[00:00.000] 作曲 : C. Hall for ELUCID/F. Porter for The Happiest Africans (SESAC)
[00:01.000] 作词 : Billy Woods/E L U C I D
[00:02.000] 制作人 : Messiah Musik/Kenny Segal
[00:05.579]Herbs and roots
[00:06.638]Mixtape, white tea and only juice
[00:08.623]Steam pots simmer under zinc roof
[00:11.261]Law of the land, live and let die
[00:13.661]I can't seem to grasp time
[00:15.910]Watching death and how it comes in threes
[00:18.831]Chilli, garlic, ginger, head spinning, lord willing
[00:21.652]There's a line, as for me and mine
[00:23.478]Dark bodies sent to Earth to usher in an unprecedented era
[00:27.557]Of cosmic regeneration and happiness
[00:29.706]Mysterious tale
[00:31.105]The veil's been lifted are you listening?
[00:33.006]Crooked scales
[00:34.153]Written in a gentrified art hotel in the motherland
[00:37.605]Closing the gap between over and understanding
[00:40.351]Doubling back when the tangent the papers use
[00:42.875]Duel of the iron mic
[00:44.166]Never made the news
[00:45.809]To be seen and not seen at the same time is a mind ****
[00:49.356]Black buck
[00:50.321]Niggas always wanna be the next white somebody
[00:53.213]Respect the lineage, feel like I shadowbox with simians
[00:56.007]All in my feelings I kinda write to
[00:58.462]No photos please, I got warrants
[01:00.248]Doran vipers with smiles made for pulling the juks
[01:03.484]No such thing as a halfway crook be the mantra
[01:06.825]Conjuring man hold my new flow
[01:09.114]Totem pole always in cold
[01:12.040]Don't try to keep up
[01:13.171]Let it take you
[01:18.341]The phrase "at the end of the day" punctuate damn near everything he say
[01:21.967]Bitter to the taste somebody's got to pay, his laugh bray like brass
[01:25.368]Crafts tales of unlikely escapades
[01:28.614]Talk like a fool, eyes searching your face
[01:31.304]Knows you think you better
[01:32.758]Wants you to know you ain't
[01:34.237]An even layer of burnt cork over the greasepaint
[01:37.262]You know what comes next
[01:38.977]You already know the rest
[01:40.750]You don't need me to tell you
[01:42.462]You know I need the cheque
[01:44.061]No respect no respect
[01:45.596]Propeller hat, jaunty, surely you jest?
[01:48.138]Yet double back to holler at your aunty
[01:50.645]Put the work in the bassinet
[01:52.006]Get worked up over these manuscripts like Jack Torrance Shining, you just rhyming
[01:58.331]I gave them work like everybody do these assignments
[02:00.736]Voluble silence in that asylum. Rather than shame
[02:04.045]They built a monument to the violence
[02:05.833]Way we play it don't sound nothing like a violin
[02:42.273]They got the bomb like uptown in '99
[02:45.352]You can search far and wide for a hill on which to die
[02:48.599]The rent's still too damn high
[02:50.561]Dead bent but still quite spry
[02:53.457]They got the bomb like the Spike Lee joint
[02:56.438]So no time to waste, get right to the point
[02:58.892]The roach is never dead
[03:00.420]That feeling is dread
[03:01.800]Those that could fled
[03:03.373]Laid in the coffin like a bed and each child walked up to kiss his bandaged head
[03:08.359]Still remember something foul my uncle said
[03:11.765]Yeah, I'mma carry that to the end