When I Was Your Age

Let me tell you, sonny. Let me set you straight
听我说，小子，我今儿跟你把话说明白
You kids today ain't never had it rough
你们这群兔崽子从来都不知好歹
Always had everything handed to you on a silver plate
什么好吃的好玩儿的都是巴儿巴儿地供给你
You lazy brats think nothing's good enough
你们这一个个懒货还觉得事事不如意
Well, nobody ever drove me to school when it was ninety degrees below
哼，我小时候外边儿零下六七十度哪儿有人开车送我去读书
We had to walk butt naked through forty miles of snow
我们那会儿都得光着屁股在雪地里走六十几公里
Worked in the coal mine twenty two hours a day for just half a cent
还得在煤矿里打工，每天干二十二个小时就给半分钱
Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent
把肾卖了只为了能有个地方住
When I was your age. When I was your age
我小时候，我小时候
When I was your age. When I was your age
我小时候，我小时候
Let me tell you something, you whiny little snot
我跟你说个事儿，小白眼儿狼
There's something wrong with all you kids today
你们现在的孩子全身都是坏毛病
You just don't appreciate all the things you've got
从来不知道珍惜现在的美好生活
We were hungry, broke and miserable
我们那会儿又饿又穷，现在看那日子根本没法儿过
And we liked it better that way
我们还不是一样活得挺不错
There were seventy-three of us living in a cardboard box
我们七十三个人挤在一个纸板箱里头住
All I got for Christmas was a lousy bag of rocks
一小袋破石头就是圣诞礼物
Every night for dinner we had a big old chunk of dirt
哪有什么晚餐吃土才能果腹
If we were really good we didn't get dessert
就是再听话，甜点是啥想都没敢想过
When I was your age. When I was your age
我小时候，我小时候
When I was your age. When I was your age
我小时候，我小时候
Didn't have no telephone didn't have no fax machine
那会儿哪有什么传真机和电话
All we had was a couple of cans and a crummy piece of string
有的就几个破罐子和几根脏不拉几的绳儿
Didn't have no swimming pool when I was just a lad
我小时候哪儿有什么游泳池
Our neighbor's septic tank was the closest thing we had
见过的池子也就只有隔壁的化粪池
Didn't have no dental floss had to use old rusty nails
没有牙线都是用脏兮兮的指甲抠牙
Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails
任天堂是啥，我们能玩儿的就只有蜗牛
Didn't have no water bed, had to sleep on broken glass
还水床呢，我们那会儿睡的都是玻璃渣
Didn't have no lawnmower, we used our teeth to cut the grass
没有割草机，全都是用牙啃的啊
What's the matter now, sonny, you say you don't believe this junk?
小子你什么意思，不信是吧
You think my story's wearin' kinda thin?
你觉得我这些都是编的？
I tell you one thing, I never was such a disrespectful punk
混蛋我跟你说 ，我小时候从来不跟你似的这么狗屁不通
Back in my time, we had a thing called discipline
我们那会儿，有个东西叫纪律
Dad would whop us every night till a quarter after twelve
每天晚上我爹都抽我抽到十二点过
Then he'd get too tired and he'd make us whop ourselves
他要是累了，就让我们自己抽自己
Then he'd chop me into pieces and play frisbee with my brain
然后他再把我们剁了，拿我脑子扔飞镖
And let me tell ya, Junior, you never heard me complain
我跟你说，王八羔儿，我一句抱怨的话都没有过
When I was your age. When I was your age
我小时候，我小时候
When I was your age. When I was your age
我小时候，我小时候