Give A Man A Fish - Arrested Development.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Headliner, Speech
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Minnie Riperton/Dick Rudolph/Todd Thomas/Timothy Barnwell
[00:18]Lately I've been in a life like limbo
[00:20]Looking out of a smudged up window
[00:22]We're not sure where our lives are going
[00:24]Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in
[00:26]Don't know where our next dollar's coming from
[00:29]Living the life of a poor musician
[00:31]Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5
[00:33]Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive
[00:35]If it wasn't for the rhythm
[00:37]I think we would have given up by now
[00:40]This system has gotten the best of me
[00:42]Now I pray for God to invest in me
[00:44]My dignity, invest his glory
[00:46]Give me the strength so i can finish the story
[00:48]Keep on searching for the right way to go out'
[00:50]Cuz going out is what it's all about
[00:53]You can't be passive, gotta be active
[00:55]Can't go with what looks attractive
[00:57]Gotta learn all I can while
[00:58]I'm able Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables
[01:01]When we get our chance
[01:04]To make a good living of the music we program
[01:06]We don't sell out just to be sold out
[01:08]Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about ?'
[01:10]Cuz if they take away our contract
[01:12]We still got talent and we still got contacts'
[01:14]Cuz we're worked real hard to get this far
[01:17]We're catching the bus before we bought the car, ya see
[01:19]Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
[01:23]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
[01:27]Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
[01:32]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
[01:36]Got to get political
[01:39]Political I gotta get
[01:41]Grown but can't hold my own
[01:43]So this government needs to be overthrown
[01:45]Brothers with the A Ks and the 9
[01:47]MsNeed to learn how to correctly shoot 'em
[01:49]Save those rounds for a revolution
[01:52]Poor whites and blacks bum rushing the system
[01:54]But I tell you ain't no room for gangstaz'
[01:56]Cuz gangstaz do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters
[01:58]Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster
[02:00]Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers
[02:02]So you say you want out of the ghetto
[02:05]First the political prisoners must be let go
[02:07]And you must let go of your power master
[02:09]My liquor got to your powerful master
[02:11]You'll never get out without much discipline
[02:13]Raise your fist but also raise your children
[02:16]So when you die the movement moves on'
[02:18]Cuz with revolution, ain't no future in front y'all
[02:20]Direct your anger, love, nothing's ever built on hate
[02:24]Instead love, love your life, tackle the government
[02:27]The spooks that break down the door are
[02:28]Heaven sent
[02:28]And my phrase went
[02:28]Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
[02:33]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
[02:37]Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
[02:42]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
[02:46]Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
[02:51]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
[02:55]Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
[02:59]Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
[04:01]Rhythm makes your body move
[04:03]Rhythm makes your mind move
[04:05]Rhythm makes your elbows groove
[04:07]Rhythm makes that behind move
[04:09]Rhythm makes the people move
[04:11]Rhythm makes you want to move
[04:14]Rhythm makes your mind soothe
[04:16]You know next stop is Jerusalem