Higher Level - KRS-One
以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
Written by:Christopher E Martin/Lawrence Krsone Parker
After seven years of rocking
七年摇滚岁月匆匆过
How do you rate me
你如何评价我
Poorly or greatly
是贬低还是盛赞
Everybody seems to be going for there's lately
众人皆随波逐流趋之若鹜
Yo mad heads be needing money
疯狂的人们渴求金钱
So listen very close as I conduct this little study
且听我细细道来这荒诞研究
See it's funny to me you can watch TV
多可笑啊 你盯着电视屏幕
And give up your life trying to be all you can be
耗尽一生追逐所谓的完美人生
In the army
在军队中
Not knowing your history
对历史一无所知
You either fight and die or come back home in misery
要么战死沙场 要么带着痛苦返乡
Yo get with me I deal with reality
听我说 我只讲现实真相
Loosen your mind to the truth and don't get mad at me
敞开心扉接受事实 别对我发怒
No politician can give you peace
政客给不了你和平
If you trust Jesus why do you vote for a beast
若信耶稣 为何投票给恶魔
Emancipation is long over due
解放早已迟来
So overcome procrastination
战胜拖延的枷锁吧
Because freedom is within you
因为自由就在你心中
For some reason we think we're free
不知为何我们自以为自由
So we'll never be
却永远无法真正自由
Because we haven't recognized slavery
因为我们尚未认清奴役的本质
You're still a slave look at how you behave
看看你的行为 你仍是奴隶
Debating on where and when and how and what Massey gave
争论着谁在何时何地给予什么
You want to know how we screwed up from the beginning
你想知道我们如何从一开始就走向歧途
We accepted our oppressor's religion
我们接受了压迫者的宗教
So in the case of slavery it ain't hard
奴隶制的存在毫不意外
Because it's right in the eyes of their god
因为在他们神明眼中这理所当然
Where is our god the god that represents us
我们的神明何在 那个代表我们的神
The god that looks like me the god that I can trust
那个与我相似 值得我信赖的神
A god of peace and love not mass hysteria
应是仁爱之神 而非集体狂热
I don't want a god that blesses America
我不需要保佑美国的神明
I could never really vote for the devil
我永远不会投票给恶魔
Let me take you to a higher level
让我带你登上更高境界
Title take the title from the bible we can get there
从圣经中窃取标题 我们终将抵达彼岸
Rip the title from off the front of the bible god don't live there
撕下圣经封面的标题 上帝并不居住其中
Too many inconsistencies too many mysteries
太多自相矛盾 太多未解之谜
Picture the pope and the Vatican laughing and drinking and singing and
想象教皇与梵蒂冈 纵情欢饮高歌
Kissing me
亲吻着我
I stand with god whether I'm paid or whether I'm crying broke
无论贫富荣辱 我都与上帝同在
I like to ask these politicians would Jesus vote
我想质问政客们 耶稣会投票给谁
The way we view god is a freaking shame
我们看待上帝的方式真是可悲
Church is to blame
教会难辞其咎
We trust god but bomb Hussein
我们信奉上帝却轰炸侯赛因
We simply loving the scripture
我们盲目崇拜经文
Same scripture that whipped 'cha
正是这经文鞭笞着你
Sooner it'll hit 'cha
报应终将降临
Religion's getting richer
宗教日益富有
With that European version of Christ made into a picture
靠着那欧洲版基督画像
Our society's getting sicker and sicker and sicker
我们的社会正日益沉沦 病入膏肓
Like liquor we are god intoxicated
如同醉汉般沉迷于虚幻信仰
Not to the true god but the one the government created
并非真正的神明 而是政府塑造的偶像
The same governments telling people to vote
正是这个政府 鼓动民众参与投票
I pray to god because the people have lost hope
我向天祈祷 因人们已失去希望
You either vote for the mumps or the measles
你只能在腮腺炎与麻疹间抉择
Whether you vote for the lesser of two evils you vote for evil
无论选择哪个 都是在向罪恶低头
Politics and god are not equal
政治与神明 从来就不对等
But the education if you don't guard is really lethal
若不守护教育 后果将致命
People have more respect for a holy book
人们对圣书的敬畏
Than they do for a cow on a meat hook
远胜于屠宰场上的牛
Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level
耶稣信徒们处处谴责撒旦
But every Halloween they're dressing like devils
却在万圣节装扮成恶魔模样
I pray to you for the light you might give them
我向你祈祷 愿赐予他们光明
Mother make them know that you're living with them
母亲啊 让他们知晓你与他们同在
You begin them and end them in silence
你默然创造又终结他们
Frankly if they knew you they would understand violence
坦白说若他们了解你 就会理解这暴力
I pray to you for the pope and the Vatican
我为你向教皇与梵蒂冈祈祷
Have mercy mother cause I know that you're mad at them
宽恕吧母亲 我知你对他们愤怒难消
The white Jesus deceived us awhile ago
白人耶稣早已将我们欺骗
And pope Julius the second paid Michaelmas
尤利乌斯二世教皇支付了米迦勒节
I know this happened in 1519 yet
我知这发生在1519年
This is the image we can't seem to forget
但这幻影我们始终难以忘却
Vote for god don't vote for the devil
别为恶魔投票 请为神明投下一票
Let me take you to a higher level
让我带你登上更高境界