Heart of America

My sweet mother gets up so early in the morning
我亲爱的妈妈很早就起床

她把火炉点燃，然后她做了醇香的咖啡
She turns on the stove and she makes a pot of coffee
我的爸爸把拖拉机装满柴油，然后去种玉米了

我就是在这样的一天出生的
My daddy fills his tractor up with diesel to plant the corn
日子一天天过去，粮仓里装满了粮食

我妈妈的兄弟在瓢泼大雨中死在了摩托车上
And that's how it was on the day that I was born
前来掌权的政府人员挤满了小镇

现在回不到从前了
Well the days they went by and the bins filled up with grain
没人囊空如洗还搬家

他们只是做了自己能做的一切
My mother's brother died on a motorcycle in the rain
为了住在美国的中心

靠着一双手打拼
The town got too big for its britches and the government it came
你可以向任何人的上帝祈祷

然后做一个努力工作的人
And now it will never be the same
但在一天结束时，如果天不降甘霖

我们只能尽力而为
No one moves away with no money
回到1986年

大银行接管了财权
They just do what they can
他们询问每一个当地农民

但那些穿制服的人还有更大的计划
To live in the heart of America
比让我们自主劳动还大

当庄稼在那个春天被吹动
Getting by on their own two hands
尼尔和威利努力良久

一次次抗争，但也无济于事
You can pray to anybody's Jesus
直到这场大战胜利很久以后

没人在那保留我的家乡的小麦和耕牛
And be a hardworking man
他们抢走了我家庭拥有的所有土地

没人一贫如洗还搬家
But at the end of the day if the rain it don't rain
他们只是做了自己能做的一切

去住在美国的中心
We just do what we can
白手起家

你可以向任何人的上帝祈祷
Some time back in eighty six
做一个辛勤工作的人

但在一天结束时，如果天不降甘霖
When big banks took the throne
如果银行不动荡

我们只是做自己能做的事
They asked about every local farmer try to dry his own corn
你只是尽力而为

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 anybody's Jesus

And be a hardworking man

But at the end of the day if the rain it don't rain

If the bank it don't break

We just do what we can

You just do what you can