Comment No. 1歌詞

[00:00.000] 作詞 : Scott-Heron
[00:00.175] Poem here says, Comment No.1
[00:03.715] Uh, Comment No.2 is dynamite
[00:06.816] But Comment No.1 is the one we decided
[00:09.938] To use here this evening
[00:11.568] Because it makes a comment if you listen
[00:14.469] Closely on what is now being advertised
[00:18.652] In East Harlem as the "Rainbow Conspiracy" - a combination of
[00:23.136] The Students For A Democratic Society
[00:25.304] The Black Panthers, and the Young Lords
[00:27.279] And this is my particular comment about that conspiracy, "Comment No.1":
[00:47.332] The time is in the street you know
[00:50.073] Us living as we do upside down
[00:53.451] And the new word to have is revolution
[00:56.385] People don't even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel
[01:01.475] Because God's hole card has been thoroughly piqued
[01:04.797] And America is now blood and tears instead of milk and honey
[01:09.718] The youngsters who were programmed
[01:11.490] To continue ******* up woke up one night
[01:13.982] Digging Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys. America stripped
[01:19.517] For bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes. The signs of Truth
[01:23.732] Were tattooed across our often-entered vagina
[01:26.750] We learned to our amazement untold tale of scandal
[01:30.804] Two long centuries buried in the musty vault
[01:33.883] Hosed down daily with a gagging perfume
[01:36.550] America was a bastard the illegitimate daughter
[01:40.171] Of the mother country whose legs
[01:41.719] Were then spread around the world
[01:43.527] And a rapist known as freedom: free doom
[01:47.094] Democracy, liberty, and justice were
[01:50.565] Revolutionary code names that preceded
[01:53.281] The bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling in the mother country's ******
[01:57.620] And behold a baby girl was born
[02:00.440] Nurtured by slave holders and whitey racists
[02:03.071] It grew and grew and grew screwing
[02:06.786] Indiscri****tely like mother, like daughter
[02:10.042] Everything unplagued by her madame mother
[02:12.967] The present mocks us, good Black people
[02:16.550] With keen memories set fire to the bastards
[02:19.321] Who ask us in a whisper to melt and integrate
[02:22.775] Young, very young, teeny
[02:25.491] Bopping revolt on weekend young dig
[02:27.492] By proxy what a mental ass kicking
[02:29.800] They receive through institutionalized everything
[02:32.422] And vomit up slogans to stay out of Vietnam
[02:35.573] They seek to hide their relationship with the world's **********
[02:39.524] Alienating themselves from everything
[02:41.751] Except dirt and money with long hair, grime, and ****
[02:46.098] To camo-hide the things that cannot be hidden
[02:49.241] They become runaway children to walk the streets downtown with everyday
[02:53.294] Black people sitting on the curb
[02:55.127] Crying because we know that they will go back
[02:57.385] Home with a clear conscience and a college degree
[03:00.122] The irony of it all, of course
[03:01.869] Is when a pale face SDS ************ dares
[03:04.896] Look hurt when I tell him to go find his own revolution
[03:09.057] He wonders why I tell him that America's revolution
[03:12.284] Will not be the melting pot but the toilet bowl
[03:14.920] He is fighting for legalized smoke, or lower voting age
[03:18.541] Less lip from his generation gap and ******* in the street
[03:22.121] Where is my parallel to that?
[03:24.273] All I want is a good home and a wife and a children
[03:27.634] And some food to feed them every night
[03:29.782] Back goes pale face to basics
[03:32.271] Does Little Orphan Annie have a natural?
[03:34.489] Do Sluggo's kinks make him a refugee from Mandingo?
[03:37.595] What does Webster's say about soul?
[03:39.560] I say you silly chipe ************, your great grandfather
[03:44.225] Tied a ball and chain to my *****
[03:46.416] And bounced me through a cotton field
[03:48.169] While I lived in an unflushable toilet bowl
[03:50.287] And now you want me to help you overthrow what?
[03:52.556] The only Truth that can be delivered to a four year
[03:55.363] Revolutionary with a whole card skin is this:
[04:00.109] **** up what you can in the name of
[04:02.232] Piggy Wallace, ****less Nixon, and Spiro Agnew
[04:06.349] Leave brother Cleaver and Brother Malcolm alone please
[04:09.777] After all is said and done build a new route to China if they'll have you
[04:14.270] Who will survive in America? Who will survive in America?
[04:17.650] Who will survive in America? Who will survive in America?