The Dust Of Uruzgan歌词由Lee Kernaghan&Fred Smith演唱,出自专辑《Spirit Of The Anzacs (Deluxe)》,下面是《The Dust Of Uruzgan》完整版歌词!
The Dust Of Uruzgan歌词完整版
The Dust Of Uruzgan - Lee Kernaghan
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Written by:Fred Smith
Written by:Fred Smith
In the ring they call me Warlord my mother calls me Paul
在赛场上他们叫我军阀我妈妈叫我Paul
You can call me Private Warren when you're filing your report
当你提交报告时你可以叫我二等兵沃伦
As to how I came to be here this is what I understand
至于我如何走到今天这是我的理解
In this hospital in Germany from the dust of Uruzgan
在德国的这家医院里远离乌鲁兹甘的尘埃
You'd just turned twenty eight just bought a new car
你刚满二十八岁买了一辆新车
When you joined the first battalion of the big 1 RAR
当你加入RAR第一营时
We were next up for deployment I south afghanistan
我们下一个被派遣去阿富汗南部
To combat the insurgence in the dust of Uruzgan
在乌鲁兹甘的尘埃中与叛乱抗争
It took seven months of training just to get into the joint
我花了七个月的时间训练才进入这个行业
There were push ups and procedures
有各种各样的事情
And there was death by powerpoint
还有被powerpoint玩死的
Then the RSOI course in Ali Al Salaam
然后在AliAlSalaam学习RSOI课程
But nothing can prepare you for the dust of Uruzgan
但你无法准备好面对乌鲁兹甘的尘埃
Me and Benny sat together flying into Kandshar
我和Benny坐在一起飞去Kandshar
We sucked back on our near beers in the camp baker bar
我们在军营酒吧里畅饮啤酒
We were up at 05:30 we were on the Herc and out
我们五点半就起床了我们开着豪车出去了
In twenty flying minutes we were in to tarin kowt
经过二十分钟的飞行我们到达塔林柯尔特
We shook hands as the boys ripped out from MRTF one
当我们的兄弟们离开MRTF1号时我们握手
And pretty soon were out patrolling in the Afghan summer sun
很快我们就在阿富汗夏日的阳光下巡逻
Walking through the green zones with a styer in my hand
我手里拿着一个造型师穿过绿色地带
Body armour chafing through the dust of Uruzgan
防弹衣在乌鲁兹甘的尘土中磨破了皮
Well we started up near chora working fourteen hours a day
我们一开始在乔拉附近工作一天十四个小时
Mentoring a kandak from the afghan fourth brigade
指导一支来自阿富汗第四旅的坎达克
Down through the baluchi into eastern dorafshan
穿过俾路支到东多拉夫山
Working under open skies in the dust of Uruzgan
在开阔的天空下在乌鲁兹甘的沙尘中工作
It's a long long way from
这是一段很长的路要走
Townsville not like any place you've seen
汤斯维尔和你见过的任何地方都不一样
Suddenly you're walking through from the fourteenth century
突然之间你仿佛穿越了十四世纪
Women under burkhas tribal warlords rule a land
女人都在布尔卡的统治之下部落首领统治着一片土地
Full of goats and huts and jungle trucks in the dust of Uruzgan
遍地都是山羊小木屋丛林里到处都是卡车
And the education minister can neither read nor write
教育部长既不会读也不会写
And the minister for women runs a knock shop there at night
They've been fighting there forever over water
他们一直在为水而战
Food and land
食物和土地
Murdering each other in the dust of Uruzgan
在乌鲁兹甘的尘埃中自相残杀
There's nothing about this province
这个省没有任何意义
That's remotely fair or just
这算不上公平或公正
But worse than the corruption is the endless bloody dust
但比腐败更可怕的是无尽的血雨腥风
It's as fine as talcum powder on the ground and in the air
就像撒在地上和空中的爽身粉一样细腻
And it gets into your eyes and it gets into your hair
你的眼神你的秀发
And it gets in to your weapon and it gets in to your boots
子弹会射进你的武器和靴子里
When bureaucrats all show up here it gets in to their suits
当官僚们出现在这里他们的西装都被淹没了
And it gets in the machinery and it foils every plan
它进入我的世界破坏了所有计划
There's something quite symbolic bout the dust of Uruzgan
乌鲁兹甘的尘土具有某种象征意义
Still the people can be gracious and their courteous and smart
人们依然待人亲切礼貌聪明
And when the children look into your eyes they walk into your heart
当孩子们看着你的眼睛他们走进你的心里
Face each day with courage and each year without a plan
勇敢地面对每一天,毫无计划地度过每一年
Beyond scratching for survival in the dust of Uruzgan
在乌鲁兹甘的尘土中挣扎求生
But the taliban are restless keep the people terrorized
但塔利班焦躁不安让人们惶恐不安
With roadside bombs and hangings and leaving letters in the night
用路边的炸弹和绞刑架在夜里留下信
And they have no useful vision for the children of this land
他们对这片土地的孩子没有一点有用的憧憬
But to keep them praying on their knees in the dust of Uruzgan
让他们跪在乌鲁兹甘的尘土中祈祷
It was a quite Saturday morning when the two shop made a call
那是一个寂静的周六早晨两家商店打来电话
On a compound of interest to the east of COP Mashal
在COPMashal东边的一个复利点
We had some information they were building IED's
我们得到消息他们在制造简易爆炸装置
So we condoned and we searched it in accord with SOP's
所以我们宽恕了他们我们按照SOP的要求搜查了现场
I was on the west flank picket propped there with ben
我曾经在西翼纠察队和本并肩战斗
There to keep a watchful eye out while the other blokes went in
当其他人走进来时我时刻保持警惕
We knew the signs of danger from the TTP's we'd learned
我们从TTP身上知道危险的信号
But the nationals were moving back and forth without concern
但国民们毫无顾忌地来回穿梭
We'd been static there for hours when I shifted slightly back
当我稍微往后一点时我们已经一动不动地坐了好几个小时
My foot tripped a AP mine and everything went black
我的脚绊到了爱彼手表的地雷然后一片漆黑
I woke up on a gurney flat out on my back
我躺在病床上醒来发现自己躺在床上
Had to ask them seven times just to get the facts
我问了他们七次才知道真相
That I lived to tell the story through a simple twist of fate
我活了下来通过命运的简单转折讲述了这个故事
The main change lay ten foot away from the pressure plate
主要的变化就在离压力板十英尺的地方
You see the mine was linked
你看我的心紧紧连在一起
By det cord to a bid charge laid by hand
由一根线连接到一个由人手准备的冲锋枪
Hidden under benny by the dust of Uruzgan
藏在班尼之下藏在乌鲁兹甘的尘土里
I was a queensland champ Thai Boxer now I look south on my knee
我曾是昆士兰冠军泰国拳击手现在我屈膝跪地向南望
And all I see is bed sheets where my foot use to be
我看到的只有我脚边的床单
Benny's dead and buried underneath Australian sand
Benny已经死了埋在了澳大利亚的沙滩下
But his spirit's out there wandering
但他的灵魂四处游荡
Through the dust the dust of Uruzgan
穿越乌鲁兹甘的尘埃
Now I'm going back to Townsville it's the city of my birth
现在我要回到汤斯维尔这是我出生的城市
Well some go back to ballarat and some go back to perth
有些人回到巴拉拉特有些人回珀斯
I'll be living with my mother who's still trying to understand
我会和我的母亲住在一起她还在努力理解
Why we're spending blood and treasure in the dust in the dust of Uruzgan
为何我们要把鲜血和财富浪费在乌鲁兹甘的尘土里