Jackie Robinson-Everclear

[ti:Jackie Robinson] [ar:Everclear] [al:Invisible Stars] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jackie Robinson - Everclear [00:22.44]Luther Jackson Green [00:24.20] [00:24.73]Lived in the apartment above me [00:27.33]We smoked cigarettes on the stairs [00:30.00]Tell me stories that white boys never hear [00:32.45] [00:32.97]Like when he found his shine [00:35.17]And moved north in 1949 [00:37.79] [00:38.36]On his 10th birthday daddy took him to town [00:41.05]To see the Jackie Robinson play [00:43.52]It was a picture perfect day [00:45.63] [00:46.45]In the sunshine and the hate [00:48.44] [00:49.28]He didn't understand why all those [00:51.43]People would say such awful things [00:53.60] [00:54.34]His daddy said pay no attention to them [00:56.98]Turnaround and watch the man play [00:58.75] [00:59.82]The one black man in the baseball field [01:02.26]Was better in every way [01:04.05] [01:04.57]My daddy said if you wanna win in this world [01:07.49]You gotta beat 'em at the their own game [01:09.27] [01:09.89]Luther jackson green [01:12.10]Went to law school in 1963 [01:14.43] [01:15.44]In the summer between [01:17.00]He worked in alabama [01:18.03]With martin luther king [01:19.77] [01:20.43]He met a girl on a summer night [01:22.55]He fell hard when they saw each other's eyes [01:25.36]There were people in town that really didn't [01:27.72]Like that he was black and she was white [01:30.43] [01:31.31]They found her in the ditch [01:33.18] [01:33.89]A little outside of town [01:36.50]Some stupid man was laughin about it [01:39.24]So luther beat him down [01:41.00] [01:41.67]He looked him in the eye he spit in his [01:44.11]Face and [01:44.76]Turned and walked away [01:46.31] [01:47.52]He knew he was better than all the hate [01:50.17] [01:52.93]He knew he was bigger than all the pain [01:55.65] [01:56.97]He knew that there's a time to fight and a [01:59.26]Time to walk away [02:00.95] [02:02.24]He knew until he changed the rules [02:04.26] [02:05.16]Oh gotta beat 'em at their own game [02:07.47] [02:09.44]He never did lose [02:10.74]That feeling inside [02:12.32] [02:13.45]You could hear it in his voice [02:15.13] [02:16.00]You could see it in his eyes [02:17.80] [02:18.64]Luther moved out west to live [02:20.84] [02:21.36]When his wife passed away [02:23.10] [02:23.77]He lives right next door to his son [02:26.00] [02:26.55]So he can watch his grandchild play [02:28.84] [02:29.60]Luther jackson green [02:31.21] [02:31.80]Watched election night with me [02:33.93] [02:34.47]We put a black man in the white house [02:37.04]A thing he never thought he'd see [02:39.02] [02:39.93]Even though he never cried [02:41.74] [02:42.30]I could see tears in his eyes [02:44.44] [02:45.17]He had dreamed about this moment [02:47.48]Every single day of his life [02:49.98]Yeah luther died that night in his sleep [02:52.91]But he lived long enough to see [02:55.15] [02:55.95]America become the kind of place [02:58.09]He always wanted it to be [03:00.28]He said you could never forget the day [03:03.01] [03:03.53]That we beat 'em at their own game [03:05.69] [03:07.46]Yeah just like jackie robinson [03:10.38] [03:13.32]Just like jackie robinson [03:15.63] [03:16.46]Gotta be bigger than all the hate [03:18.61]Just like jackie robinson [03:20.92] [03:21.54]Gotta be better than all the pain [03:23.89]Just like jackie robinson [03:26.08] [03:27.29]Gotta find a better way [03:29.21]Just like jackie robinson [03:31.40] [03:32.33]Gotta beat 'em at their own game [03:34.67]Just like jackie robinson [03:36.40] [03:37.82]Gotta beat 'em at their own game [03:39.65]Just like jackie robinson [03:41.78] [03:42.90]Gotta beat 'em at their own game [03:44.83]Just like jackie robinson [03:47.30] [03:50.22]Just like jackie robinson