Tennessee Plates-John Hiatt

[ti:Tennessee Plates] [ar:John Hiatt] [al:Anthology: John Hiatt] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tennessee Plates - John Hiatt [00:21.81]I woke up in a hotel and I didn't know what to do
我在酒店醒来，我不知道该怎么办 [00:24.74]I turned the tv on and wrote a letter to you
我打开电视，准备写封信给你 [00:27.36]The news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet up on the interstate
新闻正播放着州际公路搜捕行动的消息 [00:30.45] [00:32.63]Said they were lookin' for a cadillac with tennessee plates
说他们真正寻找一辆拥有田纳西州车牌的凯迪拉克 [00:35.31] [00:41.19]Since I left california baby things have gotten worse
自从我离开加州后，宝贝，事情变得越来越糟 [00:44.49]Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse
似乎对我而言，机会之国只是个诅咒 [00:47.43]Tell that judge in bakersfield that my trial will have to wait
告诉贝克斯菲尔德的法官，我的审判将会推迟 [00:50.72] [00:52.60]Down here they're lookin' for a cadillac with tennessee plates
他们在这里寻找一辆拥有田纳西州车牌的凯迪拉克 [00:55.22] [00:55.91]It was somewhere in nevada it was cold outside
这是在内华达州的某处，外面寒风萧萧 [00:58.90]She was shiverin' in the dark so I offered her a ride
她在黑暗中颤抖，因此我搭了她一程 [01:02.03]Three bank jobs later four cars hot wired
待会还要抢劫三家银行，四辆车已准备就绪 [01:04.90]We crossed the mississippi like an oil slick fire
我们飞速驶过密西西比州 [01:07.77] [01:14.08]If they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let us in
如果他们知道我们的意图，他们就不会让我们通过 [01:17.32]When we landed in memphis like original sin
当我们如同原罪降落在孟菲斯时 [01:19.64] [01:20.26]Up elvis presley boulevard to the graceland gates
从埃尔维斯普雷斯利大道到雅园门 [01:23.12] [01:25.37]See we were lookin' for a cadillac with tennessee plates
我们正在寻找一辆拥有田纳西州车牌的凯迪拉克 [01:28.30] [01:39.98]Well there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage
嗯，他们中肯定有人把车停在那车库 [01:43.08]And there wasn't one lincoln and there wasn't one dodge
没有林肯，没有道奇 [01:46.26]And there wasn't one japanese model or make
也没有日本汽车 [01:48.85] [01:51.47]Just pretty pretty cadillacs with tennessee plates
很多，很多拥有田纳西州车牌的凯迪拉克 [01:54.84]She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
当她十七岁时，她曾看见他在唱歌 [01:57.83]And ever since that day she's been living in between
从那天起，她就一直生活在徘徊间 [02:00.33]I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend
我只是这狂野的周末之王 [02:03.52] [02:04.07]Anyway he wouldn't care hell he gave them to his friends
然而他并不在意，他让他的朋友倍受煎熬 [02:07.29] [02:12.73]Well this ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from
嗯，我并未在宾馆给你写信 [02:15.15] [02:18.35]It's the tennessee prison up at brushy mountain
而是在田纳西州的监狱里给你写信 [02:21.75] [02:24.87]Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight
我在这里过得很好 [02:27.62] [02:33.13]Stampin' out my time makin' tennessee plates
消磨我的时间，制作田纳西州车牌