The Apartment We Won't Share - Live at The Wiltern

The apartment we won’t share
我们不会合租那间公寓
I wonder what sad wife lives there
我很好奇住在那儿的 是哪个可怜的妻子
Have the windows deciphered her stares?
窗户是否读懂了她的眼神?
Do the bricks in the walls know to hide the affairs?
那一砖一瓦是否知道 去为婚外情守口如瓶?

The dog we won’t have is now one I would not choose
我们不会养狗 而今我心如磐石
The daughter we won’t raise still waits for you
不会抚养女儿 如今那想法还挥之不去
The girl I won’t be is the one that’s yours
我不想成为的将来 却仍属于你
I hope you shortly find what you long for
我希望 你很快就能找到你的心之所向

Two years and some change
两年过去 有些改变
Isn’t it strange?
难道不是咄咄怪事?
You’re a full-fledged socialist,
你是个游刃有余的社会主义者
I go by a new name
我有了个新名字

The filthy joke that won’t
荤段子不会
burrow in the corner of your
匿在你傻笑的唇中
smirking lips, I mourn it to this day
一言不发 我至今仍在哀悼

The story we won’t tell
我们秘而不宣的故事
is my greatest fantasy
是我最大的幻想
The passion I won’t feel again
我再也感受不到的那激情
isn’t lost on me
还在我身上

The son you never wanted
你不想要的儿子
is the wound your father left
是你父亲留下的伤
And the mother I won’t be is
而我不会为人母
probably for the best
也许这样便是最好

Your demons I won’t meet
我不会邂逅你的心魔
Now someone else’s word to keep
如今要遵守他人的诺言
I’m sure she’s beautiful and sweet
她的确既漂亮又甜美
Not what I wanted, but what we need
不是我想要 却为我们所需要