I asked my mother
why do you cry
she said your
brother had... he just died
Well I told him
not to go outside
he said he had
to fight for his country's right
But don't you
know that mo-mother
don't you know
that we can't stop
the violence,
no
Because the war
is not over
until you can
feel love, peace, and hear silence
But I smell gunpowder
(pow)
my brother's been
dead ever since
I didn't beleive
it, but when I saw him I was convinced Two shots to the head he was already
dead Lord, I headed for revenge in the city of Port Au Prince Screaming
bro-brother
don't you know
that we can't
stop the violence,
no
Because the war
is not over
until you can
feel love, peace, and hear silence
But I smell gunpowder
(Pow)
Zion's gunpowder
(pow)
L.A.'s gunpowder
(pow)
I wanna know why
Christians pray
for a new day
we don't need
no, we don't need no,
we don't need
no
But its still
the same way
I wanna know why
ghetto people
pray for a new day
hey, hey, heeey
and its still
the same way
But the preacher
man told me
good things come
to those who wait
do good things
come to those who wait?
I wanna know tell
me
good things come
to those who wait
do good things
come to those who wait?
we wanna know,
we wanna know, we wanna know
[pause]
Pe-people
don't you know
that we can't stop the violence, no
because the war
is not over
until you can
feel love, peace,
and hear the silence
but I smell gunpowder
(gunpowder)
Brooklyn's gunpowder
(gunpowder)
Shaolin's gunpowder
(gunpowder)
Uptown's gunpowder
(gunpowder)
Jersey's gunpowder
(gunpowder)
even New Zealand's
gunpowder (gunpowder)
Australia's gunpowder
(gunpowder)
Brixton's gunpowder
(gunpowder)
even New Haven's
gunpowder
©
Wyclef Jean 1997 Extrait de l'album "The Carnival"
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