暂停下载lrc！<br><br>[ti:anne braden]<br>[ar:flobots]<br>[al:fight with tools]<br>[by:www.geciduoduo.com]<br><br>[00:02.00]flobots - anne braden<br>[00:07.00]lrc by lzh ,from jiangxi pingxiang<br>[00:12.00]@ www.geciduoduo.com @<br>[00:16.00]<br>[00:17.61]from the color of the faces in sunday songs<br>[00:20.37]to the hatred they raised all the youngsters on<br>[00:22.16]once upon in this country long ago<br>[00:24.22]she knew there was something wrong<br>[00:26.29]because the song said "yellow, red, black, and white"<br>[00:28.32]everyone precious in the path of christ<br>[00:30.16]but what about the daughter of the woman cleaning their house?<br>[00:32.20]wasn’t she a child they were singing about?<br>[00:34.28]and if jesus loves us, black and white skin<br>[00:36.19]why didn’t her white mother invite them in?<br>[00:37.94]when did it become a room for no blacks to step in?<br>[00:40.12]how did she already know not the ask the question?<br>[00:42.21]left lasting impressions, adolescence comforts gone<br>[00:45.72]she never thought things would ever change but<br>[00:48.31]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[00:50.26]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[00:57.77]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[01:05.59]years later she found herself<br>[01:07.90]mississippi bound to help<br>[01:10.08]stop the legalized lynching of<br>[01:11.82]mr. willy mcgee<br>[01:13.73]but they couldn’t stop it<br>[01:15.40]so they thought that they’d talk to the governor about what happened<br>[01:17.63]and say "we’re tired of being used as an excuse to kill black men"<br>[01:21.72]but the cops wouldn’t let ’em past and<br>[01:24.09]these women they struck ’em as uppity<br>[01:26.13]so they hauled them all off to jail<br>[01:27.86]and they called it protective custody<br>[01:29.89]and from her cell she heard her jailors grumblin’ about outsiders<br>[01:33.80]when she called them out and said she was from the south they shouted:<br>[01:37.49]"why is a nice southern lady makin’ trouble for the governor?"<br>[01:41.71]she said "i guess i’m not your type of lady,<br>[01:43.63]and i guess i’m not your type of southerner<br>[01:45.85]but before you call me traitor, well its plainest just to say<br>[01:49.69]i was a child in mississippi but i’m ashamed of it today."<br>[01:54.06]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[02:01.60]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[02:09.65]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[02:17.67]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[02:25.88]imagine the world that you’re standing within<br>[02:28.25]all of your neighbors, your family friends<br>[02:30.11]how would you cope facing the fact<br>[02:32.18]the flesh on their hands was tainted with sin?<br>[02:34.08]she faced this every day<br>[02:35.32]people she saw on a regular basis<br>[02:37.56]people she loved in several cases<br>[02:39.58]people she knew were incredibly racist<br>[02:41.66]it was painful, but she never stopped lovin’ them<br>[02:44.21]never stopped calling their names<br>[02:45.64]and she never stopped being a southern woman<br>[02:47.98]and she never stopped fighting for change<br>[02:49.99]and she saw that her struggle was in the tradition of ancestors never aware of her<br>[02:54.13]it continues today, the soul of a southerner<br>[02:56.24]born of the other america<br>[02:57.88]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[03:05.74]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[03:13.55]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[03:21.70]she always knew there was something wrong<br>[03:29.24]<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>