[Verse 1:] [诗歌1 ： ]

I used to think I hated this place 我曾经以为我讨厌这个地方

Couldn't wait to tell the president straight to his face 迫不及待地直接告诉总统他的脸

But lately I changed, nowadays I embrace it all 但后来我改变了，现在我拥抱这一切

Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws 美好的理想和惊人的缺陷

Got to care enough to give a testament 有关心足以让一个证明

'Bout the deeply depressing mess we're in “布特深感郁闷的一塌糊涂，我们是在

It's home so we better make the best of it 这家让我们更好地做出最好的呢

I wanna make this country what it says it is 我要让这个国家是什么它说，这是

Still dream in the vividest living color 还在梦想中的vividest生活色彩

No matter how many times my love been smothered 无论多少次我的爱被扼杀

Who's ever above us won't just let us suffer 谁是有史以来上面我们不会只是让我们受苦

All of this struggling got to amount to something 所有这一切挣扎得达到什么

This is a letter to my countrymen 这是一封信给我的同胞

Especially those my age and younger than 尤其是我的年龄和年龄小于

We're up against an ugly trend 我们遇上了一个丑陋的趋势

Everybody's hustling don't nobody touch their friends 每个人的忙乱没有任何人碰自己的朋友

No group singing and dancing 没有任何一个团体载歌载舞

No anthem nobody holds hands, and... 没有国歌持有人手中，并...

Instead they give a handheld 相反，他们给手持

And make you shoulder life's burden by your damn self 让你的肩膀生活的负担，你那该死的自我

One thing that can't be debated 不能讨论的一件事

Power never changed on it's own you got to make it 动力没有改变它自己，你要让它

That's why community is so sacred 这就是为什么社会是如此的神圣

That's the symbol that we make when we raise fists 这是我们做的时候，我们提出的拳头符号

   

[Chorus:] [合唱： ]

"Sooner or later" [x2] “迟早” [X2]

   

[Verse 2:] [诗2： ]

We don't really like to talk about the race thing 我们真的不喜欢谈论比赛的事情

The whole grandparents used to own slaves thing 曾经拥有奴隶的事情，整个祖父母

Pat ourselves on the back in February 拍拍自己的背二月

Looking at pictures of Abe Lincoln and the great King 纵观林肯的伟大国王的照片

But the real picture's much more embarrassing 但真实的情况是更加尴尬

We're still not even close to really sharing things 我们仍然还差得远，真正分享的东西

The situation of oppressed people 被压迫人民的状况

Shows what we feel it means to be a human being 显示了我们觉得它的意思是一个人

What does it mean to be American? 这是什么意思是美国人吗？

I think the struggle to free is our inheritance 我觉得斗争自由是我们的遗产

And if we say it how it really is 如果我们说怎么这真的是

We know our lily skin still give us privilege 我们知道我们的皮肤百合仍然给我们特权

Advantages given to the few 给几个优点

That are built into the roots of our biggest institutions 内置到我们最大的机构的根

That's the truth in life we got to choose 这就是我们在生活中一定要选择真相

Do I fight in the movement or think I'm entitled to it 我争取在运动中或认为我有权得到它

This is not a practice life 这不是生活的实践

This is the big game we got to attack it right 这是我们一定要攻击它右边的大游戏

Each one of us is headed for the grave 我们每个人在走向坟墓

This old crooked world won't be saved by the passive type 这老歪世界不会被保存的被动式

This is a letter to my countrymen 这是一封信给我的同胞

Not from a Democrat or a Republican 没有从民主党还是共和党

But one among you that's why you call me brother 但有你们中间，这就是为什么你叫我哥哥

Ain't scared to tell you we're in trouble 'cause I love you 不害怕告诉你，我们就麻烦了，因为我爱你

   

[Chorus:] [合唱： ]

"Sooner or later" [x2] “迟早” [X2]

   

[Verse 3:] [诗歌3 ： ]

They tell me I'm a dreamer, they ridicule 他们告诉我，我是一个梦想家，他们嘲笑

They feel defeated, old, bitter, and cynical 他们遇到挫折，老，苦，愤世嫉俗

Excuse me but I see it from a different view 请原谅我，但我看到它从一个不同的观点

I still believe in what a driven few could really do 我仍然相信什么驱动很少有人能真正做到

I know that the masses want to sleep 我知道群众想睡觉

And they would just rather hear me rapping to the beat 他们只会而是听我说唱的节拍

But I want to pass this planet to my son 但我想这个星球传递给我的儿子

A little better than it was when they handed it to me 有一点得更好了，当他们递给我

So I wrote a letter to my countrymen 所以我写了一封信给我的同胞

I'll be happy if it only reaches one of them 我会很高兴，如果只达到其中的一个

Reporting live A-L-I, your brother 报告现场A-L -I ，你的兄弟

Mourning in America, dreaming in color 莫宁在美国，梦想的颜色

[Dr. Cornel West:] [博士山茱萸西： ]

My dear Brother Ali, 我亲爱的兄弟阿里

I think you know deep down in your soul that 我想你知道，在你的灵魂深处那

Something, something just ain't right. 什么，什么是不对的。

You don't want to be just well adjusted to injustice 你不想只是很好的调整，以不公

And well adapted to indifference. You want to be 并且很好地适应了冷漠。你想成为

A person with integrity who leaves a mark on the world. 一个人的诚信谁离开对世界的标志。

People can say when you go that you left the world 人们可以说，当你去，你离开了人世

Just a little better than you found it. I understand. I want 只是比你发现它好一点。我明白了。我想

To be like that too. 要这样过。