Summer of Drugs – Bilingual Lyrics English/Chinese

• By: Soul Asylum

Lyrics & Translation

[Chinese]

姐姐被铜头蛇咬伤

在屋后树林深处

家中无人我抓住她的脚

吸出毒液救她命

肿胀消退一两个月后

姐姐逐渐恢复健康

但我的少年时代就此开启

口中残留着毒液味道

我们太稚嫩成不了嬉皮士

与爱之夏擦肩而过

七十年代末的迷惘少年

沉溺在毒品盛夏

父母永远无法理解

他们生活平淡如水

所谓狂欢不过是

厨房水槽的喧闹

迷幻药 大麻 镇静剂

构成我们的日常

他们怎会想到乖孩子

竟是恶魔的化身

青涩年纪够不上嬉皮

错失纯真年代

七十年代末的迷惘少年

在毒品盛夏成长

每个城镇的少男少女

睡魔四处撒沙

如今我们终于苏醒

逃离那个毒品盛夏

父母羞于谈论

性与爱的启蒙

融合教育的缺失

让生命真相蒙尘

周末狂欢后的少男少女

带着空虚归来

电话里的窃窃私语

尽是暧昧喘息

青涩年纪够不上嬉皮

错失纯真年代

七十年代末的迷惘少年

在毒品盛夏成长

青春太匆匆 盛夏太灼热

那个毒品的季节

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[English]

My sister got bit by a copperhead snake

In the woods behind the house

Nobody was home so I grabbed her foot

And I sucked that poison out

My sister got better in a month or two

When the swellin' it went down

But I'd started off my teenage years

With a poison in my mouth

And we were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

We turned to a teen in the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs

Mama and daddy could never understand

Their life was never dull

Their idea of a rollickin' time

Was a kitchen tap appall

Acid grass downs and speed

Junk those days were made of

How could they suspect those kids

Where the monsters meet their makers?

And they were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Learned from the teen of the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs

Boys and girls in every town

Sand man spread his sand around

Now we are just wakin' up

From a summer of drugs

Mommies and daddies were too shy to talk

About those birds and bees

Integrated schools had stopped

The facts of life were these

Girls and boys went away and came back

Empty after the weekend

The talk on the phone consisted of

The hushed voices speakin'

And they were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Learned from the teen of the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs

Yes they were too young, they were to fast

Oh the summer of the drugs