[00:00.00] 作词 : Joy Bogat
[00:01.00] 作曲 : Joy Bogat/Jacco Herhaus
[00:21.24]Raise my glass to all the ones before me
[00:26.16]How they paved a way
[00:31.47]Swear to do my best to break the circles
[00:36.21]Free us from all the weight we’ve been carrying
[00:41.07]For  generations
[00:51.45]It’s not only me standing in front of you
[00:54.12]Load of my family sits with me in the booth
[00:56.55]When the melodies come and a vibe enters the room
[00:58.98]I feel my mama’s glance saying“ I’m proud of you“
[01:01.83]The house she’s living in is growing taller every day
[01:04.20]Just like she’s growing smaller, I see it in her face
[01:07.23]But she is one of the strongest, one of the bravest
[01:09.99]Had me in her belly when she crossed that ocean
[01:12.06]And made sure we had a safe haven
[01:14.10]Made sure we had a paved way
[01:15.45]When that was nothing that she ever had for herself
[01:18.09]Raising three kids on her own
[01:19.62]She  took a job and a step back
[01:22.26]Pressed pause on things that could’ve been
[01:24.69]Ignored the past and how I wish she didn’t
[01:27.27]But she made way so that we could soar to heights
[01:29.91]That make her dizzy
[01:31.50]I look at her gratefully
[01:33.54]Raise my glass to all the ones before me
[01:38.43]How they paved a way
[01:42.69]I  swear to do  my best to break the circles
[01:48.42]Free us from all the weight we’ve been carrying
[01:52.95]For generations
[01:53.97]Draw a map of the world
[01:55.17]Trace the lines
[01:56.13]Clay  and blue, there’s green in between
[01:58.08]Things coming together finally
[01:59.94]Like two trains colliding on full speed
[02:02.22]Packed with history, culture, grief
[02:04.35]I awake sometimes from my ancestors screams
[02:06.60]Surely of joy but who knows what did they see
[02:08.73]With their eyes - I have my grandma’s
[02:11.01]Her hands, her walk
[02:12.78]And I didn’t even know her  at all
[02:14.40]But it shows that loneliness is a concept to abandon
[02:17.34]I might not always like it but every time I laugh
[02:20.49]My father’s features speak right through me
[02:24.81]And I’m happy to be the joy that he could never feel
[02:30.48]Proud to pass it on to the next one
[02:33.39]I look  at himgratefully