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《’B’ Movie (Intro, Poem, Song)》歌词

所属专辑: The Jazz Years - The Eighties 歌手: Gil Scott-Heron 时长: 12:12
’B’ Movie (Intro, Poem, Song)

[00:12:12] Well, the first thing I want to say is..."Mandate My Ass!"

[00:12:12] Because it seems as though we've been convinced

[00:12:12] That 26% of the registered voters

[00:12:12] Not even 26% of the American people

[00:12:12] But 26% of the registered voters form a mandate ...

[00:12:12] Or a landslide ...

[00:12:12] 21% voted for Skippy

[00:12:12] And 3, 4% voted for somebody else

[00:12:12] Who might have been running

[00:12:12] But, oh yeah, I remember

[00:12:12] In this year that we have now declared

[00:12:12] The year from Shogun to Ray-Gun

[00:12:12] I remember what I said about Ray-Gun...meant it

[00:12:12] Acted like an actor... Hollyweird

[00:12:12] Acted like a liberal

[00:12:12] Acted like General Franco when he acted like Governor of California

[00:12:12] Then he acted like a Republican

[00:12:12] Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him for President

[00:12:12] And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate

[00:12:12] We're all actors in this I suppose

[00:12:12] What has happened is that in the last 20 years

[00:12:12] America has changed from a producer to a consumer

[00:12:12] And all consumers know that when the producer names the tune...

[00:12:12] The consumer has got to dance

[00:12:12] That's the way it is. We used to be a producer – very inflexible at that

[00:12:12] And now we are consumers and, finding it difficult to understand

[00:12:12] Natural resources and minerals will change your world

[00:12:12] The Arabs used to be in the 3rd World

[00:12:12] They have bought the 2nd World and put a firm down payment on the 1st one

[00:12:12] Controlling your resources will control your world

[00:12:12] This country has been surprised by the way the world looks now

[00:12:12] They don't know if they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan

[00:12:12] They don't know if they want to be diplomats ...

[00:12:12] Or continue the same policy of nuclear nightmare diplomacy

[00:12:12] John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now

[00:12:12] The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia

[00:12:12] They want to go back as far as they can ...

[00:12:12] Even if it's only as far as last week

[00:12:12] Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards

[00:12:12] And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes

[00:12:12] Riding to the rescue at the last possible moment

[00:12:12] The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse

[00:12:12] Or, the man who always came to save America at the last moment

[00:12:12] Someone always came to save America at the last moment

[00:12:12] Especially in "B" movies

[00:12:12] And when America found itself having a hard time ...

[00:12:12] Facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne

[00:12:12] But since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald the Ray-Gun

[00:12:12] And it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at ...

[00:12:12] Like a "B" movie

[00:12:12] Come with us back to those inglorious days when heroes weren't zeros

[00:12:12] Before fair was square

[00:12:12] When the cavalry came straight away and all-American men were like Hemingway ...

[00:12:12] To the days of the wondrous "B" movie

[00:12:12] The producer underwritten by all the millionaires necessary

[00:12:12] Will be Casper "The Defensive" Weinberger;

[00:12:12] No more animated choice is available

[00:12:12] The director will be Attila the Haig, ...

[00:12:12] Running around frantically declaring himself in control and in charge

[00:12:12] The ultimate realization of the inmates taking over at the asylum

[00:12:12] The screenplay will be adapted from the book called "Voodoo Economics"

[00:12:12] By George "Papa Doc" Bush

[00:12:12] Music by the "Village People" the very military "Macho Man."

[00:12:12] "Company!!!"

[00:12:12] "Macho, macho man!"

[00:12:12] "Two-three-four."

[00:12:12] "He likes to be . . . Well, you get the point."

[00:12:12] "Huuut! Your left! Your left! Your left...right

[00:12:12] Left, right, left, right...!"

[00:12:12] A theme song for saber-rallying and selling wars door-to-door

[00:12:12] Remember, we're looking for the closest thing we can find to John Wayne

[00:12:12] Cliches abound like kangaroos ...

[00:12:12] Courtesy of some spaced out Marlin Perkins, a Reagan contemporary

[00:12:12] Cliches like, "itchy trigger finger" and "tall in the saddle"

[00:12:12] And "riding off or on into the sunset."

[00:12:12] Cliches like, "Get off of my planet by sundown!"

[00:12:12] More so than cliches like, "He died with his boots on."

[00:12:12] Marine tough the man is

[00:12:12] Bogart tough the man is

[00:12:12] Cagney tough the man is

[00:12:12] Hollywood tough the man is

[00:12:12] Cheap steak tough

[00:12:12] And Bonzo's substantial

[00:12:12] The ultimate in synthetic selling:

[00:12:12] A Madison Avenue masterpiece ...

[00:12:12] A miracle ...

[00:12:12] A cotton-candy politician...

[00:12:12] Presto! Macho!

[00:12:12] "Macho, macho man!"

[00:12:12] Put your orders in, America

[00:12:12] And quick as Kodak your leaders duplicate with the accent being on the nukes

[00:12:12] Cause all of a sudden we have fallen prey to selective amnesia ...

[00:12:12] Remembering what we want to remember and

[00:12:12] Forgetting what we choose to forget

[00:12:12] All of a sudden, the man who called

[00:12:12] For a blood bath on our college campuses

[00:12:12] Is supposed to be Dudley "God-damn" Do-Right?

[00:12:12] "You go give them Liberals Hell Ronnie."

[00:12:12] That was the mandate

[00:12:12] To the new "Captain Bligh" on the new ship of fools

[00:12:12] It was doubtlessly based on his chameleon performance of the past ...

[00:12:12] As a liberal democrat – as the head of the Studio Actor's Guild

[00:12:12] When other celluloid saviors were cringing in terror from McCarthy

[00:12:12] Ron stood tall

[00:12:12] It goes all the way back from Hollywood to hillbilly

[00:12:12] From liberal to libelous, from "Bonzo" to Birch idol...born again

[00:12:12] Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights...it's all wrong

[00:12:12] Call in the cavalry to disrupt this perception of freedom gone wild

[00:12:12] God damn it...first one wants freedom

[00:12:12] Then the whole damn world wants freedom

[00:12:12] Nostalgia, that's what we want...the good ol' days...

[00:12:12] When we gave 'em Hell

[00:12:12] When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something with it

[00:12:12] To a time when movies was in black and white ...

[00:12:12] And so was everything else

[00:12:12] Even if we go back to the campaign trail

[00:12:12] Before six-gun Ron shot off his face and developed hoof-in-mouth

[00:12:12] Before the free press went down before full-court press

[00:12:12] And were reluctant to review the menu

[00:12:12] Because they knew the only thing available was ... Crow

[00:12:12] Lon Chaney, our Man of a Thousand Faces ...

[00:12:12] No match for Ron

[00:12:12] Doug Henning does the make-up ...

[00:12:12] Special effects from Grecian Formula-16 and Crazy Glue

[00:12:12] Transportation furnished by the David Rockefeller

[00:12:12] Of Remote Control Company

[00:12:12] Their slogan is, "Why wait for 1984? You can panic now...and avoid the rush."

[00:12:12] So much for the good news...

[00:12:12] As Wall Street goes, so goes the Nation

[00:12:12] And here's a look at the closing numbers ...

[00:12:12] Racism's up, Human Rights are down

[00:12:12] Peace is shaky, War items are hot

[00:12:12] The House claims all ties

[00:12:12] Jobs are down, money is scarce

[00:12:12] And common sense is at an all-time low with heavy trading

[00:12:12] Movies were looking better than ever

[00:12:12] And now no one is looking because

[00:12:12] We're starring in a "B" movie

[00:12:12] And we would rather had John Wayne...

[00:12:12] We would rather had John Wayne

[00:12:12] You don't need to be in no hurry

[00:12:12] You ain't never really got to worry

[00:12:12] And you don't need to check on how you feel

[00:12:12] Just keep repeating that none of this is real

[00:12:12] And if you're sensing, that something's wrong

[00:12:12] Well just remember, that it won't be too long

[00:12:12] Before the director cuts the scene... Yea

[00:12:12] This ain't really your life

[00:12:12] Ain't really your life

[00:12:12] Ain't really ain't nothing but a movie

[00:12:12] [Refrain repeated about 25 times or more in an apocalyptic crescendo with a military cadence.

[00:12:12] This ain't really your life

[00:12:12] Ain't really your life

[00:12:12] Ain't really ain't nothing but a movie