Down in old Savannah 倒在萨凡纳老

Shots ring through the night 经过一夜的镜头环

A man lies pistol whipped in the corner 男人的谎言手枪鞭打角落

A cop crumbles in the streaking light 一个警察崩溃的裸奔光

   

Now they want retribution 现在，他们要报复

Don't like trouble of this kind 不喜欢这种麻烦

They round up the possible witnesses and suspects 他们圆了可能的证人和犯罪嫌疑人

And threaten them with lesser crimes 并威胁他们的罪行较轻

   

Now they see me molly-hawking over the haystack now 现在，他们看到我莫莉 - 霍金在草堆现在

See me swimming with a bow-legged hound 看到我游泳用弓腿猎犬

Detective man, he do what he got to do 侦探的人，他做什么，他该怎么做

When a black man shoot a white man down 当一个黑人拍摄白色的人下来

   

Whoa, jumping Jehoshaphat 哇，跳约沙法

Where you gonna turn? 在那里你会转？

The system has done failed you 该系统已经做辜负了你

And it'll fail the next hang-bird 它会失败，下一个坑鸟

   

They see me molly-hawking over the haystack now 他们看到我莫莉 - 霍金在草堆现在

See me swimming with a bow-legged hound 看到我游泳用弓腿猎犬

The detective man, he do what he got to do 侦探的人，他做什么，他该怎么做

When a black man shoot a white man down 当一个黑人拍摄白色的人下来

   

So, now we calling on Lady of Justice 所以，现在我们呼吁正义夫人

Tell her we need her medicine 告诉她，我们需要她吃药

I'm about to be killed by the state of Georgia 我即将由佐治亚州被杀害

And it don't matter if I'm innocent 而这并不重要，如果我是无辜的

   

Oh, there were pieces of it gone 哦，还有它的一部分了

Little city had it wrong 小城市有错

It was a trial that should not please the court 这是一个试验，不应该请法院

No, no 不，不

   

All I'm asking is a true day in court 所有我问的是一个真实的一天在法庭上

After nineteen years on a death row bed 经过19年在死囚床

Seven of nine say they gave false witness at the time 九七说，他们给了作假见证的时候

But the judge he still want me dead 但法官他还是要我死

   

'Cause there was no physical weapon 因为没有物理武器

No murder evidence, no appeal, no clemency 没有谋杀的证据，没有上诉，没有宽大处理

Judge said willing I was only fit for killing 法官表示，愿我只适合杀

Unworthy to believe in God or him in me 不值得相信上帝或他在我

   

Oh, and of pardons and paroles 哦，对赦免和假释

No one ever seems to know 没有人似乎知道

It's just a black hole of expediency 这是权宜之计，只是一个黑洞

But I'm about to be killed by the state of Georgia 但我要通过佐治亚州被杀害

And it don't sound good to me 它不健全的对我好