[00:00.000] 作词 : Walter Reed
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Walter Reed
[00:12.352] Drizzle rained down my window pane
[00:15.357] Up the block was the park and the subway train
[00:17.977] We party every Friday ’til Sunday came
[00:20.845] Then it was church, go in my pocket, here’s a bunch of change
[00:23.868] There’s sister Johnson giving unusual [?] range
[00:26.913] She limped in, sat down after she hung up her cane
[00:29.854] But my mind was on block parties and the summer games
[00:32.700] As the choir sang to the organ, a drummer banged
[00:35.798] The preacher had us baptized, but we backslide
[00:38.612] Born black with pride, afros high as The Jackson 5
[00:41.912] Life here was no picket fence and apple pie
[00:44.626] People relying on just enough cash to survive
[00:47.563] Projects, the acronym we visualize
[00:50.596] Projects, where drug dealers and criminals hide
[00:53.836] The object, to keep us minimized
[00:56.456] The process, remove fathers from mothers and children lives
[00:59.729] I know a Blood who’s sick but can’t see the word “Crip” in the word prescription
[01:03.561] I know a Crip with high blood pressure, too much of salt he committed
[01:07.559] Now do we bang on each other, or do we bang on our symptoms?
[01:10.736] Too much processed beef
[01:12.497] Is it artificial sweet? We hypertension
[01:15.005] The sickness, we need to fix it
[01:17.006] Water to flush our system
[01:18.620] Keep us from the morgue and out their prison
[01:20.713] Stay off the hog and the chitlins
[01:23.085] Hot Fries, Popeyes, where are they getting all of these chickens?
[01:26.572] Turkey jive, Five Guys, it’s [?] of addiction
[01:29.471] To the place where our hopes and dreams try to fly like birds with broken wings
[01:34.022] That’s why we smoke herb for our dopamines
[01:37.467] Melanated culture beings
[01:39.297] Celebrated with the host of kings
[01:41.306] Projects, people relying on just enough cash to survive
[01:45.451] That’s why we stay high
[01:47.296] Projects, we gaze at the sky
[01:49.478] The project lives, we try to get by