《Jackie Robinson》歌词

歌曲： Jackie Robinson

所属专辑：Invisible Stars

歌手： Everclear

时长： 03:54

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Jackie Robinson - Everclear[00:00:00]

Luther Jackson Green[00:00:22]

Lived in the apartment above me[00:00:24]

We smoked cigarettes on the stairs[00:00:27]

Tell me stories that white boys never hear[00:00:30]

Like when he found his shine[00:00:32]

And moved north in 1949[00:00:35]

On his 10th birthday daddy took him to town[00:00:38]

To see the Jackie Robinson play[00:00:41]

It was a picture perfect day[00:00:43]

In the sunshine and the hate[00:00:46]

He didn't understand why all those[00:00:49]

People would say such awful things[00:00:51]

His daddy said pay no attention to them[00:00:54]

Turnaround and watch the man play[00:00:56]

The one black man in the baseball field[00:00:59]

Was better in every way[00:01:02]

My daddy said if you wanna win in this world[00:01:04]

You gotta beat 'em at the their own game[00:01:07]

Luther jackson green[00:01:09]

Went to law school in 1963[00:01:12]

In the summer between[00:01:15]

He worked in alabama[00:01:17]

With martin luther king[00:01:18]

He met a girl on a summer night[00:01:20]

He fell hard when they saw each other's eyes[00:01:22]

There were people in town that really didn't[00:01:25]

Like that he was black and she was white[00:01:27]

They found her in the ditch[00:01:31]

A little outside of town[00:01:33]

Some stupid man was laughin about it[00:01:36]

So luther beat him down[00:01:39]

He looked him in the eye he spit in his[00:01:41]

Face and[00:01:44]

Turned and walked away[00:01:44]

He knew he was better than all the hate[00:01:47]

He knew he was bigger than all the pain[00:01:52]

He knew that there's a time to fight and a[00:01:56]

Time to walk away[00:01:59]

He knew until he changed the rules[00:02:02]

Oh gotta beat 'em at their own game[00:02:05]

He never did lose[00:02:09]

That feeling inside[00:02:10]

You could hear it in his voice[00:02:13]

You could see it in his eyes[00:02:16]

Luther moved out west to live[00:02:18]

When his wife passed away[00:02:21]

He lives right next door to his son[00:02:23]

So he can watch his grandchild play[00:02:26]

Luther jackson green[00:02:29]

Watched election night with me[00:02:31]

We put a black man in the white house[00:02:34]

A thing he never thought he'd see[00:02:37]

Even though he never cried[00:02:39]

I could see tears in his eyes[00:02:42]

He had dreamed about this moment[00:02:45]

Every single day of his life[00:02:47]

Yeah luther died that night in his sleep[00:02:49]

But he lived long enough to see[00:02:52]

America become the kind of place[00:02:55]

He always wanted it to be[00:02:58]

He said you could never forget the day[00:03:00]

That we beat 'em at their own game[00:03:03]

Yeah just like jackie robinson[00:03:07]

Just like jackie robinson[00:03:13]

Gotta be bigger than all the hate[00:03:16]

Just like jackie robinson[00:03:18]

Gotta be better than all the pain[00:03:21]

Just like jackie robinson[00:03:23]

Gotta find a better way[00:03:27]

Just like jackie robinson[00:03:29]

Gotta beat 'em at their own game[00:03:32]

Just like jackie robinson[00:03:34]

Gotta beat 'em at their own game[00:03:37]

Just like jackie robinson[00:03:39]

Gotta beat 'em at their own game[00:03:42]

Just like jackie robinson[00:03:44]

Just like jackie robinson[00:03:50]