所属专辑:Live From Austin TX
歌手: John Hiatt
时长: 03:59
Tennessee Plates (Live) - John Hiatt (约翰·亥特)[00:00:00]
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I woke up in a hotel and didn't know what to do[00:00:24]
我在酒店醒来觉得百无聊赖[00:00:27]
I turned the TV on wrote a letter to you[00:00:27]
我打开电视然后写封信给你[00:00:29]
The news was talkin' 'bout a dead man upon the interstate[00:00:29]
新闻在报道州际公路上拉开了搜索网[00:00:34]
Seems they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates[00:00:34]
据说他们在寻找一辆田纳西州牌照的凯迪拉克车[00:00:42]
Well since I left California baby things have gotten worse[00:00:42]
宝贝 我离开加利福利亚后 际遇每况愈下[00:00:45]
Seems the land of opportunity for me it's just a curse[00:00:45]
这块充满机会的土地对我而言似乎只是个诅咒[00:00:47]
Tell that judge in Bakersfield my trial'll have to wait[00:00:47]
告诉贝克斯菲尔德的法官 我的裁决还得等等[00:00:52]
Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates[00:00:52]
眼下他们正在寻找一辆田纳西州牌照的凯迪拉克[00:00:55]
It was somewhere in Nevada it was cold outside[00:00:55]
这里是内华达州的某地 室外寒凉[00:00:56]
She was shiverin' in the dark so I offered her a ride[00:00:56]
她在黑夜中瑟瑟发抖 于是我送了她一程[00:01:00]
Three bank jobs later four cars hot wired[00:01:00]
抢了三家银行四辆车[00:01:03]
We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire[00:01:03]
我们如油上燃烧的火一般越过密西西比[00:01:11]
If they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't let us in[00:01:11]
如果知道我们在做什么 他们不会让我们入境[00:01:14]
And now we landed in Memphis like original sin[00:01:14]
当我们像原罪一样飞抵孟菲斯[00:01:16]
Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates[00:01:16]
从埃维斯普雷斯利大道到格雷斯兰门[00:01:21]
See we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates[00:01:21]
这下是我们在找那辆田纳西州牌照的凯迪拉克了[00:01:46]
Well there must have been a dozen of them[00:01:46]
想必他们在车库停放了[00:01:48]
Parked in that garage[00:01:48]
几十部车[00:01:49]
And there wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge[00:01:49]
那没有一台林肯或者道奇[00:01:52]
And there wasn't one Japanese model or make[00:01:52]
也没有一台是日本车型或者日本制造[00:01:56]
Just pretty pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates[00:01:56]
全是相当漂亮 挂田纳西牌照的凯迪拉克[00:01:59]
She saw him singing once when she was seventeen[00:01:59]
她十七岁是曾看过他唱歌[00:02:02]
And ever since that day she's been living in between[00:02:02]
从那天以后她就一直生活在这这车库里[00:02:05]
I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend[00:02:05]
我几乎一无所有只有这个狂野的周末例外[00:02:07]
Anyway he wouldn't care hell he gave them to his friends[00:02:07]
无所谓 他不在乎 该死的他把它们都送给了他的朋友们[00:02:58]
This ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from[00:02:58]
好吧 我给你写信的地方根本没有酒店[00:03:04]
I'm at the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain[00:03:04]
这里是布鲁西山上的田纳西监狱[00:03:10]
Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight[00:03:10]
此致敬礼于5点至8点[00:03:17]
I'm just stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates[00:03:17]
盖邮戳之时我正在制作田纳西牌照[00:03:27]
I want you[00:03:27]
我需要你[00:03:32]