Everybody Pays

Mark knopfler

Everybody pays

每个人都得付出代价

I got shot off my horse

我从马背跌落

So what I'm up again

那又如何 我又站了起来

And playing

继续演奏

In one of these

就在这条街上

Big saloons on main

最大的沙龙酒馆里

You can come up here

你可以过来这里

Take a look

环顾四周

Around these sinners' dens

在这罪恶的巢穴中

You're only ever going to find

你终会发现

One or two real games

仅剩一两场真实的较量

Nobody's driving

无人能将我

Me underground

逼入绝境

Not yet anyway

至少现在还没有

But either on the strip

但无论在这条街上

Or on the edge of town

就在小镇边缘处

Everybody pays

每个人都得付出代价

Everybody pays to play

为梦想买单

Yeah you ought to stay

你最好留在原地

Right where you are

哪儿也别去

In sawdust land

在这锯末之地

It's probably the

或许这才是

Safest place to be

最安全的归宿

With your

带着你

Greasy little pork pies

油腻的廉价馅饼

And your shoestring hands

和寒酸的手

It makes

这对我

No difference to me

毫无意义

All those directions

所有那些

Which we never took

我们从未选择的方向

To go our different ways

让我们分道扬镳

Who went and wrote

是谁写下

The oldest story in the book

这亘古不变的篇章

Everybody pays

每个人都得付出代价

Everybody pays to play

为梦想买单

Curl up inside

蜷缩在

A boxcar dream

铁皮车厢的梦境里

And disappear

悄然隐去

With a couple

带着几分

Low roller friends

低微的赌徒朋友

You were never one

你向来不是

For trouble

惹是生非之人

So get out of here

快离开这里吧

I knew the game

我早知这场游戏

Was dangerous back then

当年就危机四伏

But nobody's breezing

但此刻无人能轻松过关

Through these swinging doors

穿过这扇摇摆的门

Just ups and walks away

起身便转身离去

Everybody has to leave

每个人都终将离开

Some blood here on the floor

地板上残留着血迹

Everybody pays

每个人都得付出代价

Everybody pays to play

为梦想买单