Word Game 歌詞
Word Game (LP版) - Stephen Stills
Would you knock a man down if you don't like
The cut of his clothes
Could you put a man away
If you don't want to hear what he knows
Well it's happening right here people dying of fear
By the droves
And I know most of you
Either don't believe it's true
Or else you don't know what to do
Or maybe I'm singing about you
Who knows
It's incredibly sick you can feel it as across
The land it flows
Prejudice is slick when it's a word game it festers and grows
Move along quick it furthers one to have somewhere to go
You can feel it as it's rumblin'
Let emotions keep a tumblin'
Then as cities start to crumblin'
Mostly empty bellies grumblin'
Here we go
People see somebody different fear is the first reaction shown
Then they think they've got him licked
The barbaric hunt begins
And they move in slow
A human spirit is devoured
The remains left to carrion crow
I was told that life is change
And yet history remains
Does it always stay the same
Do we shrug it off and say
Only God knows
By and by somebody usually goes
Down to the ghetto
Try and help but they don't know why folks treat them cold
And the rich keep getting richer and the rest of us
Just keep getting old
You see one must have a mission
In order to be a good Christian
If you don't you will be missing
High Mass
Or the evening show
And the well fed masters reap
The harvests of the polluted seeds
They've sown
Smug and self righteous they b**ch about people they owe
And you can't prove them wrong
They're so God d**n sure they know
I have seen these things with my very own eyes
And defended my battered soul
It must be too tough to die
American propaganda South African lies
Will not force me to take up arms that's my enemies' pride
Ands I won't fight by his rules that's foolishness besides
His ignorance is gonna do him in and nobody's gonna cry
Because his children they are growing up
And plainly tired of putting up
With bigots and their silver cups
They're fed up they might throw up
On you alright