Songtexte Family Name - Prince

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This program is required for those wishing to obtain
A marriage blessing from the kingdom
When you wish to begin this program, place your right hand
On the scanner and tightly clench up your buttcheeks as you might feel a
Slight electrical shock
Please select the race history you desire
You have selected "African-American"
This is your history
First of all, the term "black and white" is a fallacy
It simply is another way of saying "this or that"
Let′s examine the term "this or that" in its ultimate form
Which is: "this" means the truth or "that" which is resistant to it
When a minority realizes its similarities on a higher level
Not just "black", but "people of color", and higher still "indigenous"
And even higher still, "from the tribe of", and yet higher: "The Rainbow Children"
When this understanding comes, the so-called minority becomes a majority in the wink of an eye
This action will cause a reaction or resistance
The source of this resistance must be banished as it is in direct conflict with the initial action
It cannot be assimilated, for its very nature is resistance
In other words, one cannot serve to masters
You are either "this" or "that which is not this"
End of part one
To continue, select the program "Family Name" and type in the
Current government name you wish history on
London, England, sometime in the early 1600's
We have the God-given right to run out of our colonies
Anyone who does not bow down to our law
Hear, hear!
Hear, hear, exactly, that′s what I said!
Hear hear, hear hear
Aye, yes, aye, aye!
Come on, come on, keep it moving here
Come on, now
What's your name boy?
Abu, Abu Cah
Well, it ain't now, it′s Tom Lynch
Mirror, mirror what you see?
Have I still got those dark clouds over me?
Or am I really feeling what I feel?
The last days of the devil′s deal
Oh mirror, what you see?
Devil, devil what you know?
You been here since 1914, but now you got to go
You been hidin' behind corporate eyes
You wanna war, but you can′t fight
Oh devil, oh, you got to go, yes sir!
You might say, "what you mad about?"
But you still got your family name
Pleased to meet you, Mr. Rosenbloom
I'll be John Blackwell just the same
What′s your family name?
Teacher, teacher what you say?
Did we really come over in a boat?
Did it really go down that way?
Or did I arrive before you and ruin Thanksgiving Day?
Oh teacher, oh, what you say?
Preacher, preacher is it true?
That Jesus wants me to give my money to the likes of you?
Ride around in your Lexus coupe
Drive us to the cleaners in a pinstripe suit
Oh preacher, that ain't truth!
The bridge, huh
You might say, "what you mad about?
But you still got your family name
Pleased to meet you, Mr. Pearlman
You can call me "Clay"
Now can I play?
People, people what′s your name?
Maybe we should start all over
Let everybody get in the game
Put up a one-gloved fist
Make a sound, Violet Brown
You might say "what you mad about?"
You still got your family name
Pleased to meet you Mr. Goldstruck
We found this tape in the Akashic records
This is Thomas Jefferson
"My fellow Americans, if there is a just God, we're gonna pay for this!"
"Black men and White men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics
Will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last!"
Johnny B