《The Travelers》歌词

歌曲： The Travelers

所属专辑：Us

歌手： Brother Ali

时长： 05:18

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The Travelers - Brother Ali[00:00:00]

Shackles are heavy on the wrist[00:00:21]

Stacked like sardines belly of a ship[00:00:23]

Live in your own piss and shit and being seasick[00:00:26]

Cracked across your back with a thick leather whip[00:00:29]

Salt water burns through your wounds[00:00:31]

Women are starving with babies in their wombs[00:00:34]

On your hands and knees trying to cry God please[00:00:36]

Exhausted your voice is too weak to speak[00:00:39]

Neighbors and strangers are dying beside you[00:00:42]

Their decaying bodies you're tied to[00:00:44]

Cling tight to your fight for survival[00:00:47]

Wonder if your tribe will ever try to find you[00:00:49]

Arrive somewhere strange the air is cold[00:00:52]

You can see your breath and you're barely clothed[00:00:54]

Your first time ever seeing snow[00:00:57]

Sleeping next to it on a hard dirt floor[00:00:59]

Go from can't seeing see in the morning to can't see at night[00:01:01]

You work till your hands bleed white[00:01:05]

Your native language you can't recite[00:01:07]

Murdered on sight if you try to read or write[00:01:10]

When you bend all of your life and can't see the light[00:01:12]

It get's painful to stand upright[00:01:15]

Right [00:01:17]

And your eyes bear the sight of your wife[00:01:18]

Being being pulled from your shack and brutalized at night[00:01:20]

You only taste joy when babies are born[00:01:22]

Which becomes an occasion to mourn[00:01:25]

Separated torn from your celebrating arms[00:01:27]

Then as quickly as they came they were gone[00:01:30]

Sold away from your farm this is all they've known[00:01:32]

Never heard stories from home[00:01:35]

They forget your name[00:01:37]

The culture from which you came[00:01:38]

Teaching it'll get you slain [00:01:40]

Praying to your god will get you the same and tortured to near death lest you complain[00:01:42]

No Choice left you sing through the pain and pray that your suffering wasn't in vain[00:01:48]

End of your chain end of your life[00:01:52]

Your grandchildren born with no end is sight[00:01:55]

So you muster up all of your might[00:01:58]

And your last breath comes out fight[00:02:00]

This is actually true[00:02:04]

Now stop and imagine that's you[00:02:06]

Now stop imagining unravel the truth and ask just who is it happening to[00:02:08]

Everything that the passenger do[00:02:14]

The driver experience too[00:02:16]

So if humanity is one[00:02:18]

Then we all get burned when it's hell that we're traveling through[00:02:20]

You've got to save my soul[00:02:23]

Put me back together make me whole[00:02:27]

Said we don't know which way to go[00:02:32]

Take my hand and place me on that road[00:02:37]

Trapped in a history we don't understand[00:02:45]

Can't remember how this blood got on our hands[00:02:47]

Never been taught about the ugly past[00:02:50]

Expecting God not to punish man[00:02:52]

Our ancestors brought us control[00:02:55]

We realize now that the cost was our soul[00:02:57]

Got me feeling like an empty shell[00:03:00]

Prison guard that inherited a cell[00:03:02]

I'm desperate to find my place[00:03:05]

Emptiness lies behind my face[00:03:07]

Flowers only die in a vase[00:03:10]

A heart only dies encased in a lie we call race[00:03:12]

I hear the song but I can't sing along[00:03:15]

Something's really wrong I can't put my finger on[00:03:18]

Terrified to admit it's wrong[00:03:20]

Cause I'm hiding in the ruins of a legacy that still lives on[00:03:22]

Our identity is hinged upon the miserable myth we've been caught since we're born[00:03:26]

Until we mend what was torn[00:03:31]

The debt of a sin lingers long after the vicitim's moans[00:03:33]

This is actually true[00:03:36]

Now stop and imagine that's you[00:03:38]

Now stop imagining unravel the truth[00:03:40]

And ask just who is it happening to[00:03:43]

Everything that the passenger do the driver experience too[00:03:46]

So if humanity is one then we all get burned when it's hell that we're traveling through[00:03:50]

You've got to save my soul[00:03:55]

Put me back together make me whole[00:03:59]

Said we don't know which way to go[00:04:04]

Take my hand and place me on that road; You've got to save my soul Put me back together make me whole Said we don't know which way to go Take my hand and place me on that road[00:04:09]