This little bridge

这座小桥，

three of them

它们三个

blasted a recess in the rock

在岩石里炸出一个凹陷，

hoovered the mountains

在群山上盘旋，

played with a squirrel called Scrawny

和一只叫芦柴棒的松鼠玩耍，

(hangnail on the forefinger of Death)

（死亡食指上的倒刺）

a hundred yards from my home

离我家一百码，

what home you haven’t got a home

什么家你还没有家

I do so have a home

我有所以有一个家

Mottled later the pattern recedes

后来斑驳了图案退进

into my marvelous life

我了不起的生活

Hey how are you life

喂你好吗生活

never been better

从未更好过

that’s good

不错

’cause I want you to take care of yourself

我想要你照顾好自己

understand

明白

Yeah I understand

是的明白

Aw for the love of Pete

啊呀看在老天的份儿上

The pattern’s got on mushrooms now

图案长上蘑菇

on the clothes of aborigines on magnets

在磁铁上面土著人的衣服上

They are sending a boat for you a

他们正在给你派一艘船一次

private launch

私人下水

Tired of feeding the muskrats in this shithole

厌倦了在这个狗屎地方喂麝鼠

getting ready to tidy up and go

准备好收拾走人

leave this wooden structure that doesn’t love me

离开这个不爱我的木头结构

Wait there are one or two small items to regulate

等等在你可以走之前

before you can go

有一两件小东西要调整

I repeat I want my life out of here

我再说一遍我不想生活在这里

dissolved in memory

溶解在记忆里

Bring on the aromatherapy

让芳香疗法男孩

boys there’s a job to get done

现身有一件活儿要干

我总是在中间

Me always in the middle

我哭哭啼啼

me whining

我也许根本不是那么好的人

me probably not such a nice person after all

我在体育场上

me on the stadium

我在恐怖蓝色海峡插科打诨

me persiflating in the dire blue strait

我双脚陷在悲哀中

me up to my ankles in woe

我欣喜于自己臻于完美

me rejoicing in the realization of my perfectibility

傻瓜一起来

Loggerheads come on down

他们在小木屋里

They’re waiting for you

等你

in the cabin

这边请，

this way please,

那应该差不离了——

And that should be about right—