Day After Tomorrow

I got your letter today and I miss you all so much here
今天收到了来信 我非常想念你们
I can't wait to see you all and I'm counting the days, dear
我数着日子 迫不及待地想与你们见面
I still believe that there's gold at the end of the world
我仍相信 世界的尽头尚存美好
And I'll come home to Illinois on the day after tomorrow
后天 我就要回到伊利诺斯州的家中了
And it is so hard and it's cold here and I'm tired of taking orders
这里的日子太难 没有一丝暖意 我厌倦了接受命令
And I miss old Rockford town up by the Wisconsin border
我怀念威斯康星州边上的老罗克福德镇
What I miss, you won't believe - shoveling snow and raking leaves
你们肯定不会相信我在怀念什么——铲雪和扫落叶
And my plane will touch down on the day after tomorrow
我的飞机后天就能落地啦
I close my eyes every night and I dream that I can hold you
每晚 我闭上眼 都会梦见能和你们拥抱
They fill us full of lies, everyone buys about what it means to be a soldier
他们对我们满口谎言 但其实每个人都知道当兵意味着什么
I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
我仍不知道我应该怎样去感受
About all the blood that's been spilled with God on his throne
感受上帝在他的王座上撒下的那些鲜血
Get me back home on the day after tomorrow
后天 来接我回家吧
You can't deny, the other side don't want to die anymore than we do
你们不能否认 对方比我们更不想死
What I'm trying to say is, don't they pray to the same God that we do?
我想说的是 难道他们不也和我们祈祷同样的上帝吗？
Tell me how does God choose whose prayers does he refuse?
告诉我 上帝该选择谁的祈祷 而又该拒绝谁呢
Who turns the wheel? Who rolls the dice on the day after tomorrow?
后天 是谁来转动命运的车轮 又是由谁来掷骰子呢
I am not fighting for justice, I am not fighting for freedom
我不是在为正义而战 也不是为了自由
I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here
我活在世上 是在为自己的生活而战 为每个新的一天而奋斗
I just do what I've been told, we're just the gravel on the road
我只是在按别人说的去做 我们只是路上的碎石
And only the lucky ones come home on the day after tomorrow
后天 只有幸运的人才能回家
And the summer, it too will fade and with it brings the winter's frost, dear
亲爱的 夏天也终会逝去 冬天会携着严寒随之而来
And I know we too are made of all the things that we have
我知道 我们失去的一切 也是构成我们的一部分
Lost here, I'll be twenty-one today, I been saving all my pay
今天 我就要21岁了 我已经把所有的薪水都存了起来
And my plane will touch down on the day after tomorrow
我的飞机将在后天着陆