[00:00.000] 作词 : Tarik Trotter/Deleno Matthews
[00:00.376] 作曲 : Tarik Trotter/Deleno Matthews
[00:00.753] Welcome to America
[00:02.868] Where you can dream, as long as you can breathe
[00:06.492] You can be the muh'****in' President of United States
[00:09.717] And get murdered right on these streets
[00:12.182] Welcome to America
[00:13.619] The sins of the father my pop gave me to suffer
[00:15.685] The friends I would follow was crack babies and hustlers
[00:18.389] It's steel sharpen steel in the block, made me a cutler
[00:20.326] My pen is from the future like Octavia Butler (Welcome to America, oh)
[00:24.380] My grandmother sutured a flag from bloody cotton
[00:26.186] The fruits of her labor alas already rotten (Welcome to America, yeah, ayy)
[00:29.943] My man said, "Yo, it's crazy how fast that we've forgotten
[00:32.302] That we used to pull boxes and plows like we were oxen
[00:34.959] And cows", without an option, and now it's this glorious
[00:38.487] Victorious, story only pitched
[00:40.683] For me to shut it down, they sold some of us down the rivers
[00:44.384] It's such a poor level of thought, I get the shivers
[00:46.832] It's insidious and it's always been hideous
[00:49.905] I had to tread water and run, be amphibious
[00:52.655] They do you so dirty for one, yo, what's cleanliness?
[00:55.739] They make you wanna let off a gun into the emptiness like
[00:58.922] Preach now, lover, preach now, lover
[01:04.284] That we runnin', runnin', runnin', runnin', runnin'
[01:09.434] Welcome to America
[01:10.677] Yo, I'm ill-fated and hated, I'm hella melanated
[01:13.414] Blackness is my religion to that I'm dedicated (Welcome to America)
[01:16.208] I follow the laws of nature by which I'm regulated
[01:18.502] The universe my university, I'm educated
[01:21.914] This one is for my very revolutionaries
[01:24.106] After keeping it a hundred even though the truth is heavy
[01:27.603] Who stand firmly and see their life is a journey
[01:29.918] That either God or the gurney, my public defender burned me
[01:32.563] So did the district attorney in a turbulent trial
[01:35.281] They told me that time is master, well I'm serving it now
[01:37.906] Tell my family I'll be making my return in a while
[01:40.725] And every symbol of oppression, I'll be burning it down
[01:43.603] Welcome to America (Yeah)
[01:45.787] Where you can dream, as long as you can breathe (Long as you breathe)
[01:49.564] You can be the muh'****in' President of United States (That's right)
[01:52.653] And get murdered right on these streets (Doo, doo)
[01:55.185] Welcome to America
[01:57.261] Land of the brave (Yeah) and home of the free (That's bullshit, man)
[02:00.950] You can be a saint or a sinner or a billionaire (Yeah)
[02:04.302] Or just stand on your feet
[02:06.442] Welcome to America (Keep on runnin', runnin')
[02:10.037] America, oh Lord (Keep on runnin', runnin')
[02:12.326] Welcome to America (Keep on runnin', runnin')
[02:14.945] America, oh yeah
[02:17.969] 'Cause when it's over, the world ain't over (The world ain't over)
[02:20.896] What they say is what we'll do (It's what we gon' do now)
[02:23.794] We outpowered, still have power (Still got power)
[02:26.575] And that's what we cannot lose
[02:29.569] Runnin' in the shadows, got my eye on the sparrow
[02:35.578] Tomorrow may not come, at least my soul felt this love (Uh)
[02:41.412] If I let you go, at least my soul felt this love
[02:47.365] Hey now, hang now, hey now, hang now
[02:52.695] Now, a Black soul never passes alone
[02:55.345] If its blood spilled on the ancestor's ashes and bone
[02:58.190] From a pure heart, the Lord fashioned after His own
[03:00.948] Went packaged and flown to the essence of his African throne
[03:03.890] For every lost body, crossed, tarred, feathered, and tossed
[03:06.793] It's no way I could measure the course or ever exhaust
[03:09.814] But whether it's yours or mine, this American cloth
[03:12.604] Has never been soft, while history was running its course
[03:15.213] I ran hard from Jamestown with slaves, found Jesus
[03:18.276] And foul demons that never be charged with malfeasance
[03:21.820] I sat through they revival, though I never found credence
[03:24.241] I found that we had never known shit about freedom
[03:27.180] I've been charged with treason, I've been scarred and freezin'
[03:29.878] I've been called a nigga and then called a heathen
[03:32.850] When hounds found me, they couldn't even tell if I was breathin'
[03:35.640] In America where on black men, it's open season