[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.38]Hello Birmingham - Ani Difranco [00:41.40]Hold me down [00:46.76]I am floating away [00:53.05]Into the overcast skies [00:55.82]Over my home town [00:58.97]On election day [01:04.84]What is it about Birmingham [01:11.28]What is it about buffalo [01:16.44]Did the hate filled want to build bunkers [01:20.48]In your beautiful red earth [01:23.22]They want to build them in our shiny white snow [01:27.13]And now I've drawn closed the curtains [01:33.31]In this little booth [01:35.16]Where the truth has no place to stand [01:39.18]And I am feeling oh so powerless [01:44.72]In this stupid booth [01:46.07]With this useless little lever in my hand [01:50.69]And outside [01:52.37]My city is bracing [01:54.98]For the next killing thing [01:57.99]Standing by the bridge [01:59.34]And praying for the next doctor Martin Luther king [02:17.88]It was just one shot [02:23.77]Through the kitchen window [02:29.99]Just one or two miles from here [02:34.99]If you fly like a crow [02:42.00]A bullet came to visit a doctor [02:46.39]In his one safe place [02:53.80]A bullet ensuring the right to life [02:56.30]Whizzed past his kid and his wife [02:59.38]And knocked his glasses right off of his face [03:03.56]And the blood poured off the pulpit [03:09.37]Yeah the blood poured down the picket lines [03:15.24]And the hatred was immediate yeah [03:20.81]And the vengeance was divine [03:27.25]So they went and stuffed god down the barrel of [03:32.64]A gun [03:34.17]And after him they stuffed his only son [03:56.83]Hello Birmingham it's buffalo [04:07.37]I heard you had some trouble down there again [04:13.07]Just calling to let to know [04:14.70]That somebody understands [04:18.06]I was once escorted [04:20.99]Through the doors [04:22.19]Of a clinic [04:23.20]By a man [04:24.88]In a bulletproof vest [04:28.91]And no bombs [04:30.45]Went off that day [04:32.57]So I am still here to say [04:35.43]Birmingham [04:36.72]I'm wishing you all of my best [04:40.39]Oh Birmingham [04:42.57]I'm wishing you all of my best [04:46.22]Oh Birmingham [04:48.45]I'm wishing you all of my best [04:52.01]On this election day