Brother Ali - Another Country

Song of the Day

Minnesota Public Radio

Music, Music Commentary

4.5 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Today’s Song of the Day is “Another Country” by Brother Ali.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the divided states, land of the thief, home of the slaves.
0:06.1	They want to raise the stakes so they killed all the dreams and they danced on the grave.
0:15.5	Another country.
0:23.6	Everybody medicated, overweight, hungry. Look on their face, how come nobody love me?
0:26.6	Gliss and diminishing, underneath is ugly.
0:29.6	Children and innocence come undone abruptly.
0:32.6	Everybody medicated, overweight, hungry.
0:35.6	Look on their face, how come nobody love me? Gliss and diminishing, overweight, hungry. Look on their face how, I hope nobody love me.
0:38.3	Glisten, diminishing, underneath is ugly.
0:41.3	It's been several winters since.
0:43.3	Tear gas and smoke in the morning sky.
0:47.3	Precinct burned overnight, no lie, no woman, no pride.
0:50.3	With 400 years of stolen life and no reply,
0:53.3	400 years of stolen life uh what type of math
0:57.2	they got you doing three-fits of a human in the constitution ink dry you cannot remove it numbers not
1:03.2	congruent no matter how much they chop it or screw it's off and the truth but try to refute it
1:08.0	i remember planes top of buildings and dominators got all in their feelings.
1:12.9	The fact they could be killed whether soldier is civilian moms and children.
1:16.5	They bombed the whole continent until they killed a million.
1:19.4	The same death told her souls died for mention with no accountability to mention.
1:24.5	Detroit, Michigan, Tulsa, and Rondo.
1:27.3	Sorry if it's hard for me to cry about
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