An alchemy, human alchemy 一个炼丹，炼丹人

We stole them from their freedom to be sold 我们从他们的自由，他们偷来卖

To turn their skins of black into the skins 要打开黑色的皮肤成皮

Of brightest gold 对聪明的金

An alchemy, human alchemy 一个炼丹，炼丹人

   

We stoked the fires of trade with human coals 我们火上浇油贸易的火与人类煤

And made our purses from the flailed skins of 并让我们的钱包从的挥动皮

Purest souls 最纯净的灵魂

An alchemy, human alchemy 一个炼丹，炼丹人

   

Other lands became a larder full of all the good things 其他的土地变成了一个完整的一切美好事物储藏室

All we had to do was go and take 我们所要做的就是去把

Blood the colour rain that grew our wicked harvest 血的颜色是雨我们的成长收获恶人

Black the colour icing on our cake 我们的蛋糕黑色的颜色结冰

An alchemy, human alchemy 一个炼丹，炼丹人

   

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves 我们偷了他们的婴孩和母亲，酋长和勇士队

Although we held the whip, you knew we were 虽然我们举行了鞭子，你知道我们是

The real slaves 真正的奴隶

To alchemy, human alchemy 要炼丹，炼丹人

   

Alchemy, human alchemy 炼金，人的炼金术