Hey lady, you, lady, cursing at your life

嗨！女人，咒罵著自己人生的女人

You're a discontented mother and a regimented wife

妳是個不滿現狀的母親，也是個不自由的妻子

I've no doubt you dream about the things you'll never do

我相信妳夢想著那些遙不可及的事

But I wish someone had talked to me like I wanna talk to you

但現在我想告訴妳一些事

我希望曾有人也能事先對我說過  

I've been to Georgia and California, anywhere I could run

我到過喬治亞州、加州和任何我想去的地方

Took the hand of a preach man and we made love in the sun

牽著傳教士的手，在陽光下纏綿

But I ran out of places and friendly faces

我走遍各地，看盡友善的臉孔

Because I had to be free

只因我想要自由

I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me

我曾到過天堂，但我從未找到過自我

Please lady, please, lady, don't just walk away

等等，等等，女人，別這樣轉頭就走

Cause I have this need to tell you why I'm all alone today

因為我必須告訴妳，為什麼今天我會如此孤獨

I can see so much of me still living in your eyes

從妳眼裡，我看到了太多昔日的我

Won't you share a part of a weary heart

何不讓我分擔妳那脆弱的心

That has lived a million lies

那活在千萬個謊言中的心

I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece

我到過尼斯，到過希臘的島嶼

While I sipped champagne on a yacht

在遊艇上啜飲著香檳

I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've got

我像Harlow一樣在蒙地卡羅炫耀我的斬獲

I've been undressed by kings

我為王侯寬衣解帶

And I've seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to see

經歷著普通女人看不到的事情

I've been to paradise

我曾到過天堂

But I've never been to me

但我從未找到過自我

(spoken 口白)

Hey, you know what paradise is?

嗨, 妳曉得什麼是天堂嗎？

It's a lie

那是個謊言

A fantasy we create

那是我們編織出來

about people and places as we'd like them to be

所有人和所有事都盡如我們期望的幻想

But you know what truth is?

但妳知道真實是什麼嗎？

It's that little baby you're holding,

那是妳懷中抱著的嬰兒

And it's that man you fought with this morning,

那是白天與妳爭吵

the same one you're going to make love with tonight

晚上與妳共枕的男人

That's truth, that's love

那就是真實，那就是愛

Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children

有時候我會為未出世的孩子哭泣

hat might have made me complete

也許那會使我的人生更完整

But I, I took the sweet life

但我選擇了愜意的生活

And never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet

卻不知我將嘗到苦果

I spent my life exploring the subtle whoring

我花了一生縱情聲色

That cost too much to be free

我為自由付出如此多的代價

Hey lady, I've been to paradise

我曾到過天堂

But I've never been to me

但我從未成為自己