MLK Interlude歌词

[00:00.000] 作词 : Martin Luther King Jr.
[00:00.070] 作曲 : Martin Luther King Jr.
[00:00.140]I say to you this morning,
[00:02.717]that if you have never found something
[00:06.759]so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it,
[00:10.994]then you aren’t fit to live
[00:15.478]You may be 38 years old as I happen to be
[00:21.278]And one day some great opportunity stands before you
[00:26.188]And calls upon you to stand up for some great principle
[00:30.215]Some great issue, some great cause
[00:36.021]And you refuse to do it because you are afraid
[00:43.688]You refuse to do it because you want to live longer
[00:49.559]You’re afraid that you will lose your job
[00:52.322]Or you’re afraid that you will bе criticized
[00:55.091]Or that you will lose your popularity
[00:58.164]Or you’re afraid that somеbody will stab you or shoot at you or bomb your house
[01:03.651]And so you refuse to take the stand
[01:07.805]Well you may go on and live until you are 90
[01:14.280]But you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90
[01:20.893]And the sensation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit
[01:29.822]You died when you refused to stand up for right
[01:34.999]You died when you refused to stand up for truth
[01:39.667]You died when you refused to stand up for justice