Heart of America

My sweet mother gets up so early in the morning
我親愛的媽媽很早就起床

她把火爐點燃，然後她做了醇香的咖啡
She turns on the stove and she makes a pot of coffee
我的爸爸把拖拉機裝滿柴油，然後去種玉米了

我就是在這樣的一天出生的
My daddy fills his tractor up with diesel to plant the corn
日子一天天過去，糧倉裡裝滿了糧食

我媽媽的兄弟在瓢潑大雨中死在了摩托車上
And thats how it was on the day that I was born
前來掌權的政府人員擠滿了小鎮

現在回不到從前了
Well the days they went by and the bins filled up with grain
沒人囊空如洗還搬家

他們只是做了自己能做的一切
My mothers brother died on a motorcycle in the rain
為了住在美國的中心

靠著一雙手打拼
The town got too big for its britches and the government it came
你可以向任何人的上帝祈禱

然後做一個努力工作的人
And now it will never be the same
但在一天結束時，如果天不降甘霖

我們只能盡力而為
No one moves away with no money
回到1986年

大銀行接管了財權
They just do what they can
他們詢問每一個當地農民

但那些穿制服的人還有更大的計劃
To live in the heart of America
比讓我們自主勞動還大

當莊稼在那個春天被吹動
Getting by on their own two hands
尼爾和威利努力良久

一次次抗爭，但也無濟於事
You can pray to anybodys Jesus
直到這場大戰勝利很久以後

沒人在那保留我的家鄉的小麥和耕牛
And be a hardworking man
他們搶走了我家庭擁有的所有土地

沒人一貧如洗還搬家
But at the end of the day if the rain it dont rain
他們只是做了自己能做的一切

去住在美國的中心
We just do what we can
白手起家

你可以向任何人的上帝祈禱
Some time back in eighty six
做一個辛勤工作的人

但在一天結束時，如果天不降甘霖
When big banks took the throne
如果銀行不動盪

我們只是做自己能做的事
They asked about every local farmer try to dry his own corn
你只是盡力而為

But the men in the suits had a bigger plan

Than to let it be our own

When the crops came in that spring they were blown

And Neil and Willie tried so hard

And battles they have gone

But that was still long after the bigger war had been won

No one was there to save the wheat and the cattle at my home

They took every field my family owned

No one moves away with no money

They just do what they can

To live in the heart of America

Getting by on their own two hands

You can pray to anybodys Jesus

And be a hardworking man

But at the end of the day if the rain it dont rain

If the bank it dont break

We just do what we can

You just do what you can