[00:00.000] 作词 : J. Shelton/M. Commander/T. Cottrell/T. Greene
[00:01.000] 作曲 : J. Shelton/M. Commander/T. Cottrell/T. Greene
[00:24.039] This is the ballad of the black gold
[00:26.364] They call it Texas tea
[00:27.789] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
[00:30.664] It's deeper than a black hole
[00:32.235] Create monopolies
[00:33.954] Except they collect your fee when you pass Go
[00:36.811] Crisis international
[00:38.328] The government de facto
[00:40.541] We got no control of this fiasco
[00:42.890] Darker than the back roads
[00:44.569] Bubble hotter than Tabasco
[00:46.621] More than what you bargained for or asked for
[00:48.807] You never see happy, hungry people - that ain't rational
[00:52.015] They blasting through the gates and they attack you at the capital
[00:55.101] Run up in your palace, find the heads of the state and crack a few
[00:58.199] Get a taste of power, then they become fascists too
[01:01.339] The fiscal conservatives, don't know what they purpose is
[01:04.301] Spend money on the war, then they cut your goods and services
[01:07.144] Murderous, corporate monsters is breaking records
[01:09.654] Exxon is at 40 billion a year, they raking in record profits. Stop it!
[01:13.700] How they banking while the auto industry is tanking?
[01:16.618] Leadership is sinking, oil pollution in the water stanking
[01:19.806] Loyalty to petroleum royalties spoil the economy
[01:23.282] We won't get it poppin' till we oil-free
[01:25.821] If you're oil-rich then we invadin'
[01:28.261] They call it "occupation," but we losing jobs across the nation
[01:31.672] Drill, baby, drill, while they make our soldiers kill, baby still
[01:35.274] The desert where the blood and oil spill
[01:37.612] This is the ballad of the black gold
[01:39.650] They call it Texas tea
[01:41.141] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
[01:43.928] It's deeper than a black hole
[01:45.737] Create monopolies
[01:47.214] Except they collect your fee when you pass Go
[01:50.155] Crisis international
[01:51.817] The government de facto
[01:53.786] We got no control of this fiasco
[01:56.146] Darker than the back roads
[01:57.948] Bubble hotter than Tabasco
[01:59.902] More than what you bargained for or asked for
[02:02.274] Nigeria is celebrating 50 years of independence
[02:05.346] They still feel the colonial effects of Great Britain's presence
[02:08.582] Dictators quick to imitate the West
[02:10.720] Got in bed with oil companies and now the place is a mess
[02:13.727] Take a guess, which ones came and violated
[02:16.464] They oiled up the soil, the Ogoni people was almost annihilated
[02:21.552] But still they never stayed silent
[02:23.483] They was activists and poets using non-violent tactics
[02:26.606] That was catalyst for soldiers to break into they crib
[02:29.404] Take 'em from the kids and try to break 'em like a twig
[02:32.362] And make examples of the leaders, executed Saro-Wiwa
[02:35.711] Threw Fela's mom out the window right after they beat her
[02:38.718] In an effort to defeat hope
[02:40.487] Now the people's feet soaked in oil
[02:42.617] So the youth is doing drive-bys in speed boats
[02:45.104] They kidnap the workers, they blowing up the pipelines
[02:47.993] You see the fires glowing in the nighttime
[02:50.229] This is the ballad of the black gold
[02:52.864] They call it Texas tea
[02:54.419] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
[02:57.162] It's deeper than a black hole
[02:59.114] Create monopolies
[03:00.499] Except they collect your fee when you pass Go
[03:03.328] Crisis international
[03:05.068] The government de facto
[03:07.135] We got no control of this fiasco
[03:09.469] Darker than the back roads
[03:11.353] Bubble hotter than Tabasco
[03:13.278] More than what you bargained for or asked for
[03:15.599] History, a slippery creature
[03:17.521] It's full of plot twists and surprise endings like a mystery feature
[03:21.472] This oil shit is slicker than preachers
[03:23.657] It make the problems in the region amplified like victory speeches
[03:27.411] Poison the water, lead the boys to the slaughter
[03:29.700] Go in somebody' country, rearrange the order and destroy the borders
[03:33.509] You see 'em dancing through the fields of fire
[03:36.367] World domination their real desire
[03:38.092] The devil is still a liar
[03:39.623] This is the ballad of the black gold
[03:41.790] They call it Texas tea
[03:43.269] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
[03:46.072] It's deeper than a black hole
[03:47.980] Create monopolies
[03:49.317] Except they collect a fee when you pass go
[03:52.253] Crisis international
[03:54.020] The government de facto
[03:56.040] We got no control of this fiasco
[03:58.232] Darker than the back roads
[04:00.203] Bubble hotter than Tabasco
[04:02.034] More than what you bargained for or asked for
[04:52.722] This is the ballad of the black gold
[04:55.016] They call it Texas tea
[04:56.543] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
[04:59.395] It's deeper than a black hole
[05:01.161] Create monopolies
[05:02.772] Except they collect your fee when you pass Go
[05:05.411] Crisis international
[05:07.242] The government de facto
[05:09.283] We got no control of this fiasco
[05:11.614] Darker than the back roads
[05:13.522] Bubble hotter than Tabasco
[05:15.425] More than what you bargained for or asked for