| Song | The Proud - Album Version (Explicit) |
| Artist | Talib Kweli |
| Album | Quality |
| 作曲 : Dorrell, Greene | |
| The proudStand tall or don't stand at all, c'mon | |
| Uhh, yeahBreak it down | |
| What we do? | |
| We survive, it's more than pride | |
| We stay alive, ready to ride | |
| Aight put it down yo | |
| June 21, 2001 | |
| Timothy Mc | |
| Veigh is executed | |
| And the country breathe a sigh of relief | |
| Goodness prevails over evil, it seems | |
| Somehow when he's gone, we feel safer | |
| Little do we know | |
| Today the paper say | |
| Timothy Mc | |
| Veigh's in hell | |
| So everything's okay and all must be well | |
| I remember | |
| Oklahoma when they put out the blaze | |
| And put Islamic terrorist bombing, on the front page | |
| It's like saying only gays get | |
| AIDS, propaganda | |
| Like saying the problem's over when they locked that man up | |
| Wrong! It's just the beginning, the first inning | |
| Battle for | |
| America's soul, the devil's winning | |
| The President is | |
| Bush, the | |
| Vice President's a | |
| DickSo a whole lot of ****in is what we gon' get | |
| They don't wanna raise the babies so the election is fixed | |
| That's why we don't be ****in with politics | |
| They bet on that, parents fought and got wet for that | |
| Hosed down, bit by dogs, and got blacks into house arrest for that | |
| It's all good except for that - we still poor | |
| Money, power and respect is what we kill for, for real | |
| We survive, it's more than pride | |
| We stay alive, ready to ride | |
| August 4, 2001 | |
| A drunken police officer mows down an entire family in | |
| BrooklynThe judge lets him go with no bail | |
| It reminds us, of just how worthless our lives are to the justice system | |
| I struggle, to explain the situation to my son, it's hard | |
| Niggaz with knowledge is more dangerous than than niggaz with guns | |
| They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggaz dumb | |
| Target the gangs and graffiti with the | |
| Prop 21I already know the deal but what the **** do | |
| I tell my son? | |
| I want him livin right, livin good, respect the rules | |
| He's five years old and he still thinkin cops is cool | |
| How do I break the news that when he gets some size | |
| He'll be percieved as a threat or see the fear in they eyes | |
| It's in they job description to terminate the threat | |
| So 41 shots to the body is what he can expect | |
| The precedent is set, don't matter if he follow the law | |
| I know I'll give my son pride and make him swallow it all (damn!) | |
| **** the pigs! | |
| I think the pigs killed | |
| Big and 'Pac too | |
| If they didn't they know who did, they got to | |
| Who they serve and protect, nigga not you | |
| Cops shot off of ten | |
| G's but they got glocks too | |
| Let you protect yourself, or better yet respect yourself | |
| Straight into the hospital is where you gotta check yourself | |
| They be gettin tips from snitches and rival crews | |
| Doin them favors so they workin for the drug dealers too | |
| Just business enforcers with hate in they holsters | |
| Shoot you in the back, won't face you like a soldier | |
| Kurt Loder asked me what | |
| I say to a dead cop's wife | |
| Cops kill my people everyday, that's life | |
| We survive, it's more than pride | |
| We stay alive, ready to ride | |
| September 11, 2001 | |
| Terrorists attack the | |
| Pentagon and the | |
| World Trade | |
| CenterKills thousand and permanently scars | |
| America's false sense of security | |
| We see the best examples of humanity in the face of the worst | |
| As fire fighters, police officers, rescue workers | |
| And volunteers of all sorts, fight to save lives | |
| The world will never be the same again | |
| My heart go out to everybody at | |
| Ground Zero | |
| Red, black, yellow, white and brown heroes | |
| It's more complicated than black and white | |
| To give your own life is the greatest sacrifice | |
| But it's hard for me to walk down the block | |
| Seeing rats and roaches, crack viles and 40 ounce posters | |
| People broken down from years of oppression | |
| Become patriots when they way of life is threatened | |
| It's a hard conversation to have | |
| We lost kids, moms and dads, people ready to fight for the flag | |
| Damn, when did shit get this bad? | |
| America kill the innocent too, the cycle of violence is sad | |
| Damn! Welcome to the world, we here | |
| We've been at, war for years but it's much more clear (yeah) | |
| We got to face what lies ahead | |
| Fight for our truth and freedom and, ride for the dead | |
| We survive, it's more than pride | |
| We stay alive, ready to ride |
| zuò qǔ : Dorrell, Greene | |
| The proudStand tall or don' t stand at all, c' mon | |
| Uhh, yeahBreak it down | |
| What we do? | |
| We survive, it' s more than pride | |
| We stay alive, ready to ride | |
| Aight put it down yo | |
| June 21, 2001 | |
| Timothy Mc | |
| Veigh is executed | |
| And the country breathe a sigh of relief | |
| Goodness prevails over evil, it seems | |
| Somehow when he' s gone, we feel safer | |
| Little do we know | |
| Today the paper say | |
| Timothy Mc | |
| Veigh' s in hell | |
| So everything' s okay and all must be well | |
| I remember | |
| Oklahoma when they put out the blaze | |
| And put Islamic terrorist bombing, on the front page | |
| It' s like saying only gays get | |
| AIDS, propaganda | |
| Like saying the problem' s over when they locked that man up | |
| Wrong! It' s just the beginning, the first inning | |
| Battle for | |
| America' s soul, the devil' s winning | |
| The President is | |
| Bush, the | |
| Vice President' s a | |
| DickSo a whole lot of in is what we gon' get | |
| They don' t wanna raise the babies so the election is fixed | |
| That' s why we don' t be in with politics | |
| They bet on that, parents fought and got wet for that | |
| Hosed down, bit by dogs, and got blacks into house arrest for that | |
| It' s all good except for that we still poor | |
| Money, power and respect is what we kill for, for real | |
| We survive, it' s more than pride | |
| We stay alive, ready to ride | |
| August 4, 2001 | |
| A drunken police officer mows down an entire family in | |
| BrooklynThe judge lets him go with no bail | |
| It reminds us, of just how worthless our lives are to the justice system | |
| I struggle, to explain the situation to my son, it' s hard | |
| Niggaz with knowledge is more dangerous than than niggaz with guns | |
| They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggaz dumb | |
| Target the gangs and graffiti with the | |
| Prop 21I already know the deal but what the do | |
| I tell my son? | |
| I want him livin right, livin good, respect the rules | |
| He' s five years old and he still thinkin cops is cool | |
| How do I break the news that when he gets some size | |
| He' ll be percieved as a threat or see the fear in they eyes | |
| It' s in they job description to terminate the threat | |
| So 41 shots to the body is what he can expect | |
| The precedent is set, don' t matter if he follow the law | |
| I know I' ll give my son pride and make him swallow it all damn! | |
| the pigs! | |
| I think the pigs killed | |
| Big and ' Pac too | |
| If they didn' t they know who did, they got to | |
| Who they serve and protect, nigga not you | |
| Cops shot off of ten | |
| G' s but they got glocks too | |
| Let you protect yourself, or better yet respect yourself | |
| Straight into the hospital is where you gotta check yourself | |
| They be gettin tips from snitches and rival crews | |
| Doin them favors so they workin for the drug dealers too | |
| Just business enforcers with hate in they holsters | |
| Shoot you in the back, won' t face you like a soldier | |
| Kurt Loder asked me what | |
| I say to a dead cop' s wife | |
| Cops kill my people everyday, that' s life | |
| We survive, it' s more than pride | |
| We stay alive, ready to ride | |
| September 11, 2001 | |
| Terrorists attack the | |
| Pentagon and the | |
| World Trade | |
| CenterKills thousand and permanently scars | |
| America' s false sense of security | |
| We see the best examples of humanity in the face of the worst | |
| As fire fighters, police officers, rescue workers | |
| And volunteers of all sorts, fight to save lives | |
| The world will never be the same again | |
| My heart go out to everybody at | |
| Ground Zero | |
| Red, black, yellow, white and brown heroes | |
| It' s more complicated than black and white | |
| To give your own life is the greatest sacrifice | |
| But it' s hard for me to walk down the block | |
| Seeing rats and roaches, crack viles and 40 ounce posters | |
| People broken down from years of oppression | |
| Become patriots when they way of life is threatened | |
| It' s a hard conversation to have | |
| We lost kids, moms and dads, people ready to fight for the flag | |
| Damn, when did shit get this bad? | |
| America kill the innocent too, the cycle of violence is sad | |
| Damn! Welcome to the world, we here | |
| We' ve been at, war for years but it' s much more clear yeah | |
| We got to face what lies ahead | |
| Fight for our truth and freedom and, ride for the dead | |
| We survive, it' s more than pride | |
| We stay alive, ready to ride |