There ain't no reason things are this way It's how they always been and they intend to stay I can't explain why we live this way, we do it everyday
Preachers on the podium speaking of saints Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change Old ladies laughing from the fire escape, cursing my name I got a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same A window and a pigeon with a broken wing You can spend your whole life working for something, Just to have it taken away
People walk around pushing back their debts Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets Talking 'bout nothing, not thinking 'bout death Every little heartbeat, every little breath
People walk a tight rope On a razor's edge Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen Or a thought or a word or a sentence
There ain't no reason Things are this way It's how they've always been and they intend to stay I don't know why I say the things that I say But I say them anyway But love will come set me free Love will come set me free, I do believe Love will come set me free, I know it will Love will come set me free, yes
Prison walls still standing tall Some things never change at all Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all Working your fingers bear to the bone, Breaking your back, make you sell your soul. Like a lung that's filled with coal, suffocatin' slow. The wind blows wild and I may move But politician's lie and I am not fooled You don't need no reason or a three piece suit To argue the truth The air on my skin and the world under my toes Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes Chaos and commotion wherever I go Love I try to follow
Love will come set me free Love will come set me free, I do believe Love will come set me free, I know it will Love will come set me free, yes
There ain't no reason things are this way It's how they always been and they intend to stay I can't explain why we live this way, We do it everyday
現在學者蓋伊·多伊徹(Guy Deutscher)出了一本書,力圖證明語言對文化所起的作用。《透過語言的鏡子:詞彙如何給你的世界塗上色彩》 ( Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World)探討了世界的不少語言,其中包括一些你我聽著恐怕都比較生疏的語種。
To be enough of whatever was wanted, to be real, to be included,that meat thinking and talking and moving in one's own legifimacy,one's own given " world",with its persons,habits,hunor and place.