《Southern California Wants to Be Western New York》歌词

[00:00:00] Southern California Wants to Be Western New York - Dar Williams

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[00:00:03] Written by：Dar William

[00:00:07] Written by：Dar William

[00:00:07] There's a part of the country

[00:00:09] 这个国家的一部分

[00:00:09] Could drop off tomorrow in an earthquake

[00:00:12] 明天发生地震可能会突然倒下

[00:00:12] Yeah it's out there on the cutting edge

[00:00:16] 就在最前沿

[00:00:16] The people move the sidewalks shake

[00:00:19] 人们在人行道上尽情摇摆

[00:00:19] And there's another part of the country

[00:00:21] 在这个国家的另一个地方

[00:00:21] With a land that gently creaks and thuds

[00:00:25] 脚下的土地嘎吱作响

[00:00:25] Where the heavy snows make faucets leak

[00:00:28] 厚厚的积雪让水龙头都漏了

[00:00:28] In bathrooms with free-standing tubs

[00:00:31] 浴室里有独立浴缸

[00:00:31] They're in houses that are haunted

[00:00:34] 他们住在闹鬼的房子里

[00:00:34] With the kids who lie awake and think about

[00:00:38] 和躺在床上辗转反侧的孩子在一起

[00:00:38] All the generations past

[00:00:40] 代代相传

[00:00:40] Who used to use that dripping sink

[00:00:47] 谁曾使用过滴水的水槽

[00:00:47] Sometimes one place wants

[00:00:49] 有时候一个地方想要

[00:00:49] To slip into the other just to see

[00:00:52] 偷偷潜入另一个世界只想看看

[00:00:52] What it's like to trade its demons

[00:00:55] 与恶魔交换是什么感觉

[00:00:55] For the restless ghost of Mrs Ogilvy

[00:00:59] 为了不安的奥格威夫人的灵魂

[00:00:59] Used to pick the mint from her front yard

[00:01:03] 曾经在她家前院采薄荷糖

[00:01:03] To dress the Sunday pork

[00:01:05] 精心打扮

[00:01:05] Sometimes southern California wants

[00:01:08] 有时南加州想要

[00:01:08] To be western New York

[00:01:14] 去纽约西部

[00:01:14] Wants to have a family business

[00:01:16] 想要拥有一个家族事业

[00:01:16] In sheet metal or power tools

[00:01:19] 金属板材或者电动工具

[00:01:19] And it wants to have a diner

[00:01:22] 它想要一个小餐馆

[00:01:22] Where the coffee tastes like diesel fuel

[00:01:26] 那里的咖啡尝起来就像柴油

[00:01:26] And it wants to find the glory of a town

[00:01:29] 它想寻找一座城市的荣耀

[00:01:29] They say has hit the skids

[00:01:32] 他们说我一败涂地

[00:01:32] And it wants to have a snow day

[00:01:35] 它想要有一个下雪天

[00:01:35] That will turn its parents into kids

[00:01:38] 让它的父母变成孩子

[00:01:38] And it's embarrassed but it's lusting

[00:01:41] 尴尬不已可我充满渴望

[00:01:41] After a suny student with mousy brown hair who is

[00:01:45] 一个皮肤黝黑的学生长着一头灰褐色的头发

[00:01:45] Taking out the compost

[00:01:47] 拿出肥料

[00:01:47] Making coffee in long underwear

[00:01:54] 穿着长内裤煮咖啡

[00:01:54] And southern California says

[00:01:56] 南加州说

[00:01:56] To save a place I'll meet you there

[00:02:00] 留一个位置我会在那里与你相见

[00:02:00] And it tried to pack up its miata

[00:02:03] 试图收拾行装

[00:02:03] All it could fit was a prayer

[00:02:07] 只有虔诚的祈祷

[00:02:07] Sometimes the stakes are bogus

[00:02:09] 有时风险是假的

[00:02:09] Sometimes the fast lane hits a fork

[00:02:12] 有时快车道会遇到岔路口

[00:02:12] Sometimes southern California wants

[00:02:16] 有时南加州想要

[00:02:16] To be western New York

[00:02:21] 去纽约西部

[00:02:21] Tempe Arizona thinks the Everglades

[00:02:25] 坦佩亚利桑那州以为大沼泽

[00:02:25] Are greener and wetter

[00:02:27] 更加苍翠欲滴

[00:02:27] And Washington D C thinks

[00:02:29] 华盛顿特区认为

[00:02:29] That Atlanta integrated better

[00:02:32] 亚特兰大融入得更好

[00:02:32] But I think that southern California

[00:02:36] 但我觉得南加州

[00:02:36] Has more pain that we can say

[00:02:39] 我们可以承受更多痛苦

[00:02:39] 'Cause it wants to travel back in time

[00:02:42] 因为它想回到过去

[00:02:42] But it just can't leave L A

[00:02:50] 但它无法离开洛杉矶

[00:02:50] But now I hear they've got a theme park planned

[00:02:53] 但现在我听说他们计划建一个主题公园

[00:02:53] Designed to make you gasp and say

[00:02:56] 让你气喘吁吁地说

[00:02:56] Bet that crumbling mill town

[00:02:59] 我打赌那个破败的小镇

[00:02:59] Was a booming mill town in its day

[00:03:02] 在它的时代是个繁荣的小镇

[00:03:02] Old investors scoff at this but the young ones

[00:03:06] 老投资者对此嗤之以鼻但年轻投资者

[00:03:06] Hope they'll take a chance

[00:03:08] 希望他们能抓住机会

[00:03:08] And they promise it will make more dough

[00:03:12] 他们保证会赚更多的钱

[00:03:12] Than Mickey Mouse in northern France

[00:03:15] 比法国北部的米老鼠还要多

[00:03:15] And the planners got an opening day

[00:03:18] 策划者有一个开幕日

[00:03:18] A town historian will host

[00:03:21] 一位小镇历史学家将主持

[00:03:21] And the waitresses look like waitresses

[00:03:24] 服务员看起来就像服务员

[00:03:24] Who want to leave for the West Coast

[00:03:30] 他们想去西海岸

[00:03:30] And they'll have puttering on rainy weekends

[00:03:33] 他们会在阴雨绵绵的周末尽情放纵

[00:03:33] Autumn days that make you feel sad

[00:03:36] 让你感到悲伤的秋日

[00:03:36] They'll have hundred year old plumbing

[00:03:39] 他们会有百年历史的水管

[00:03:39] And the family you never had

[00:03:42] 你从未拥有的家人

[00:03:42] And a Hudson River clean-up concert

[00:03:46] 举办一场哈德逊河清理现场演唱会

[00:03:46] And a bundle-bearing stork

[00:03:48] 一只会带来好东西的鹤

[00:03:48] And I hear they've got a menu planned

[00:03:52] 我听说他们已经准备好了菜单

[00:03:52] It's tray western New York western New York

[00:03:57] 这是西纽约