Vinnie Paz — Paroles et traduction des paroles de la chanson Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
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Paroles
«We have to stop thinking that we must have military solutions
To the problems we face in the world»
Yeah
«The solutions that we need are…»
Picking up where we left off
«…dealing of sickness, disease, and hunger
Now that’s fundamental
If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists
Which is what war is»
They told you World War II was a people’s war
Logic should have told them it was imperialist war
18 million served in the armed forces
10 million more overseas — that’s enormous
25 million workers pay for war bonds
All of the while people question why the war’s on There was an undercurrent of reluctance
There were under-publicized signs of resistance
Hitler’s Germany was unspeakable evil
But let’s discuss real quick what we did to people
We opposed the Haitian revolution
We turned Guam, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii into institutions
Pretended to help Cuba win freedom from Spain
This country’s built on the blood of other people’s pain
Blacks is looking at anti-Semitism in Germany
And saw the situation here was mirroring it perfectly
We appeased Hitler all throughout the '30s
Only years later we pretended we was worried
Roosevelt was hesitant to be gritty
And caused a resolution to be buried in committee
The main interest was never to stop fascism
But advancing imperialist interests of that prism
Roosevelt ain’t care about oppression of the Jews
The power was the priority I’m telling you the truth
Hitler not the reason that we entered the land
Roosevelt was mad that we got hit by Japan
Historians will tell you he provoked that shit
He told lies in attempts to sugar coat that shit
In ‘45 troops were jammed onto the Queen Mary
The blacks were stowed down in the depths of the same ferry
See there’s a parallel you have to understand
That they wanted them to fight but wouldn’t treat them
Like a man
Industrial mobilization had a few divided
The economic royalists denounced and derided
The irony of victory was heavily a price
The war ended 3 million men was in strike
There’s no peace in a world of capitalism
Nazi eugenic techonomic rationalism
The lesson was that war solved problems of control
Regardless if it causes any problems for the soul
The black revolt in the '50s came as a surprise
It shouldn’t have after we took so many of their lives
You can’t erase the memory of an oppressed people
Reparation doesn’t make it any less evil
Some black folks joined the communist party
Richard Wright spoke of disillusionment with the body
The party was accused of exploiting black people
Angelo Herndon felt everything was equal
He was arrested they convicted for insurrection
How the fuck it’s insurrection I call it dissension
Gave him 5 years when all he wanted was protection
There was other black men that made the same connection
Benjamin Davis defended Herndon as a savior
Then Paul Robeson he only magnified the danger
Harry Truman had to deal with the militant mood
But how the fuck that gonna work when he a racist too
In '54 they said they ended segregation
10 years later no changes
Revolt was always minutes away about to bust
Rosa Parks refused the black section of the bus
The freedom riders were spreading across the nation
They went to jail for marching and fighting discrimination
FBI stood by, Justice Department stood by While civil rights workers were beaten, they just stood by 3 civil rights workers, 2 black and 1 white
Arrested in Philadelphia, Mississippi one night
They were released, beaten with chains and shot to death
There were arrests made but it was not confessed
The national government remained silent
The president wouldn’t defend blacks against violence
Civil rights laws were passed but they were fraud
Equality was enforced poorly or was ignored
Martin Luther King’s speech floored whoever heard it 5 years later he was targeted and murdered
In '65 the Watts Riots burned into the streets
The black man would no longer turn the other cheek
The Black Panther Party scared Nixon
But that did nothing to change his position
A new black consciousness was born and still alive
And that came from the will to survive
This is the part where I would talk about Vietnam
But me and Rugged Man we already made a song
By the '70s distrust had spread across the nation
Basic discontent political alienation
55,000 died in the war of moral shame
And then Watergate was added to the hall of pain
The Watergate burglaries was rather complicated
But in the end mostly all of them exonerated
Nixon had CIA a G. Gordon Liddy
Lie about the Democratic National Committee
But eventually they all flipped on him
And told the Senate that they had a lot of shit on him
After that it was a swift and a sudden fall
Nixon resigned before they could impeach the ball
They got rid of Nixon but they kept the system
His foreign policy still remains in position
Corporate interests still remain in position
His closest advisors remain in position
Vietnam recession and unrest
All adds up to a motherfucking mess
After Watergate and Vietnam
There was a deep economic insecurity in this world of ours
Environmental deterioration took its toll
A cultural violence upon the families took its toll
Problems couldn’t be solved without bold changes
But no major party candidates proposed changes
American political tradition held fast
Urban communities turning into hell fast
Black folks are bitterly disappointed with Carter
Opposed federal aid the poor people didn’t bother
Reagan got elected and he built a military up A trillion dollars later
And this motherfucker dummy up He cut benefits for the poor to get the money up Social security, disability went belly up Unemployment grew in the Reagan years
30 million people unemployed in the Reagan years
Welfare became an object of attack
Especially if you was latino or you was black
I’m just scratching the surface of what was wrong
We’ll pick the conversation up in the next song
To be continued…
You can’t be neutral on a moving train
I told y’all before
You can’t believe everything that your teacher tell you
Who is your teacher?
Your teacher just learned what they was taught
How do you know what they was taught was correct?
Know what I mean?
Dig into the real history of this country
And the fact it was built on blood
We gonna go around for a third time
But for now I’m just blessing y’all with this one
A continuation of the first
You can’t be neutral on a moving train
Pazienza
Howard Zinn thank you for teaching the people
Rest in Peace
It’s Pazienza baby
Traduction des paroles
«Nous devons cesser de penser que nous devons avoir de solution militaire
Aux problèmes que nous rencontrons dans le monde»
Ouais
«Les solutions dont nous avons besoin sont…»
Reprendre là où nous nous sommes arrêtés
"...traiter de la maladie, de la maladie et de la faim
Maintenant c'est fondamental
Si vous voulez mettre fin au terrorisme, vous devez cesser d'être des terroristes
Qui est-ce que la guerre est»
Ils vous ont dit que la Seconde Guerre mondiale était une guerre populaire
La logique aurait dû leur dire que c'était une guerre impérialiste
18 millions ont servi dans les forces armées
10 millions de plus à l'étranger-c'est énorme
25 millions de travailleurs paient des obligations de guerre
Tout le temps les gens se demandent pourquoi la guerre est là il y avait un courant de réticence
Il y avait des signes de résistance sous-médiatisés
L'Allemagne d'Hitler était un mal indicible
Mais discutons très vite de ce que nous avons fait aux gens
Nous nous sommes opposés à la Révolution haïtienne
Nous avons transformé Guam, Porto Rico et Hawaï en institutions
Prétendu aider Cuba à gagner la liberté de L'Espagne
Ce pays est construit sur le sang de la douleur des autres
Les noirs regardent l'antisémitisme en Allemagne
Et vu la situation ici était en miroir parfaitement
Nous avons apaisé Hitler tout au long des années 30
Seulement des années plus tard nous avons prétendu que nous étions inquiets
Roosevelt hésitait à être graveleux
Et a fait enterrer une résolution en comité
L'intérêt principal était de ne jamais arrêter le fascisme
Mais promouvoir les intérêts impérialistes de ce prisme
Roosevelt ne se soucie pas de l'oppression des Juifs
Le pouvoir était la priorité je vous dis la vérité
Hitler pas la raison pour laquelle nous sommes entrés dans le pays
Roosevelt était fou que nous avons été touchés par le Japon
Les historiens vous diront qu'il a provoqué cette merde
Il a dit des mensonges dans les tentatives de sugar coat cette merde
En 45, les troupes étaient coincées sur le Queen Mary
Les noirs ont été arrimés dans les profondeurs du même ferry
Tu vois il y a un parallèle que tu dois comprendre
Qu'ils voulaient qu'ils se battent mais ne les traiteraient pas
Comme un homme
La mobilisation industrielle avait quelques divisions
Surtout si vous étiez latino ou vous étiez noir
Je gratte la surface de ce qui n'allait pas
Nous reprendrons la conversation dans la prochaine chanson
Pour être poursuivi…
Vous ne pouvez pas être neutre sur un train en mouvement
J'ai dit y ' all avant
Vous ne pouvez pas croire tout ce que votre professeur vous dit
Qui est ton professeur?
Votre professeur vient d'apprendre ce qu'on leur a enseigné
Comment savez-vous ce qu'ils ont appris était correct?
Sais ce que je veux dire?
Creusez dans l'histoire réelle de ce pays
Et le fait qu'il a été construit sur le sang
On va faire le tour pour la troisième fois
Mais pour l'instant je vous bénis tous avec celui ci
Une continuation de la première
Vous ne pouvez pas être neutre sur un train en mouvement
Pazienza
Howard Zinn merci d'avoir enseigné aux gens
Repose en paix
C'est Pazienza bébé