[00:00.000] 作词 : Robert Glasper/Amir Sulaiman
[00:00.626] 作曲 : Robert Glasper/Amir Sulaiman
[00:01.253]I heard him call out
[00:02.608]I heard him call for his mother
[00:04.616]And I didn't even call my mother
[00:07.378]I wanted to avoid talking about the elephant in the room
[00:10.891]The pig on my neck
[00:12.397]The devil on detail
[00:14.906]We were born of a people who were torn from their people
[00:18.420]For the root of all evil
[00:20.428]From it, sprung the trunk, the branches, and the fruit of all evil
[00:24.444]Unless they need you, they act as if they don't see you
[00:27.706]Besiege you, and tell you to cooperatе
[00:30.215]As if it's something you agreed to
[00:32.474]Before criminals constitution nothing's illеgal
[00:35.485]Except people who were once property destroying property, upheaval
[00:40.501]Keep your eye on the sparrow, the bald eagle
[00:43.261]Defeathered and beheaded at the stoop of the steeple
[00:46.021]Guarded by soldiers, stupid yet lethal
[00:50.798]It doesn't matter if a liar has a republic or democracy, or monarchy, it's malarkey
[00:56.318]Don't mind me if I seem a little off key, or I sing a little off key
[01:01.587]But when we're on keys
[01:03.343]We can unlock things
[01:04.849]Souls freed otherwhise held hostage
[01:07.610]On the ebony and ivory
[01:09.116]With the heart of a gnostic
[01:10.873]But hands of a locksmith
[01:12.629]A pharmacist, a prescription for the toxic
[01:15.639]Eating away at our subconcious
[01:17.897]8 ball in the corner pocket
[01:19.402]8 ball on the corner cop it
[01:21.407]How can we stop it when the cops and the robbers
[01:23.919]Money is their religion
[01:25.422]They follow the same profits
[01:26.926]So don't mind me if I seem a little off key, or I sing a little off key
[01:33.452]But once we're in tune, oh
[01:36.715]We can conduct the cosmos!
[01:39.476]Conductor of the orchestra
[01:41.483]Conductor of the underground railroad
[01:44.243]Don't you see the kick, the thump, the heart
[01:47.254]The crashing cymbals as symbols of shields
[01:51.769]No Captain America, no cap in America
[01:54.781]If you're black in a finger snap
[01:57.039]Fade to black in america
[01:59.299]So don't mind me if I seem a little off key, or I sing a little off key
[02:04.822]More than mere melody
[02:06.578]Using horn and string to quarantine from a disease
[02:10.092]That sees us as less as humans
[02:12.600]And more as things
[02:14.857]So we don't play music
[02:16.363]We pray music
[02:17.868]Those same nooses hang useless
[02:20.627]Raise the dead like Jesús did
[02:22.888]We don't play music
[02:25.144]We pray music
[02:26.648]Vivid and lucid
[02:27.903]Dreams let loose in the pure hearts with divine acoustics
[02:31.919]We lay blueprints at the blue note
[02:34.428]I come from a people transmuted, transformed by song
[02:39.948]Until the musicians are translucent
[02:43.461]Until you see through them and see through this
[02:46.975]And bear witness to the oneness
[02:49.485]That from nothingness brought forth all of existence
[02:52.494]So don't mind me If I seem a little off key, or I sing a little off key
[02:58.517]It's more than mere melody
[03:03.109]I'm in tune
[03:05.115]We're in tune