I can do it. I know I can.
我可以做到,我知道我能
And I approach Rena, but then the music stopped.
我走進雷娜,但這時音樂停止了
And though I had very high expectations, and though I envisioned success.
盡管我期望很高,盡管我預想我能成功
I closed my eyes and I saw myself succeeding.
我閉上眼睛,我看到自己成功了
She was not interested. She didn't want me.
她沒有興趣,她不喜歡我
However, however, we became very good friends.
但是,但是,我們成為了很好的朋友

In fact so good that she would tell me about all her shallow and tall boyfriends.
事實上我們關系那么好,她會跟我談論她那些膚淺的高大的男朋友們
Now when my mom told me that she really believed in it, that she thought I was, you know that she told me this in Yiddish
當我媽媽告訴我她真的對我有信心,她認為我是,她用意第緒語對我說
and she said "foreign language" which means in Yiddish "you're a big find."
她說(意第緒語)在意第緒語里的意思是 "你是個大發現"
I was really my, you know, really, I was my Jewish mother's kosher Pygmalion.
我真的,真的就是我那猶太母親心中符合猶太教規的皮格馬利翁
So bad, yeah. You know, that took me a lot of time to think about, you'd better appreciate it.
好爛的比喻,我知道,那句話花了我不少時間想出來的,你們最好表示一下喜歡它
But... thank you, thank you. But it didn't work.
但是……謝謝,謝謝,但這沒有用