Letter To My Countrymen-Brother Ali/Dr. Cornel West
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[00:00.00]Letter To My Countrymen - Brother Ali/Dr. Cornel West
[00:31.96]I used to think I hated this place
[00:34.58]Couldn't wait to tell the president straight to his face
[00:37.36]But lately I changed nowadays I embrace it all
[00:40.65]Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws
[00:42.58]
[00:43.39]Got to care enough to give a testament
[00:45.39]'Bout the deeply depressing mess we're in
[00:48.53]It's home so we better make the best of it
[00:51.03]I wanna make this country what it says it is
[00:53.58]Still dream in the vividest living color
[00:55.83]No matter how many times my love been smothered
[00:57.75]
[00:58.44]Who's ever above us won't just let us suffer
[01:01.18]All of this struggling got to amount to something
[01:03.37]
[01:04.86]This is a letter to my countrymen
[01:06.92]Especially those my age and younger than
[01:09.79]We're up against an ugly trend
[01:11.91]Everybody's hustling don't nobody touch their friends
[01:14.67]
[01:15.43]No group singing and dancing
[01:17.22]No anthem nobody holds hands and
[01:20.53]Instead they give a handheld
[01:22.59]And make you shoulder life's burden by your damn self
[01:24.90]
[01:25.71]One thing that can't be debated
[01:27.78]Power never changed on it's own you got to make it
[01:30.53]That's why community is so sacred
[01:33.40]That's the symbol that we make when we raise fists
[01:35.65]
[01:37.77]"Sooner or later"
[01:39.33]
[01:42.95]"Sooner or later"
[01:44.57]
[01:47.00]We don't really like to talk about the race thing
[01:48.81]
[01:49.44]The whole grandparents used to own slaves thing
[01:51.87]Pat ourselves on the back in February
[01:54.33]Looking at pictures of Abe Lincoln and the great King
[01:57.27]But the real picture's much more embarrassing
[01:59.83]We're still not even close to really sharing things
[02:02.51]The situation of oppressed people
[02:04.88]Shows what we feel it means to be a human being
[02:07.57]
[02:08.44]What does it mean to be American
[02:10.50]I think the struggle to free is our inheritance
[02:12.77]
[02:13.70]And if we say it how it really is
[02:15.75]We know our lily skin still give us privilege
[02:18.01]
[02:18.63]Advantages given to the few
[02:20.63]That are built into the roots of our biggest institutions
[02:23.00]
[02:23.68]That's the truth in life we got to choose
[02:25.99]Do I fight in the movement or think I'm entitled to it
[02:28.50]
[02:30.31]This is not a practice life
[02:31.87]This is the big game we got to attack it right
[02:34.49]Each one of us is headed for the grave
[02:36.68]This old crooked world won't be saved by the passive type
[02:39.11]
[02:40.30]This is a letter to my countrymen
[02:41.81]
[02:42.43]Not from a Democrat or a Republican
[02:43.84]
[02:45.03]But one among you that's why you call me brother
[02:47.64]Ain't scared to tell you we're in trouble 'cause I love you
[02:50.14]
[02:51.95]"Sooner or later"
[02:53.51]
[02:57.08]"Sooner or later"
[02:58.95]
[03:01.45]They tell me I'm a dreamer they ridicule
[03:02.65]
[03:03.59]They feel defeated old bitter and cynical
[03:06.21]Excuse me but I see it from a different view
[03:08.83]I still believe in what a driven few could really do
[03:11.20]
[03:11.76]I know that the masses want to sleep
[03:13.82]And they would just rather hear me rapping to the beat
[03:16.38]But I want to pass this planet to my son
[03:19.00]A little better than it was when they handed it to me
[03:21.87]So I wrote a letter to my countrymen
[03:24.87]I'll be happy if it only reaches one of them
[03:27.43]Reporting live A-L-I your brother
[03:29.86]Mourning in America dreaming in color
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[03:33.29]My dear Brother Ali
[03:35.04]
[03:36.53]I think you know deep down in your soul that
[03:38.45]Something something just ain't right
[03:41.69]
[03:42.76]You don't want to be just well adjusted to injustice
[03:45.31]
[03:46.01]And well adapted to indifference You want to be
[03:49.81]A person with integrity who leaves a mark on the world
[03:53.05]
[03:54.42]People can say when you go that you left the world
[03:57.55]Just a little better than you found it I understand I want
[04:02.50]To be like that too
[04:03.54]Lyrics by 卟 断 努 力
Letter To My Countrymen-Brother Ali/Dr. Cornel West歌曲下载
| 歌曲 | 歌手 | 专辑 | 时长 | 歌曲下载 |
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| Letter To My Countrymen | Brother Ali&Dr. Cornel West | Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color | 04:04 |
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