6 May 2009

自由之聲——聽著力量的聲音,Nina Simone

What's gonna happen now? In all of our cities?
My people are rising; they're living in lies.
Even if they have to die
Even if they have to die at the moment they know what life is
Even at that one moment that ya know what life is
If you have to die, it's all right

Cause you know what life is
You know what freedom is for one moment of your life

But he had seen the mountaintop

And he knew he could not stop
Always living with the threat of death ahead
Folks you'd better stop and think
Everybody knows we're on the brink
What will happen, now that the King is dead?

We can all shed tears; it won't change a thing

Teach your people: Will they ever learn?
Must you always kill with burn and burn with guns
And kill with guns and burn - don't you know how we gotta react?

But he had seen the mountaintop

And he knew he could not stop
Always living with the threat of death ahead
Folks you'd better stop and think
Everybody knows we're on the brink
What will happen, now that the King of love is dead?

自由不是與生俱來的,這世界上太多與它絕緣的不幸者。有幸的是,總有一些有識之士持續為無法自己爭取的人努力不懈。

這里貼的是黑人爵士女歌手Nina Simone紀念Martin Luther King的歌曲"Why? The King of Love is Dead"。

無法形容她的聲音中的力量與悲慟,她不僅是歌手,還是人權運動者。
被欺壓、歧視的弱勢族群總有反抗和爭取平等的方式, Nina Simone透過音樂和演唱傳達了她的message,是提醒所有人要公平和公正的堅定發聲。

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