Rikers Island Redux-Raphael Saadiq/Daniel J. Watts

[00:00.000] 作词 : Raphael Saadiq [00:01.000] 作曲 : Raphael Saadiq [00:10.869] America America [00:14.313] Purveyor of mass hysteria [00:16.312] Mass production [00:17.960] And mass incarceration [00:20.475] The epitome of huddled masses yearning to breathe free [00:27.465] The masses [00:28.799] Mass is the property of matter regardless of the state [00:35.428] But it seems we don't matter until we're properties of the state en mass [00:39.666] And Massuh's still trying to trick himself into believing he picked the cotton too [00:45.390] No matter how much I cow tow tap dance and jump through a bunch of hoops [00:49.871] I'll still be the one who winds up in a jumpsuit [00:52.507] I'll still be the one who winds up with the gun wounds [00:55.634] King had one dream that won't seem to come true [00:59.291] X had necessary means and a gun too [01:02.836] Though there's always more than one truth [01:05.980] Even on cloudy days sun rays still come through [01:09.051] I mask feelings of pain and ask healing we got the same [01:12.516] Glass ceiling but I'm sposed to be thankful for my sun roof [01:15.641] And Massuh's still trying to trick himself into believing he picked the cotton too [01:20.971] It's Complex [01:22.713] how being born with this complexion ups the likelihood of dying in a prison complex and orange ain't the new black [01:29.630] Black is the same [01:31.942] Same black [01:33.678] This ain't just for black folks [01:36.125] Just ask those backward folks [01:38.134] Who stay intolerant like lactose [01:40.475] We bout to blast blowing [01:41.565] Like Miles, Coltrane, and Satchmo [01:44.088] You can act slow [01:44.948] But we want our civil rights in fast forward [01:46.986] Ain't we asking for it [01:48.409] This is the beginning of a long list of demands bro [01:51.601] This the last chance [01:53.226] This is the optimum time and just like Optimus Prime we gon' transform [01:57.006] This gift of gab is God given, and it's given this man (has) a knack for it [02:00.921] So let's stand for 'em [02:03.235] In New York, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Charlotte, ATL, Charleston, [02:07.221] San Fran, Oakland, LA, B-more, Detroit, DC, Chicago and Ferguson [02:10.618] Time for turning up, time to turning tables, turning heads and it's time to plan [02:15.176] Take a line from my man Lin-Man who wrote Ham, revolution is messy but now it's time to stand [02:20.450] So stand up [02:21.582] Stand up [02:22.343] Word to the words of the police hands up [02:24.411] Word to the folks in jail copping pleas, puh-lease people copy me, no misogyny we gotta man up [02:29.768] We gotta open that can up [02:32.065] I'm not worried bout becoming worms meat [02:35.208] what concerns me [02:36.239] is my people learning the difference between earning our own keep and working another man's land for free [02:41.464] One's just the same slavery [02:44.616] The other unlocks chains, turn key [02:48.638] I hate that this deferred dream keeps recurring [02:53.209] Wake up America, and hurry