[00:00.000] 作曲 : Ben Haggerty
[00:12.06]Life moves pretty fast,
[00:18.05]You don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.
[00:22.98]Look, I've been away from my city, the city's changes aint pretty
[00:26.02]Babies still playing in ditchy
[00:27.79]Forgotten corners, the city's forgotten its warriors, who died young
[00:30.93]Eyes hating the sun that’s shining before us
[00:34.58]How rotten bodies fertilizing the forest of concrete and glass
[00:38.59]Foul hearted police aiming their gats
[00:40.78]My head hangover beats, I hope my ghosts stay in the past
[00:43.56]And days I couldn't play to the pad
[00:46.19]We the same kids they'd be sending to invade Iraq, and “make it safe” with crack.
[00:51.01]I got that Gray Goose and OJ in a glass
[00:53.77]The last day before my cousin hit the pen down to swing
[00:57.12]I came back to the town just to be down with the king
[01:00.00]And love is surrounding it seems,
[01:01.86]Just then he find out it his baby cousin fell off a balcony.
[01:05.28]Images of violent paradise is drowning me
[01:08.42]Lost souls and I can't let go or tell no
[01:11.88]The same scenario that rules South Othello
[01:14.79]Black, browns and yellow
[01:16.31]Southsiders tell the devil “hello”
[01:18.29]And heaven “bye”. And it hurts too much to ask why.
[01:20.85]From the places with plenty to the space with no pity. The force is changing our city.
[01:25.07]One day at a time
[01:26.66]If I don't change whats been given
[01:28.12]What can I say to my children who gonna be claiming this city
[01:31.41]One day
[01:32.63]I grew up on Capitol Hill
[01:34.18]With two parents and two cars.
[01:35.75]They had a beautiful marriage, we even had a swing set in our yard.
[01:38.82]My mom didn't have a job, because my dad made enough money that we could live comfortably and he could support us.
[01:44.38]Now, he commute to Tacoma, so we knew we’d be good.
[01:47.17]But then I realized everybody looked just like me in my neighborhood.
[01:50.41]I’d go to school, which was diverse.
[01:52.08]But indeed us, I got sandwiches and Capri-Sun's, and my friends ate the free lunch.
[01:56.41]It's crazy trying to look back, cause when I was growing up
[01:59.82]I didn't understand the fact was: There’s something called a social status.
[02:04.54]And my black friends weren’t in my financial bracket.
[02:08.00]And then my city's divided,
[02:09.53]From neighborhood to neighborhood
[02:10.95]We're polarized but we claim we're progressive.
[02:13.28]The police shoot in the hood but never once in my residence.
[02:16.17]Has a white person been shot or even stopped in a Lexus?
[02:19.48]And to think that we claim that so much has changed
[02:21.92]Since Brown verses the Board of Education and Roe verses Wade
[02:25.11]But around my way it all stays the same,
[02:27.29]They just figured out a way to septate the black and white face
[02:30.39]From the places with plenty to the space with no pity, the force is changing our city.
[02:34.44]One day at a time.
[02:35.87]If I don't change what's been given
[02:37.40]What can I say to my children who gonna be claiming this city
[02:40.38]One day
[02:41.92]From the places with plenty to the space with no pity the, force is changing our city
[02:46.14]One day at a time
[02:47.63]If I don't change what's been given,
[02:49.39]What can I say to my children who gonna be claiming this city
[02:51.98]One day
[02:53.36]Say it's the richest city in the world, right?
[02:55.43]Images of Tent City in the shadows of Amazon's office site
[02:59.27]In the jungle down the slide in Jose Rizal’s park
[03:02.26]There’s this part in the gate, with a trail to a place over I-5
[03:05.70]Where families survive, most my early life we've known about it
[03:09.24]Called development?
[03:10.08]They kicked them folks out and moved them around every chance they can since so sacred of homelessness but ignoring them aint goin to change it
[03:17.12]And tearing down the jects aint gonna make your ass safer.
[03:19.75]For all that paper wasted just to build up Safeco
[03:22.59]While Garfield High School still remains like a slave boat.
[03:25.54]We gave up on hope, a long time ago, so
[03:28.43]I wake on this floor, after pacing hours before. Mind racing like a child torn in war zones
[03:33.87]With every side challenged, needing to manage and understand this balance. I can't fall or falter.
[03:38.62]Brother, I'm just an author and no amount of words offered has ever been enough to alter this system. Swallowing souls broke, my own folks roam upcoast.
[03:46.04]Holding dreams close of what America was supposed to be.
[03:48.47]But works for the rich only. This Southend in reality.
[03:51.27]Took my family back to what they were running from before, when they left that war.
[03:55.79]Same ****, different continent.
[03:57.31]Home doesn’t exist anymore.
[03:58.83]Home doesn’t exist anymore.
[04:00.16]The 206 that raised me just ain’t the same, yo