Born In Puerto Rico-Paul Simon

[00:00.00] 作词 : Simon, Walcott [00:01.00] 作曲 : Paul Simon [00:15.00]I was born in Puerto Rico [00:19.77]We came here when I was a child [00:24.60]Before I reached the age of sixteen [00:28.68]I was running with the gang and we were wild [00:36.69]He keeps looking but he don't recognize me. [00:41.61]Some guy from Lexington or Park [00:46.44]Red beans and rice from kitchen windows [00:50.91]Supper-time and the barrio is dark. [00:56.46]No one knows you like I do [01:00.96]Nobody can know your heart the way I do [01:05.94]No one can testify to all that you've been through [01:10.17]But I will. [01:14.73]I was born in Puerto Rico [01:17.19]And my blood is Taino [01:20.04]Spanish Caribbean my soul [01:25.08]We came here wearing summer clothes in winter [01:29.43]Hearts of sunshine in the cold [01:46.89]Your family rented this apartment [01:51.78]You'd watch the street lamps from your perch [01:57.24]In the sacramental hour your stepfather in black [02:02.07]Preached the fire of the Pentecostal Church [02:07.95]No one knows you like I do [02:12.54]Nobody can know your heart the way I do [02:17.52]No one can testify to all that you've been through [02:21.93]But this will. [02:27.66]I was born in Puerto Rico [02:29.37]Came here when I was a child. [02:36.39]Small change and sunlight, then I left these streets [02:39.84]for good. [02:41.61]My days as short as they were wild. [02:46.98]I'm Carlos Apache [02:51.78]Angel Soto [02:52.11]Frenchy Cordero [02:53.82]Babu Charlie Cruz [02:56.04]Your features blurred in every grainy photo [02:59.85]And fading headline of the Daily News [03:08.94]Wiltwyck School for Criminal Children [03:13.41]Auburn, Brooklyn House of D., [03:15.66]Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica, [03:22.71]Greenhaven [03:22.98]Twenty years inside, today you're free. [03:27.66]You cannot even read your story [03:32.61]The pages piling up in shame [03:38.10]Before the words released you, the guard would [03:41.46]kill the light [03:42.90]The night you took The Capeman for your name. [03:48.66]I was born in Puerto Rico [03:53.55]I was born in Puerto Rico [03:54.84]I was born in Puerto Rico [03:59.82]I was born in Puerto Rico [04:02.88]I was born in Puerto Rico [04:04.47]I was born in Puerto Rico [04:07.56]I was born in Puerto Rico [04:12.33]I was born in Puerto Rico [04:13.26]Yo naci en Puerto Rico [04:13.80]Yo naci en Puerto Rico [04:18.78]Mi corazon es Puerto Rico [04:23.49]Mi alma es Puerto Rico