歌词
Yeah
You know sometimes I think they don't truly understand me
有时候我觉得他们不是真的懂我
You know cause they don't
你知道,因为他们就是不懂
Can't change the world unless we change ourselves
我们不改变自己就没法改变这个世界
Die from the sicknesses if we don't seek the health
我们不寻求健康就会死于疾病
All eyes be my witness when I speak what's felt
在我讲述我的感受时,请所有的眼睛为我见证
Full house on my hands, the cards I was dealt
发到我手上的牌是一组葫芦
Three K's, Two A's in Amerikkka
就是美帝(Amerikkka)中的三个K和两个A(三个K或指谋害黑人的三K党)
I'm just a black spade spawn out the nebula
我只是诞生于星云的一个黑桃(Black Spades是美60、70年代的一个反抗种族歧视的街头帮派)
And everything I do is and say today is worthwhile
我今天所做的和所说的都是值得的
Went for showing and inspire action in your first child
是为了让大家看到并启发我们的第一个孩子采取行动
I'll begin my verse now
我这就开始唱
Sometimes I speak and I feel like it ain't my words
有时候我觉得自己说出口的话并不是我自己的话
Like I'm just a vessel channeling inside of this universe
好像自己只是一艘在这个宇宙间传送着什么的舰船
I feel my ancestors arrested inside of me
感觉我被祖先们附了体
It's like they want me to shoot my chance and change society
他们想让我放手一搏改变这个社会
But how do I go about it? Tell me where I start?
但是我要怎么做?告诉我应该从哪里开始?
My destiny rerouted when I chose to follow heart
在我决定跟从内心开始,我的命运之路已变
You told to follow suit, but tell me what it do for you?
你让我随大流,但是你随大流的结果呢?
Except weigh you down
不过是压垮了你
Now you trapped inside the cubicle they built for us
你现在还不是被困在他们给我们建的格子间里
The first step in the change is to take notice
改变的第一步是意识到
Realize the real games that they tried to show us
是意识到什么才是他们想让我们看到的
300 plus years of them cold shoulders
他们300多年的冷眼相待
Yet 300 million of us still got no focus
还是没让3亿的我们想明白
Sorry America, but I will not be your soldier
对不起,美国,我不会为你上战场
Obama just wasn't enough, I just need some more closure
只有一个奥巴马还不够,我要的是更多的终结
And Donald Trump is not equipped to take this country over
川普并不是接管这个国家的料
Let's face facts cause what's the real motives
面对现实吧,什么才是他们真正的动机
In the land of the free, it's for the free loaders
自由之国是不劳而获者的国度
Leave us dead in the street then be your organ donors
任由我们死在街头,然后把器官捐献给你们
They disorganized my people, made us all loners
是他们瓦解了我们的人民,让我们全变成了独行者
Still got the last names of our slave owners
我们还是用着我们的奴隶主的姓(美奴隶主买了黑人奴隶后会剥夺他们的族姓,冠以自己的姓,一方面使黑人成为了自己的附属品,另一方面也是否认和瓦解了黑人的文化背景)
In the land of the free, it's for the free loaders
自由之国是不劳而获者的国度
Leave us dead in the street then be your organ donors
任由我们死在街头,然后把器官捐献给你们
They disorganized my people, made us all loners
是他们瓦解了我们的人民,让我们全变成了独行者
Still got the last name of our slave owners
我们还是用着我们的奴隶主的姓
Can't change the world unless we change ourselves
我们不改变自己就没法改变这个世界
Die from the sicknesses if we don't seek the health
我们不寻求健康就会死于疾病
All eyes be my witness when I speak what's felt
在我讲述我的感受时,请所有的眼睛为我见证
Full house on my hands, the cards I was dealt
发到我手上的牌是一组葫芦
Three K's, Two A's in Amerikkka
就是美帝(Amerikkka这个词)中的三个K和两个A
I'm just a black spade spawn out the nebula
我只是诞生于星云的一个黑桃
And everything I do is and say today is worthwhile
我今天所做的和所说的都是值得的
Went for showing and inspire action in your first child
是为了启发大家采取行动
Trickery in the system, put my niggas in prison
体制是个圈套,把我的兄弟们送进了监狱
All of our history hidden, ain't no liberty given
我们的历史被掩盖,无自由可言
We all fit the description of what the documents written
文件上对我们的描述与我们并无二致
We been lacking the vision and barely making a living
我们缺乏憧憬,苟延残喘
We too worried to fit in while they been benefitin'
我们太过小心翼翼无法融入的同时他们却在获利
Every time you submittin', we all guilty admit it
每当你服从于他们,我们全都有罪,承认吧
The lord won't get you acquitted
上帝不会赦免你
But you still askin' for forgiveness
但你还是在祈求宽恕
Put opiates in syringes then inject his religion
把针筒中的鸦片当成信仰注射进身体
How many times do I gotta tell you I'm a man on a mission
要跟你说多少遍,我是带着使命的人
Many times I gotta tell you I don't need no permission
要跟你说多少遍,我不需要你的许可
Or human supervision, ain't no livin' condition
或是别人的监管,那不是人过的日子
I'm reaching out to my children
我在跟我的孩子们说
Just hoping that they will listen
希望他们会听
Start a new coalition against corrupt politicians
重新联合起来反抗腐败的政客
It's not enough pots to piss in, too many murder convictions
尿壶太少不够我们撒尿,太多人被判谋杀
Another family evicted, another black man a victim
又一家人被驱逐,又一个黑人成为受害者
That's as real as it's getting, you should take recognition
事实就是如此,你们应该承认
In the land of the free, it's for the free loaders
自由之国是那些不劳而获者的国度
Leave us dead in the street then be your organ donors
任由我们死在街头,然后把器官捐献给你们
They disorganized my people, made us all loners
是他们瓦解了我们的人民,让我们全变成了独行者
Still got the last name of our slave owners
我们还是用着我们的奴隶主的姓
In the land of the free, it's for the free loaders
自由之国是那些不劳而获者的国度
Leave us dead in the street then be your organ donors
任由我们死在街头,然后把器官捐献给你们
They disorganized my people, made us all loners
是他们瓦解了我们的人民,让我们全变成了独行者
Still got the last name of our slave owners
我们还是用着我们的奴隶主的姓
Can't change the world unless we change ourselves
我们不改变自己就没法改变这个世界
Die from the sicknesses if we don't seek the health
我们不寻求健康就会死于疾病
All eyes be my witness when I speak what's felt
在我讲述我的感受时,请所有的眼睛为我见证
Full house on my hands, the cards I was dealt
发到我手上的牌是一组葫芦
Three K's, Two A's in America
就是美帝(Amerikkka这个词)中的三个K和两个A
I'm just a black spade spawn out the nebula
我只是诞生于星云的一个黑桃
And everything I do is and say today is worthwhile
我今天所做的和所说的都是值得的
Went for showing and inspire action in your first child
是为了启发大家采取行动
专辑信息
1.Land of the Free