Black America Again-Common/Stevie Wonder

[00:00.00] 作词 : Lonnie Lynn/Karriem Riggins/Stevie Wonder/Kenny Clarke/Rita Greene/Jake Riley/George Clinton/Carlton Ridenhour/Eric Sadler/Hank Shocklee [00:01.00] 作曲 : Lonnie Lynn/Karriem Riggins/Stevie Wonder/Kenny Clarke/Rita Greene/Jake Riley/George Clinton/Carlton Ridenhour/Eric Sadler/Hank Shocklee [00:20.55]Here we go here here we go again [00:23.57]Trayvon'll never get to be an older man [00:26.32]Black children they childhood stole from them [00:28.66]Robbed of our names and our language stole again [00:31.08]Who stole the soul from black folk [00:32.95]Same man that stole the land from Chief Black Smoke [00:34.96]And made the whip crackle on our back slow [00:37.32]And made us go through the back door [00:38.66]And raffle black bodies on the slave blocks [00:40.90]Now we slave to the blocks on 'em we spray shots [00:43.85]Leaving our own to lay in a box [00:45.94]Black mother's stomachs stay in a knot [00:47.65]We kill each other it's part of the plot [00:49.64]I wish the hating will stop war [00:52.52]And the battle with us [00:53.49]I know that Black lives matter and they matter to us [00:56.30]These are the things we gotta discuss [00:58.23]The new plantation mass incarceration [01:01.35]Instead of educate they'd rather convict the kids [01:03.85]As dirty as the water in Flint the system is [01:06.48]Is it a felony or a misdemeanor [01:09.07]Maria Sharapova making more than Serena [01:11.68]It took Viola Davis to say this [01:13.52]The roles of the help and the gangsters is really all they gave us [01:16.99]We need Avas Ta Nehisis and Cory Bookers [01:19.84]The salt of the Earth to get us off of sugar [01:22.30]And greasy foods [01:23.31]I don't believe the news or radio stereotypes we refuse [01:26.69] [01:27.39]Brainwashed in the cycle to spin [01:29.54]We write our own story black America again [01:32.10]You know One way of solving a lot of problems [01:35.91]That we've got is lettin' a person feel [01:40.11]That they're important and a man can't get himself together [01:43.23]Until he knows who he is and be proud of what [01:46.17]And who he is and where he come from [01:49.93]And where he come from [01:51.99] [01:52.94]Hot damn black America again [01:55.09]Think of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the wind [01:57.75]The color of my skin they comparing it to sin [02:00.34]The darker it gets the less fairer it has been [02:02.87]The hate the hate made I inherited from them [02:05.48]But I ain't gon' point the finger we got annointed singers [02:07.48]Like Nina Marvin Billie Stevie [02:10.39]Need to hear them songs sometimes to believe me [02:12.46]Who freed me Lincoln or Cadillac [02:14.91]Drinking or battle raps or is it Godspeed that we travel at [02:17.99]Endangered in our own habitat [02:19.94]The guns and dope man y'all can have it back [02:22.48]As a matter of fact we them lab rats [02:24.88]You build the projects for now you want your hood back [02:27.55]I guess if you could rap you would express it too [02:30.29]That PTSD we need professionals [02:32.59]You know what pressure do it make the pipes bust [02:35.30]From schools to prison y'all they tryna pipe us [02:37.81]Tell your political parties invite us [02:40.44]Instead of making voting laws to spite us [02:42.99]You know you know we from a family of fighters [02:45.01] [02:45.53]Fought in your wars and our wars [02:47.75]You put a ni**a in Star Wars maybe you need two [02:50.46] [02:51.11]And then maybe then we'll believe you [02:53.15]See black people in the future [02:55.78]We wasn't shipped here to rob and shoot ya [02:58.35]We hold these truths to be self evident [03:00.63]All men and women are created equal including black Americans [03:04.45]You know you know you know One way of solving a lot of problems [03:08.46]That we've got is to let a person feel like somebody [03:12.43] [03:13.12]And a man can't get himself together [03:14.99]Until he knows who he is and be proud of what and who he is [03:18.83] [03:19.55]And where he come from and where he come from [03:23.85] [03:25.06]We are rewriting the black American story [03:28.15] [03:30.01]We are rewriting the black American story [03:33.90] [03:35.11]We are rewriting the black American story [03:38.26] [03:40.20]We are rewriting the black American story [03:44.11] [03:45.33]We are rewriting the black American story [03:48.59] [03:50.40]We are rewriting the black American story [03:54.30] [03:55.54]We are rewriting the black American story [03:59.68] [04:00.64]We are rewriting the black American story [04:04.54] [04:05.74]We are rewriting the black American story [04:09.04] [04:10.82]We are rewriting the black American story [04:15.02] [04:15.97]We are rewriting the black American story [04:19.76] [04:21.05]We are rewriting the black American story