https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AoZy8K7qsw
They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve it
他们说我是个废物，永远不会达到高处
Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it
我不想虚幻地活着，只好从惨不忍赌的现实中汲取成长的养份
I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic
但人们听到这些故事总是呕吐，像个厌食症者
It's a dirty game and nobody is willing to clean it
他们视之而不见，不想了解这一切
But this is for the paraplegic, people dreamin' of runnin'
就像是截肢的人只能幻想转瞬为风的感觉
Ladies married to men who don't please 'em, dreamin' of comin'
也像女人嫁给无法让她高潮的丈夫时，将永远无法体会愉悦
Verbally murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin'（注 1）
我是个连环杀手，用饶舌扫射那些人
Some cowards on the Internet didn't think I would sell
那些龟在萤幕后面总是冷言冷语的人
Scared to talk shit in person, 'cause they stuck in a shell
口口声声说我不会受到欢迎
And couldn't understand the pain of being stuck in a cell
反正我也不奢望他们能够理解吃牢饭的痛苦
Hell is not a place you go, if you're not a Christian
如果你是个基督徒，你才需要考虑下地狱的可能性
It's the failure of your life's greatest ambition
当你的野心使你贪得无厌时，你已经身处地狱
It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion
盲目信奉任何宗教都是个坏主意
I don't see the difference in between the wrong and the wrong
恐怖份子以及美国军队都做出了错误的选择
Soldiers emptyin' their clips at little kids and their moms
射杀老弱妇孺的士兵以及身上绑着炸弹的极端分子
Are just like a desperate motherfucker strapped to a bomb
两者并没有任何分别
Humanity's gone, smoked up in a gravity bong
人性早已荡然无存，共和党和民主党都在为富人奋斗
By a democrat republican Cheech and Chong（注 2）
就像一对只想用大麻把自己搞 High 的喜剧组合
Immortal Technique, you never heard me preach in a song
我从来不用音乐传教，我只说真正我想说的
I'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the facts
我也不是个争议人物，我只是说出没人想听的、冷血的事实
Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back
把手放在空中甩什么都不用管，试着感觉有支枪正抵着你的背
And shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack
摇落！摇落！像个得了毒品戒断症候群的婴儿
And since life's a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas
生活是一场赌博，在输与赢之间度过
I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages
命运啊请给我个节奏，让我开始 freestyle
I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be
我恨他们所说，关于我们的历史那套说词
As if our people's history started with slavery
仿佛我们生来就是必须是奴隶
Painfully I discovered the shit they kept a secret
因为他们始终不让我们知道真实的故事
This is the exodus like the black Jews out of Egypt（注 3）
我们必须逃出这里，前往应许之地
I keep it reality based with the music I make
我的音乐奠基于真实
Blow up the truth in your face with the style I run with
用我的饶舌把血淋淋的事实甩到你的脸上
Like the Navy missile that shot down Flight 800（注 4）
就像海军飞弹击落环球 800 班机
I'm like the Africans who came here before Colombus
我是比哥伦布还要早发现新大陆的非洲人
And from the fifteen hundreds until after the morrow
从 15 世纪开始直到现在
I watch Latin America get raped in the sorrow
我眼睁睁看着拉丁美洲人被悲伤绑架
You see the Spaniards never left despues de Colon
自从哥伦布来了之后，殖民者从没离开过
And if you don't believe me, you can click on Univision
如果你不相信我，你可以看看 Univision（注 5）
I never seen so much racism in all of my life
我从未看见如此活生生的种族主义
Every program and newscast, all of them white
所有节目上都是白人
It's like Apartheid with 10 percent ruling the rest
百分之 10 的白人统治其他人，这就是所谓的种族隔离
That type of stress 'll make me put the fucking tool to your chest
这股压力让我怒不可遏，想要把刀子插进你的胸膛里
Step in my way nigga, I wouldn't wanna be ya
一起踏上我这条路吧兄弟，我并不想成为你的复制品
I burn slow like pissing drunk with gonorrhea
我痛苦地燃烧着，宛如淋病患者尿尿时生殖器感受到的痛楚
I'll do a free show in North Korea, burning the flag
我要在北韩办一场免费的表演，在台上烧毁国旗
While J. Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag（注 6）
当政治人物们忙着隐藏真相
Try to confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this：
企图混淆你真实与虚假，让你愈来愈难理解：
Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous
资本主义和民主并非同义词
You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill
你狼吞虎咽那些政治的洗脑宣传，如同吞下堕胎药防止自由诞生
Sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill
顺便把灵魂送给那些高高在上的人
But that will never be me, 'cause I'm leavin' the past
但是，我永远不会这么做，因为我正离开过去
Like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass
像受虐妇女带着孩子离开该死的浑蛋
Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash
毒瘾者终于决定离开毒窟
Unbreakable Technique leavin' the plane crash
坚不可摧的我正从星球起飞
I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return
带着我的智慧离开，不再回来
I spit reality, instead of what you usually learn
我啐一口暗藏真实的痰在你的脸上，嘻哈的主题不只有金钱与性爱
And I refuse to be concerned with condescending advice
我一点也不在意那些自以为是的高人对我的指指点点
'Cause I'm the only motherfucker that could change my life
因为只有他妈的我自己能够改变我的生活
Some people think I won't make it
有一些人觉得我永远不会达到高处
But I know that I will
但我知道我可以
Escape the emptiness
如果你不这样做的话，这片空无迟早会杀死你
'Cause that shit is slow and it kills
宛如温水煮青蛙
The flow and the skill, I made y'all believe that it last
我的 flow 和技术永远一流
You can make the future, But it starts with leaving the past
你可以和我一起创造未来，但首先，你必须向过去道别
注 1：David Berkowitz，人称 Son of sam，美国的连续杀人犯。民谣歌手
Elliott Smith 也有一首歌叫做 Son of sam。
注 2：Cheech and Chong，美国知名喜剧双人组。
注 3：引用出埃及记的典故。
注 4：Flight 800，1996 年发生的环球航空 800 号班机空难，该班机起飞后 12 分钟即
爆炸解体，机上无人生还，有一说认为飞机是被飞弹误击所以坠毁。
注 5：Univision，美国规模最大的西班牙语电视台。
注 6：J. Edgar Hoover，美国联邦调查局首任局长，利用职权骚扰异议者以及政治活动
份子，并透过利用非法手段蒐集证据。
Immortal Technique是最喜欢的饶舌歌手之一，
除了音乐好听之外，歌词里的知识深度更是让人惊叹
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