《The Rise Of The Black Messiah》歌词

[00:00:00] The Rise Of The Black Messiah - Indigo Girls

[00:00:00] Written by：Amy Ray/Emily Sailer

[00:00:00] They called you the rise of the black messiah

[00:00:05] Like so many boys before you

[00:00:09] And there will be more more to follow

[00:00:13] Threatening and hard to swallow

[00:00:18] I'm sitting underneath that hanging tree

[00:00:22] Just me and the ghost of the KKK

[00:00:27] Poor man's gallows in the middle of the woods

[00:00:30] The saddest tree that ever stood

[00:00:46] My friend I heard you tell of slavery's end

[00:00:50] But have you heard of mass incarceration

[00:00:54] That ol'Jim Crow he just keeps getting born

[00:00:58] With a new hanging rope for the black man's scourge

[00:01:05] Hey ol' man river what do you know

[00:01:08] Bout plantation they call Angola

[00:01:13] The devil spawned a prison there

[00:01:16] The saddest farm that ever lived

[00:01:21] Now your great grand daddy

[00:01:24] He worked that land with shackles on his feet and on his hands

[00:01:29] He built them levees

[00:01:31] He chopped that cane

[00:01:33] He died in the mud in his chains

[00:01:37] Now you stand where he once stood

[00:01:39] Shackles on you all the same

[00:01:50] But he's gonna rise

[00:01:54] He's gonna rise

[00:01:59] And all them lynchers are gonna be damned

[00:02:03] When outta that mud walks a brand new man

[00:02:38] They called you the rise of the black messiah

[00:02:41] Said they'd do any damn thing the could to keep ya

[00:02:46] You and your brothers from spreading the word

[00:02:50] The gospel of freedom and the black man's worth

[00:02:56] Forty years in solitary

[00:02:59] Consider the man that they just can't bury

[00:03:03] I got this letter in my hand

[00:03:07] Saying tell this story when you can

[00:03:11] He's gonna rise

[00:03:16] He's gonna rise

[00:03:21] And all them lynchers are gonna be damned

[00:03:25] When outta that hole walks a brand new man