Текст песни: Their Early Years + перевод

Once when we were on a bus

Between some cities we discussed the

Things that happened in their early years

Their youngest time was spent alone while

Living with an uncle only

Half-remaining from a foreign war

His upper half was well enough, but

In his legs between his cuffs

Where his zipper stopped, his legs were gone

And so he rolled around on wheels

Self sufficient in a peeling

Little house he could not paint again

But it was spotless to the point two

Feet above the floor and warmth was

In his smile, and in his laughing face

The people that they met were few and

Might have been disturbed by two who

Looked so strange, but they were not aware

For living with their stumpy uncle

Who was unconcerned and rumpled

They then see things differently

They thought that we were put together

Randomly, just like the weather

With no uniformity in mind

But that vision only lasted

For a while until he passed away

And they were sent off to a home

The children there did not have parents

Were all alike and always staring

As they sat on chairs above the ground

So they cried and then withdrew from

Those that shouted, laughed and who were

Mean because of suffering inside

Once alone they heard some children

Shouting that a car had killed one

Of their pets out in the road ahead

As they approached the fallen body

Blood appeared and then they saw a

Leg that had been torn away somehow

So they kneeled upon the ground and

Lifted up the leg they found and

Wedged it gently just below the spot

Where both their shoulders joined together

Then the sun, which had been setting

Winked and for a moment all was dark

And when the sun returned above them

No one laughed and made fun of them

For the dog was licking at the joint

Barking loud and resurrected

And causing them to be respected

By those who had avoided them before

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