[Intro]
Yeah
I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now
我知道现在有些事情对你来说应该很难理解
But hey, what'd daddy always tell you?
但是hey,爸爸每次都告诉你什么
Straighten up little soldier
挺起来,小士兵
Stiffen up that upper lip
翘起你的上嘴唇(整好你的态度的意思)
Whatchu crying about?
你在哭什么?
You got me.
你有我啊!
[Verse 1]
Hailie, I know u miss your mom
海莉(女儿名字),我知道你想念你妈妈
And I know u miss your dad when I'm gone
也知道你在我不在的时候想念你爸爸
But I'm tryin' to give you the life that I never had
但是我试着给你一个我从来没有过的生活
I can see your sad
我看到你难过
Even when you smile
就算你微笑时
Even when you laugh
就算你大笑时
I can see it in your eyes
我可以从你眼里看到
Deep inside you wanna cry
你心里很想哭
Cuz you're scared
因为你害怕
I ain't there,
我不在
Daddy's with you in your prayers
你祷告的时候爸爸都在
No more cryin'
不哭了
Wipe them tears
擦掉眼泪
Daddy's here
爸爸在
No more nightmares
不再有噩梦
We gonna pull together through it
我们一起可以过去的
We gon' do it
我们可以做到
Lainie's uncle's crazy ain't he, yeah
lainie叔叔挺疯狂的吧,嗯
But he loves you girl and you better know it
但是他爱你宝贝女儿,你一定要知道
We're all we got in this world
我们是我们唯一拥有的
When it spins
当它转
When it swirls
当它凹旋
When it whirls
当它旋转
When it twirls
当它捻弄
Two little beautiful girls
两个漂亮的小女孩
Lookin' puzzled, in a daze
看起来很迷惑,在这发呆
I know it's confusing you
我明白很难懂
Daddy's always on the move
爸爸一直在忙
Mama's always on the news
妈妈一直在新闻上
I try to keep you sheltered from it
我一直试图遮掩不让你接触到
But somehow it seems, the harder that I try to do that
但好像,我越不想你接触到
The more it backfires on me
它越背着我干
All the things, growin' up
那些长大的时候东西
As daddy, daddy had to see
像爸爸,爸爸必须看到
Daddy don't want you to see
爸爸不想让你看到
But you see just as much as he did
但是你看到的跟他(爸爸eminem)一样多
We did not plan it to be this way,
我们没有计划变成这样
Your mother and me
你妈妈和我
But things have got so bad between us
但是我们之间变得很糟糕
I don't see us ever being Together ever again
我再也不会看到我们再会在一起
Like we used to be like when we was teenagers
就像我们十几岁的时候一样
But then of course
但是当然
Everything always happen for a reason
每一件事情发生都有它的原因
I guess it was never meant to be
我猜我们没有缘份(meant to be...应该在一起这个意思。。)
But it's just something
但是就是一些事情
We have no control over
我们没办法掌握
And that's what destiny is
而这就是命运
But no more worries
但,不用担心
Rest your head and go to sleep
放下你的头,去睡觉
Maybe one day we'll wake up
有可能,有一天我们一醒
And this will all just be a dream
这都只是一个梦
[Chorus]
Now hush little baby don't you cry
宝贝现在"嘘" 不要哭
Every thing's gonna be all right
一切都会好的
Stiffin' that upper lip up little lady I told ya
挺起你的上嘴唇,小女人。我告诉你
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
爸爸在这抱着你挺过这夜晚
I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
我知道妈妈现在不在这,我们也不知道为什么
We fear how we feel inside, it may seem a little crazy
心里的感觉让我们很害怕,有可能感觉很疯狂
Pretty baby but I promise, Mama's gon' be alright
但漂亮的宝贝,我发誓妈妈没事的。
[Verse two]
It's funny,
其实挺好笑的
I remember back one year when daddy had no money
我记得有一年,爸爸没有钱
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
妈妈包了圣诞礼物
And stuck 'em under the tree
然后把他们放到树下(这里值得是圣诞树)
And said some of 'em were from me,
然后说有些是我送的
Cuz daddy couldn't buy 'em
因为爸爸没钱买它们
I'll never forget that Christmas
我怎样都不会忘记那个圣诞
I sat up the whole night crying
我坐着哭了一晚上
Cuz daddy felt like a bum,
因为爸爸觉得自己像个傻X “屁股”(英文bum就是感觉很差的意思。觉得自己没有用。让别人失望了)
See daddy had a job, but his job
看,爸爸有个工作,但是他的工作
Was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
就是让你和妈妈的桌上有食物
And at the time every house that we lived in
但那时我们每个住过的房子
Either kept getting broken into and robbed or shot up on the block
不然是被人抢了,要不然就被别人拿枪打烂
And your mom, was saving money for you in a jar
你的妈妈,曾经在一个存钱罐里存钱
Tryna to start a piggy bank for you
想给你开一个猪银行(存钱罐)(这就是我们存钱罐,因为存钱罐小时候都是粉色猪做的,瓷的)
So you could go to college
你就可以去上大学
Almost had a thousand dollars
就快存到1000快钱了
'Till someone broke in and stole it
直到有个人闯入我们家然后偷走了它
And I know it hurt so bad it broke your mamma's heart
我知道那痛到它打碎了你妈妈的心
And it seemed like everything was just starting to fall apart
然后所有的事情都开始破碎,散裂
Mom and dad was arguing a lot
妈妈和爸爸总是吵架
So mama moved back on to Chalmers in a flat
所以妈妈就搬回查莫斯的住处
One bedroom apartment
一个房间的楼房
And dad moved back to the other side of 8 mile on Novara
然后爸爸搬回了8mile的另一边在诺瓦拉
And that's when daddy went to California with his CD
这时爸爸带着CD去了加利福尼亚
And met Dr. Dre and flew you and Mama out to see me,
然后认识了DR.DRE,让你和妈妈飞过来看我
But daddy had to work, you and mama had to leave me,
但是爸爸要工作,你和妈妈必须离开
Then you started seeing daddy on the TV
然后,你就在电视上看到爸爸
And mama didn't like it
而妈妈并不喜欢
And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it
你和LAINNIE都太小不懂这些,
Papa was a rollin' stone, mama developed a habit
爸爸忙得要死,妈妈就培养了一个习惯(坏习惯。应该是吸毒)
And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
而这些我们想阻止但是都发生的太快
I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it firsthand
我很抱歉你当时要当场看到
Cuz all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
因为我只是想让你很荣耀(很有面子)
Now I'm sittin' in this empty house,
而现在我坐在这个空空的家
Just reminiscing. Looking at your baby pictures it just trips me out
在回忆,看着你的婴儿时期的照片让我很惊讶(trips me out 就是很惊讶,震惊)
To see how much you both have grown it's almost like you're sisters now
看到你们两个都长这么多,就跟你们现在像姐妹一样。
Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here
wow,看起来你就是,然后爸爸现在还在
Lainnie I'm talking to you too daddy's still here
lainnie,我也在跟你讲话,爸爸还在
I like the sound of that, yeah
我喜欢这个的声音(喜欢他说他自己还在,那个声音。)
It's got a ring to it don't it
有一个ring(这里ring是指拍子,调子,回音)
Shhh, mama's only gone for the moment
嘘,妈妈只是离开一下而已
[Chorus]
Now hush little baby don't you cry
宝贝现在"嘘" 不要哭
Every thing's gonna be all right
一切都会好的
Stiffin' that upper lip up little lady I told ya
挺起你的上嘴唇,小女人。我告诉你
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
爸爸在这抱着你挺过这夜晚
I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
我知道妈妈现在不在这,我们也不知道为什么
We fear how we feel inside, it may seem a little crazy
心里的感觉让我们很害怕,有可能感觉很疯狂
Pretty baby but I promise, Mama's gon' be alright
但漂亮的宝贝,我发誓妈妈没事的。
[End chorus]
And if you ask me to, daddy's gonna buy you a mocking bird
如果你问我要,爸爸会给你买一个模仿鸟
I'ma give you the world, I'ma buy a diamond ring for you,
我会给你全世界,我会给你买一个钻石戒指,
I'ma sing for you, I'll do anything for you to see you smile
我会给你唱歌,我会做任何事情只要能让你笑
And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine
如果那个模仿鸟不唱歌,那个戒指不发亮(发光)
I'ma break that birdie's neck, I'll go back to the jeweler Who sold it to ya
我就折断那个鸟的脖子,我会去那个卖给你的珠宝商那
And make him eat every carat
然后让他吃下每一个克拉
Don't f#$% with Dad (ha ha)
别跟爸爸闹(这里f$%# 有mess around的意思。就是乱搞的意思)