lirik lagu ziggy ramo - interlude: black fella
[poem: steven oliver]
i’m a blakfella, i’m not a drunk, textbook, uneducated, unemployed, welfare~dependent, slack fella
and if you try to tell me different, then you might just get a smack fella
not that i condone violence, i just don’t condone silence
and when you try to tell me about what it means to be an aborigine
with your stupid ass jokes, stereotypes, and discovery channel mentality
i’m afraid i have to speak up and let you know about me
see, i ain’t what you’vе seen in your travel magazine
and i haven’t got thе look from your history book
n0ble? maybe
savage? no
unless you’re talking about my words and the way that they flow
but this isn’t about style, it’s about attitude
it’s about people who formulate their ill~informed views
who switch on their tv and then suddenly, out of the blue, they know all about me
“oh, he comes from that race involved in that car chase
it’s such a disgrace what they do to the place”
i mean, seriously, in this day and age?
you wanna learn about me, you need to learn to engage
don’t base your decisions on things that you see, make up your mind by talking to me
i won’t rob you, or beg, and i won’t try to fight you
but if you’re a man and you’re hot, i might like you
yes, that’s a hint, i’m single, i am
i’m using my rhymes to try to get me a man
but enough about that
’cause i’m here to teach, to beseech, not preach about the heights we could reach
if you stood by our sides and simply just talked
and if some of the time in our footsteps you walked
then maybe you’d see we’re not young and free
we’re ancient and chained from the stains that remain
from a past that’s never been dealt with, because people don’t get off their ass
instead, they’ll read articles, switch on the news, and somehow, through media, the lies become truth
just like when people see a drunk black man on the street
and somehow from that, that black man becomes me
but the drunk white man, who stumbles and falls, oh, he’s not a reflection of a race at all
so open your mind ’cause perception’s a lie
learn what it is to not see with your eyes
’cause i’m a blakfella
not a drunk, criminal, textbook, uneducated, unemployed, welfare~dependent, slack fella
and i’m trying to put your minds on the right track, fellas
so question yourself
challenge ideals, start a revolution
are you part of the problem?
or the solution?
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