Alejandro - Slave ship | Текст песни

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Chorus]
I salute you...
everyone who died as a slave, I salute you
anyone who cried from the pain, I salute you
anyone who fought to be free, I salute you
everyone who taught me to dream, I salute you
anyone who sacrificed themselves, I salute you
those who spent half their life in jail, I salute you
those who felt pride in their skin, I salute you
dark African Melanin

[Verse 1]
[Yoh] The land of milk and honey was built on money generated by a generation of slaves who stayed poor...Despite the elimination of segregation and slavery their bravery remains with me never forgotten but I can think back when they was niggars and spits driven by whips and their salaries were nickels and beads never found its way to the wardrobes of poor folks who’s poor soaked in sweat from chores they did...Sores from whips turned into permanent scars and lashes from their masters determined how hard they toiled the soil and hit hard enough to boil the brown skin from their backs and still paid tax....
I feel blacks got the short straw coz we still ain’t got half what we fought for...We fought hoards of clan members neo Nazis and lantanas but we still getting manipulated like antennas time to stand get up tell the man that we fed up until we get our proper respect we can’t let up....And thousands of people could lose their lives to it the least you can do is open up your eyes to it

[Chorus]
I salute you...
everyone who died as a slave, I salute you
anyone who cried from the pain, I salute you
anyone who fought to be free, I salute you
everyone who taught me to dream, I salute you
anyone who sacrificed themselves, I salute you
those who spent half their life in jail, I salute you
those who felt pride in their skin, I salute you
dark African Melanin

[Verse 2]
My forefathers saw the harbours of the land of freedom shackled in the back of the ship to the crack of the whip brought from Africa’s tip after a battle of wits and auctioned off like possessions at the masters request leaving masses and kids, clusters, bustards striped of a past and for centuries forbidden to ask....

They say this is the past but it isn’t the system that we live under today is still capitalism...Driven by the ideologies of property and wealth disregarding the spiritual poverty within ourselves so men and women knew that they had to overthrow em’ to see the freedom African people had once known...With guns drawn and revolution they produced independence and ended their colonial sentence...They defended the oppressed from the rule of people who use church and schools as propaganda tools like the panthers and the Jews they were slandered and abused and still had the courage to stand up and refuse...I can’t even begin to imagine what you went through for this land that I stand on...I salute you

[Chorus]
I salute you...
everyone who died as a slave, I salute you
anyone who cried from the pain, I salute you
anyone who fought to be free, I salute you
everyone who taught me to dream, I salute you
anyone who sacrificed themselves, I salute you
those who spent half their life in jail, I salute you
those who felt pride in their skin, I salute you
dark African Melanin

[Verse 3]
Last night an ambulance whizzed by I didn’t blink an eye but when I woke this morning I got to thinking why people die from the same old things how come we don’t clarify and try to change those things coz that brother in that ambulance never had chance and he only made it worse with them baggy pants coz police could identify him as a member of the black man’s new alliance. Hip hop an institution of true defiance speaking out to the people to unify em’ instead of using iron my tools are microphones and break beats our plan of action is escape the streets...African Puerto Rican and Jamaican peeps black American and Indian and Asian peeps we are all black it’s a fact so let’s play for keeps being strapped to the teeth ain’t gon make you free...You got to take your seeds teach rig

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