Zinn - Requiem of a Dream [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Hook]

We all got to have a dream
Nothing's impossible you just got to build steam
Stay on your course keep running like a stream
So even when they scheme we were born to reign supreme
We all shine like stars in the sky
But you'll never know how far you reach unless you try
Our teachers need to teach, our leaders need to lead
Life is beautiful even when we bleed

[Verse 1]

I guess you're never too young to die
The hollows fly they ask why reaching for the sky
When so many mother's cry
Then these mother fuckers wonder why we occupy
Where we wrestle with the devil settled in the ghettos
Pedal to the metal either melting pots or kettles
In our vessels we're rebels only without the medals
So I'm through with the puppets I'm aiming at Geppetto
They play our heartstrings; this is a rebel's song
So many caught up in the game but they play along
Preying on the weak when they know it's wrong
Of course we got to stand our ground but we're staying strong
In a nation petrified and can't face the music
Killing prophets for profits your auto-tunes are useless
The politicians got our future's hanging by their nooses
How am I a nuisance when I know where the truth is?

[Hook]

[Verse 2]

While overseas they're burning Korans
In the streets they bring heat and I ain’t talking Lebron
So how do you console a mom?
Who just lost a son so they're praying for Trayvon
After the dawn there's light to carry on
Silence on the lawn but hope is never gone
The pressure's on the presses pressing along
It's depressing how the press can press right into wrong
On eye open watching the fox and the peacock
I see BS like cheating ads for Reebok
There's no church in the jungle where they heat rock
Up town we're soul survivors like Pete Rock
Clueless news networks are the arms
Of big corporations spinning lies out of yarn
So fast and furious but who was selling arms?
Without heroes the bureaus are causing more harm

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

They package candidates like toothpaste and cars
Politicians talk freedom with millions behind bars
The lesser of two evils is never a democracy
From Bush to Barack the bureaucracy’s still hypocrisy
So Lady Justice is blind to the malice
One hand on the Bible while she sips from a poisoned chalice
Everyday the police use excessive force
And get away cause the system has no remorse
That's why every hood is sponsored by coke
Do the math youngsters walk around with pockets full of hope
No Jimmy Iovine when they got you in the scope
So blacks and Latinos can barely even cope
The War on Drugs is a war on the people
They keep us out of dorms we're sick of cells and the needles
And they've been profiting ever since
Prison is a business, ask Merrill Lynch

[Hook]