Writing a Gospel Play - Larry Owens/L Morgan Lee.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Michael R. Jackson
[00:00.092] 作曲 : Michael R. Jackson
[00:00.185]USHER: Writing a g****l play!
[00:02.246]Writing a g****l play!
[00:04.055]Writing a g****l play!
[00:06.099]Cause that's what the people want!
[00:10.993](spoken)Okay, show title: "Show Me How to Pray: A Spiritual, Urban Drama"
[00:20.652]THOUGHTS: Jesus never fails
[00:29.565]As long as you keep prayin’!
[00:31.854]Jesus never fails
[00:39.995]You think my a*s is playin'?
[00:42.281](As USHER writes, he acts out each of the characters in the G****l Play)
[00:43.337]USHER, spoken: "Shaneatha! Michele! I done made some tater salad! Come on now, I done put my foot in this!"
[00:50.927]"Uh-uh, Aunt Patty! I love me some tater salad, and I'm hungry as hizz-ell!"
[00:57.485]"Your fast behind ain’t hungry for nothin' but a crack rock and a stripper pole, girl, go wash your hand!"
[01:04.366]"Aunt Patty, only Gawd can judge me, and He seemed quite impressed, so don't come for me - ha ha ha ha! - unless I twirl for you!"
[01:14.344]"Chele, what wrong baby? You ain't eatin' up your tater salad!"
[01:20.659]"Oh, Aunt Patty, how can I eat tater salad when there's no ring on my finger?"
[01:27.379]"Michele, girl, you better forget about that ring and learn to drop it like it's hot ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga!"
[01:32.321]"Fix it, Jesus!"
[01:33.378]"I did everything I was supposed to.
[01:36.729]I stayed in school, I kept my legs closed, I was faithful and paid my tithes and offering, because Mark 12 and 17 says, ’Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and render unto Gawd what is Gawd's.’"
[01:52.421]"Gawd said, 'b***h better have my money right here!'"
[01:55.569]"Girl, if you don't sat down, I’mma pop you in the face with one of my world famous Patty Pies!"
[02:00.804]"Did somebody say Patty Pie? Cause I'm hungry as hizz-ell!"
[02:06.232]"I wore flesh-colored stockings, I got a perm, then a wig that I put on top of that perm as a protective style!
[02:18.565]I became a high-powered vice president of a bank! But I'm still so, so lonely!"
[02:28.034]"Oh baby, rest your head on Aunt Patty bosom!"
[02:32.232]"When is it my turn to walk into a room and say 'I's married now, Miss Celie'?"
[02:41.597]"Welp. Have you prayed?"
[02:47.319]"I get down on my black knees every night!"
[02:50.166]"I know what I do down on my black knees, girl!"
[02:53.328](USHER loudly acts out a bl*wj*b)
[02:58.924]AUNT PATTY, spoken: "Well, if you gettin' down on your knees, and the Lord ain't blessin' you the way you think He ought to..."
[03:04.154](sung) Then maybe you don't know how to pray!
[03:09.861]Maybe you don't know how to pray!
[03:14.256]In times like these
[03:16.620]You gotta get down on your knees
[03:19.220]And ask Him for the words you should say!
[03:23.865](spoken)"And I know you feel like your cousin Shaneatha doin' better than you cause she be out there prostituting herself to all these men who be touching her on the v*gina!
[03:32.092]And I know you feel like your cousin Sherae doin' better than you cause she got the money to build herself a chateau in Atlanta!
[03:38.567]But remember, Proverbs 31 and 10 says, 'Who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies!'
[03:45.694]So keep your knees bent in prayer, and the Lord Thy God will send you a lightskin man with no education who'll put you in the split-level mansion of your dreams, Chele!"
[03:57.211]MICHELLE & AUNT PATTY: Aunt Patty, all I really want is a ring
[04:01.925]Maybe the Devil got your a*s in a sling! (Ga-ga-ga-ga!)
[04:06.661]On days like these, it's like you're up on the trapeze
[04:10.988]And you- (USHER suddenly stops writing)
[04:11.168]USHER: -Don't know what these stupid, paper-doll characters should sing!
[04:20.220]THOUGHTS: Jesus never fails!