my name is Bono and I am a rock star

[Applause]

don't get me too excited because I use

he's four-letter words when I get

excited and I'm that guy but I just like

to say to the parents their children are

safe your country is safe the FCC have

taught me a lesson and the only the only

four-letter word I'm going to use today

is P the N and she come to think of it

bono as a four-letter words the whole

business of obscenity I don't think

there's anything certainly more unseemly

than the sight of a rock star in

academic robes it's a bit like when

people get their put their King Charles

Spaniels in a little tart and sweats and

hats it's sort of it's not natural and

it doesn't make the dog any smarter No

it's true we weren't here before with

you two and I would like to thank them

for giving me a great life as well as

you I got a great rock and roll band

that normally stand at the back when I'm

talking to thousands of people in a

football stadium and they were here with

me I think it's seven years ago actually

then I was some other territorial

problems I I I was wearing a Mirabal

suit at the time and I emerged from a

40-foot high revolving lemon it was a

sort of cross between a spaceship a

disco and actually just a plastic fruit

I think I guess it was at that point

when your trustees decided to give me

their highest honor Doctor of Laws Wow I

know it's an honor it really is an honor

but are you sure doctor of law I mean

all I can think of as the laws I've

broken yes

laws of nature laws of physics laws of

the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and on

a memorable night in this late 70s I

think it was Newton's law of motion

sickness but no it's true my resume

reads like a rap sheet I have to come

clean I've broken a lot of laws and the

ones I haven't I've certainly thought

about I have sinned in thought word and

deed and God forgive me actually God

forgave me but why would you I'm here

getting a doctorate getting respectable

getting in the good graces of the powers

that be I hope it sends you students a

powerful message crime does pay

so I humbly accept the honor keeping in

mind the words of a British playwright

John Morrison where it was no brilliance

is needed in the law nothing but common

sense and relatively clean fingernails

well at best I've got one of the two of

those but no I never went to college

I've slept in some strange places but

the library wasn't one of them

I studied rock and roll and I grew up in

Dublin in the 70s music was an alarm

bell for me and woke me up to the world

I was 17 when I first saw The Clash and

it just sounded like revolution The

Clash were like this is a public service

announcement with guitars I was the kid

in the crowds who took it at face value

later I learned that a lot of the rebels

were in it for the t-shirt they'd wear

the boots but they wouldn't March

they'd smashed bottles on their heads

but they wouldn't go to something more

painful like a town hall meeting by the

way I felt like that myself until

recently I didn't expect change to come

so slow so agonizingly slow I didn't

realize that the biggest obstacle to

political and social progress was wasn't

the Freemasons or the establishment or

the Bootheel of whatever you consider

the man to be it was something much more

subtle as the Provost just referred to a

combination of our own indifference and

the kafka esque labyrinth of nose you

encounter as people vanish down the

corridors of bureaucracy so that for

better were worse that was my education

I came away with a clearer sense of the

difference music could make in my own

life and other people's lives if I did

my job right which if you're a singer in

a rock band of means avoiding the

obvious pitfalls like say a mullet

hairdo

if anyone here doesn't know what a

mullet is by the way your education is

certainly not complete I'd ask for your

money back for a lead singer like me a

mullet is I would suggest arguably more

dangerous than a drug problem yes I had

a mullet in the 80s now this is the

point where the members of the faculty

starts smiling uncomfortably in thinking

maybe they should have offered me the

honors the honorary bachelor's degree

said of the full bond given he should

have been the bachelors it's talking

about mullets and stuff and if they're

asking one on earth I'm doing here I

think it's a fair question what am I

doing here

and more to the point what are you doing

here because if you don't mind me saying

so this is a strange ending to an Ivy

League education four years in these

historic halls thinking great thoughts

and now you're sitting in a stadium

better suited for football listening to

an Irish rock star give a speech that is

so far mostly about himself

what are you doing here actually I saw

something in the paper last week about

Kermit the Frog giving a commencement

address somewhere one of the students

was complaining I worked my ass off for

four years to be addressed by a sock you

have worked your ass off for this for

four years you've been buying trading

and selling everything you've got in

this marketplace of ideas the

intellectual hustle your pockets are

full even your your parents are empty

and now you got to figure out what to

spend it on

well the going rate for change is not

cheap big ideas are expensive the

university has had its share of big

ideas Benjamin Franklin had a few so did

justice Brennan and in my opinion so

does Judith's Roden what a gorgeous girl

they have all know they all knew that if

you're gonna be good at your word if

you're gonna live up to your ideals and

your education it's gonna cost you

so my question I suppose is what's the

big idea what's your big idea what are

you willing to spend your moral capital

your intellectual capital your cash your

sweat equity in pursuing outside of the

walls of the University of Pennsylvania

there's a really great truly great Irish

poet his name is Brendan kennelly and he

has this epic poem it's called the book

of judas and there's a line in that poem

that never leaves my mind it says if you

want to serve the aged betray it what

does that mean to betray the aged

well to me betraying the H means

exposing its conceits its foibles it's

phony moral certitude it means telling

the secrets of the age and facing harsha

truths every age has its massive moral

blind spots we might not see them but

our children will slavery was one of

them and the people who best served that

age were the ones who called it as it

was which was ungodly and inhuman Ben

Franklin called it when he became

president of the Pennsylvania abolition

Society segregation there was another

one America sees this now but it took a

civil rights movement to betray their

age and 50 years ago the US Supreme

Court betrayed the age May 17 1954 it

says here Brown versus Board of

Education came down and put the lie to

the idea that separate can ever really

be equal amen to that

fast forward 50 years may 17th 2004 what

are the ideas right now worth betraying

what are the lies we tell ourselves now

what are the blind spots of our age

what's worth spending your post pen

lives trying to do or undo it might be

something simple it might be something

as simple as our deep down refusal to

believe that every human life has equal

worth could that be it could that be it

each of you will probably have your own

answer but for me that is it and for me

the proving ground has been Africa

Africa makes a mockery of what we say is

what I say about equality it questions

our piety zand our commitments because

there's no way to look at what's

happening over there and its effect on

all of us and conclude that we actually

consider Africans as our equal before

God there is no chance

an amazing event happens here in

Philadelphia in 1985 Live Aid at whole

we are the world phenomen the concert

that happened here

well after that concert I went to

Ethiopia with my wife Ali we were there

for a month and an extraordinary thing

happened to me

we used to wake up in the morning and

the lift the mist would be lifting we'd

see thousands and thousands of people

who've been walking all night and to our

food station where we were working and

one man I was standing outside talking

to the translatory this beautiful boy

and he was saying to me in America I

guess it was he saying I can't

understand what he's saying and this

nurse who spoke English and America to

me he's saying will you take his son

he's saying please take his son he he

would be a great son for you and I I was

looking puzzled and he said you must

take my son because if you don't take my

son my son will surely die if you take

him he will go go back to where he is

and get an education probably like the

ones we're talking about today and and

of course I said I had to say no that

was the rules there and I walked away

from that man and I have never really

walked away from it but I think about

that that boy and that man and that's

when I started this journey that's

brought me here into this stadium

because at that moment I became the

worst scourge on God's green earth a

rock star with a cause except it isn't

the cause 7,000 Africans dying every day

of preventable treatable disease like

AIDS that's not a cause that's an

emergency and when the disease gets out

of control we

most of the population live on less than

a dollar a day that's not a cause that's

an emergency

and when resentment builds because of

unfair trade rules and the burden of

unfair debts that our debts by the way

that keep Africans poor that's not a

cause that's an emergency

so we are the world Live Aid start meet

off you know it was an extraordinary

thing and really that event was about

charity but 20 years on I'm not that

interested in charity I'm interested in

justice there's a difference Africa

needs justice as much as it needs

charity

equality for Africa is a big idea it's a

big expensive idea see that the Wharton

graduates now getting out the math on

the back of the programs numbers are

intimidating aren't they but not to you

but the scale the scale of the suffering

and the scope of the commitment they

often Nomis into a kind of indifference

wishing for the end to AIDS and extreme

poverty in Africa is like wishing that

gravity didn't make things so damn heavy

we can wish it but what the hell can we

do about it

well more than we think we can't fix

every problem corruption natural

calamities are part of the picture here

but the ones we can we must the debt

burden as I say unfair trade as I say

sharing our knowledge the intellectual

copyright for life-saving drugs in a

crisis we can do that and because we can

we must because we can we must amen

sorry this is the straight truth the

righteous truth it's not a theory it's a

fact the fact is a dis generation yours

mine generation that can look at the

poverty we're the first generation that

could look at poverty and disease look

across the ocean to Africa and say with

a straight face we can be the first to

end the sort of stupid extreme poverty

we're in a world of Plenty a child can

die for lack of food in its belly we can

be the first generation it might take a

while but we can be that generation that

says no to stupid poverty

[Music]

it's a fact it's a fact there

economists confirm it it's an expensive

fact but cheaper than say the Marshall

Plan that saved Europe from communism

and fascism and cheaper I would argue

than fighting wave after wave of

terrorism's new recruits it that's the

Economics Department over there very

good it's a fact so why aren't we

pumping our fists in the air and

cheering about it well probably because

when we admit we can do something about

it we've got to do something about it

for the first time in history we have

the know-how we have the cash we have

the life-saving drugs but do we have the

will yesterday here in Philadelphia at

the Liberty Bell I met a lot of

Americans who do have the will from

Archer are you here there's the three

million of them over there from arch

religious conservatives to young secular

radicals I just have got an incredible

overpowering sense that this was

possible yesterday we were calling it

the one campaign to put an end to aids

and extreme poverty in Africa they

believe we can do it

so do I I really really do believe it

and I just want you to know I think it's

this is obvious but I'm not really going

in for the warm fuzzy feeling thing I'm

not a hippie I do not have flowers in my

hair I come from punk rock all right

The Clash war army boots not

Birkenstocks all right I believe America

can do this I believe that this

generation can do this in fact I want to

hear an argument about why we shouldn't

I know idealism is not playing on the

radio right now you don't see it on TV

irony is on heavy rotation the

knowingness the smirk the tired joke

I've tried them all out but I'll tell

you this outside this campus and even

inside it

idealism is under siege beset by

materialism narcissism and all the other

isms of indifference pagas and Chagas

and ragas and that is and graduate ISM

jism is a mother Oh where's John Lennon

when you need him well I don't want to

make you cop to idealism not in front of

your parents or your younger siblings

but what about Americanism will you come

to that at least it's not everywhere in

fashion these days Americanism not very

big in Europe truth be told no less on

Ivy League college campuses but it all

depends on your definition of

Americanism me I'm in love with this

country called America

I'm a huge fan

I'm a huge fan of America I'm like one

of those annoying fans you know the ones

that read the the CD notes and follow

you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds

of annoying questions about why you

didn't live up to that exam I'm that

kind of fan and I've read the

Declaration of Independence and I've

read the Constitution of the United

States and they are some liner notes to

it and as I said yesterday I made my

pilgrim dependents halt and I love

America because America is not just a

country it's an idea you see my country

Ireland is a great country but it's not

an idea America is an idea but it's an

idea that brings with it some baggage

like power brings prompt responsibility

it's an idea that brings with the

Equality but equality even though it's

the highest calling is the hardest to

reach the idea that anything is possible

that's one of the reasons I'm a fan of

America it's like hey look there's the

moon up there let's let's you know let's

take a walk on it bring back a piece of

it that's the kind of America that I'm a

fan of and in 1971 actually no in 1771

not great for glam-rock that year but

your founder mr. Franklin spent three

months in Ireland and Scotland to look

at the relationship they had with

England and see whether they this could

be a model for America whether America

should follow their example and remain a

part of the British Empire Franklin was

deeply deeply distressed by what he saw

in Ireland he saw how England had put a

stranglehold on Irish trade how absentee

English landlords exploited Irish tenant

farmers and how those farmers in

Franklin's words lived in wretched

hovels of mud and straw were clothed in

rags and subsisted chiefly on potatoes

not exactly

the American dream so instead of Ireland

becoming a model for America America

became a model for Ireland in our own

struggle for independence and when the

potatoes ran out millions of Irish men

women and children packed their bags got

on a boat and showed up right here and

we're still doing it we're not even

starving anymore loads of potatoes in

fact if there's any Irish out there

break out breaking news from Dublin the

potato famine is over you can come home

now sorry

but why are we still showing up because

we love the idea of America we love the

crackle in the hustle we love the spirit

that gives a finger to fate the spirit

that says there's no hurdle we can't

clear and no problem we can't fix

oh here's here comes the Brits only

joking

yeah no problem we can't fix so what's

the problem that we want to apply all

this energy and intellect to every era

has its defining struggle and the fate

of Africa is one of ours it's not the

only one but in the history books

it's easily gonna make the top five what

we did or what we did not do it's a

proving ground as I said earlier for the

idea of equality but whether it's this

or something else I hope you'll pick a

fight and get in it get your boots dirty

get rough steal your courage with a

final drink there at Smokey Joe's one

last primal scream and go sing the

melody line you hear in your own head

remember you don't owe anybody any

explanations you don't owe your parents

any explanations you don't owe your

professors any explanations you know I

used to think that the future was solid

or fixed or something like you inherited

like an old building that you move into

and the previous generation moves out or

gets chased out but it's not the future

is not fixed it's fluid you can build

your own building or Hut or condo

whatever this is the metaphor part of

the speech but my point is that the

world is more malleable than you think

and it's waiting for you to hammer it

into shape now if I were a folk singer I

would immediately launch into if I had a

hammer right now get you all singing and

swaying but as I say I come from punk

rock so I'd rather have the bloody

hammer right here in my fist

that's what this degree of yours is a

blunt instrument so go forth and build

something with it and remember what John

Adams said about Ben Franklin he does

not hesitate at our boldest measures but

rather seems to think us to irresolute

well this is the time for bold measures

and this is the country and you are the

generation thank you

[Applause]

{{}}

我的名字是波诺，我是摇滚明星

[掌声]

不要让我太兴奋，因为我兴奋时会用

他的四个字母词

，我就是那个人，但我

只想对父母说他们的孩子是

安全，你的国家是安全的 FCC

给了我一个教训，

我今天要使用的唯一四个字母的词

是 P 和 N，她开始认为

它是一个四个字母的

词 淫秽 我认为

没有什么

比看到穿着学术长袍的摇滚明星更

不体面的

了 不会让狗变得更聪明 不

，确实，我们以前没有和

你们两个在这里，我要感谢他们

给了我和你们一样美好的生活

我有一支很棒的摇滚乐队

，通常站在 当我

在一个足球场和成千上万的人交谈时

，他们和

我想那是七年前的事了，

当时我还有其他一些领土

问题，当时我穿着 Mirabal

西装，我从一个

40 英尺高的旋转柠檬中出来，它是

宇宙飞船、

迪斯科和实际上只是一个 塑料水果

我想我想是在那个

时候你的受托人决定给我

他们最高荣誉的法学博士哇我

知道这是一种荣誉这确实是一种荣誉

但是你确定是法学博士我的意思是

我能想到的一切 我

违反的

定律是的自然定律

宾夕法尼亚联邦的物理定律

在这个 70 年代末的一个难忘的夜晚我

认为这是牛顿的晕车定律

但不是真的我的简历

读起来就像我有的说唱表

坦白说，我已经违反了很多法律，

而且我还没有违反我当然

想过我在思想上和行为上都犯了罪

，上帝原谅我实际上上帝

原谅了我，但你为什么要我在这里

得到一个 博士获得体面的

获得 在当权者的恩惠

下，我希望它向学生们传达了一个

强有力的信息，犯罪确实会付出代价，

所以我谦卑地接受这份荣誉，

记住英国剧作家

约翰·莫里森的话，

在法律上不需要才华横溢，别无所求

常识和相对干净的

指甲充其量我有这两个中

的一个但没有我从未上过大学

我睡在一些奇怪的地方

但图书馆不是其中之一

我学习摇滚和我

70 年代在都柏林长大的音乐

给我敲响了警钟，唤醒了

我第一次看到 The Clash 时我 17 岁的世界

，听起来就像是一场革命 The

Clash 就像这是一个

关于吉他的公共服务公告

人群中的孩子，他们只看表面价值，

后来我才知道，很多反叛

者都是为了穿 T 恤，他们会

穿靴子，但他们不会游行，

他们会在头上砸瓶子，

但他们 不会去更

痛苦的地方，比如小镇

顺便说一下，我自己也有这种感觉，直到

最近我没想到变化来得

如此缓慢如此缓慢得令人痛苦我没有

意识到

政治和社会进步的最大障碍

不是共济会或建制派

或 Bootheel 无论你认为

这个人是什么人，它都更加

微妙，因为教务长刚刚提到

了我们自己的冷漠

和卡夫卡式的鼻子迷宫的结合，

因为人们消失在

官僚机构的走廊上，所以

更好的是更糟 那是我的教育，

如果我做对了我的工作，我对音乐可以在我自己的生活和其他人的生活中产生的影响有了更清晰的认识

，如果你

是摇滚乐队的歌手，就意味着避免

明显的陷阱，比如说 鲻鱼

发型

如果这里有人不知道

鲻鱼是什么，顺便说一句，你的教育

肯定是不完整的，我会要求你

退钱给像我这样的主唱

鲻鱼是我建议 可能

比毒品问题更危险 是的，我

在 80 年代有一条鲻鱼

应该是单身汉，它在

谈论鲻鱼之类的东西，如果他们

问一个地球上的人，我在这里做什么，我

认为这是一个公平的问题，我

在这里

做什么，更重要的是你在这里做什么

，因为如果你不 不介意我这么说

，这是常春藤联盟教育的一个奇怪的结局，

在这些

历史悠久的大厅里思考了四年的伟大思想

，现在你坐在一个

更适合足球的体育场里听

一位爱尔兰摇滚明星发表如此精彩的演讲

主要是关于他自己

你在这里做什么实际上我

上周在报纸上看到了一些关于

青蛙克米特在

某个学生抱怨的地方发表毕业典礼演讲的内容

四年来要靠一只袜子来解决

你为此付出了

四年的努力四年来你一直在

买卖你在

这个思想市场上的一切你的

知识分子你的口袋里

装满了你的父母 空的

，现在你必须弄清楚

要花在什么

上 变化的速度并不

便宜 大创意很昂贵

大学有它的大

创意 本杰明富兰克林有一些，

布伦南法官也有，在我看来也是

如此 Judith 的 Roden 多么漂亮的女孩，

他们都知道，他们都知道，

如果你要信守诺言，如果

你要实现自己的理想

和教育，那你就会付出代价，

所以我想我的问题是什么是

大的 知道你的伟大想法是什么

你愿意花费你的道德资本

你的智力资本你的现金你的

汗水资产在

宾夕法尼亚大学的围墙之外追求

有一个真正伟大的真正伟大的爱尔兰人

诗人，他的名字叫布伦丹·肯纳利，他

有这首史诗，叫做《犹大书

》，那首诗中有一句台词

永远不会离开我的脑海，它说如果你

想为老人服务，就背叛它

，这意味着什么？

对我来说，背叛 H 意味着

暴露它的自负它的弱点 它是

虚假的道德确信 它意味着讲述

时代的秘密并面对严酷的

真理 每个时代都有其巨大的道德

盲点，我们可能看不到它们，但

我们的孩子将奴隶制是其中之一，

并且 那个时代最好服务

的人是这样称呼它的人

，这是不敬虔和不人道的本

富兰克林在

担任宾夕法尼亚州废除

协会主席时称它为种族隔离还有

另一个美国现在看到了这一点，但它需要一场

民权运动 背叛他们的

年龄和 50 年前美国

最高法院背叛了年龄 1954 年 5 月 17 日，它

在这里说布朗与教育委员会（Brown vs.

真的

可以和那个

快进 50 年一样 阿门 2004 年 5 月 17 日

现在有哪些想法值得背叛

我们现在告诉自己的谎言是

什么 我们这个时代的盲点是

什么 值得花费你的后笔

生活尝试做或 撤消它可能很

简单它可能

就像我们内心深处拒绝

相信每个人的生命都具有同等

价值一样简单可能是这样

吗你们每个人都可能有自己的

答案但对我来说就是这样 对我来说

，试验场是非洲

我们实际上

认为非洲人在

上帝面前是平等的 1985 年

在费城不可能发生惊人的事件

Live Aid 总的来说，

我们是世界现象 很久以后

在这里发生

的音乐会 r 那场音乐会 我

和我的妻子 Ali 去了埃塞俄比亚，我们在那里

呆了一个月，一件不寻常的事情

发生在我身上，

我们曾经在早上醒来

，雾气会升起，我们会

看到成千上万的

人 整晚都在步行到我们工作的

食品站，

我站在外面的一个男人和

翻译说话这个漂亮的

男孩他在美国对我说我

猜是他说我不明白他在说

什么 说这个

对我说英语和美国的护士

他说你会带走他的儿子吗

他说请带走他的儿子他

会是你的好儿子我

看起来很困惑他说你必须

带走我的儿子因为如果你不 不要带走我的

儿子，如果你带走他，我的儿子肯定会死，

他会回到他所在的地方

接受教育，可能就像

我们今天所说的那样

，当然我说我不得不说不，那

是 那里的规则，我离开

了那个人 我从来没有真正

离开过它，但我想起

那个男孩和那个男人，那是

我开始这段旅程的时候，它

把我带到了这个体育场，

因为在那一刻，我成为了

上帝绿色地球上最严重的祸害，一个

摇滚明星 一个原因，但

不是原因 每天有 7,000 名非洲人死于

艾滋病等可预防可治疗的疾病，这不是

紧急情况，当疾病失控时

，我们

大多数人

每天的生活费不到一美元 一个紧急的原因

，当由于

不公平的贸易规则和

不公平债务的负担而产生怨恨时，我们的债务

让非洲人贫穷，这不是

一个紧急的原因，

所以我们是世界 Live Aid start meet

off you know it 是一件非同寻常的

事情，那场活动真的是关于

慈善的，但 20 年过去了，我

对慈善没那么感兴趣，我对

正义感兴趣 它

需要非洲的慈善平等是一个伟大的想法 这是一个

非常昂贵的想法 看看沃顿商学院的

毕业生现在

在课程的背后进行数学运算

他们经常把承诺的范围

变成一种冷漠，

希望非洲结束艾滋病和极端

贫困，就像希望

重力没有让事情变得如此沉重，

我们可以希望它，但我们到底能

做些什么呢？ 这

远远超出我们的想象，我们无法解决

所有问题 腐败 自然

灾害是这里的一部分，

但我们必须承担债务

负担，正如我所说的不公平贸易，正如我所说，

分享我们的知识知识

版权以拯救生命 毒品在

危机中我们可以做到，因为我们可以，所以

我们必须因为我们可以，我们必须

道歉，这是直截了当的真理，

正义的真理，它不是理论，而是

事实，事实是你的

一代，我的一代 在那可以看到

贫困 我们是第一代

可以看到贫困和疾病

跨过大洋看向非洲 板着脸说

我们可以成为第一个

结束我们所处的那种愚蠢的极端贫困

的人 丰盛的世界 一个孩子可能

会因为肚子里的食物不足而死 我们可以

成为第一代，这可能需要一段

时间，但我们可以成为

对愚蠢的贫困说不的一代

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这是一个事实，这是一个

经济学家证实的事实 这是一个昂贵的

事实，但比

将欧洲从共产主义和法西斯主义手中拯救出来的马歇尔计划

便宜，而且我认为

比与一波又一波的

恐怖主义新兵作战更便宜，那是那边的

经济部，非常

好，这是事实，所以我们为什么不

挥舞着拳头并

为此欢呼，这可能是因为

当我们承认我们可以对此有所作为

时，我们必须在历史上第一次对此

有所作为 拯救生命的药物，但我们

昨天在费城

的自由钟

有意愿吗？我遇到了很多美国人，他们确实有阿切尔的意愿，

你在这里吗？那里有 300

万他们，从主要的

宗教保守派到年轻的世俗

激进分子我只是有一种难以置信的

强烈感觉

，昨天我们称之为

结束

非洲艾滋病和极端贫困的一场运动，他们

相信我们可以做到，

所以我真的真的相信它

，我只是想要 你知道吗？我认为

这是显而易见的，但我并不是

真的喜欢那种温暖的毛茸茸的感觉我

不是嬉皮士我的

头发上没有花我来自朋克摇滚

好吧冲突战争军靴不是

Birkenstocks 好吧 我相信美国

可以做到 我相信这

一代人可以做到 事实上 我想

听听一个关于为什么我们不应该的争论

我知道理想主义现在没有在

广播中播放 你在电视上看不到

讽刺的是 在沉重的轮换中

知情 傻笑 无聊的笑话

我已经尝试过所有这些但我会告诉

你这个在校园外甚至

在校园内

理想主义受到

唯物主义自恋和所有其他

冷漠主义的围攻 pagas 和 Chagas

和 拉加斯，那是和毕业生 ISM

jism 是一位母亲 哦，

当你需要他时，约翰列侬在哪里

至少现在不是到处

流行美国主义

在欧洲不是很大事实上在

常春藤盟校校园里也不会少说但这完全

取决于你对

美国主义的定义我爱上了这个

叫做美国的国家

我是一个巨大的

粉丝 我是美国的忠实粉丝 我

就像那些讨厌的粉丝之一，你知道

那些阅读 CD 笔记并跟随

你进入浴室并问你

各种恼人的问题，关于你

为什么不辜负 th 在考试时我是

那种粉丝，我读过

《独立宣言》，我

读过美国宪法

，它们是其中的一些衬里

，正如我昨天所说，我让我的

朝圣者家属停下来，我 爱

美国，因为美国不仅仅是一个

国家，它是一个想法，你看我的国家

爱尔兰是一个伟大的国家，但它不是

一个想法，美国是一个想法，但它是一个

带有一些包袱的想法，

比如权力带来即时责任

它是一个想法，带来

平等，但平等，即使它

是最高要求，也是最难

达到的想法，即一切皆有可能

，这就是我是美国粉丝的原因之一，

就像嘿，看那里有

月亮，让我们让你知道，让我们

采取一个 走在上面带回它的一部分，

那是我喜欢的那种美国

，在 1971 年，实际上在 1771 年

不适合那一年的华丽摇滚，但

你的创始人先生。 富兰克林

在爱尔兰和苏格兰呆了三个月，

看看他们与英格兰的关系

，看看这是否可以

成为美国的榜样，美国是否

应该效仿他们，继续

成为大英帝国的一部分

在爱尔兰，他看到英国

如何扼杀爱尔兰贸易

梦想所以而不是爱尔兰

成为美国

的榜样，在我们自己争取独立的斗争中，美国成为了爱尔兰的榜样

，当

土豆用完时，数百万爱尔兰男人

女人和儿童收拾好他们的行李

上了船，出现在这里，

我们 仍然在这样做

，

事实上，如果那里有爱尔兰人

爆发，我们甚至不会再挨饿了。 来自都柏林的消息

马铃薯饥荒结束了 你现在可以回家

抱歉

但是为什么我们仍然出现因为

我们喜欢美国的想法 我们喜欢

喧嚣中的噼啪声 我们喜欢

向命运伸出手指的精神

那种说 没有我们无法

清除的障碍，也没有我们无法解决的问题

哦，英国人来了，只是

开玩笑，

是的，没有问题我们无法解决，

所以我们想要将所有

这些能量和智慧应用于每个时代

有什么问题 它的决定性斗争和非洲的命运

是我们的一个它不是

唯一的，但在历史书中

它很容易进入前五名

我们做了什么或者我们没有做什么

正如我之前所说的那样，它是一个试验场

平等，但无论是这个

还是别的，我希望你能挑起一场

战斗，把你的靴子弄脏，

变得粗暴

，在Smokey Joe的

最后一次原始尖叫声中最后喝一杯，然后去唱

你听到的旋律线 你自己的脑袋

记得你 不欠任何人任何

解释 你不欠父母

任何解释 你不欠

教授任何解释 你知道我

曾经认为未来是稳固的

或固定的，或者像你继承的东西，

就像你搬走的旧建筑 进入

，上一代搬出去或被

赶出去，但这不是未来

不是固定的，它是流动的，你可以建造

自己的建筑物或小屋或公寓，

无论这是演讲的隐喻部分，

但我的观点是

世界更具可塑性 比你想象的要多

，现在等着你把它锤

成形状如果我是一名民谣歌手，

如果我现在有一把锤子，我会立即投入，

让你们都唱歌和

摇摆，但正如我所说，我来自朋克

摇滚，所以我 宁愿把该死的

锤子放在我的拳头上

，这就是你的这种程度的

钝器所以去

用它建造一些东西，记住约翰亚

当斯对本富兰克林所说的话，他

在我们最大胆的测量中毫不犹豫 ures，

而是似乎认为我们优柔寡断，

这是采取大胆措施的时候了

，这是国家，你们是

一代谢谢

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