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作词 : Steven Van Zandt

作曲 : Steven Van Zandt

South Africa

Everybody uses black and white

To try to draw the line between wrong and right

But if you use your eyes to really see

You know we don't see realistically

Because skin that's white is really pink

So either you can't see or I can't think

Because skin that's black is really brown

But that don't make the world go round

Now to put a color on skin to me is a sin

That's why apartheid must never win

We must put an end to this my friend

And should never be allowed to happen again

It's time to wake up and do some good

To try to see each other the way we should

Because looking at the people I sometimes find

That Sun City is in the mind

I was just watching the TV the other night

The should appear but you know

Walter Cronkite said the Blues

And it came to me how much of our vocabulary we seem to get TV now a days

Calling things whatever they call 'em even if they collect

First thing that came to me was like *third world* you know?

Like, if you ask someone from here like, where is the *third world*

They might say "Oh yah man, I know I know, it's the disco

You go about three blocks then take a left"

Or they might tell you the *third world* is a new health food restaurant

I know the first time I heard there was trouble in the Middle East

I thought they was talking about Pittsburg

Let me see your I.D

Let me see your I.D

Let's get down to the real nitty gritty

Talk about the crimes in Sun City

Let's get down to the real nitty gritty

And talk about the crimes in Sun City

A city of diamond, a city of gold

A city of sorrows with horrors untold

But even the should be able to tell

Sun City, a charade for hell

It’s a death

Called genocide

People dying to a

Called apartheid

South Africa, starvation right here

Politicians and leaders living in fear

South Africa, from coast to coast

Colored people got the least, white people got the most

The way *casualties* comes up a lot

And then South Africa

They seem to make it feel like theres a battle against - between isms going on

Between one good ism an done bad ism

But what they’re talking about is nightly

South Africans die, *casualties*

There were eight more *casualties* in South Africa

Nothing *casual* about dying

Nothing *casual* about standing for freedom

My grandmother used to say

“if you don’t stand something, you will go for anything”

We stand against apartheid

Stand against apartheid

Let me see your I.D

Let me see your I.D

Well we’re sick and tired of what we heard

The apartheid is quite absurd

Prejudice is the reason people have died

Yes, prejudice stands for apartheid

So we all get together to lend a hand

To bring people to peace all across the land

We gots that running

And all this has got to stop

I had never met anyone from Southern Africa ’til I started going to school

I was going to Lincoln University down in Pennsylvania

There was South African refugee students there who uh uh

Many of them were athletes who started to compare experiences

And they were telling me that when you walk around in South Africa

You gotta carry this little black book with you

Tells everyone whether you’re supposed to be in a given area or not

Damn thats about like my life ‘cause I got to do that when I go Philly

Let me see your I.D

Yah-yah-yah-yah-yah

Yah-yah-yah-yah-yah

We are waiting for the day

That how we feel today

Some people say

That’s a race

Some people say

That’s a race

Some people say

That’s a negro race

We don’t believe

In a race

All we know

Is the human race

We all say (We all say)

Remember them today

There will be a time

When apartheid’s a crime

And the color factor won’t bother the mind

When majority rules against the fools

And all those who oppose will become uncool

I’m talkin’ ‘bout a place they call Sun City

The Vegas in the desert

In a town without pity

South Africa

Yes the motherland

There are no human rights for the Africans

‘Cause Sun City’s bright lights

Mow down their rights

And ain’t nothing else to do but stand up and fight (fight)

If I ruled the world and was king on the throne

I’d stop this mess and

Just need to think about it

I ain’t going to Sun City

If-if somehow by the South African government

Sun City is described as though it’s somewhere else

Not connected to South Africa or apartheid

Like someone in Manhattan trying to describe the Bronx to you as another country

As though it is no longer connected to New York

Let me see your I.D

That it’s all in your conscious

It’s all in your minds

Let’s all lend a hand

To fight against apartheid

South Africa must be free

Quality of justice

The peoples’ liberty

So for no money

I will never play Sun City

USA

We won’t pay

Other than that

I was watching TV again

And I seen this that’d been a representative of the American people over there in South Africa

Over there taking a from some body

Somebody in here said, “Hey what about the separation between church and state”

I said, “Especially *this* church and *that* state”

We stand against apartheid

Stand against apartheid

Let me see your I.D

Let me see your I.D

Yeah

Politicians think they by shaking your hand

And then their hold your back as much as they can

They try to keep you weak from getting strong

Because they know if they’re strong you’re gonna change what’s wrong

Ban my voice

Ban it now

Like Stevie Wonder ima speak out loud

‘Cause where you live is where you stand

And you shouldn’t get chased by any man

Even if they got a stick in their hand

It still don’t mean they in command

We’re the Three Fat Boys

And we’re here to sing

We’re gonna stop apartheid

In our own way

South Africa

South Africa