《Acknowledge Your Own History(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] You don't know who you are

[00:00:05] Look back into your past brother

[00:00:07] Look back into your past sister

[00:00:09] You don't know who you are

[00:00:13] Look back into your past sister

[00:00:14] Look back into your past brother

[00:00:17] My forefather was a king

[00:00:19] He wore fat gold chains and fat ruby rings

[00:00:22] Nobody believes this to be true

[00:00:23] Maybe it's because my eyes ain't blue

[00:00:26] You ain't gonna find it in your history book

[00:00:28] Come here young blood and take a look

[00:00:30] You dig down deep inside this hard cover

[00:00:32] Don't you know you was bought brother

[00:00:34] All you read about is slavery

[00:00:36] Never about the black man's bravery

[00:00:38] You look at the pictures and all they show is

[00:00:41] African people with bones in their noses

[00:00:43] That ain't true that's a lie

[00:00:46] You didn't get that from my lemon pie

[00:00:48] Yeah I cut class I got a D

[00:00:50] 'Cause history meant nothing to me

[00:00:52] Except a definite nap that's why I always sat in the back

[00:00:56] I'd talk to girls or write a rhyme 'cause I didn't know

[00:00:59] All times are black man's times

[00:01:01] When I was young my mama told me stories

[00:01:03] Of black peoples' fight to bring us glory

[00:01:05] I used to think these were stories to put me to sleep

[00:01:07] But now I know mama's talk wasn't cheap

[00:01:09] Now I know Afrika's for Afrikaans

[00:01:10] And history's the blood of every woman and man

[00:01:13] Now I begin another search the incredibly involved

[00:01:18] The incredibly difficult and incredibly frustrating search

[00:01:21] Now I begin another search the incredibly involved

[00:01:24] The incredibly difficult and incredibly frustrating search

[00:01:27] Trying to pull together the history of the people

[00:01:31] Page one page two page three

[00:01:33] And still no signs of me

[00:01:35] Yeah so I looked into the table of contents

[00:01:37] They wrote a little thing about us in the projects

[00:01:39] The only history we make is if we kill somebody

[00:01:41] Rape somebody but other than that we're nobody

[00:01:44] Speaking like a brother living in the jungle

[00:01:46] I know I was here first but I remain humble

[00:01:48] Now it's time to rekindle the fire

[00:01:50] A tribe of young brothers with the eye of the tiger

[00:01:52] Acknowledge your own we have a home

[00:01:54] Put on this earth to live and roam

[00:01:56] Christopher chose to explore

[00:01:58] Discovered America yeah sure

[00:02:01] He thought the planet was square

[00:02:03] Traveled many places but we already had been there

[00:02:06] We left tracks backtrack back

[00:02:07] First civilization you know where that was found at

[00:02:10] Looking for the true black days of glory

[00:02:12] But you read in history that's his story

[00:02:13] The red's for the blood and the black's for the man

[00:02:18] The green is the color that stands for the land

[00:02:22] The red's for the blood and the black's for the man

[00:02:26] The green is the color that stands for the land

[00:02:31] The red's for the blood and the black's for the man

[00:02:35] The green is the color that stands for the land

[00:02:40] The red's for the blood and the black's for the man

[00:02:43] The green is the color that stands for the land