Ani DiFranco《Hurricane》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:18.27]Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night [00:21.84]Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall [00:25.20]She sees the bartender in a pool of blood [00:28.70]Cries out my God they killed them all [00:32.17]Here comes the story of the Hurricane [00:35.66]The man the authorities came to blame [00:39.12]For something that he never done [00:42.57]Put in a prison cell but one time he could a been [00:46.45]The champion of the world [00:58.21]Three bodies lying' there does Patty see [01:01.78]And another man named Bello movin' around mysteriously [01:05.17]I didn't do it he says and he throws up his hands [01:08.69]I was only robbin' the register I hope you understand [01:12.15]I saw them leavin' he says and he stops [01:15.45]One of us had better call up the cops [01:19.23]And so Patty calls the cops [01:22.55]And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin' [01:25.94]In the hot New Jersey night [01:31.15]Meanwhile far away in another part of town [01:34.51]Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around [01:37.73]Number one contender for the middleweight crown [01:41.54]Had no idea what kinda sh*t was about to go down [01:44.99]When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road [01:48.47]Just like the time before and the time before that [01:52.02]In paterson that's just the way things go [01:55.07]If you're black you might as well not show up on the street [01:59.16]Less you wanna draw the heat [02:03.50]Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops [02:06.92]Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling around [02:10.55]He said I saw two men runnin' out they looked like middleweights [02:14.21]They jumped into a white car with out of state plates [02:18.03]And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head [02:21.55]Cop said wait a minute boys this one's not dead [02:24.33]So they took him to the infirmary [02:27.64]And though this man could hardly see [02:30.57]They told him that he could identify the guilty men [02:36.67]Four in the morning and they haul Rubin in [02:40.14]Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs [02:43.80]The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye [02:47.58]Says wha'd you bring him in here for he ain't the guy [02:50.78]Yes here's the story of the Hurricane [02:54.47]The man the authorities came to blame [02:57.93]For something that he never done [03:01.41]Put in a prison cell but one time he could a been [03:05.19]The champion of the world [03:16.78]Four months later the ghettos are in flame [03:20.27]Rubin's in South America fightin' for his name [03:23.96]While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game [03:27.04]And the cops are puttin' the screws to him looking for somebody to blame [03:30.96]Remember that murder that happened in a bar [03:34.33]Remember you said you saw the getaway car [03:37.80]You think you'd like to play ball with the law [03:41.33]Think it might a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night [03:44.93]Don't forget that you are white [03:55.66]Arthur Dexter Bradley said I'm really not sure [03:58.74]Cops said a poor boy like you could use a break [04:02.04]We got you for the motel job and we're talking to your friend Bello [04:05.43]Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail be a nice fellow [04:09.21]You'll be doing society a favor [04:12.55]That son of a b**ch is brave and getting braver [04:15.95]We want to put his a** in stir [04:19.54]We want to pin this triple murder on him [04:23.50]He ain't no gentleman Jim [04:28.41]Rubin could take a man out with just one punch [04:31.80]But he never did like to talk about it all that much [04:35.07]It's my work he'd say and I do it for pay [04:38.74]And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way [04:42.08]Up to some paradise [04:45.52]Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice [04:49.27]And ride a horse along a trail [04:52.73]But then they took him to the jailhouse [04:55.09]Where they try to turn a man into a mouse [05:00.89]All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance [05:04.28]The trial was a pig circus he never had a chance [05:07.73]The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums [05:11.11]To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum [05:14.91]And to the black folks he was just a crazy ni**a [05:18.59]No one doubted that he pulled the trigger [05:22.04]And though they could not produce the gun [05:25.02]The D A said he was the one who did the deed [05:28.98]And the all white jury agreed [05:34.16]Rubin Carter was falsely tried [05:37.57]The crime was murder one guess who testified [05:40.90]Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied [05:43.96]And the newspapers they all went along for the ride [05:48.00]How can the life of such a man [05:51.43]Be in the palm of some fool's hand [05:54.93]To see him obviously framed [05:58.45]Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land [06:02.13]Where justice is a game a game a game [06:21.11]Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties [06:24.49]Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise [06:28.07]While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten foot cell [06:30.99]An innocent man in a living hell [06:34.99]That's the story of the Hurricane [06:38.30]But it won't be over till they clear his name [06:41.82]And give him back the time he's done [06:45.32]Put in a prison cell but one time he could a been [06:50.33]The champion of the world