The Boy Who Played the Harp - Dave.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Dave/Fraser T. Smith/Paul McCartney/John Lennon
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Dave/Fraser T. Smith
[00:27.317] Yeah
[00:28.027] I some time's wonder "What would I do in a next generation?"
[00:31.358] In 1940, if I was enlisted to fight for the nation
[00:34.787] Or in 1960, the fire to fight for the rights of my people
[00:38.166] And laid down my life on the line so my grandkids could live a life that's peaceful
[00:41.557] Would I be on that? Would I be frontline
[00:43.898] That's what I'm thinkin'
[00:45.174] If I was alive in the 1912 on the Titanic and it was sinkin'
[00:48.525] Who am I savin'? Am I fightin' woman and children, or am I waitin'?
[00:51.763] I wonder, what would I do in a next generation?
[00:55.226] Battle of Karbala, if they captured me for the sake of my father
[00:58.671] Would I stand on my honour like Hussein did it, and tell them to make me martyr
[01:02.113] Would I really get smarter?
[01:03.414] Forgive my oppressor, or stick to the creed
[01:05.514] If I got locked inside like Nelson Mandela, but never was freed
[01:08.945] I see a white man dance to rumba, ain't study Patrice Lumumba
[01:12.421] But get on the stage and sing like Zumba
[01:16.179] **** it, I wonder "What would I do in a next generation?"
[01:19.231] Would I fight for justice? Is it the reason my mum named me David?
[01:22.690] How can you be king? How can you be king, don't speak for the people
[01:26.201] Them man try draw me out and compare like me and these niggas are equal
[01:29.605] I'm a black man and this bozo sayin' my music socially conscious
[01:32.980] While the mandem troll the responses
[01:34.597] This world's gone totally bonkers
[01:36.488] I some time's wonder "What would I do in a next generation?"
[01:39.794] But I'm knowin' the answer, 'cause what am I doin' in this generation?
[01:43.217] Afraid to speak, 'cah I don't wanna risk it my occupation
[01:46.699] We got kids on the occupation
[01:48.642] My parents they wouldn't get that
[01:50.262] The people that died for out freedom spoke on justice, couldn't accept that
[01:53.546] I talk by the money on all my accounts, so why don't I speak on the West Bank?
[01:56.863] Remember growin' up prejudice, the damage 7-7 did
[02:00.420] Extremist and terrorist, I was afraid of the Taliban
[02:03.878] Can't speak out on illegal settlers, now I'm afraid of a shadow ban
[02:08.762] What would I do in a next generation?
[02:10.751] Critiquin' African leaders, for sellin' our country's natural resources to the west for peanuts
[02:15.998] If they don't hear, they'll feel us
[02:17.623] I question what I'm alive for
[02:19.433] Now, can you say you're alive if you ain't got somethin' you're willin' to die for?
[02:22.662] What am I willin' to die for?
[02:24.495] What am I doin' in this generation?
[02:26.087] I get in my head some times, I feel like I'm in dispair
[02:29.438] That feelin' of total powerlessness, I get that sinkin' feelin'
[02:33.019] That good ain't defeatin' evil
[02:34.879] I put that pain on vinyl, but feel like that shit ain't movin' the needle
[02:38.238] Retweetin' people, raisin' awareness, in all fairness
[02:42.939] Ain't gonna bring Chris back to his parents
[02:45.063] But there's no other option, it's a process
[02:47.246] Gotta stand and protest cah they want man silenced
[02:49.676] Cah they want man dead or they want man hopeless
[02:51.875] In the next generation I spoke with my ancestors in the night and I showed them
[02:55.279] They spoke with tears in their eyes for the brothers they lost and said it was progress
[02:58.747] "How can it be progress?" I asked him, confused, disgusted
[03:02.150] They said David, just so you can fight this, you know how much sufferin' touched us?
[03:05.582] And you got a chance, we come from a time and a place where you couldn't get justice
[03:08.874] Had to find peace in the fact that we all answer to the one what we trust in
[03:12.344] And in our generation, we did do peaceful protest, just like you
[03:15.770] Burn buildings, just like you
[03:17.287] Did boycotts, just like you
[03:19.228] Sat in a hostel powerless, did feel powerless just like you
[03:22.614] And I know that it may sound strange, but we made some change and we're just like you
[03:26.016] I know that you question your character
[03:27.742] I know that you suffer in silence
[03:29.501] I know that it don't feel right when you go to the club in Victoria Island
[03:32.974] 'Cause how can you dance in the club, there's a hundred people beggin' outside it
[03:36.361] I know the sins of your father, I know that you're desperate to fight them
[03:39.699] So step in your purpose
[03:41.075] Speak for your people, share all your secrets
[03:43.269] Expose your emotions, you might not see, but there's people that need it
[03:46.646] Never demand it, and if God can grant it, manifest it and receive it
[03:49.875] Your name is David, and that covenant sacred, you gotta promise you'll keep it
[03:53.422] Deep it, let man talk on the ting, but I bleed it
[03:55.680] Man wanna speak on the scene, but I seen it
[03:57.404] Tried in the fire by Ghetts, I'm anointed
[03:59.011] Kano passed me the torch, I received it
[04:00.645] God told me I'm the one, I believed it
[04:02.345] Shout Hollowman, 'cause he helped me achieve it
[04:04.011] I'm the youngest of my brothers, father eased the burden on our mothers
[04:07.331] Give these niggas money, see their colors
[04:08.908] Don't mix me with them, I'm not the one
[04:10.526] Grind and miss the summer, when it comes I'm Abraham, I sacrifice the sun
[04:13.960] Where I'm from they sacrifice their son
[04:15.466] Hold up, I ain't finished, I ain't dumb
[04:17.337] My ancestors, my ancestors told me that my life is prophecy
[04:22.306] And it's not just me, it's a whole generation of people gradually makin' change
[04:26.475] There ain't a greater task
[04:27.542] Shift that, make a name, make a star
[04:29.378] They don't know what they're facin' when they ask
[04:31.073] With the will of David in my heart
[04:32.596] They story of the boy who played the harp