《Subdivision》歌词

[00:00:00] Subdivision - Ani Difranco

[00:00:21] 以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供

[00:00:21] White people are so scared of black people

[00:00:26] 白人害怕黑人

[00:00:26] They bulldoze out to the country

[00:00:28] 他们用推土机向乡村进发

[00:00:28] And put up houses on little loop dee loop streets

[00:00:31] 在环线上建造房子

[00:00:31] While america gets it's heart cut right out of

[00:00:35] 而美国人的心已经支离破碎

[00:00:35] It's chest

[00:00:35] 我的胸膛

[00:00:35] The berlin wall still runs down main street

[00:00:39] 柏林墙依然耸立在大街上

[00:00:39] Separating east side from west

[00:00:42] 把东西分开

[00:00:42] And nothing is stirring not even a mouse

[00:00:47] 什么都没有动就连老鼠也没有

[00:00:47] In the boarded up stores and the broken down houses

[00:00:52] 在被木板封起来的商店和破败的房屋里

[00:00:52] So they hang colorful banners off all the street lamps

[00:00:57] 于是他们在街灯上挂起了彩旗

[00:00:57] Just to prove they got no manners

[00:01:00] 只想证明他们没有礼貌

[00:01:00] No mercy and no sense

[00:01:03] 没有怜悯没有理智

[00:01:03] And I'm wondering what it will take

[00:01:07] 我不知道要付出什么代价

[00:01:07] For my city to rise

[00:01:09] 让我的城市崛起

[00:01:09] First we admit our mistakes

[00:01:12] 首先我们承认错误

[00:01:12] Then we open our eyes

[00:01:14] 我们睁开双眼

[00:01:14] The ghosts of old buildings are haunting parking lots

[00:01:19] 老建筑的幽灵萦绕在停车场

[00:01:19] In the city of good neighbors that history forgot

[00:01:49] 在这座历史遗忘的好邻居之城

[00:01:49] I remember the first time I saw someone

[00:01:51] 我还记得我第一次见到一个人

[00:01:51] Lying on the cold street

[00:01:54] 躺在冰冷的街道上

[00:01:54] I thought can't just walk past here

[00:01:57] 我以为你不能从我身边走过

[00:01:57] This can't just be true

[00:02:00] 这不可能是真的

[00:02:00] But I learned by example

[00:02:02] 但我从中学到了经验

[00:02:02] To just keep moving thing my feet

[00:02:05] 我的双脚不停移动

[00:02:05] It's amazing the things that we all learn to do

[00:02:10] 令人惊叹的是我们都学会了这样做

[00:02:10] So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter

[00:02:16] 所以我们被拒绝的感觉指引着就像待宰的羔羊

[00:02:16] Serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water

[00:02:21] 为时尚帝国服务和碳酸糖水

[00:02:21] And the old farm road's a four lane that leads

[00:02:26] 一条四车道的乡间小路

[00:02:26] To the mall and I

[00:02:27] 去商场购物

[00:02:27] Dreams are all guillotines waiting I know fall

[00:02:32] 梦想就像断头台等待着我知道会倒下

[00:02:32] I'm wondering what it will take

[00:02:36] 我不知道要付出什么代价

[00:02:36] For my country to rise

[00:02:39] 让我的国家崛起

[00:02:39] First we admit our mistakes

[00:02:42] 首先我们承认错误

[00:02:42] Then we open our eyes

[00:02:44] 我们睁开双眼

[00:02:44] Or nature succumbs to one last dumb decision

[00:02:49] 或者自然屈服于最后一个愚蠢的决定

[00:02:49] America the beautiful

[00:02:51]

[00:02:51] Is just one big subdivision

[00:02:57] 只是一个很大的分支

[00:02:57] I'm black

[00:03:02] 我是黑人