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[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