Happy New Year
Happy New Year - Todd Snider
Everybody
大家看过来
There's an overweight man with an overweight woman
一个肥胖的男人和一个肥胖的女人
On a sofa watching TV
坐在沙发上看着电视
He's yelling his opinion at the television
他在大肆评价电视节目
She looks up from her food and agrees
她从食物中抬起头来 对他的观点表示同意
They got two bumper stickers on there pick up truck
他们的保险杠上贴着两张贴纸
They keep the pick up parked outside
他们总是把车停在外面
One sticker says What would Jesus do
一张贴纸写着 耶稣会怎么做
The other bumper sticker says Power of pride
另一张写着 骄傲的力量
I was thumbing through the stations on my own television
我不停换台 将节目浏览了一遍
When I come across a guy on this religious station
我在教堂遇见一个人
Singing Somebody's coming
他在纵情歌唱 有人就要来到你身旁
He's sounding whiter than me somehow
他的声音听起来纯净响亮 超出我想象
Wow it took me back in time through dwindling joy
让我重新回到快乐的时光
To when I was such a guilt ridden Catholic boy
那时我还是个罪恶深重的天主教信徒
I'm evangelical agnostic now
如今 我是福音派信徒
I don't know what we're doing here
我不知道我们在做什么
You don't know what we're doing here
你也不知道我们在做什么
Now Christians don't walk out on me just yet
现在 基督徒不会弃我于不顾
You know whose name I'll be yelling as I'm clutching my chest
当我几欲窒息 你知道 我会呼唤谁的名字
The one my dad told me to and his told him to
我的爸爸将祖辈的训言传承给我
And I probably pray as much or more than you do
我会向上帝祈祷 比你更加虔诚
Believing sh*t every word I sing
我相信颂歌里的每字每句
But believing and knowing those are two different things
但是相信和了解是两件截然不同的事情
And if your trying to change the way a strangers life will have to go
如果你想改变一个陌生人的人生 那你必须踏上征途
I believe this is where I wanna stick to what I know
我相信 这就是我一直坚持的信仰
Which is nothing you know nothing for sure
前路漫漫 充满未知
So just chill till the next episode
所以 保持冷静 直到翻开新的篇章
Now back to the lecture at hand
现在 回到教堂
Seems like my neighbor wants to kill what he can't understand
我的邻居似乎想要让一切疑惑销声匿迹
I say we can't just kill what we don't understand
我说 我们无法消除我们心中的疑惑
But I turn on my TV and see that oh yeah we can
但我打开电视 终于明白
We can and we have since then dawn of man
自从人类诞生 我们就能力非凡
For countless gods whose only real seeming plan
对于无数神灵而言 他们唯一的目的
Was to see to it that clinging to life was our fate
就是看到我们掌控自己的命运
And you gotta admit that life's pretty great
你必须承认 人生如此美好
But can we deny that it's killing us
但我们是否可以否认 我们濒临窒息
I'll be here all week
整个星期我都会待在这里
Happy New Year everybody
大家新年快乐
Happy Birthday country joe
生日快乐 乔
I resolve to do like I always do
我下定决心 如往常般勇往直前
I ain't hurtin' you
我不会伤害你
If life is anything it's embarrassing
如果生活令人尴尬
A rusty nail through a careless shoe
就像一根生锈的钉子 刺穿了破旧的鞋子
You can't help but sit around and wonder sometimes
你会情不自禁坐下思考 有时候
Why there's never anything the nail can do
为何钉子一无所用
Or think about how unfair it is
为何一切如此不公
That the shoe is always going where it's got to
鞋子总在自己相对的位置
If you ain't the dumb kid out running around
如果你是个傻傻的孩子
You kinda gotta do what you're born to do
你必须做好自己天生的任务
Hey happy new year everybody
嘿 大家新年快乐
And specifically Happy Birthday to you country joe
在这特别的一天 生日快乐 乔
I resolve to do what I always do
我下定决心 如往常般勇往直前
And I only ever make it a day or two
我只会坚持一天或者两天