣給我們的總統(tǒng)以同樣的方式

They sell us our clothes and our cars 他們賣給我們我們的衣服和我們的汽車

They sell us every thing from youth to religion 他們賣給我們的每一件事情，從青年到宗教

The same time they sell us our wars 同時，他們賣給我們我們的戰(zhàn)爭

I want to know who the men in the shadows are 我想知道是誰的人在陰影

I want to hear somebody asking them why 我想聽到有人問他們?yōu)槭裁?/span>

They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are 他們可以算的上告訴我們誰是我們的敵人

But they're never the ones to fight or to die 但他們從來沒有那些打或死

And there are lives in the balance 并有生活的平衡

There are people under fire 有下火人

There are children at the cannons 有在大炮的孩子

And there is blood on the wire 且有血線