Testo Claiming the City - Macklemore
Testo della canzone Claiming the City (Macklemore), tratta dall'album The Language of My World
Life moves pretty fast
You don't stop and look around
Once in a while
You could miss it
Look, I've been away from my city
The city's changes ain't pretty
Babies still playing
In ditchy forgotten corners
The city's forgotten its warriors
Who died young
Eyes hating the sun
That's shining before us
How rotten bodies fertilizing the forest
Of concrete and glass
Foul hearted police aiming their gas
My head hang over beats
I hope my ghosts stay in the past
And days I couldn't play to the pad
We the same kids
They'd be sending to invade Iraq
And "make it safe" with crack
I got that Gray Goose and OJ in a glass
The last day before my cousin hit the pen
Down to swing
I came back to the town
Just to be down with the king
And loving surroundings it seems
Just then he find out
His baby cousin fell off a balcony
Images of a violent paradise is drowning me
Lost souls and I can't let go or tell no
The same scenario that rules South Othello
Black, Browns and yellow
Southsiders tell the devil hello
And heaven bye
And it hurts too much to ask why
From the places with plenty
To the space with no pity
The forces changing our city
(One day at a time)
If I don't change what's been given
What can I say to my children
Who gonna be claiming this city
(One day)
I grew up on Capitol Hill
With two parents and two cars
They had a beautiful marriage
We even had a swing set in our yard
My mom didn't have a job
Because my dad made enough money
That we could live comfortably
And he could support us
Now, he'd commute to Tacoma
So we knew we'd be good
But then I realized
Everybody looked just like me
In my neighborhood
I'd go to school
Which was diverse
But indeed us
I got sandwiches and Capri-Sun's
And my friends ate the free lunch
It's crazy trying to look back
Cause when I was growing up
I didn't understand the fact was
There's something called a social status
And my black friends weren't
In my financial bracket
And then my city's divided
From neighborhood to neighborhood
We're polarized but we claim
That we're progressive
The police shoot in the hood
But never once in my residence
Has a white person been shot
Or even stopped in a Lexus
And to think that we claim
That so much has changed
Since Brown versus the Board of Education
And Roe versus Wade
But around my way it all stays the same
They just figured out a way to separate
The black and white face
From the places with plenty
To the space with no pity
The forces changing our city
(One day at a time)
If I don't change what's been given
What can I say to my children
Who gonna be claiming this city
(One day)
From the places with plenty
To the space with no pity
The forces changing our city
(One day at a time)
If I don't change what's been given
What can I say to my children
Who gonna be claiming this city
(One day)
Say it's the richest city in the world, right
Images of Tent City
In the shadows of Amazon's office site
In the jungle down the slide
In Jose Rizal's park
There's this part in the gate
With a trail to a place over I-5
Where families survive
Most my early life we've known about it
Called development
They kicked them folks out
And moved them around
Every chance they can since
So scared of homelessness
But ignoring them ain't gonna change it
And tearing down the 'jects
Ain't gonna make your ass safer
For all that paper wasted just to build up Safeco
While Garfield High School still remains
Like a slave boat
We gave up on hope
A long time ago, so
I wake on this floor
After pacing hours before
Mind racing like a child torn in war zones
With every side challenged
Needing to manage
And understand this balance
I can't fall or falter
Brother, I'm just an author
And no amount of words offered
Has ever been enough to alter this system
Swallowing souls broke
My own folks roam upcoast
Holding dreams close of what America was supposed to be
But it works for the rich only
This Southend in reality
Took my family back
To what they was running from before
When they left that war
Same shit, different continent
Home don't exist anymore
Home don't exist anymore
The 206 that raised me just ain't the same, yo
(All those moments)
(All those moments)
(All those moments will be lost, in time)
(Like tears in rain)
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Writer(s): Ben Haggerty
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