《What It Means》歌词

[00:00:00] What It Means (什么意思) - Drive-By Truckers

[00:00:22] He was running down the street

[00:00:25] When they shot him in his tracks

[00:00:28] About the only thing agreed upon

[00:00:31] Is he ain't coming back

[00:00:34] There won't be any trial

[00:00:36] So the air it won't be cleared

[00:00:39] There's just two sides calling names

[00:00:42] Out of anger out of fear

[00:00:45] If you say it wasn't racial

[00:00:48] When they shot him in his tracks

[00:00:51] Well I guess that means that you ain't black

[00:00:54] It means that you ain't black

[00:00:56] I mean barack obama won

[00:00:59] And you can choose where to eat

[00:01:02] But you don't see too many white kids lying

[00:01:05] Bleeding on the street

[00:01:19] In some town in missouri

[00:01:21] But it could be anywhere

[00:01:24] It could be right here on ruth street

[00:01:27] In fact it's happened here

[00:01:30] And it happened where you're sitting

[00:01:33] Wherever that might be

[00:01:35] And it happened last weekend

[00:01:38] And it will happen again next week

[00:01:41] And when they turned him over

[00:01:43] They were surprised there was no gun

[00:01:46] I mean he must have done something

[00:01:49] Or else why would he have run

[00:01:52] And they'll spin it for the anchors

[00:01:55] On the television screen

[00:01:57] So we can shrug and let it happen

[00:02:00] Without asking what it means

[00:02:03] What it means

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[00:02:25] Then I guess there was protesting

[00:02:28] And some looting in some stores

[00:02:31] And someone was reminded that

[00:02:33] They ain't called colored folks no more

[00:02:36] I mean we try to be politically

[00:02:39] Correct when we call names

[00:02:41] But what's the point of post racial

[00:02:44] When old prejudice remains

[00:02:47] And that guy who killed that kid

[00:02:50] Down in florida standing ground

[00:02:52] Is free to beat up on his girlfriend

[00:02:55] And wave his brand new gun around

[00:02:58] While some kid is dead and buried

[00:03:01] And laying in the ground

[00:03:03] With a pocket full of skittles

[00:03:09] What it means

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[00:04:13] Astrophysics at our fingertips

[00:04:16] And we're standing at the summit

[00:04:18] And some man with a joystick

[00:04:21] Lands a rocket on a comet

[00:04:24] We're living in an age

[00:04:26] Where limitations are forgotten

[00:04:29] The outer edges move and dazzle us

[00:04:32] But the core is something rotten

[00:04:35] And we're standing on the precipice

[00:04:37] Of prejudice and fear

[00:04:40] We trust science just as long

[00:04:42] As it tells us what we want to hear

[00:04:45] We want our truths all fair and balanced

[00:04:48] As long as our notions lie within it

[00:04:51] There's no sunlight in our a**'

[00:04:53] And our heads are stuck up in it

[00:04:56] And our heroes may be rapists

[00:04:59] Who watch us while we dream

[00:05:01] But don't look to me for answers

[00:05:04] Cuz I don't know what it means

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