Black

Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent
听着，黑色很漂亮，黑色很好
Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident
黑色是痛苦，黑色是欢乐，黑色是显而易见的
It's working twice as hard
heiren工作要比别人辛苦两倍
As the people you know you're better than
因为你需要做到他们的两倍，
'Cause you need to do double what they do so you can level them
你才能达到和他们同样的高度
Black is so much deeper than just African-American
heiren的黑色比非裔美国人深得多
Our heritage been severed,
我们的遗产被破坏了
You never got to experiment with family trees,
你不用拿家谱做试验
'Cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed
因为他们教你饥荒和贪婪
And show you pictures of our fam on their knees
给你看我们家人跪着的照片
Tell us we used to be barbaric, we had actual Queens
告诉我们我们以前是野蛮人，但我们有真正的皇后
Black is watching child soldiers
Getting killed by other children
heiren在看着儿童兵自相残杀
Feeling sick, like "oh **** this could have happened to me"
感觉不舒服，比如“oh, shit, 这可能发生在我身上”
Your mummy watchin' tellin' stories 'bout your dad and your niece
你妈妈在看你爸爸和你侄女的故事
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
浆果越黑，果汁越甜
A kid dies, the blacker the killer, the sweeter the news
一个小孩儿死了，凶手越黑，新闻越引人注目
And if he's white you give him a chance, he's ill and confused
如果他是bairen，你就会给他一次机会，他会被描述成有精神疾病或是误入歧途
If he's black he's probably armed, you see him and shoot
如果他是heiren，你就会认为他可能有武器，你看到他就会直接开枪
Look, black is growing up around the barbershop
听着，heiren在理发店附近长大
Mummy saying stay away from trouble, you’re in yard a lot
妈妈说离麻烦远点，待在院子里
Studying for ages, appreciating the chance you got
好好学习，珍惜机会
'Cause black is in your blood,
因为你的血液里有黑色，
And you ain't even got the heart to stop
你连停下来的心都没有
Black is stepping in for your mother because your father's gone
heiren代替了你妈，因为你爸爸不见了
Standing by your children when you haven't proven karma wrong
当你没有证明因果报应是错的时候，就站在你的孩子身边
Black is doing all of the above then going corner shopping
heiren做着以上的事情，然后去街角购物
Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walking off
试着帮一位女士过马路
Black is growing up around your family and making it
heiren是在你的家人身边长大的
Then being forced to leave the place you love
然后被迫离开你爱的地方
Because there's hate in it
因为这里有太多的仇恨
People say you fake the ****,
有人说你太假，
Never stayed to change the ****
从来没有留下来改变些什么
But black is being jealous,
但是heiren们会嫉妒你
You'd be dead if you had stayed in it
如果你待在这里，你迟早会死掉
Black is struggling to find your history or trace the ****
heiren正在努力找到你的历史或者追寻这些东西
You don't know the truth about your race 'cause they erasing it
你不知道你zhongzu的真相因为他们抹去了它
Black has got a sour ******* flavor, here's a taste of it
黑色有酸的味道，快来尝尝
But black is all I know,
There ain't a thing that I would change in it
但我知道只有黑色是我不会改变的东西
Look, black ain't just a single ******* color,
听着，黑色不仅仅是一种颜色
Man there's shades to it
哥们，黑色上有阴影
Her hair's straight and thick but mine's got waves in it
她的头发又直又浓密，但我的头发上有波浪
Black is not divisive they been lyin' and I hate the ****
heiren从不热衷于制造分歧，他们一直在撒谎，我讨厌这些事
Black has never been a competition,
heiren之间从来就不是对手，
We don't make this ****
我们不做这种事
Black is deadly
黑色是致命的
Black is when you're freezing in your home
And you can't get sleep
heiren在家里冷到睡不着觉
But never feeling empty,
但从不感到空虚
'Cause you got twenty cousins in your country living stress free
因为在你的国家，你的二十个表亲过着无忧无虑的生活
Walking for their water,
Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
女儿裹在床单里走过去喝水
Black is distant, it's representing countries
黑色是遥远的，
That never even existed while your grandmother was living
它代表着你祖母曾生活在现在根本不存在的国家
Black is my Ghanaian brother reading into scriptures
根据经典，加纳的heiren是我的兄弟
Doing research on his lineage, findin' out that he's Egyptian
研究他的血统，会发现他是埃及人
Black is people naming your countries on what they trade most
他们用当地交易最多的商品来给heiren的国家命名
Coast of Ivory, Gold Coast, and the Grain Coast
象牙海岸、黄金海岸和谷物海岸
But most importantly to show how deep all this pain goes
但最重要的是要证明这些痛苦有多深
West Africa, Benin, they called it slave coast
西非，贝宁，他们称之为奴隶海岸
Black is so confusing, 'cause the culture?
黑色是如此让人困惑，
They're in love with it
他们却似乎很爱我们的文化
They take our features when they want
他们为所欲为地拿走我们文化中的特色，
And have their fun with it
用来取乐
Never seem to help with all the things
却从来没有想过帮助我们克服
We know would come with it
我们的文化所带来的苦难和艰辛
Loud in our laughter, silent in our sufferin'
我们笑，他们也跟着笑，当我们在经历苦难时，他们却沉默了'
Black is being strong in sight of facing defeat
面对失败，heiren正变得坚强起来
Poverty made me a beast, I battled the law in the streets
贫穷使我成为野兽，我在街上与fa lv作斗争
Well you were struggled,
我们都在挣扎努力，
But your struggle ain't a struggle like me
但你的挣扎努力不像我
Well how could it be
When your people gave us the odds that we beat?
你们的人怎么可能会给我们打败你们的机会
I mean, ******* hell,
我是说，该死的
What about our brothers that are stuck in jail?
我们那些被关在狱里的兄弟呢？
That couldn't bust a bell, they held a bird
不能开枪，
And gotta live with it
他们得在狱里就这么蹲着
Black is being guilty until proven that you're innocent
在证明你无罪之前，heiren就是有罪的
Black is saying "free my ******* ******
Heiren在说
Stuck inside in prison cells"
“把我困在狱里的兄弟放出来”
They think it's funny, we ain't got nothing to say to them
他们会觉得很有趣，我们对他们没什么好说的
Unconditional love is strange to them; it's amazin' 'em
无条件的爱对他们来说很奇怪，让他们感到惊讶
Black is like the sweetest ******* flavor,
黑色是最甜的味道，
Here's a taste of it
快来尝尝
But black is all I know,
There ain't a thing that I would change in it
但我知道只有黑色是我不会改变的东西