[00:00:00] Black America Again (再见美国黑人) (Revised) - Common (凡夫俗子)/Stevie Wonder (史蒂夫·汪德) [00:00:00] Written by:Lonnie Lynn/Emmanuel Riggins/Stevie Wonder/Kenny Clarke/Rita Greene/Jake Riley/George Clinton/Carlton Ridenhour/Eric Sadler/Hank Shocklee/James Brown/Robert Glasper [00:00:20] Here we go here here we go again [00:00:23] Trayvon'll never get to be an older man [00:00:26] Black children they childhood stole from them [00:00:28] Robbed of our names and our language stole again [00:00:31] Who stole the soul from black folk [00:00:33] Same man that stole the land from Chief Black Smoke [00:00:35] And made the whip crackle on our back slow [00:00:37] And made us go through the back door [00:00:38] And raffle black bodies on the slave blocks [00:00:41] Now we slave to the blocks on 'em we spray shots [00:00:44] Leaving our own to lay in a box [00:00:46] Black mother's stomachs stay in a knot [00:00:47] We kill each other it's part of the plot [00:00:49] I wish the hating will stop war [00:00:52] And the battle with us [00:00:53] I know that Black lives matter and they matter to us [00:00:56] These are the things we gotta discuss [00:00:58] The new plantation mass incarceration [00:01:01] Instead of educate they'd rather convict the kids [00:01:04] As dirty as the water in Flint the system is [00:01:06] Is it a felony or a misdemeanor [00:01:09] Maria Sharapova making more than Serena [00:01:11] It took Viola Davis to say this [00:01:13] The roles of the help and the gangsters is really all they gave us [00:01:17] We need Avas Ta Nehisis and Cory Bookers [00:01:20] The salt of the Earth to get us off of sugar [00:01:22] And greasy foods [00:01:23] I don't believe the news or radio stereotypes we refuse [00:01:27] Brainwashed in the cycle to spin [00:01:29] We write our own story black America again [00:01:32] You know One way of solving a lot of problems [00:01:36] That we've got is lettin' a person feel [00:01:40] That they're important and a man can't get himself together [00:01:43] Until he knows who he is and be proud of what [00:01:46] And who he is and where he come from [00:01:50] And where he come from [00:01:53] Hot damn black America again [00:01:55] Think of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the wind [00:01:57] The color of my skin they comparing it to sin [00:02:00] The darker it gets the less fairer it has been [00:02:03] The hate the hate made I inherited from them [00:02:05] But I ain't gon' point the finger we got annointed singers [00:02:07] Like Nina Marvin Billie Stevie [00:02:10] Need to hear them songs sometimes to believe me [00:02:12] Who freed me Lincoln or Cadillac [00:02:15] Drinking or battle raps or is it Godspeed that we travel at [00:02:18] Endangered in our own habitat [00:02:20] The guns and d**e man y'all can have it back [00:02:22] As a matter of fact we them lab rats [00:02:25] You build the projects for now you want your hood back [00:02:27] I guess if you could rap you would express it too [00:02:30] That PTSD we need professionals [00:02:32] You know what pressure do it make the pipes bust [00:02:35] From schools to prison y'all they tryna pipe us [00:02:38] Tell your political parties invite us [00:02:40] Instead of making voting laws to spite us [00:02:43] You know you know we from a family of fighters [00:02:45] Fought in your wars and our wars [00:02:47] You put a ni**a in Star Wars maybe you need two [00:02:51] And then maybe then we'll believe you [00:02:53] See black people in the future [00:02:55] We wasn't shipped here to rob and shoot ya [00:02:58] We hold these truths to be self evident [00:03:00] All men and women are created equal including black Americans [00:03:04] You know you know you know One way of solving a lot of problems [00:03:08] That we've got is to let a person feel like somebody [00:03:13] And a man can't get himself together [00:03:15] Until he knows who he is and be proud of what and who he is [00:03:19] And where he come from and where he come from [00:03:25] We are rewriting the black American story [00:03:30] We are rewriting the black American story