Aashish Edakadampil - My Land [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1 - Brewsta]
It's Brewsta, Caribbean king
Telling you a bit about the world that I'm in
Between all the sea and the suns and the sand
The screams of the slaves stay haunting our land
The rich living lavish, the poor be feeling it
Classism still alive, they just be concealing it
Driving in the streets, my eyes looking down
'Cos I can't stand to look at the guy on the ground
The child with the frown, the beggar by the window
Disparity is destroying our kinfolk
So badman rise up with the rifle
Retaliation a gangsta disciple
Entire nation, in disarray
Goodbye to peace, hello to the misery
The murder capital where we murder for capital
I pray to God that the war don't finish we

[Hook - Adwoa Owusu]
'Cos this is my land and I'll watch it burning
Won't let a life get away
And this is my tale and I'll say it my way
No-one can take my pride away
Bear it and you'll stay

[Verse 2 - FellowMan]
Name, FellowMan, you guess my nation
My place by the tracks, my destination?
Down the street to record this jam
Say peace to the homeless man, he's my closest fam
His people built this state
Repaid with early graves, guilt and hate
And now the same thing's resuming
Living is hairy like Truman when you're presumed to be less than human
And that's some heavy stuff to get a grasp of
Especially when you're the one they say it's on behalf of
In my name?
I never did wrong to nobody; didn't do me the same, did you?
But leaders don't speak for the grunts
Never do, never have, never will, never once
This could really be the land of the free, if we demand it to be
Now if you're standing with me
C'mon

[Hook]

[Verse 3 - TempRizn]
You don't know where I'm from?
They call it motherland
You never heard of it?
Watch where the bombs land
Broken hearts anytime they drive by
You don't understand why beautiful eyes cry
Shattered dreams in the name of democracy?
Old men in suits afford such hypocrisy
They're running from war and poverty
It's like deja vu, rewind the history
They see the white man in camouflage
Like me seeing a ghost with his entourage
You first destroy, then you preach
We know what you're here for, don't you leech?
Don't meet the palm with the fist
You heard the tales, know the gist
They say it's too late to be on the same team
But it's never too late to dream

[Hook]

[Verse 4 - Justified P.E.A.C.E.]
I got some fresh Jordans, a new watch
Painted on your TV screen, heated Glocks
Handheld cannons, with my pants sagging
Go to church just to tell 'em I'mma keep swagging
Illiterate biblical money's my centerfold
Rooted in the government, my worth is subliminal
I eat the fast food to keep my life on fast forward
Can't make it past 25, wasted the last 24
Seven, on a non existent nine to five
Thought about minimal wage until I push the rocks
Over my grave, I'm young and untamed
Cause my daddy disappeared with my dreams in his hands
This is my land; but why they take it from me?
Half my sisters and brothers don't know there's moore in us; peace
To the melanin deficit analog unintelligent digital simulated media brainwashing my brethren

[Hook]

[Bridge - Adwoa Owusu]
All this time we have been running
Centuries and still we're hurting
Can't decide if we are still human
Wish I was exaggerating
A billion lives have passed in waiting
The answer was never in hating

[Verse 5 - Aashish Edakadampil]
Break the locks, we have been misinformed
Raise a storm, no, we won't conform
Handed down a dying earth
Immersed in hate from the time of birth
Latitudes decide your worth
A human's dearth a human's mirth
Here we are on cosmic dust
Look at how we all combust
Was unjust but now disgusts
Pause the beat - it's meant to hurt
My land, your land, promised land for the coke brand
Ten more minutes they have their way there'll be nothing left to withstand
Yeah I read my history; bought it with the currency
But in rage the pages all got lit up when I found he wrote that story
Allah krishna buddha and christ - what if the child can't afford the price?
I don't wanna chide but I can-not hide the pain inside; now you decide
Nobody can tell what to do when I'm thinking about ways to hit undo
All they had to do was teach me love and I know that it sounds like a painful truth
Open your eyes, time to see - there's a key to an us on the family tree
All summed up on a pale blue dot wishing for humanity