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Bom, aí vai um tema, o tempo, que tem várias referências


Time is on My Side (The Rolling Stones)

Time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is

Now you always say
That you want to be free
But you'll come running back (said you would baby)
You'll come running back (I said so many times before)
You'll come running back to me

Oh, time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is

You're searching for good times
But just wait and see
You'll come running back (I won't have to worry no more)
You'll come running back (spend the rest of my life with you, baby)
You'll come running back to me

Go ahead, go ahead and light up the town
And baby, do everything your heart desires
Remember, I'll always be around
And I know, I know
Like I told you so many times before
You're gonna come back, baby
'Cause I know
You're gonna come back knocking
Yeah, knocking right on my door
Yes, yes!

Well, time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is

'Cause I got the real love
The kind that you need
You'll come running back (said you would, baby)
You'll come running back (I don't always said you would)
You'll come running back (I won't have to worry no more)
Yes time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
Oh, time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
I said, time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
Oh, time, time, time is on my side
Yeah, time, time, time is on my side

 

[Cildraemoth]

Uma básica:

Time, Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

 

[BassRing]

Como não poderia ficar de fora, meu querido HELLOWEEN:

MARCH OF TIME

(Solo: Kai)
Hours of lust, hours of tears passing by before my eyes
Today, tomorrow, yesterday...one life
Days of joy, day of sadness come and go to pass me by
A month, a year, one hundred years, they fly Bridge:
Ohh, one day I will be gone to lead another life
Ohh, and this world will stop to turn around with me 'Cause
Chorus:
Time...marches
Time...marches
On without us all, never stops, yes
Time...marches
Time...marches
On and on and on, flies eternally
Times of peace, times of fights, constant movement is our life
Can't stop no more, not until...we die
We long for more...eternity, and maybe there's another life
This one is short, no matter how you try
Bridge:
Ohh, but never give up all the hope to lead a good life
No, don't waste your given time to make things worse Chorus:
Time...marches
Time...marches
One without us all, never stops, yes
Time...marches
Time...marches
On and on and on, flies eternally
(Solo: Kai/Michael/Both)
Plese, please help me see, the best way to be
Make a change and we, live eternally
No more wasted years, no more wasted tears
Life's too short to cry, long enough to tryChorus:
Time...marches
Time...marches
On without us all, never stops, yesTime...marches
On and on and on, flies eternally
Time...marches

 

[Thico]

Time What Is Time - Blind Guardian

When the moonchild is crying
And silence has broken
The darkest truth

The things she remembered
Had never been her own
Replicant or human
I know the way to show
What do I see
What will I find
Know the answer inside
It's your last step

Time what is time
I wish I knew how to tell you why
It hurts to know
Aren't we machines
Time what is time
Unlock the door
And see the truth
Then time is time again

Whispering
These dreams were never mine
It's cold inside
It's gone forever
The things he saw
Who can say what's wrong or right
The vision of a free life
His eyes had seen it all
For what
He's asking
The vision, vision, vision
I know it's all a lie
I'll remember the past life
And I'll remember time

What did I see
What have I done
God I knew the answers
When he felt so tired

Time what is time
Come lock the door don't let me in
I am the one your destiny
Time what is time
Reality - it hurts me so
When time is time again

Look into my eyes
Feel the fear just for a while
I'm a replicant and I love to live
Is it all over now
Only these years
I'll leave but I'm singing

Time what is time
He saw it clearly it's too late
It does not heal but it lets us forget
Time what is time
We'll never know
So don't take care
Then time is time again

Should I forget
The way I feel
God he knows how long I tried
Feel there is no reason to cry
I live my life
In fortune dreams forever

 

[Mulder]

Pato Fú - Sobre o Tempo

Tempo tempo mano velho
Falta um tanto ainda eu sei
Pra você correr macio
Como zune um novo sedã
Tempo tempo mano velho
Vai, vai, vai...
Tempo amigo seja legal
Conto contigo pela madrugada

Só me derrube no final

Proximo Tema: "Por que estou tão triste....?"

Lenbrando que o tema pode ser entendido de qualquer maneira, desde acontecimentos pessoais até fatos do mundo, etc...

 

[Ruby Moon £]

Travis - Why does it always rain on me?

I can't sleep tonight
Everybody saying everything is alright
Still I can't close my eyes
I'm seeing a tunnel at the end of all of these lights

Sunny Days
Where have you gone
I get the strangest feeling
you belong

Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining, I can't avoid the lightning

I can't stand myself
I'm being held up by invisible men
Still life on a shell when
I got my mind on something else

Sunny Days
Where have you gone
I get the strangest feeling
you belong

Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining, I can't avoid the lightning

Oh where did the blue skies go?
And why is it raining so?
It's so cold

I can't sleep tonight
Everybody saying everything is alright
Still I can't close my eyes
I'm seeing a tunnel at the end of all of these lights

Sunny Days
Where have you gone
I get the strangest feeling
you belong

Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining, I can't avoid the lightning

Oh where did the blue skies go?
And why is it raining so?
It's so cold

Why does it always rain on me?

Por que sempre chove em mim?

Eu não posso dormir hoje à noite
Todos estão dizendo que tudo está bem
Eu ainda não posso cerrar os meus olhos
Eu estou vendo um túnel no fim de todas essas luzes

Dias ensolarados
Onde vocês foram
Eu tenho o sentimento mais estranho
Ao qual você pertence

Por que sempre chove em mim?
É porque eu menti quando eu tinha 17?
Por que sempre chove em mim?
Até quando o sol está brilhando, eu não posso evitar os raios

Eu não posso suportar eu mesmo
Estou sendo segurado por um homem invisível
Ainda a vida é numa concha quando
Eu tenho minha mente em alguma outra coisa

Dias ensolarados
Onde vocês foram
Eu tenho o sentimento mais estranho
Ao qual você pertence

Por que sempre chove em mim?
É porque eu menti quando eu tinha 17?
Por que sempre chove em mim?
Até quando o sol está brilhando, eu não posso evitar os raios

Oh, aonde foi o céu azul?
E por que chove tanto?
É tão fria...

 

[BassRing]

Helloween

FOREVER AND ONE (NEVERLAND)

What can I do?
Will I be getting through?
Now that I must try to leave it all behind
Did you see what you have done to me?
So hard to justify
Slowly it's passing by
Forever and one
I will miss you
However, I kiss you
Yet again
Way down in Neverland
So hard I was trying
Tomorrow I'll still be crying
How could you hide your lies
Your lies
Here I am
Seeing you once again
My mind's so far away
My heart's so close to stay
Too proud to fight
I'm walking back into night
Will I ever find someone to believe?
Forever and one
I will miss you
However, I kiss you
Yet again
Way down in Neverland
So hard I was trying
Tomorrow I'll still be crying
How could you hide your lies
Your lies

 

[Cildraemoth]

Alone, Heart

I hear the ticking of the clock
I'm lying here the room's pitch dark
I wonder where you are tonight
No answer on the telephone
And the night goes by so very slow
Oh I hope that it won't end though
Alone

Till now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
And now it chills me to the bone
How do I get you alone
How do I get you alone

You don't know how long I have wanted
to touch your lips and hold you tight, oh
You don't know how long I have waited
and I was going to tell you tonight
But the secret is still my own
and my love for you is still unknown
Alone

Till now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
And now it chills me to the bone
How do I get you alone
How do I get you alone

How do I get you alone
How do I get you alone

Alone, alone

 

[Green Arrow]

War of Wrath - Blind Guardian

narrator (Sauron):
The field is lost
Everything is lost
The black one has fallen from the sky and the towers in ruins lie
The enemy is within, everywhere
And with him the light, soon they will be here
Go now, my lord, while there is time
There are places below
(Morgoth):
And you know them too
I release thee, go
My servant you'll be for all time
(Sauron):
As you command
My king
(Morgoth):
I had a part in everything
Twice I destroyed the light and twice I failed
I left ruin behind me when I returned
But I also carried ruin with me
She, the mistress of her own lust

Eu diria que Morgoth é Bush Jr. e Sauron é Colin Powell... Seria assim se eles perdessem a guerra

 

[Chester Cubano]

finalmente um lugar pra eu cantar!

Garçon - Reginaldo Rossi

Garçon, aqui nesta mesa de bar!
Você já cansou de escutar, centenas de casos de amor!
Garçon, no bar todo mundo é igual!
Meu caso eh mais um!É banal!Mas preste atenção por favor!

Saiba que o meu grande amor hoje vai se casar
mandou uma carta pra me avisar, deixou em pedaços o meu coração
E pra matar a tristeza só mesa de bar
vou tomar todas ,vou me embreagar, e se eu dormi me deite no chão!

Garçon!Eu sei eu to enchendo o saco!
Mas todo bebum fica chato, valente, e tem toda razão!
Garçon! Mas eu só quero é chorar!
Eu vou minha conta pagar, por isso eu lhe pesso atenção!

Saiba que o meu grande amor hoje vai se casar
mandou uma carta pra me avisar, deixou em pedaços o meu coração
E pra matar a tristeza só mesa de bar
vou tomar todas ,vou me embreagar, e se eu dormi me deite no chão!

 

[Mulder]

Pessoal olhem bem, no 5º post após o tema, a pessoa DEVE colocar o proximo tema. No caso aqui seria o chester. Leiam as regras lá no inicio Ok?

Talvez eu tenha me expressado mal lá na frente... Bem... Vou colocar o tema já que o chester não pós, ok?

Tema: Eu e Você, juntos ou longe, não importa: Eu e Você

 

[Thico]

Putz, esse tema é bem eu... =P
The Scientist - Coldplay

Come up to meet you,
Tell you I'm sorry,
You don't know how lovely you are.

I had to find you,
Tell you I need you,
Tell you I set you apart.

Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions.
Oh, let's go back to the start.

Running in circles,
Coming up tails,
Heads on a silence apart.

Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be this hard.
Oh, take me back to the start...

I was just guessing
At numbers and figures,
Pulling your puzzles apart.

Questions of science,
Science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart.

Tell me you love me,
Come back and haunt me.
Oh, and I rush to the start.


Running in circles,
Chasing our tails,
Come back as we are.


Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be so hard.
Oh, I'm going back to the start...

 

[Mulder]

With You - Linkin Park

I woke up in a dream today
To the cold of the static / And put my cold feet on the floor
Forgot all about yesterday
Remembering I’m pretending to be where I’m not anymore
A little taste of hypocrisy
And I’m left in the wake of the mistake / Slow to react
Even though you’re so close to me
You’re still so distant / And I can’t bring you back


It’s true / The way I feel
Was promised by your face
The sound of your voice
Painted on my memories
Even if you’re not with me
I’m with you


You / Now I see / Keeping everything inside
[With you]
You / Now I see / Even when I close my eyes


I hit you and you hit me back
We fall to the floor / The rest of the day stands still
Fine line between this and that
When things go wrong I pretend the the past ins’t real
Now I’m trapped in this memory
And I’m left in the wake of the mistake / Slow to react
Even though you’re close to me
You’re still so distant / And I can’t bring you back


It’s true / The way I feel
Was promised by your face
The sound of your voice
Painted on my memories
Even if you’re not with me
I’m with you


You / Now I see / Keeping everything inside
[With you]
You / Now I see / Even when I close my eyes
[With you]
You / Now I see / Keeping everything inside
[With you]
You / Now I see / Even when I close my eyes


No
No matter how far we’ve come
I can’t wait to see tomorrow
No matter how far we’ve come
I can’t wait to see tomorrow
With You


You / Now I see / Keeping everything inside
[With you]
You / Now I see / Even when I close my eyes
[With you]
You / Now I see / Keeping everything inside
[With you]
You / Now I see / Even when I close my eyes

 

[Hareth]

A Winter's Tale - Genesis (putz, como eu consigo juntar tudo quanto é tema com Genesis?)

The winter's bitterness is lost
In the fireside warmth that comforts me
A peace for all my thoughts
The night brings shadows to the street
It's the time for dreams of things to come
To creep inside their lives

You're concealing
Ev'ry feeling
Can you find me
Deep inside you
You're concealing
Ev'ry feeling
Can you find me now
It's deep inside your heart I'll be
I'm there, I'm there

The evening fantasy begins
In the sandy lanes that cross the fields
The gentle rain will fall
The morning sweeps away the night
And the dreams of you
Still haunt my thoughts
Bring meaning to my life

You're concealing
Ev'ry feeling
Can you find me
Deep inside you
Let me touch you
Let me keep you
Let me know you're there

Can you hold me
With your small hand
The hand which links the beauty of our lives
The future's brighter now
Our world is everything to me
To know I'm there I'm there

 

[Lord Skywalker]

Lá vai:

HAMMERFALL - DREAMS COME TRUE

Never thought I'd feel again
Feel the darkness fade and see the morning sun arise
Never thought I'd feel alive again
Senses dull and blunt from all the lies

Now, when I hold your face so close to mine
I see a place where the sun will shine
With you it is divine

Looking down into those eyes
I know, I'll be lost and never found again
Kiss me once and I will surely melt and die
Kiss me twice and I will never leave your side...
(If) Dreams Come True

Do I dare to trust this time?
Ooh, the Bells of Fortune, will I ever hear them chime?
Only those who have been burned before
Truly know the meaning of Hell's flaming core

I was the brooding night and you were dawn.
Saving me, for I was forlorn
In your light I am reborn.

Looking down into those eyes
I know, I'll be lost and never found again
Kiss me once and I will surely melt and die
Kiss me twice and I will never leave your side...
(If) Dreams Come True

Then, when the walls are breaking down on us
When all we see is misery
Will you still believe in me?

Looking down into those eyes
I know, I'll be lost and never found again
Kiss me once and I will surely melt and die
Kiss me twice and I will never leave your side...
until the sign of winter,
Always by your side....

 

[Cildraemoth]

Para fechar o tema,

And You And I do Yes

I. Cord Of Life

A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream.
Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes.
As a foundation left to create the spiral aim,
A movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.
Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed.
Between the picture of time behind the face of need,
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.
Oh.

Coins and crosses
Never know their fruitless worth;
Cords are broken,
Locked inside the mother earth.
They won't hide, hold, they won't tell you,
Watching the world, watching all of the world,
Watching us go by.

And you and I climb over the sea to the valley,
And you and I reached out for reasons to call.


II. Eclipse

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
As a movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the side of seeds of life with you.


III. The Preacher the Teacher

Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.
Ooh, ooh.

I listened hard but could not see
Life tempo change out and inside me.
The preacher trained in all to lose his name;
The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same.
In the end, we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalize
That the truth of the man maturing in his eyes,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
As a moment regained and regarded both the same,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
A clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you.


IV. Apocalypse

And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning.
And you and I reach over the sun for the river.
And you and I climb, clearer, towards the movement.
And you and I called over valleys of endless seas.

***

Novo tema: problemas sociais (criminalidade, racismo, etc...)

 

[Eru- o Ilúvatar]

Gabriel Pensador, 1993 - Lavagem Cerebral

Racismo preconceito e discriminação em geral É uma burrice coletiva sem explicação Afinal que justificativa você me dá para um povo que precisa de união Mas demonstra claramente Infelizmente Preconceitos mil De naturezas diferentes Mostrando que essa gente Essa gente do Brasil é muito burra E não enxerga um palmo a sua frente Porque se fosse inteligente esse povo já teria agido de forma mais consciente Eliminando da mente todo o preconceito E não agindo com a burrice estampada no peito A "elite" que devia dar um bom exemplo É a primeira a demonstrar esse tipo de sentimento Num complexo de superioridade infantil Ou justificando um sistema de relação servil E o povão vai como um bundão na onda do racismo e da discriminação Não tem a união e não vê a solução da questão Que por incrível que pareça está em nossas mãos Só precisamos de uma reformulação geral Uma espécie de lavagem cerebral. Não seja um imbecil Não seja um Paulo Francis Não se importe com a origem ou a cor do seu semelhante O quê que importa se ele é nordestino e você não? O quê que importa se ele é preto e você é branco? Aliás branco no Brasil é difícil porque no Brasil somos todos mestiços Se você discorda então olhe pra trás Olhe a nossa história Os nossos ancestrais O Brasil colonial não era igual a Portugal A raiz do meu país era multi racial Tinha Índio Branco Amarelo Preto nascemos da mistura então porque o preconceito? Barrigas cresceram o tempo passou... Nasceram os brasileiros cada um com a sua cor Uns com a pele clara outros mais escura Mas todos viemos da mesma mistura Então preste atenção nessa sua babaquice Pois como eu já disse Racismo é burrice Dê a ignorância um ponto final: Faça uma lavagem cerebral
Negro e nordestino constróem seu chão Trabalhador da construção civil conhecido como peão No Brasil o mesmo negro que constrói o seu apartamento ou que lava o chão de uma delegacia É revistado e humilhado por um guarda nojento que ainda recebe o salário e o pão de cada dia graças ao negro ao nordestino e a todos nós Pagamos homens que pensam que ser humilhado não dói O preconceito é uma coisa sem sentido Tire a burrice do peito e me dê ouvidos Me responda se você discriminaria Um sujeito com a cara do PC Farias Não você não faria isso não ... Você aprendeu que o preto é ladrão Muitos negros roubam mas muitos são roubados E cuidado com esse branco aí parado do seu lado Porque se ele passa fome Sabe como é: Ele rouba e mata um homem seja você ou seja o Pelé Você e o Pelé morreriam igual Então que morra o preconceito e viva a união racial Quero ver nessa musica você aprender e fazer a lavagem cerebral
O racismo é burrice mas o mais burro não é o racista é o que pensa que o racismo não existe O pior cego é o que não quer vê E o racismo está dentro de você Porque o racista na verdade é um tremendo babaca Que assimila os preconceitos porque tem cabeça fraca E desde sempre não para pra pensar Nos conceitos que a sociedade insiste em lhe ensinar E de pai pra filho o racismo passa Em forma de piadas que teriam bem mais graça Se não fossem o retrato da nossa ignorância Transmitindo a discriminação desde a infância E o que as crianças aprendem brincando É nada mais nada menos do que a estupidez se propagando Qualquer tipo de racismo não se justifica Ninguém explica Precisamos da lavagem cerebral pra acabar com esse lixo que é uma herança cultural Todo mundo é racista mas não sabe a razão Então eu digo meu irmão Seja do povão ou da "elite" Não participe Pois como eu já disse Racismo é burrice Como eu já disse Racismo é burrice Como eu já disse Racismo é burrice Como eu já disse Racismo é burrice E se você é mais um burro Não me leve a mal É hora de fazer uma lavagem cerebral Mas isso é compromisso seu Eu nem vou me meter Quem vai lavar a sua mente não sou eu É você.

 

[Northern Lad]

Essa música é essencialmente sobre os conflitos na Irlanda do Norte, mas também fala muito sobre padrões, racismo, conflitos religiosos etc... é fácil ver isso na letra...

O single com alguns líderes de partes irlanda do norte:

U2- PLEASE

So you never knew love.. until you crossed the line of grace.
And you never felt wanted.. until you'd someone slap your face.
So you never felt alive... until you'd almost wasted away.

You had to win, you couldn't just pass
The smartest ass at the top of the class
Your flying colours, your family tree
And all your lessons in history.

Please, please, please... Get up off your knees.
Please, please, please, please, get up off your knees...

And you never knew... how low you'd stoop to make that call
And you never knew... what was on the ground until they made you crawl.
So you never knew... that the heaven uou keep you stole.

Your Catholic blues, your convent shoes,
Your stick-on tattoos now they're making the news
Your holy war, your northern star
Your sermon on the mount from the boot of your car.

Please, please, please... Get up off your knees.
Please, please, please... Leave me out of this, please.

So love is hard, and love is tough
But love is not what you're thinking of...

September, streets capsizing.. spilling over down the drains
Shard of glass, splinters like rain...But you could only feel your own pain.
October, talk getting nowhere.
November, December; remember
We just started again.

Please, please, please... Get up off your knees, yeah.
Please, please, please, please, ah.

So love is big...Is bigger than us...
But love is not... what you're thinking of.
It's what lovers deal
It's what lovers steal
You know I've found it
Hard to receive
'Cause you, my love
I could never believe.

 

[jean]

BOB DYLAN - Like a rolling stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?/


EDITADO : me desculpe... peguei o bonde andando...

 

[Cildraemoth]

4a musica

Confesso que sugeri o tema so para postar essa:

Bob Dylan, Hurricane

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops."
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.

Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that's just the way things go.
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?"
"Don't forget that you are white."

Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."
Cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
You'll be doin' society a favor.
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim."

Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
And though they could not produce the gun,
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.

Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.