The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
駕駛座無人，汽車正在燃燒
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
下水道全淤滿了上千寂寞的自殺者
and a dark wind blows
一股陰沉的風吹過

the government is corrupt
政府已經腐敗
and we're on so many drugs
而我們被藥物塞滿
with the radio on and the curtains drawn
當收音機打開，窗簾拉上

we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
我們被囚禁在這糟糕機械的腹中
and the machine is bleeding to death
而機械正失血死亡

the sun has fallen down
太陽已經隕落
and the billboards are all leering
分數板紛紛瞇起色眼
and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles
而那些旗幟全都垂死在它們的旗杆之上

it went like this:
事情是這麼發生的：

the buildings tumbled in on themselves
建築往彼此身上崩塌
mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble
母親們緊抱嬰兒在殘垣之間拾荒
and pulled out their hair
拔出她們的頭髮

the skyline was beautiful on fire
火海中的天際線如此唯美
all twisted metal stretching upwards
蜷曲的金屬全向天上抓攫
everything washed in a thin orange haze
眾生鍍上一層橙色薄靄

I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -these are truly the last days"
我說：「吻我吧，你真美──這真的是末日了」
you grabbed my hand and we fell into it
你抓住了我的手，於是我們淪陷其中
like a daydream or a fever
彷彿陷入高燒、或是場白日夢

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We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
我們在某個早晨醒過來，並又向下沉淪了一點
For sure it's the valley of death
當然，那即是死蔭的深谷
I open up my wallet
我打開我的皮夾
And it's full of blood
而裡頭滿是鮮血