Passage

I died in a car crash

我死于车祸

Two days ago was unrecognizable

两天前，一切毫无征兆

When they pulled me from the gears

当他们将我从齿轮间拉出来

No one's fault no one's bottle

谁也没错，没有人能控制

No one's teenage pride or throttle

没有人带着青年的骄傲或放肆

Our innocence is all the worse for fears

我们的纯真，是最糟糕的恐惧

The other walked away alive

另一个路过的人活下来了

Arms wrapped now around his wife

此刻正紧紧拥抱着他妻子

My lover sits the silent eye

我的爱人坐在一旁，眼神安静

In a hurricane of warmth and word

内心却是是暴风骤雨

My mother trembles with the sobs

我母亲颤抖着，抽泣着

Whose absence seems absurd

她的出现似乎很荒谬

My sister shouts to let her see

我的姐姐大声喊着，让我看看

Through the cloud of crowd surrounding me

穿过我身边的人群

My colleagues call for silence in my name

我的同事以我的名义呼吁安静

I died in a car crash three months ago

我死于三个月前的车祸

They burned me until i glowed

他们将我焚烧，我浑身灼热

And crumbled to a fine gray sand

在一片漂亮的灰白沙地上，我支离破碎

Now i am nothing everywhere

此刻，我化为乌有，无处可寻

Several breaths of strangers' air

或在陌生人呼吸的空气里

And all thoughts ever written in my hand

那些写在掌心的思绪

They plant my tree out in the yard

他们在院子里种植我的纪念树

It grows but takes the winter hard

它渐渐成长，却要经历寒冬的艰难

My lover holds a knife to wrist

我的爱人将小刀搁在手腕

Says tomorrow comes hold on a while

说着，明天会到来，再坚持片刻

My mother tosses in the sheets

我母亲在床上辗转反侧

And dreams me holding my own child

梦想着看见我抱着自己的孩子

My sister plays our homemade tapes

姐姐播放家庭录影带

Laughs as tears run down her face

微笑着，脸上挂着泪珠

My office door now wears a different name

现在，我的办公司挂上了别人的名字

I died in a car crash four years ago

我死于四年前的车祸

My tree drinks melted snow

我的小树吮吸融化的冰雪

Just eight feet tall a pale and fragile thing

它还只有八英尺高，苍白而又脆弱

Bee stings beaches bright vacations

被蜜蜂蛰伤的海边假期

Sunburnt high-school graduations

被太阳晒伤的高中毕业期

A sparrow healing from a broken wing

麻雀渐渐从折翅的伤中恢复

This year a glimpse of second chances

今年，又是一瞥

Tiny apples on my tree's branches

我的树上已经结了小苹果

My lover hears the open wind

我的爱人听见窗外的风声

And crawls blinking into the sun

慢慢爬进阳光里

My mother leafs through photographs

我母亲翻看着相集

And thinks \"yes she was a lovely one\"

想着，她是很可爱

My sister can't decide her truth

我姐姐无法做出决定

Asks aloud what i might do

大声问道，我能怎么做

In a conference hall my brief efforts engraved

在会议厅，我的努力被铭记

A lifetime ago it seems

这一切似乎是一生那么久

A decade or two or three

十年，二十年，或者三十年

They've come out with a new design

他们已经是另一幅模样

Bars and bags front and behind

与之前大相径庭

My fate now an impossibility

现在，我的命运已是全无可能

Safely packaged hurtling down

安全打包，沿路飞奔

The highway hardly make a sound

高速路上几乎没有噪音

My lover very much alive

我的爱人，正活得灿烂