《The Rise Of The Black Messiah》歌词

歌曲： The Rise Of The Black Messiah

所属专辑：One Lost Day

歌手： Indigo Girls

时长： 04:21

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The Rise Of The Black Messiah - Indigo Girls[00:00:00]

Written by：Amy Ray/Emily Sailer[00:00:00]

They called you the rise of the black messiah[00:00:00]

Like so many boys before you[00:00:05]

And there will be more more to follow[00:00:09]

Threatening and hard to swallow[00:00:13]

I'm sitting underneath that hanging tree[00:00:18]

Just me and the ghost of the KKK[00:00:22]

Poor man's gallows in the middle of the woods[00:00:27]

The saddest tree that ever stood[00:00:30]

My friend I heard you tell of slavery's end[00:00:46]

But have you heard of mass incarceration[00:00:50]

That ol'Jim Crow he just keeps getting born[00:00:54]

With a new hanging rope for the black man's scourge[00:00:58]

Hey ol' man river what do you know[00:01:05]

Bout plantation they call Angola[00:01:08]

The devil spawned a prison there[00:01:13]

The saddest farm that ever lived[00:01:16]

Now your great grand daddy[00:01:21]

He worked that land with shackles on his feet and on his hands[00:01:24]

He built them levees[00:01:29]

He chopped that cane[00:01:31]

He died in the mud in his chains[00:01:33]

Now you stand where he once stood[00:01:37]

Shackles on you all the same[00:01:39]

But he's gonna rise[00:01:50]

He's gonna rise[00:01:54]

And all them lynchers are gonna be damned[00:01:59]

When outta that mud walks a brand new man[00:02:03]

They called you the rise of the black messiah[00:02:38]

Said they'd do any damn thing the could to keep ya[00:02:41]

You and your brothers from spreading the word[00:02:46]

The gospel of freedom and the black man's worth[00:02:50]

Forty years in solitary[00:02:56]

Consider the man that they just can't bury[00:02:59]

I got this letter in my hand[00:03:03]

Saying tell this story when you can[00:03:07]

He's gonna rise[00:03:11]

He's gonna rise[00:03:16]

And all them lynchers are gonna be damned[00:03:21]

When outta that hole walks a brand new man[00:03:25]