《Jackie Robinson》歌词

[00:00:00] Jackie Robinson - Everclear

[00:00:22] Luther Jackson Green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:09] Luther jackson green

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

[00:01:15] In the summer between

[00:01:17] He worked in alabama

[00:01:18] With martin luther king

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:44] Face and

[00:01:44] Turned and walked away

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

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

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

[00:01:59] Time to walk away

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

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

[00:02:09] He never did lose

[00:02:10] That feeling inside

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:29] Luther jackson green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:13] Just like jackie robinson

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

[00:03:18] Just like jackie robinson

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

[00:03:23] Just like jackie robinson

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

[00:03:29] Just like jackie robinson

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

[00:03:34] Just like jackie robinson

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

[00:03:39] Just like jackie robinson

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

[00:03:44] Just like jackie robinson

[00:03:50] Just like jackie robinson