Subdivision-Ani Difranco

[ti:Subdivision] [ar:Ani Difranco] [al:Canon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Subdivision - Ani Difranco
以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 [00:21.38]White people are so scared of black people
白人害怕黑人 [00:25.19] [00:26.10]They bulldoze out to the country
他们用推土机向乡村进发 [00:28.73]And put up houses on little loop dee loop streets
在环线上建造房子 [00:31.55]While america gets it's heart cut right out of
而美国人的心已经支离破碎 [00:35.05]It's chest
我的胸膛 [00:35.87]The berlin wall still runs down main street
柏林墙依然耸立在大街上 [00:39.26]Separating east side from west
把东西分开 [00:42.07]And nothing is stirring not even a mouse
什么都没有动就连老鼠也没有 [00:47.05]In the boarded up stores and the broken down houses
在被木板封起来的商店和破败的房屋里 [00:52.43]So they hang colorful banners off all the street lamps
于是他们在街灯上挂起了彩旗 [00:57.56]Just to prove they got no manners
只想证明他们没有礼貌 [01:00.51]No mercy and no sense
没有怜悯没有理智 [01:03.02]And I'm wondering what it will take
我不知道要付出什么代价 [01:06.84] [01:07.52]For my city to rise
让我的城市崛起 [01:09.19] [01:09.83]First we admit our mistakes
首先我们承认错误 [01:12.18] [01:12.78]Then we open our eyes
我们睁开双眼 [01:14.95]The ghosts of old buildings are haunting parking lots
老建筑的幽灵萦绕在停车场 [01:19.47]In the city of good neighbors that history forgot
在这座历史遗忘的好邻居之城 [01:26.39] [01:49.65]I remember the first time I saw someone
我还记得我第一次见到一个人 [01:51.93]Lying on the cold street
躺在冰冷的街道上 [01:54.45]I thought can't just walk past here
我以为你不能从我身边走过 [01:57.63]This can't just be true
这不可能是真的 [02:00.11]But I learned by example
但我从中学到了经验 [02:02.05]To just keep moving thing my feet
我的双脚不停移动 [02:05.22]It's amazing the things that we all learn to do
令人惊叹的是我们都学会了这样做 [02:10.90]So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter
所以我们被拒绝的感觉指引着就像待宰的羔羊 [02:16.39]Serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water
为时尚帝国服务和碳酸糖水 [02:21.14]And the old farm road's a four lane that leads
一条四车道的乡间小路 [02:26.22]To the mall and I
去商场购物 [02:27.99]Dreams are all guillotines waiting I know fall
梦想就像断头台等待着我知道会倒下 [02:32.57]I'm wondering what it will take
我不知道要付出什么代价 [02:36.10] [02:36.79]For my country to rise
让我的国家崛起 [02:39.42]First we admit our mistakes
首先我们承认错误 [02:42.34]Then we open our eyes
我们睁开双眼 [02:44.60]Or nature succumbs to one last dumb decision
或者自然屈服于最后一个愚蠢的决定 [02:49.58]America the beautiful [02:51.36]Is just one big subdivision
只是一个很大的分支 [02:55.79] [02:57.59]I'm black
我是黑人