Grime - On the White House Lawn [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

(Intro – Malcolm X)
“And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. I speak as a victim… of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy, all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. We open our eyes today and look around America, we see America, not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don’t see any American dream. We’ve experienced only the American nightmare.”

I come full force
Like a bat out of hell
On the White House lawn
With a pocketful o’ shells
Til the White House gone
And my Pops doin’ well
And George W. Bush
Is locked in a cell

What the fuck!?
They stole the election again
And you want me to pretend
I’m the President’s friend?
He had plans for Afghanistan
On September 10
I’d rather see the President dead
Like Eminem

It’s that simple
The whole world’s against you
You’ve never been
Through the hell we live through
I hope there’s a God
And I hope he don’t forgive you
I hope there’s a lake of fire
That you get sent to
And I hope that there’s a heaven
That my Mother could get into
If anyone deserves it
It’s the woman that kept you
How many babies born
Cuz abortion is sinful
And left to die in a dumpster
When they a month old?

‘Scuse me
My mind’s wanderin’ now
But I choose to believe
He knocked them towers down
There’s over a hundred thousand
Iraqis in the ground
And Osama Bin Laden’s still not to be found
So who’s the terrorist?
Scarin’ Americans
With national security and gay marriages
There’s Big Brother cameras
In ghetto areas
They always watchin’
Like the eyes on the pyramids

(Fred Hampton)
“They can do anything they want to to us. We might not be back, I might be in jail, I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you can remember I said, that the last words on my lips were that, ‘I am a revolutionary!’”

(Huey P. Newton)
“The police in our community occupy our area, our community, as a foreign troop occupies territory. And the police are in our community not to promote our welfare or our security or our safety, but they are there to contain us, to brutalize us and murder us.”

The world’s fucked
And it’s only getting’ worse
What’s your life worth
When you sleep in the dirt?
But the first shall be last
And the last shall be first
I’m waitin’ on the day
That we inherit the Earth
‘Cause until then
Everywhere is war
When the children can’t breathe
Clean air no more
And the homeless stampede
The grocery stores
Working within the system
Is a hopeless cause
I’m a freedom fighter
For those that are suffering
My people
Not Democrats or Republicans
My people
Sleepin’ on the sidewalk struggling
My people
Standin’ out on my block hustlin’
Show no loyalty
To this puppet government
If they don’t suffer with my people, well fuck ‘em then

They spent 200 billion
On Saddam
And people still starvin’
In south Tucson
And I don’t support the troops
So let it be known
They’re murderin’ people
For defendin’ their homes
Cause you can’t be against war
And for the soldiers
Til’ they turn they guns on they officers
And takeover
It’s crazy
But this is how the world made me
I was raised by wolves
Your church can’t save me
Die in the street
Before I live in a cell
On the White House lawn
With a pocketful o’ shells
Yeah!

(Malcolm X)
“It’ll be the ballot. Or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty. Or it will be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price… don’t use the word ‘freedom’ in your vocabulary