《Absolute Power(2016 Mix|Explicit)》歌词

歌曲： Absolute Power(2016 Mix|Explicit)

所属专辑：10 Years of Akala

歌手： Akala

时长： 05:46

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Absolute Power - Akala[00:00:00]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:00:10]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:00:12]

It's not the poverty[00:00:15]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:00:16]

That will turn us insane[00:00:18]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:00:20]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:00:22]

It's not the poverty[00:00:25]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:00:26]

That will turn us insane[00:00:28]

In a scheme of livin' my life wasn't hard[00:00:30]

But as far as Britain goes sh*t I practically starved[00:00:32]

Sleeping in a track suit gas meter runnin' out[00:00:35]

Electric cut off as well candles lightin' up the house[00:00:37]

Lookin' in my momma's eyes I see how she feels[00:00:40]

The strain and the pain of just paying bills[00:00:42]

It ain't real and thats how I grew like so many more[00:00:45]

And now it's part of who I am[00:00:48]

I am very sure[00:00:49]

You wanna know the rage I feel in my stomach[00:00:50]

Knowing my mum and dad split up[00:00:52]

When I was still in her stomach[00:00:54]

And not everything that happened[00:00:55]

I will put in sixteens[00:00:56]

But I will tell you enough[00:00:57]

So you will know what I mean[00:00:59]

My boy's mother got cancer the same time as mine[00:01:00]

His mother died and mine survived[00:01:03]

The sh*t was f**ked back then[00:01:05]

When I was like ten already had the mental strength[00:01:06]

More than many grown men[00:01:09]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:01:10]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:01:13]

It's not the poverty[00:01:16]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:01:17]

That will turn us insane[00:01:19]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:01:20]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:01:23]

It's not the poverty[00:01:26]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:01:27]

That will turn us insane[00:01:29]

This was a couple years after my step dad left[00:01:30]

Did he really know the crazy mess that he left[00:01:33]

'Cause mum done recovered from the lumps in her neck[00:01:35]

For being poor and alone just couldn't cope with the stress[00:01:38]

And I earn my big sis for[00:01:40]

So much soul that night hattan left school[00:01:42]

When she left home[00:01:44]

I was thirteen by now[00:01:45]

Still a little kid innocent[00:01:47]

Next couple years though would turn him to a militant[00:01:48]

That is the result of no food in the fridge[00:01:51]

And every other day being searched by the pigs[00:01:53]

F**k these patronizing teachers[00:01:55]

Don't want my grades slip tryna emasculate me[00:01:57]

Yeah turn me to a b**ch[00:01:59]

And I don't mean a woman please lemme be clear[00:02:01]

I mean a spineless man because what do they fear[00:02:03]

More than a working class black male with a brain[00:02:05]

When our energy is harnessed every changed[00:02:08]

Look at Pac look at Marley look at Hendrix look at Garvey[00:02:11]

This is the potential that is wasted on a daily basis[00:02:13]

A racist classist world that we live in[00:02:16]

Still we comin' from nothing but we educate millions[00:02:18]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:02:21]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:02:23]

It's not the poverty[00:02:26]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:02:27]

That will turn us insane[00:02:30]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:02:31]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:02:34]

It's not the poverty[00:02:36]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:02:38]

That will turn us insane[00:02:40]

I understand why it scares you[00:02:41]

It's like how dare you[00:02:43]

Overcome obstacles that we have been careful to[00:02:44]

Place in your way every step of the way[00:02:47]

In this so called democracy where kids get sprayed[00:02:49]

Blacks and the Asians Turks and the chavs[00:02:51]

Crowded in council flats living like ants[00:02:54]

And who's more confused than the poor white trash[00:02:56]

Spouting the bullsh*t about they want their country back[00:02:59]

It never was yours you should read more[00:03:02]

What they did to brown people they did to their own poor[00:03:04]

Peoples memories short so much that I'm seeing[00:03:06]

Black and Asian kids cussing eastern Europeans[00:03:09]

No pot to piss in makes competition[00:03:12]

I fail to see how this is an effective system[00:03:14]

Cats and dogs in America and Britain[00:03:17]

Eat better food then most of humanity[00:03:19]

We spend our technology only on killing[00:03:22]

How is this more than sophisticated savagery[00:03:24]

It's like it's said the world is a stage[00:03:27]

Each person's just an actor with a part to play[00:03:29]

Like the middle class kids kids of the rich[00:03:32]

Have everything but yet still they pissed[00:03:34]

On coke and ketamine strung out on heroin[00:03:37]

I ain't generalizing look at the evidence[00:03:39]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:03:42]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:03:44]

It's not the poverty[00:03:47]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:03:48]

That will turn us insane[00:03:50]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:03:52]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:03:54]

It's not the poverty[00:03:57]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:03:58]

That will turn us insane[00:04:01]

Go to Glastonbury any year you will see[00:04:02]

Unlike carnival it won't be crawling with police[00:04:05]

This is London the kids on the very next street[00:04:07]

Had a very different life experience than me[00:04:10]

In my experience they can't help but be smug[00:04:12]

After a lifetime of what they think's just good luck[00:04:14]

They're still more anxious and more thankless[00:04:17]

Unearned privilege weigh's like an anchor[00:04:20]

Why they copy what we do[00:04:22]

Tryna' be what they not[00:04:24]

They will grow up though and get better jobs[00:04:25]

And maintain the system they claim that they hated[00:04:27]

But they can't burn it down[00:04:30]

They got a stake in this matrix[00:04:31]

Hip hop is just a fad to them you didn't know[00:04:32]

But to us this our living breathing soul[00:04:35]

And yeah they might backpack in South America[00:04:38]

Or even volunteer in an African village[00:04:40]

But all said and done push comes to shove[00:04:43]

And sh*t hits the fan they're middle class and British[00:04:45]

That's just how it is[00:04:49]

Most rich black people are just as full of sh*t[00:04:50]

So more concerned with their cars and jewels[00:04:53]

But most of the worlds poor looks just like you[00:04:55]

So more concerned with their cars and jewels[00:04:58]

But most of the worlds poor looks just like you[00:05:00]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:05:03]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:05:05]

It's not the poverty[00:05:08]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:05:09]

That will turn us insane[00:05:11]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely[00:05:13]

But absolute powerlessness does the same[00:05:15]

It's not the poverty[00:05:18]

It's the inequality we live with everyday[00:05:19]

That will turn us insane[00:05:21]