Dave - The Boy Who Played the Harp (with Lyrics & Subtitles)
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Dave - The Boy Who Played the Harp (en) Lyrics
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Yeah
I sometimes wonder, "What would
I do in the next generation?"
In 1940, if I was enlisted to
fight for the nation, or
In 1960, if I had to fight for
the rights of my people
And lay down my life on the line
so my grandkids could live
a life that's peaceful
Would I be on that? Would I be frontline?
That's what I'm thinkin'
If I was alive in the 1912 on the
Titanic and it was sinkin'
Who am I savin'? Am I fightin' women
and children, or am I waitin'?
I wonder, "What would I do
in the next generation?"
Battle of Karbala, if they capturеd
me for the sake of my fathеr
Would I stand on my honour like
Hussein did it and tell
them to make me a martyr?
Would I really get smarter? Forgive my
oppressor or stick to the creed?
If I got locked inside like Nelson
Mandela, but never was freed
I see a white man dance to rumba,
ain't study Patrice Lumumba
But get on the stage and sing like
sungba, lajaja-ja-ja, sungba
Fuck it, I wonder, "What would
I do in the next generation?"
Would I fight for justice? Is it the
reason my mum named me David?
How can you be king, how can you be
king, don't speak for the people?
Them man try draw me out and compare
like me and these niggas are equal
I'm a Black man and this bozo sayin'
my music socially conscious
While the mandem troll the responses,
this world's gone totally bonkers
But I'm knowin' the answer, 'cause what
am I doin' in this generation?
Afraid to speak cah I don't wanna
risk it my occupation
We got kids under occupation, my
parents, they wouldn't get that
The people that died for our
freedom spoke on justice,
couldn't accept that
I talk 'bout the money in all
my accounts, so why don't
I speak on the West Bank?
Remember growin' up prejudiced,
the damage 7/7 did
Extremists and terrorists, I
was afraid of the Taliban
Can't speak out on illegal settlers,
now I'm afraid of a shadow-ban
What would I do in the
next generation?
Critiquin' African leaders
For sellin' our country's natural resources
to the West for peanuts
If they don't hear, they'll feel us
I question what I'm alive for
And can you say you're alive
if you ain't got somethin' you're
willin' to die for?
What am I willin' to die for? What
am I doin' in this generation?
I get in my head sometimes,
I feel like I'm in despair
That feelin' of total powerlessness,
I get that sinkin' feelin'
That good ain't defeatin' evil
I put that pain on vinyl,
but feel like that shit ain't
movin' the needle
Retweetin' people, raisin' awareness,
in all fairness
Ain't gonna bring Chris
back to his parents
But there's no other option,
it's a process
Gotta stand and protest cah
they want man silenced
Cah they want man dead or
they want man hopeless
In the next generation, I spoke
with my ancestors in the
night and I showed them
They spoke with tears in their
eyes for the brothers they lost
and said it was progress
"How can it be progress?" I asked
him, confused, disgusted
They said, "David, just so you
can fight this, you know how
much sufferin' touched us?
And you got a chance, we come
from a time and a place where
you couldn't get justice
Had to find peace in the fact
that we all answer to the
one what we trust in
And in our generation, we did do peaceful
protests, just like you
Burnt buildings, just like you,
did boycotts, just like you
Sat in a hostel powerless, did
feel powerless just like you
And I know that it may sound strange,
but we made some change
and we're just like you
I know that you question your
character, I know that
you suffer in silence
I know that it don't feel
right when you go to the
club in Victoria Island
'Cause how can you dance in
the club? There's a hundred
people beggin' outside it
I know the sins of your father,
I know that you're
desperate to fight them
So step in your purpose, speak for your
people, share all your secrets
Expose your emotions, you might not see,
but there's people that need it
Never demand it, and if God can grant
it, manifest it and receive it
Your name is David, and that
covenant sacred, you gotta
promise you'll keep it"
Deep it, let man talk on the
ting, but I bleed it
Man wanna speak on the
scene, but I seen it
Tried in the fire by Ghetts,
I'm anointed
Kano passed me the torch,
I received it
God told me I'm the one, I believed it
Shout Hollowman 'cause he
helped me achieve it
I'm the youngest of my brothers, Father,
ease the burden on our mothers
Give these niggas money,
see their colours
Don't mix me with them,
I'm not the one
Grind and miss the summer,
when it comes, I'm Abraham,
I sacrifice the sun
Where I'm from, they
sacrifice their son
Hold up, I ain't finished,
I ain't done
My ancestors, my ancestors told
me that my life is prophecy
And it's not just me, it's a
whole generation of people
gradually makin' change
There ain't a greater task
Shift that, make a name, make a start
They don't know what they're
facin' when they ask
With the will of David in my heart
The story of the boy
who played the harp
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