The Bottomless Hole
My name, I don't remember
我已忘卻我的姓名
Though I hail from Ohio
儘管我來自俄亥俄州
I had a wife and children
我已娶妻生子
Good tires on my car
生活富足
What took me from my home
而讓我遠離家庭
And put me in the Earth
深入地心的
Was the mouth of a deep dark hole
是我家穀倉後面
I found behind my barn
一個幽深黝黑的洞口
We'd been filling it with garbage
從你記數起
As long as you could count
我們就一直用垃圾填埋它
Kitchen scraps and dead cows
廚餘垃圾、牛的屍體
Tractors broken down
壞掉的拖拉機
But never did I hear one thing hit the ground
但我從未聽到東西落地的聲響
And slowly I came to fear
日復一日恐懼在我心中滋生
That this was a bottomless hole
我害怕這是一個無底洞
I went out behind the barn
於是我走到穀倉後面
And stared down in that hole
凝視著這個洞
Late into the evening
那天傍晚
My mind would not let go
我的內心叫囂著不願離去
So I got out my ropes and a rusty clawfoot tub
因此我找來了長繩和鏽跡斑斑的四角浴缸
And I rigged myself a chariot
給自己組建了一個戰車
To ride down in that hole
以此深入未知
My wife, she did help me
我的妻子也在幫我
She fed me down the ropes
她將繩子一點點放下去
And then I sank away
於是我
From the surface of this world
消失在了地表
When the last rope pulled tight
當我來到最後一段繩子的末端
I had not reached the end
我仍舊沒有達到洞的底部
And in anger, I swung there
此時的我憤怒地吊在半空中
Down in that dark abyss
在無盡的黑暗深淵中
So I got out my knife
於是我摸索出了小刀
I told my wife goodbye
和妻子道了珍重
I cut loose from the ropes
割斷了支撐我的繩索
And fell on down that hole
跌落進無邊的黑暗
And still I'm there falling
此刻，在這邪惡的陷阱中
Down in this evil pit
我依舊在不停地跌落
But until I hit the bottom
但直到我到達洞底之前
I won'tbelieve it's bottomless
我都不相信這是一個無底洞