《The Travelers》歌词

[00:00:00] The Travelers - Brother Ali

[00:00:21] Shackles are heavy on the wrist

[00:00:23] Stacked like sardines belly of a ship

[00:00:26] Live in your own piss and shit and being seasick

[00:00:29] Cracked across your back with a thick leather whip

[00:00:31] Salt water burns through your wounds

[00:00:34] Women are starving with babies in their wombs

[00:00:36] On your hands and knees trying to cry God please

[00:00:39] Exhausted your voice is too weak to speak

[00:00:42] Neighbors and strangers are dying beside you

[00:00:44] Their decaying bodies you're tied to

[00:00:47] Cling tight to your fight for survival

[00:00:49] Wonder if your tribe will ever try to find you

[00:00:52] Arrive somewhere strange the air is cold

[00:00:54] You can see your breath and you're barely clothed

[00:00:57] Your first time ever seeing snow

[00:00:59] Sleeping next to it on a hard dirt floor

[00:01:01] Go from can't seeing see in the morning to can't see at night

[00:01:05] You work till your hands bleed white

[00:01:07] Your native language you can't recite

[00:01:10] Murdered on sight if you try to read or write

[00:01:12] When you bend all of your life and can't see the light

[00:01:15] It get's painful to stand upright

[00:01:17] Right

[00:01:18] And your eyes bear the sight of your wife

[00:01:20] Being being pulled from your shack and brutalized at night

[00:01:22] You only taste joy when babies are born

[00:01:25] Which becomes an occasion to mourn

[00:01:27] Separated torn from your celebrating arms

[00:01:30] Then as quickly as they came they were gone

[00:01:32] Sold away from your farm this is all they've known

[00:01:35] Never heard stories from home

[00:01:37] They forget your name

[00:01:38] The culture from which you came

[00:01:40] Teaching it'll get you slain

[00:01:42] Praying to your god will get you the same and tortured to near death lest you complain

[00:01:48] No Choice left you sing through the pain and pray that your suffering wasn't in vain

[00:01:52] End of your chain end of your life

[00:01:55] Your grandchildren born with no end is sight

[00:01:58] So you muster up all of your might

[00:02:00] And your last breath comes out fight

[00:02:04] This is actually true

[00:02:06] Now stop and imagine that's you

[00:02:08] Now stop imagining unravel the truth and ask just who is it happening to

[00:02:14] Everything that the passenger do

[00:02:16] The driver experience too

[00:02:18] So if humanity is one

[00:02:20] Then we all get burned when it's hell that we're traveling through

[00:02:23] You've got to save my soul

[00:02:27] Put me back together make me whole

[00:02:32] Said we don't know which way to go

[00:02:37] Take my hand and place me on that road

[00:02:45] Trapped in a history we don't understand

[00:02:47] Can't remember how this blood got on our hands

[00:02:50] Never been taught about the ugly past

[00:02:52] Expecting God not to punish man

[00:02:55] Our ancestors brought us control

[00:02:57] We realize now that the cost was our soul

[00:03:00] Got me feeling like an empty shell

[00:03:02] Prison guard that inherited a cell

[00:03:05] I'm desperate to find my place

[00:03:07] Emptiness lies behind my face

[00:03:10] Flowers only die in a vase

[00:03:12] A heart only dies encased in a lie we call race

[00:03:15] I hear the song but I can't sing along

[00:03:18] Something's really wrong I can't put my finger on

[00:03:20] Terrified to admit it's wrong

[00:03:22] Cause I'm hiding in the ruins of a legacy that still lives on

[00:03:26] Our identity is hinged upon the miserable myth we've been caught since we're born

[00:03:31] Until we mend what was torn

[00:03:33] The debt of a sin lingers long after the vicitim's moans

[00:03:36] This is actually true

[00:03:38] Now stop and imagine that's you

[00:03:40] Now stop imagining unravel the truth

[00:03:43] And ask just who is it happening to

[00:03:46] Everything that the passenger do the driver experience too

[00:03:50] So if humanity is one then we all get burned when it's hell that we're traveling through

[00:03:55] You've got to save my soul

[00:03:59] Put me back together make me whole

[00:04:04] Said we don't know which way to go

[00:04:09] Take my hand and place me on that road; You've got to save my soul Put me back together make me whole Said we don't know which way to go Take my hand and place me on that road