所属专辑:Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (PA Version) [Explicit]
时长: 04:32
Hot Night (Album Version) - MeShell Ndegeocello[00:00:00]
Written by:Meshell Ndegeocello/Dave West/Talib Kweli/Hector Lavoe[00:00:00]
I was a member of the communist party[00:00:00]
I'm not a member of the communist party anymore[00:00:04]
But I consider myself very much a socialist[00:00:06]
So we'll get to that later[00:00:09]
Let's go[00:00:11]
One of the reasons why the war[00:00:11]
In vietnam was able to happen as long as it did[00:00:13]
Was because this of this fear of communism[00:00:16]
And people pointed to the vietnamese as their enemy[00:00:19]
As if somehow or another[00:00:22]
If to the country defeated the communist enemy in vietnam[00:00:25]
Things were gonna be okay at home[00:00:29]
But it's a hot night[00:00:33]
Let's talk about the sign of the times[00:00:34]
Politics[00:00:37]
And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer[00:00:38]
It's a hot night[00:00:43]
Head down to the club[00:00:44]
For the pina coladas without the alcohol[00:00:45]
And let's talk about the world y'all[00:00:48]
Can you pick me up[00:00:52]
You know I hate driving in the evil city[00:00:53]
And baby read my mind hit la caridad[00:00:55]
So I can get some coffee[00:00:58]
And we can get our talk on[00:01:00]
Seems I got caught up in this romanticized idea of revolution[00:01:02]
With saviors prophets and heroes[00:01:05]
But in the silence of my prayers[00:01:07]
I had a vision of my hatred[00:01:10]
Dissolving into grains of sand[00:01:11]
Realized[00:01:13]
That to the universe[00:01:14]
That's all I really am[00:01:15]
Just a grain of sand[00:01:16]
I know I get caught up in all that spiritual shit[00:01:17]
But there ain't much to hold onto[00:01:19]
We all living in a world built upon[00:01:20]
Rape starvation greed need fascist regimes[00:01:23]
White man rich man democracy[00:01:26]
Suffer in the world trade paradise[00:01:29]
Hear me now[00:01:31]
But it's a hot night[00:01:33]
Let's talk about the sign of the times[00:01:35]
Yeah[00:01:37]
Politics[00:01:37]
And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer[00:01:38]
Word up[00:01:41]
Come on[00:01:42]
It's a hot night[00:01:43]
Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol[00:01:44]
Let's go[00:01:48]
And let's talk about the world y'all[00:01:48]
And nike has a factory in ho chi minh city[00:01:50]
First bitch[00:01:54]
That ever asks me to buy her some dumb shit[00:01:54]
Come on[00:01:56]
Niggers be fighting[00:01:57]
For jordan's they can't afford[00:01:58]
Bought in a store[00:01:59]
Costing more than a hundred yeah[00:02:00]
Capitalism got 'em trapped in a vision[00:02:02]
That you love to watch way more than a sunset[00:02:04]
Ah[00:02:06]
I feed my babies with music[00:02:07]
I tell the truth[00:02:08]
But now I'm a target in they market[00:02:09]
Ain't that a summer bitch[00:02:10]
It's an urgent emergency[00:02:11]
Courtesy of the counterinsurgency[00:02:13]
Trying to murder me yeah[00:02:15]
And now it's on and ah[00:02:16]
It's 'cause I verbally hurdle all their absurdities[00:02:17]
Accurate rhyme poem and I[00:02:19]
Survive the storm and ah[00:02:21]
Certainly words can be weapons[00:02:22]
If people heard me they thinking they god[00:02:23]
That they decide what's right and wrong[00:02:25]
They live in a bubble[00:02:26]
I live for the struggle[00:02:28]
After the fight[00:02:28]
We home on a hot night[00:02:29]
My woman is nice and warm but ah[00:02:30]
It's a hot night[00:02:33]
Yeah[00:02:34]
Let's talk about the sign of the times[00:02:35]
Politics[00:02:37]
Ah[00:02:38]
And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer[00:02:38]
Come on[00:02:42]
It's a hot night[00:02:43]
Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol[00:02:44]
Let's talk about the world y'all[00:02:48]
Let's do it come on come on[00:02:51]
Join the party fist in the air[00:02:53]
Everybody for the[00:02:55]
Revolutionary soul singer[00:02:56]
Side to side[00:02:58]
Third eye on the prize[00:02:59]
We'll take a ride with the[00:03:00]
Revolutionary soul singer[00:03:01]
Give the seeds what they need to breath and proceed[00:03:03]
It's the revolutionary[00:03:05]
Soul singer[00:03:07]
Word up yeah y'all[00:03:08]
We prepared y'all no fear y'all[00:03:09]
Come on[00:03:11]
It's a shame the way we all run around[00:03:12]
Yeah[00:03:17]
It's a shame the way we all run around[00:03:17]
'Cause you blind baby[00:03:19]
Blind to the facts ah[00:03:21]
It's a shame the way we all run around[00:03:22]
'Cause you blind baby[00:03:24]
Blind to the facts yeah[00:03:26]
It's a shame the way we all run around[00:03:27]
'Cause you blind baby[00:03:29]
Blind to the facts of who you are[00:03:31]
Yeah[00:03:32]
But it's a hot night[00:03:33]
Ah[00:03:34]
Let's talk about the sign of the times[00:03:35]
Politics[00:03:37]
And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer[00:03:38]
Come on[00:03:42]
It's a hot night[00:03:43]
Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol[00:03:44]
And let's talk about the world y'all[00:03:48]
Let's do it[00:03:51]
And now of course that the welfare system has been disestablished[00:03:52]
Soul singer[00:03:57]
And there are no jobs so to speak[00:03:58]
For for women who are told that if they don't work[00:04:02]
Revolutionary soul singer[00:04:06]
They can only get welfare for a certain period of time[00:04:09]
And then they have to find a job[00:04:12]
Now they haven't had the opportunity to go to an institution like this[00:04:14]
They may not have the skills where are they going to find a job[00:04:18]
And if they have children how are they going to pay for childcare[00:04:24]
In order to guarantee the conditions which will allow them to work[00:04:28]