《Absolute Power(2016 Mix|Explicit)》歌词

[00:00:00] Absolute Power - Akala

[00:00:10] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:00:12] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:00:15] It's not the poverty

[00:00:16] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:00:18] That will turn us insane

[00:00:20] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:00:22] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:00:25] It's not the poverty

[00:00:26] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:00:28] That will turn us insane

[00:00:30] In a scheme of livin' my life wasn't hard

[00:00:32] But as far as Britain goes sh*t I practically starved

[00:00:35] Sleeping in a track suit gas meter runnin' out

[00:00:37] Electric cut off as well candles lightin' up the house

[00:00:40] Lookin' in my momma's eyes I see how she feels

[00:00:42] The strain and the pain of just paying bills

[00:00:45] It ain't real and thats how I grew like so many more

[00:00:48] And now it's part of who I am

[00:00:49] I am very sure

[00:00:50] You wanna know the rage I feel in my stomach

[00:00:52] Knowing my mum and dad split up

[00:00:54] When I was still in her stomach

[00:00:55] And not everything that happened

[00:00:56] I will put in sixteens

[00:00:57] But I will tell you enough

[00:00:59] So you will know what I mean

[00:01:00] My boy's mother got cancer the same time as mine

[00:01:03] His mother died and mine survived

[00:01:05] The sh*t was f**ked back then

[00:01:06] When I was like ten already had the mental strength

[00:01:09] More than many grown men

[00:01:10] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:01:13] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:01:16] It's not the poverty

[00:01:17] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:01:19] That will turn us insane

[00:01:20] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:01:23] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:01:26] It's not the poverty

[00:01:27] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:01:29] That will turn us insane

[00:01:30] This was a couple years after my step dad left

[00:01:33] Did he really know the crazy mess that he left

[00:01:35] 'Cause mum done recovered from the lumps in her neck

[00:01:38] For being poor and alone just couldn't cope with the stress

[00:01:40] And I earn my big sis for

[00:01:42] So much soul that night hattan left school

[00:01:44] When she left home

[00:01:45] I was thirteen by now

[00:01:47] Still a little kid innocent

[00:01:48] Next couple years though would turn him to a militant

[00:01:51] That is the result of no food in the fridge

[00:01:53] And every other day being searched by the pigs

[00:01:55] F**k these patronizing teachers

[00:01:57] Don't want my grades slip tryna emasculate me

[00:01:59] Yeah turn me to a b**ch

[00:02:01] And I don't mean a woman please lemme be clear

[00:02:03] I mean a spineless man because what do they fear

[00:02:05] More than a working class black male with a brain

[00:02:08] When our energy is harnessed every changed

[00:02:11] Look at Pac look at Marley look at Hendrix look at Garvey

[00:02:13] This is the potential that is wasted on a daily basis

[00:02:16] A racist classist world that we live in

[00:02:18] Still we comin' from nothing but we educate millions

[00:02:21] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:02:23] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:02:26] It's not the poverty

[00:02:27] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:02:30] That will turn us insane

[00:02:31] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:02:34] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:02:36] It's not the poverty

[00:02:38] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:02:40] That will turn us insane

[00:02:41] I understand why it scares you

[00:02:43] It's like how dare you

[00:02:44] Overcome obstacles that we have been careful to

[00:02:47] Place in your way every step of the way

[00:02:49] In this so called democracy where kids get sprayed

[00:02:51] Blacks and the Asians Turks and the chavs

[00:02:54] Crowded in council flats living like ants

[00:02:56] And who's more confused than the poor white trash

[00:02:59] Spouting the bullsh*t about they want their country back

[00:03:02] It never was yours you should read more

[00:03:04] What they did to brown people they did to their own poor

[00:03:06] Peoples memories short so much that I'm seeing

[00:03:09] Black and Asian kids cussing eastern Europeans

[00:03:12] No pot to piss in makes competition

[00:03:14] I fail to see how this is an effective system

[00:03:17] Cats and dogs in America and Britain

[00:03:19] Eat better food then most of humanity

[00:03:22] We spend our technology only on killing

[00:03:24] How is this more than sophisticated savagery

[00:03:27] It's like it's said the world is a stage

[00:03:29] Each person's just an actor with a part to play

[00:03:32] Like the middle class kids kids of the rich

[00:03:34] Have everything but yet still they pissed

[00:03:37] On coke and ketamine strung out on heroin

[00:03:39] I ain't generalizing look at the evidence

[00:03:42] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:03:44] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:03:47] It's not the poverty

[00:03:48] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:03:50] That will turn us insane

[00:03:52] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:03:54] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:03:57] It's not the poverty

[00:03:58] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:04:01] That will turn us insane

[00:04:02] Go to Glastonbury any year you will see

[00:04:05] Unlike carnival it won't be crawling with police

[00:04:07] This is London the kids on the very next street

[00:04:10] Had a very different life experience than me

[00:04:12] In my experience they can't help but be smug

[00:04:14] After a lifetime of what they think's just good luck

[00:04:17] They're still more anxious and more thankless

[00:04:20] Unearned privilege weigh's like an anchor

[00:04:22] Why they copy what we do

[00:04:24] Tryna' be what they not

[00:04:25] They will grow up though and get better jobs

[00:04:27] And maintain the system they claim that they hated

[00:04:30] But they can't burn it down

[00:04:31] They got a stake in this matrix

[00:04:32] Hip hop is just a fad to them you didn't know

[00:04:35] But to us this our living breathing soul

[00:04:38] And yeah they might backpack in South America

[00:04:40] Or even volunteer in an African village

[00:04:43] But all said and done push comes to shove

[00:04:45] And sh*t hits the fan they're middle class and British

[00:04:49] That's just how it is

[00:04:50] Most rich black people are just as full of sh*t

[00:04:53] So more concerned with their cars and jewels

[00:04:55] But most of the worlds poor looks just like you

[00:04:58] So more concerned with their cars and jewels

[00:05:00] But most of the worlds poor looks just like you

[00:05:03] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:05:05] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:05:08] It's not the poverty

[00:05:09] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:05:11] That will turn us insane

[00:05:13] Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[00:05:15] But absolute powerlessness does the same

[00:05:18] It's not the poverty

[00:05:19] It's the inequality we live with everyday

[00:05:21] That will turn us insane