Dave - Three Rivers (Explicit)
[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com [00:20.40]Look [00:21.36]Imagine an island where the party never ends [00:23.66]Where it's less about money and it's more about friends [00:26.33]Where the vibes can't done [00:27.60]It's less about fundin' and and more about fun [00:30.10]Tropical sun this life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean [00:34.21]You know Ian Delroy Vivian Winston [00:37.70]Who got drafted to England [00:39.27]Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton [00:41.97]To say they're the life of the party you're wrong [00:44.27]My Jamaicans the entire party you can't see [00:47.52]Big Notting Hill carni you can't see [00:49.90]And the ride's fiber glass G you wan' see [00:52.49]Imagine a place where you raise your kids [00:54.42]The only place you live says you ain't a Brit [00:57.13]They're deportin' our people and it makes me sick [00:59.69]'Cause they was broken by the country that they came to fix [01:02.18]It's like [01:03.03]They came on the invitation of the British Government [01:05.30]The passports were stacked indefinitely to remain [01:08.83]But for some who were children then [01:10.61]That was a false promise [01:12.18]"Thirty-seven years of paying taxes and [01:14.87]I got a letter saying I was an illegal immigrant [01:17.60]I came here to England at the age of ten and [01:20.67]I've lived here all my life" [01:23.18]Look imagine a world that's flawed and full of evil [01:25.96]Where dictators and leaders are persecutin' your people [01:28.89]The bodies of the innocence are pilin' to the steeples [01:31.44]The ironic part is they're preyin' on the feeble [01:34.11]That's life in the 90's you're Eastern European [01:36.34]And you seein' people dyin' 'cause they're fightin' for their freedom [01:39.52]And show you violence for havin' a voice [01:41.49]You move out with your kids in hope of havin' a choice [01:44.28]Life throws you a spanner you can't handle the pain [01:46.94]So you gamble and you drink and then you gamble again [01:49.52]You argue with your wife and then you sleep on the couch [01:52.18]You hit your children then start freezin' 'em out [01:54.61]You try and work things out but it's never the same [01:57.28]All the women in your household are livin' afraid [01:59.92]When you look into the mirror you're reminded again [02:02.22]That you've become the dictator you were fightin' against [02:04.48]It's like [02:06.01]We're fightin' for our rights for all our mothers [02:09.01]And then we we we are fighting for our homes [02:14.57]We are fighting for our own [02:25.85]Look imagine a world that's f**ked and untrue [02:29.19]Where the many pay a price for the few [02:31.84]And every day the sun rises a little later [02:34.46]That's how it is when your oppressor is your liberator [02:37.11]'Cause right now livin' in the Middle East [02:40.23]Praise ***** for the peace [02:42.39]Death from a sky littered with stars [02:44.14]You run away with your kids so you can give them a chance [02:46.83]But your asylum has got you in a different war [02:49.55]Because the British wanna know what you're livin' here for [02:52.19]We rely on migration more than ever before [02:54.47]They're key workers but they couldn't even get in the door [02:57.36]When you're at Heaven's Gates what you tellin' the Lord [02:59.86]You wouldn't even let a kid into some steadier shores [03:02.61]That's a life they may never afford [03:04.43]Surely you would wanna give your people chances [03:06.39]That were better than yours [03:07.71]No [03:08.38]Ten years of conflict and [03:10.05]Twelve-thousand children have been killed or injured [03:13.32]The children here are just a tiny fraction of [03:15.81]The estimated six-million in need of emergency medical asisstance [03:20.80]As many of three-million no longer in their own homes [03:24.42]With up to two-million children attend school [03:27.43]The opportunities of this generation [03:29.91]Have been changed forever by this conflict [04:13.47]I went to silence [04:14.36]When I need to who the who the f**k I was bro [04:19.25]Like I won't hear anyone else shut everyone else out [04:23.55]So I could just hear myself bro [04:25.70]You know what I'm sayin' [04:26.84]Cause we live in this world yeah [04:28.95]You stand still the way the tides set up [04:32.65]It will take you away from yourself you feel me [04:35.61]So then I was like "Aight cool" [04:39.92]But I had to get silent [04:41.79]But it's not like mans goin' against the tide [04:44.40]'Cause goin' against the tide still makes it about them [04:47.37]Still makes it about the poison that [04:49.63]You've eternalized in your mind you feel me [04:52.68]It's like "Bro why am I in this water [04:55.26]Man this water don't even like me it's not even for me [04:58.43]It's not takin' me where [04:59.34]I wanna go it's not takin' me where I wanna go [05:01.11]It's who the f**k I am bro you know I'm sayin' [05:03.89]So the tide will tell me that bein' black is an obstacle [05:08.90]See what I'm sayin' [05:11.04]I had to switch Rivers bro [05:15.14]It's like bein' black is an asset [05:17.52]I am who I am because I'm black [05:19.55]And I love everything about it you feel me [05:24.04]And that's who the f**k I am
Three RiversLRC滚动歌词
[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com[00:20.40]Look
[00:21.36]Imagine an island where the party never ends
[00:23.66]Where it's less about money and it's more about friends
[00:26.33]Where the vibes can't done
[00:27.60]It's less about fundin' and and more about fun
[00:30.10]Tropical sun this life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean
[00:34.21]You know Ian Delroy Vivian Winston
[00:37.70]Who got drafted to England
[00:39.27]Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton
[00:41.97]To say they're the life of the party you're wrong
[00:44.27]My Jamaicans the entire party you can't see
[00:47.52]Big Notting Hill carni you can't see
[00:49.90]And the ride's fiber glass G you wan' see
[00:52.49]Imagine a place where you raise your kids
[00:54.42]The only place you live says you ain't a Brit
[00:57.13]They're deportin' our people and it makes me sick
[00:59.69]'Cause they was broken by the country that they came to fix
[01:02.18]It's like
[01:03.03]They came on the invitation of the British Government
[01:05.30]The passports were stacked indefinitely to remain
[01:08.83]But for some who were children then
[01:10.61]That was a false promise
[01:12.18]"Thirty-seven years of paying taxes and
[01:14.87]I got a letter saying I was an illegal immigrant
[01:17.60]I came here to England at the age of ten and
[01:20.67]I've lived here all my life"
[01:23.18]Look imagine a world that's flawed and full of evil
[01:25.96]Where dictators and leaders are persecutin' your people
[01:28.89]The bodies of the innocence are pilin' to the steeples
[01:31.44]The ironic part is they're preyin' on the feeble
[01:34.11]That's life in the 90's you're Eastern European
[01:36.34]And you seein' people dyin' 'cause they're fightin' for their freedom
[01:39.52]And show you violence for havin' a voice
[01:41.49]You move out with your kids in hope of havin' a choice
[01:44.28]Life throws you a spanner you can't handle the pain
[01:46.94]So you gamble and you drink and then you gamble again
[01:49.52]You argue with your wife and then you sleep on the couch
[01:52.18]You hit your children then start freezin' 'em out
[01:54.61]You try and work things out but it's never the same
[01:57.28]All the women in your household are livin' afraid
[01:59.92]When you look into the mirror you're reminded again
[02:02.22]That you've become the dictator you were fightin' against
[02:04.48]It's like
[02:06.01]We're fightin' for our rights for all our mothers
[02:09.01]And then we we we are fighting for our homes
[02:14.57]We are fighting for our own
[02:25.85]Look imagine a world that's f**ked and untrue
[02:29.19]Where the many pay a price for the few
[02:31.84]And every day the sun rises a little later
[02:34.46]That's how it is when your oppressor is your liberator
[02:37.11]'Cause right now livin' in the Middle East
[02:40.23]Praise ***** for the peace
[02:42.39]Death from a sky littered with stars
[02:44.14]You run away with your kids so you can give them a chance
[02:46.83]But your asylum has got you in a different war
[02:49.55]Because the British wanna know what you're livin' here for
[02:52.19]We rely on migration more than ever before
[02:54.47]They're key workers but they couldn't even get in the door
[02:57.36]When you're at Heaven's Gates what you tellin' the Lord
[02:59.86]You wouldn't even let a kid into some steadier shores
[03:02.61]That's a life they may never afford
[03:04.43]Surely you would wanna give your people chances
[03:06.39]That were better than yours
[03:07.71]No
[03:08.38]Ten years of conflict and
[03:10.05]Twelve-thousand children have been killed or injured
[03:13.32]The children here are just a tiny fraction of
[03:15.81]The estimated six-million in need of emergency medical asisstance
[03:20.80]As many of three-million no longer in their own homes
[03:24.42]With up to two-million children attend school
[03:27.43]The opportunities of this generation
[03:29.91]Have been changed forever by this conflict
[04:13.47]I went to silence
[04:14.36]When I need to who the who the f**k I was bro
[04:19.25]Like I won't hear anyone else shut everyone else out
[04:23.55]So I could just hear myself bro
[04:25.70]You know what I'm sayin'
[04:26.84]Cause we live in this world yeah
[04:28.95]You stand still the way the tides set up
[04:32.65]It will take you away from yourself you feel me
[04:35.61]So then I was like "Aight cool"
[04:39.92]But I had to get silent
[04:41.79]But it's not like mans goin' against the tide
[04:44.40]'Cause goin' against the tide still makes it about them
[04:47.37]Still makes it about the poison that
[04:49.63]You've eternalized in your mind you feel me
[04:52.68]It's like "Bro why am I in this water
[04:55.26]Man this water don't even like me it's not even for me
[04:58.43]It's not takin' me where
[04:59.34]I wanna go it's not takin' me where I wanna go
[05:01.11]It's who the f**k I am bro you know I'm sayin'
[05:03.89]So the tide will tell me that bein' black is an obstacle
[05:08.90]See what I'm sayin'
[05:11.04]I had to switch Rivers bro
[05:15.14]It's like bein' black is an asset
[05:17.52]I am who I am because I'm black
[05:19.55]And I love everything about it you feel me
[05:24.04]And that's who the f**k I am