The gymnast, high above the ground,
[Pesenam, tinggi di atas tanah,]
Limbers up and falls timbers down.
[Melenturkan badan dan jatuh ke bawah.]
Ankles splayed and all tied.
[Kaki terentang dan terikat.]
The gymnast long has arrived.
[Pesenam sudah lama tiba.]

Lazy, your long sister lays
[Males, saudara perempuanmu yang tinggi tergeletak]
Waiting out this long light brigade.
[Menantikan brigade cahaya yang panjang ini.]
Prayed for snow a long time.
[Sudah lama berdoa agar salju turun.]
And lazy, it long has arrived.
[Dan males, itu sudah lama tiba.]

Through the tarlatan holes
[Melalui lubang-lubang tarlatan]
You've been slipping, been slipping away
[Kau terus meluncur, terus meluncur pergi]
And the weather will hold
[Dan cuaca akan bertahan]
It's been ever so, ever so gray.
[Selalu mendung, selalu kelabu.]

But here as we're coming down
[Tapi di sini saat kita turun]
And we're sounding out:
[Dan kita bersuara:]
it's a terrible, terrible tide
[ini adalah ombak yang mengerikan, mengerikan]
As it lights upon your eye
[Saat itu bersinar di matamu]

But there on the motorway,
[Tapi di sana di jalan raya,]
reeks of marmalade
[bau selai jeruk]
It's a chemical, chemical kind
[Ini adalah jenis kimia, kimia]
As it lights upon your eye
[Saat itu bersinar di matamu]
Lights upon your eye
[Bersinar di matamu]

The bosun calls upon the quay.
[Pelaut memanggil di dermaga.]
Compass gone, he long has lost his way
[Kompass hilang, dia sudah lama tersesat.]
To lighthouse shine, to calm tide.
[Menuju cahaya mercusuar, menuju ombak yang tenang.]
The bosun long has arrived.
[Pelaut sudah lama tiba.]

Through the tarlatan holes,
[Melalui lubang-lubang tarlatan,]
You've been slipping, been slipping away
[Kau terus meluncur, terus meluncur pergi]
And the weather will hold
[Dan cuaca akan bertahan]
It's been ever so, ever so gray
[Selalu mendung, selalu kelabu.]

But here as we're coming down
[Tapi di sini saat kita turun]
And we're sounding out:
[Dan kita bersuara:]
it's a terrible, terrible tide
[ini adalah ombak yang mengerikan, mengerikan]
As it lights upon your eye
[Saat itu bersinar di matamu]

But there on the motorway,
[Tapi di sana di jalan raya,]
reeks of marmalade
[bau selai jeruk]
It's a chemical, chemical kind
[Ini adalah jenis kimia, kimia]
As it lights upon your eye
[Saat itu bersinar di matamu]
Lights upon your eye
[Bersinar di matamu]