Cement Octopus-Pete Seeger

[ti:Cement Octopus] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:God Bless The Grass] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cement Octopus - Pete Seeger
以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 [00:06.18]There＇s a cement octopus sits in Sacramento I think
我想在萨克拉门托有一只水泥章鱼 [00:10.30] [00:12.67]Gets red tape to eat gasoline taxes to drin
繁文缛节让我吃尽汽油税让我心满意足 [00:16.12] [00:18.49]And it grows by day and it grows by night
它在白天生长在黑夜里生长 [00:21.99]And it rolls over everything in sight
把眼前的一切都掀翻 [00:24.18] [00:24.80]Oh stand by me and protect that tree
站在我身边保护那棵树 [00:27.62]From the freeway misery
远离高速公路上的痛苦 [00:29.33] [00:32.40]Who knows how the monster started to grow that way;
谁知道怪物怎么会变成那样； [00:35.77] [00:38.46]Its parents are frightened and wish it would go away
它的父母很害怕希望它赶快离开 [00:42.51] [00:44.64]But the taxes keep coming they have to be spent
可税源源不断他们必须花掉 [00:48.12]On big bull dozers and tanks of cement
开着推土机和水泥箱 [00:50.56] [00:51.30]Oh stand by me and protect that tree
站在我身边保护那棵树 [00:53.96]From the freeway misery
远离高速公路上的痛苦 [00:55.90] [00:59.94]Dear old MacLaren won＇t take this lying down
亲爱的迈凯伦不会坐视不管 [01:02.44] [01:04.82]We can hear his spirit move in the sandy ground
我们可以听见他的灵魂在沙地上飘荡 [01:08.32] [01:10.95]He built this Eden on the duney plain
他在干旱的平原上建造了伊甸园 [01:13.64] [01:14.56]Now they＇re making it a concrete desert again
现在他们又把这里变成了一片荒漠 [01:17.63]Oh stand by me and protect that tree
站在我身边保护那棵树 [01:20.25]From the freeway misery
远离高速公路上的痛苦 [01:22.25] [01:26.25]The men on the highways need those jobs we know
在公路上奔波的人们需要我们知道的那些工作 [01:30.11] [01:32.61]Lets put them to work planting new trees to grow
让他们付诸行动种植新的树木 [01:36.11] [01:39.05]Building new parks where kids can play
建造新的公园让孩子们玩耍 [01:41.42] [01:42.18]Pushing that cement monster away
推开水泥怪物 [01:44.23] [01:45.17]Oh stand by me and protect that tree
站在我身边保护那棵树 [01:47.35] [01:48.00]From the freeway misery
远离高速公路上的痛苦 [01:49.72] [01:50.89]There's a cement octopus sits in Sacramento I think
我想在萨克拉门托有一只水泥章鱼 [01:54.57] [01:57.45]Gets red tape to eat gasoline taxes to drin
繁文缛节让我吃尽汽油税让我心满意足 [02:00.58] [02:03.07]And it grows by day and it grows by night
它在白天生长在黑夜里生长 [02:06.63]And it rolls over everything in sight
把眼前的一切都掀翻 [02:09.57]Oh stand by me and protect that tree
站在我身边保护那棵树