[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 : E L U C I D/Messiah Musik
[00:12.259]I did not come to play with you hoes
[00:14.525]I be up too damn early
[00:16.485]Few Joe Cola's short of a case
[00:20.514]Gaps in my life, absent from photos, somehow kept the tapes
[00:23.880]Smack the taste out yo' mouth, steamed milk, coffee and cheddar scone
[00:28.561]I wandered Azania without a phone
[00:31.271]Ordered step
[00:32.198]Flash in death, when my dick get wet
[00:35.358]Hex breaker for hire, ten thousand tiny township fires ablaze
[00:39.838]I believe in survivors
[00:41.427]Lowkey oppressors call me brother
[00:44.920]Lowkey oppressors call me brother
[00:47.043]Lowkey oppressors call me brother
[00:49.622]Black men are white men too when convenient
[00:52.766]Speak it like you mean it
[00:54.496]And I never grab the mic without grabbing my-
[00:57.949]I'mma read, I'mma read, I'mma read, I'mma read, I'mma read
[01:02.852]I'mma read right through you
[01:05.748]Motherf**ker right through you
[01:11.223]This is joy, this is summer
[01:15.040]Keep alive
[01:18.748]Keep alive
[01:22.645]Stay alive
[01:26.626]This is joy, this is summer
[01:30.301]Keep alive
[01:33.821]Keep alive
[01:37.906]Stay alive
[01:44.294]Jake radio, squawk and squeal
[01:46.846]Visible exhale, Nor'easter chill
[01:49.595]I'm in layers of black
[01:51.064]Stretching these old bones, pointed toes
[01:54.818]Red and blue strobe play me on wax forever
[01:57.824]Blood on the doorframe, steady leaking
[02:00.180]Told him "take that shit across the way"
[02:02.316]Please pass me by
[02:03.789]I score fiends shooting the fair one
[02:05.741]Life ain't but f**k it
[02:07.608]Sad chord shuffle, rushed percussion muffle
[02:10.585]Short barrel red potato, move when I say so
[02:13.847]They know, they know
[02:17.189]Look mom I get paid for my thoughts, sort of
[02:19.666]Yes that make room for me and mine
[02:22.310]Levi on the way in due time
[02:24.696]Shit don't rhyme no more, but making more sense in my mind
[02:27.940]I been all kinds of poor
[02:29.583]I know the line divide and surviving and thriving
[02:32.972]What side? What side? What side?
[02:34.744]There's a riot going on
[02:36.130]What a time you chose to be born
[02:40.417]Billy woods wrote that line first though
[02:42.722]Nah, nah
[02:43.321]Lone wolf and cub via Gary Grice
[02:45.577]Hold your fire 'til you see the whites
[02:49.240]Of their eyes, shocked life had one last surprise
[02:52.676]I was surprised to find people rather die than cut you a slice of the pie
[02:58.029]Nigga was aggy talkin' 'bout "I gots to gets mine"
[03:01.857]That's when, I knew I'd never see him alive again
[03:05.663]Spliff like a pen, everything I wrote is in the wind
[03:09.460]We didn't win, and I can't see doing it all over