Hanif Reads Toni - McKinley Dixon.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Hanif
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Toni M/McKinley Dixon/Constantino
[00:02.720]I'm crazy about this city
[00:05.660]Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half
[00:08.580]In the top half, I see looking faces,
[00:11.060]and it's not easy to tell which are people,
[00:13.300]which the work of stonemasons
[00:15.580]Below is a shadow where any blasé thing takes place
[00:18.400]Clarinets and lovemaking
[00:20.400]fists and the voices of sorrowful women
[00:23.300]A city like this one makes me dream tall and feel in on things
[00:27.520]Hep, it's the bright steel rocking above the shade below that does it
[00:32.240]When I look over strips of green grass lining the river
[00:35.120]At church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings
[00:39.080]I'm strong
[00:40.100]Alone, yes, but top-notch and indestructible
[00:43.660]Like the City in 1926
[00:45.920]when all the wars are over
[00:47.480]and there will never be another one
[00:49.120]The people down there in the shadow are happy about that
[00:51.660]At last, at last, everything's ahead
[00:54.600]The smart ones say so
[00:56.140]and people listening to them and reading what they write down agree
[00:59.080]Here comes the new
[01:00.180]Look out, there goes the sad stuff; the bad stuff
[01:03.720]The things-nobody-could-help stuff
[01:05.760]The way everybody was then and there
[01:07.800]Forget that; history is over,
[01:10.260]you all, and everything's ahead at last
[01:12.800]In halls and offices
[01:14.800]people are sitting around thinking future thoughts
[01:17.360]about projects and bridges and fast-clicking trains underneath
[01:21.300]The A&P hires a colored clerk
[01:23.460]Big-legged women with pink kitty tongues roll money into green tubes for later on
[01:27.880]Then they laugh and put their arms around each other
[01:30.980]Regular people corner thieves in alleys for quick retribution
[01:34.280]and, if he is stupid and has robbed wrong, thieves corner him too
[01:38.980]Hoodlums hand out goodies, do their best to stay interesting
[01:42.140]and since they are being watched for excitement
[01:44.540]they pay attention to their clothes and the carving out of insults
[01:48.140]No one wants to be an emergency at Harlem Hospital
[01:51.040]But if the Negro surgeon is visiting.
[01:52.780]pride cuts down the pains
[01:54.820]And although the hair of the first class of colored nurses
[01:57.860]was declared unseemly for the official Bellevue nurse's cap
[02:01.660]There are thirty-five of them now--all dedicated and superb in their profession
[02:07.220]Nobody says it's pretty here
[02:09.880]Nobody says it's easy either
[02:13.000]What it is, is decisive
[02:16.620]and if you pay attention to the street plans, all laid out
[02:20.560]the City can't hurt you