[00:00.000] 作曲 : F. Porter for The Happiest Africans (SESAC)/Camae Dennis (ASCAP)[00:08.388][Verse: billy woods][00:08.388]On the TV, I see fire in their eyes[00:10.781]Fire in the streets from the firescape[00:12.906]I watch it eat, I watch it's teeth[00:15.832]Dream fire could burn it clean[00:17.681]But its greasy sheen burn blue and green[00:20.263]Build their house with bricks[00:21.328]Scraped the mortar in between[00:23.443]You don't need a door if you get e'rything you need[00:26.369]Need more, first thought when I get the cream[00:31.421]Cold light pourin' from the screens[00:33.547]Mute, it's the eyes where you hear the screams[00:35.927]Bags full of loot bulgin' at the seams[00:38.252]Everything a little shabbier than it seems[00:41.966]Than it seems, shabbier than it seems, than it seems[00:46.752]Took it all and came home empty, they won't go gently[00:49.673]The whole world in my mobile, it took centuries[00:52.320]The glow unending, the show upended[00:55.245]Like cop cars spooked by the door, I'm a sentry[00:57.845][00:58.110][Chorus: billy woods][01:02.617]Smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run[01:05.013]Smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run[01:07.669]Grab and run, grab and run, sma-[01:10.063]Smash, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run[01:12.977]Smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run[01:15.634]Smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run[01:18.560]Smash, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run[01:22.269]Grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run[01:25.196][01:25.464][Outro: Dambudzo Marechera, Wilson Katiyo][01:25.726]I know this may sound like rather, um um, impractical criticism, but um, uh, when you met me at the airport at some point, I um um, but um, you've joined the ministry of information...I mean, what's happening to us? We are all becoming bureaucrats[01:41.137]We are becoming bureaucrats, because there has never been, you know, wait a minute, we are, we, our generation has got a lot of problems. There has never been a tradition of us writing, whereby people just sit and be able to live and write. In any case you know that from anyway, anyway[01:54.685]No, no, my point is...[01:55.476]The point is, now we are trying to earn our living and write at the same time[01:58.929]Yes but, you see, um, um, points of principles (laughter) cannot be given up just because one has got to eat[02:06.895]I'm not, I don't see which principle I have given at all, I see...