Prince - Family Name Lyrics
Welcome. U have just accessed the Akashic Records Genetic Information Division. This program is required 4 those wishing 2 obtain a marriage blessing from The Kingdom. When u wish 2 begin this program, place ur right hand on the scanner and tightly clench up ur buttcheeks as u might feel a slight electrical shock. Please select the race history u desire. U 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 2 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 b banished as it is in direct conflict with the initial action. It cannot be assimilated, 4 its very nature is resistance. In other words, ONE CANNOT SERVE 2 MASTERS. U r either "this" or "that" which is not "this". End of part one. 2 continue, select the program Family Name and type in the current government name u wish history on. (London, England sometime in the early 1600s) "We have the God-given right 2 run out of our colonies anyone who does not bow down 2 our law. Hear, hear?" "Come on, come on keep it moving here. What's your name boy?" "Abu Cah" "Well it ain't now; it's Tom Lynch." Mirror, mirror what u 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 Mirror, what u see? Devil, devil what u know?/U been here since 1914, but now u got 2 go U been hidin' behind corporate eyes U wanna war, but u can't fight/Devil, u got 2 go U might say, "what u mad about?"/But u still got ur Family Name Pleased 2 meet u, Mr. Rosenbloom/I'll b John Blackwell just the same What's ur Family Name? Teacher, teacher what u say?/Did we really come over in a boat? Did it really go down that way?/Or did I arrive b4 and ruin Thanksgiving Day? Teacher, what u say? Preacher, preacher is it true?/That Jesus wants me 2 give my money 2 the likes of u? Ride around in ur Lexus Coupe/Drive us 2 the cleaners in a pinstripe suit Preacher, that ain't truth! U might say, "what u mad about?/But u still got ur Family Name Pleased 2 meet u, Mr. Pearlman/U can call me Clay. can I play? People, people what's ur name?/Maybe we should start all over Let everybody get in the game/Put up a one-gloved fist Make a sound, Violet Brown U might say "what u mad about?"/But u still got ur Family name Pleased 2 meet u 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 4 this!" "Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will b able 2 join hands in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last!"
