Not For Want Of Trying
Everybody knows things are bad.
每个人都知道现在很糟糕，
It's a depression.
这是一种沮丧。
Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.
每个人都失业或者害怕丢失工作，
The dollar buys a nickel's worth.
美元只值五分钱，
Banks are going bust.
银行即将破产，
Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.
商场保安手握钢枪守卫着柜台。
Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do and there's no end to it!
赌徒们四散在街头,人们看上去都不知道该干嘛！
We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
我们知道空气已经不适合呼吸，食物不适合吃。我们坐着看我们的电视节目，一些本地新闻播音员告诉我们，今天我们有15起杀人命案和63起暴力事件，好像这就是应该发生的一样。
We know things are bad.
我们知道事情很糟糕，
Worse than bad.
比糟糕更坏，
They're crazy.
他们都疯了。
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore.
一切都变得太疯狂了，所以我们再也不出门。
We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is,
我们坐在家里，于是我们生活的这个世界变得越变越小。而我们对此只是说：
"Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and my TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say anything.Just leave me alone!"
“求求你们了，至少要我们待在卧室里吧，让我继续吃土司，让我看我的电视，让我用子午线轮胎。我不想再说什么，只要让我们单独呆会儿。”
Well I'm not going to leave you alone.
好吧，我可不想让你一个人呆着，
I want you to get mad!
我想让你发疯。
I don't want you to protest.
我不希望你们抗议，
I don't want you to riot.
也不想要你们暴动，
I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write.
我不想要你们写下自己的想法，因为我不知道告诉你们该写什么。
I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crimes in the streets.
我不知道沮丧的时候怎么办，也不知道通货膨胀了怎么办。也不知道俄罗斯问题怎么办，更不知道大街上的犯罪怎么办，
All I know is first you've got to get mad.
我只知道首先你要发疯。
You've got to say,
你必须说：
"I'm a human being, God Dammit! My life has value!"
“上帝啊，我是个人!我的生活具有价值!”
So, I want you to get up now.
因此我希望你们现在站起来，
I want all of you to get up out of your chairs.
我希望你们所有人都从椅子上站起来。
I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell,
我希望你们现在起立走到窗边，把窗户拉开并把头伸出去大喊，
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
“我要发疯了，我再也受不了了!”