《In the 99》

Am I the one to praise?
我值得被称赞吗？

Collide with faces veiled in paper
将头埋在书中

Reading line by line the pain there
一行一行阅读着其中的痛苦

But for the grace of code and capital
但是受着代码和资本的恩惠

We’d cry out side by side
我们肩并着肩哭泣

So why am I the one to praise?
所以，为什么我是那个被称赞的人？

Calculate the Ponzi pension to avoid
计算着庞氏养老金，避免着选择之后

Unintended consequences of a choice
出现意想不到的结果

Now am I so confident I am the one
现在我很确信，我就是那个人

Earning every pretty sum and deserving every toy
我辛勤赚来每一分钱，值得去拥有每个漂亮的玩具

Am I selling broken bonds or innovation?
我是在重复地劳动还是在创新？

Someone’s yelling get a job out of a Lincoln
有人从林肯车里出来，大呼小叫着想要一份工作

But the human microphone will find a voice
但是人们耳朵里会听到一个声音

And a change is gonna come, signalsaid the
在一片嘈杂中，有个信号说

To the noise
改变即将到来

Remind me in my western chamber
它在西边的房间里提醒我

What this plan’s designed to save here
这个计划是被设计来在这里保存什么的？

I haven’t come to say I’m sorry
我不是来说对不起的

But I swear I’m on your side
但是我发誓我同你站在一边

Oh I am not the one who preys
哦 我不是掠夺者

Betting on the best semesters you can buy
把赌注压在你能买到的最好的任期上

Digging out of debt, sequestered, unemployed
逃离债务，抵押和失业

Underwater empty nesters in a slum
想想那些不为人知的，贫民窟里的空巢老人们

Television for the bums, helicopter for the boys
懒汉们的电视机，小男孩们的直升机

Marketplace of multi-culti competition
多元化竞争的市场

Building out the fossil fracking operation
建立的碎石操作体系

Careful of a bird blacker than a swan
要小心比天鹅黑的鸟儿

'cause a change is gonna come, said the signal
因为在一片嘈杂中，有个信号说

To the noise
改变即将到来

Were you never in the 99?
你从未经历过99年代吗？

You are ever in the 99
你曾经历过99年代

We are ever in the 99
我们曾共同经历过99年代

We are ever in the 99
我们曾共同经历过99年代

Am I the one to praise?
我值得被称赞吗？

Collide with faces veiled in paper
将头埋在书中

Reading line by line the pain there
一行一行阅读着其中的痛苦

I haven’t come to say I’m sorry
我并不是来说对不起

But I swear I’m on your side
但是我发誓我同你站在一边

We are ever in the 99
我们曾共同经历过99年代

附上歌曲链接：《In the 99》