Singer: Dave
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Song: The Boy Who Played the Harp
Dave - The Boy Who Played the Harp Subtitles (vtt) (04:37-277-0-en) (PARTIAL PREVIEW)
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by RentAnAdviser.com
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Yeah
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I sometimes wonder, "What would
I do in the next generation?"
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In 1940, if I was enlisted to
fight for the nation, or
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In 1960, if I had to fight for
the rights of my people
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And lay down my life on the line
so my grandkids could live
a life that's peaceful
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Would I be on that? Would I be frontline?
That's what I'm thinkin'
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If I was alive in the 1912 on the
Titanic and it was sinkin'
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Who am I savin'? Am I fightin' women
and children, or am I waitin'?
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I wonder, "What would I do
in the next generation?"
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Battle of Karbala, if they capturеd
me for the sake of my fathеr
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Would I stand on my honour like
Hussein did it and tell
them to make me a martyr?
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Would I really get smarter? Forgive my
oppressor or stick to the creed?
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If I got locked inside like Nelson
Mandela, but never was freed
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I see a white man dance to rumba,
ain't study Patrice Lumumba
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But get on the stage and sing like
sungba, lajaja-ja-ja, sungba
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Fuck it, I wonder, "What would
I do in the next generation?"
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Would I fight for justice? Is it the
reason my mum named me David?
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How can you be king, how can you be
king, don't speak for the people?
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Them man try draw me out and compare
like me and these niggas are equal
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I'm a Black man and this bozo sayin'
my music socially conscious
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While the mandem troll the responses,
this world's gone totally bonkers
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I sometimes wonder, "What would
I do in the next generation?"
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But I'm knowin' the answer, 'cause what
am I doin' in this generation?
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Afraid to speak cah I don't wanna
risk it my occupation
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We got kids under occupation, my
parents, they wouldn't get that
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The people that died for our
freedom spoke on justice,
couldn't accept that
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I talk 'bout the money in all
my accounts, so why don't
I speak on the West Bank?
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Remember growin' up prejudiced,
the damage 7/7 did
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Extremists and terrorists, I
was afraid of the Taliban
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Can't speak out on illegal settlers,
now I'm afraid of a shadow-ban
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What would I do in the
next generation?
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Critiquin' African leaders
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For sellin' our country's natural resources
to the West for peanuts
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If they don't hear, they'll feel us
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I question what I'm alive for
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And can you say you're alive
if you ain't got somethin' you're
willin' to die for?
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What am I willin' to die for? What
am I doin' in this generation?
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I get in my head sometimes,
I feel like I'm in despair
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That feelin' of total powerlessness,
I get that sinkin' feelin'
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That good ain't defeatin' evil
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I put that pain on vinyl,
but feel like that shit ain't
movin' the needle
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Retweetin' people, raisin' awareness,
in all fairness
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Ain't gonna bring Chris
back to his parents
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But there's no other option,
it's a process
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Gotta stand and protest cah
they want man silenced
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Cah they want man dead or
they want man hopeless
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In the next generation, I spoke
with my ancestors in the
night and I showed them
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They spoke with tears in their
eyes for the brothers they lost
and said it was progress
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"How can it be progress?" I asked
him, confused, disgusted
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They said, "David, just so you
can fight this, you know how
much sufferin' touched us?
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And you got a chance, we come
from a time and a place where
you couldn't get justice
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Had to find peace in the fact
that we all answer to the
one what we trust in
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And in our generation, we did do peaceful
protests, just like you
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Burnt buildings, just like you,
did boycotts, just like you
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Sat in a hostel powerless, did
feel powerless just like you
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And I know that it may sound strange,
but we made some change
and we're just like you
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I know that you question your
character, I know that
you suffer in...........
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