[Chorus] [合唱]

These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side 这些彩色线条会让你打破你让你选择一个侧

These color lines these color lines been here since jump 这些彩色线条来过，因为这些跳跃的色彩线条

I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind 我写这些彩色线条因为如果我不，我将失去我的心

I write these color lines these color lines 我写这些彩色线条这些彩色线条

   

[Verse 1 (George)] [诗歌1 （乔治）

Your first rap show posted in the back row 你的第一个说唱表演张贴在后排

Of a sea of white kids bent on supermanning that hoe 白色的孩子们海一心supermanning的锄头

Pretty soon you're buying fitted hats and high tops 很快你买合身的帽子和高顶

Pretending that you're black enough and rapping with the lights off 假装你是黑人不够，说唱与关灯

It's like a cyclops with one closed eye 这就像一个独眼龙一个闭合的眼

You can tell me that you're winking, but the grin won't lie 你可以告诉我，你眨眼，但笑容是不会骗人的

And no mouth supplies, what your skin tone hides 无口用品，你的肤色皮

About a thousand miles south as the jim crow flies 大约有一千英里以南的黑人苍蝇

And then we're playing he said she said 然后我们玩，他说，她说：

I see red when I peep a pink cheeked boston meathead 我看到红色时，我偷看了一个粉红色的颊波士顿meathead

I wanna go Bruce Lee 我想去李小龙

When I see him on the T taking up two seats 当我看到他在T占据两席

And say, "excuse me, but would you move if hell froze?" 并说， “对不起，但如果地狱冻结了，你会搬家？ ”

You know the subway is the underground railroad 你知道地铁是地下铁道

Lynch trees have the same white limbs 林奇树具有相同的白色四肢

Check out my arms, I look just like him 看看我的怀里，我看起来就像他

   

[Verse 2 (Catch)] [诗歌2 （捕获） ]

Let's you and I get one thing straight 让我和你弄清楚一件事

The game never been equal, ain't no food on my plate 本场比赛从来没有平等的，是不是我的盘子里没有食物

I gave birth to this and you just took it and co opted it and profited 我生下了这一点，你只要把它和共同选择，并获利

And packaged it and wouldn't give me half of it 和包装它，不会给我一半吧

Peep how I master this and break down how you took it all 偷看我如何掌握这一点，并打破你怎么把它所有的

Raped the culture and you standing there looking all 强奸文化，你站在那里看着所有

Innocent, take a mile when I give and inch 无辜的，拿一英里的时候，我给和英制

And how you getting rich, is it a coincidence? 你怎么发财，难道是巧合吗？

Or is it ignorance? You don't know your own privilege 还是无知？你不知道你自己的特权

You own riches and don't know what homeless is 你拥有的财富，不知道无家可归是

You got a lot to learn before you even think about 你有很多东西需要学习之前，你别想

Hip hop, black culture and which fitted you pickin out 嘻哈，黑人文化，里面装你捡了

Nigger in the street, I don't think so bro 黑鬼在大街上，我不认为是这样的兄弟

My people ain't supportin your black history show 我这人是不是supportin你的黑历史展

So stop what you doing we won't take it anymore 因此，停止你在做什么，我们不会再忍受了

Before you come in my house wipe ya feet at the door 在你来我家擦雅脚在门外

   

[Chorus] [合唱]

   

[Verse 3] [诗歌3 ]

[George] [乔治]

I see the color lines 我看到的颜色线

It's tough that Every other time a bother rhymes 这是艰难的，每一个其他时候打扰童谣

White mothers think of gutter crimes 白妈妈认为排水沟犯罪

We keep our standard higher 我们保持我们的标准更高

We don't kick lower rhymes 我们不踢下儿歌

Other times it undermines the fact the mine are over minds 其他时候，它破坏的事实，我的是心灵上

[Catch] [捕获]

All you gotta do is get past the guilt 所有你必须​​做的就是让过去的有罪

We ain't living in a house that master built 我们是不是生活在主建房子

If you understand that, tell your people what you know 如果你明白，告诉你的人你知道什么

Because one of em got enough money to pay back what you owe 由于新兴市场之一，有足够的资金来偿还你欠什么

[George] [乔治]

Yes, My great grands had land, had slaves 是的，我的大三角钢琴有土地，有奴隶

I guess I pressed this record off the bank he made 我想我按下这个记录了他提出的银行

But I want independance, past the declaration 但我想独立性，过去的声明

But one down ass white boy can't pay for reparations 但一跌屁股白人男孩无法支付赔偿

[Catch] [捕获]

I'm running out of patience while you do the work of Satan 我沉不住气了，而你做撒旦的工作

Like an impulse. Edu Leedz Black history's an insult 如一种冲动。埃杜Leedz黑历史的一种侮辱

[George] [乔治]

Number one. I'm not. trying. to tell. your. story 第一。我没有。尝试。告诉。你。故事

I just want to sit on my porch, drink a forty and spit 我只是想坐在我的门廊，喝了四十吐

Number two, cause You can smell bullshit 第二，使你可以闻废话

I just love hip hop 我只是喜欢嘻哈

Pinky swear that's it 小指发誓仅此而已

[Catch] [捕获]

If you love hip hop respect it 如果你喜欢嘻哈方面，它

That includes the people who created it and paved the way for this 这包括谁创造了它，为此铺平道路的人

So that you're making it 所以，你正在做它

[George] [乔治]

Well if you're talking on who's making it, I'll play devil's advocate 那么，如果你说的是谁做的话，我会打魔鬼代言人

A lot of black music has white dollars backing it 很多黑人音乐有白色美元支持它

(Kweli's got it on lock) （ Kweli的得到它锁）

Rupert Murdoch funded Rawkus 默多克出资Rawkus

You looking for the keys, then you better check the pockets 您是否在寻找的钥匙，那么你最好检查一下口袋

[Catch] [捕获]

I'll be checking pockets all right 我会检查口袋没事

As soon as it gets dark and all night 只要它黑暗，整个晚上得到

I'ma get my money we can all fight 我是让我的钱，我们都可以拼

[George] [乔治]

You taking out the high and the mighty 您取出高，不可一世

And their kids 和他们的孩子

You say kill whitey 你说杀怀特

I say call i live? 我说叫我住？

You're not black militant 你不是黑好战

Killing us diligent 杀死我们勤奋

Grab my fam, and grandma and light us up like a filament 抢我的票价调整机制，奶奶，照亮我们像细丝

I thought we were cool now I'm this close to giving in 我还以为我们是很酷的，现在我这个接近屈服

Just put a bullet in for each missed dose of Ritalin 只要把子弹射进了利他林的每个补服

   

[Chorus] [合唱]