[00:00.000] 作词 : Organized Noize/Andre Benjamin/Antwan Patton/Robert T. Barnett/Willie Knighton
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Organized Noize/Andre Benjamin/Antwan Patton/Robert T. Barnett/Willie Knighton
[00:38.74]Revolutionary, scary
[00:41.00]Thought provoking, spoken,
[00:42.43]Words of a chain I dont feel but I see,
[00:45.12]Visions from me
[00:46.06]At twenty three making us free in my community
[00:48.24]One day is what I live for,
[00:50.37]Aint thinking about no hope no more
[00:51.81]I got my boots I kick it till I get with
[00:55.78]Adapt and overcome, oh hum hum
[00:58.03]Go get my gun, load up for fun, and put down with the frown
[01:02.08]What goes round comes round from m.l.k. to cascade
[01:05.65]I know its through them plenty figures
[01:07.90]******* dealers walk the wrong side
[01:09.59]Up in they rides,
[01:10.46]Looking cleaner then I seen them the last time
[01:12.53]Then selling dimes, now its quarter keys, stacking gs
[01:15.15]In the south indies
[01:16.34]My ***** them folks riding bicycles among vehicles
[01:19.96]Off in the hood
[01:20.84]Knowing each and every nigger sellin, but can you blame
[01:23.71]The fact the only way a brother can survive the game
[01:26.08]The block hard to get by the **** dealing, fatal killings
[01:28.65]In fair times so writing rhymes
[01:31.08]It aint just the police
[01:32.21]We kill each other just lost another brother
[01:34.52]Fast living will get you took,
[01:35.96]Thinking it cant happen to you and then it do
[01:38.46]Off crooked schemes its just a dream
[01:41.21]Floating face down in the mainstream
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[01:45.24]Think it is when it aint all peaches creamand
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[01:48.45]Thats why some are found floating face down in the main stream
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[01:55.70]They swan divin
[01:56.64]Fit they name be thrashing an album
[01:58.76]Go-kart rushin to finish their album then you find them
[02:01.43]Lost, dog paddling, back stroking, what done happened?
[02:03.56]Be rhymin catching the day when the recipe calls for black and
[02:06.37]Wrong ingredients,
[02:06.81]Maybe too much herbs and spices,
[02:08.68]Maybe you got hungry for the wrong dish
[02:10.68]Southern greens and this entice them how them joke the same
[02:13.25]So Im gonna sing just like them to get where they at
[02:15.31]Ill even break my by back to touch their rim if I gotta
[02:17.74]My alta mater be that I follow
[02:19.37]I bite whatever thats looking tasty, water it down then swallow
[02:21.74]I hope you vomit, wont call no names cause thats not my job
[02:24.13]It just applies to whom it may concern you know who you are
[02:26.75]But if you dont you never will, you just receive the steel
[02:29.43]But then it might get ugly cause trust me ****** do feel
[02:32.06]The way that I felt when I wrote this, but we must stay in focus
[02:34.68]We kings and queens up in this thing, of get all rid them jokers
[02:36.96]Face down, face down, face down
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[02:51.72]I let you stay in my crib, now you know where I live
[02:55.85]When you was hungry, fed you a hot meal, look at the hand you deal
[03:00.97]Me crudball business giving niggers inches so here, take a foot
[03:04.90]Luck only counts in rabbits feet and horseshoes,
[03:08.21]Experience is sometimes the best teacher until we get our own plate
[03:12.22]I hope you dont mind me eating off of yours,
[03:14.78]Process momma moping like jerry
[03:16.60]Meanwhile, fairies of the street tinkling pixie dust over greenery
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[03:21.09]Never to obtain another level of con-science
[03:23.59]Only to test, to poke and see
[03:25.69]Why laying here, they scheme over one another mouth to feed
[03:29.00]? ? ? with a decision to make, now words shake your destiny
[03:32.56]But a missle will take it all the way just as quick as you can say
[03:35.88]I wish I never did what I did now face this bid
[03:39.57]It was the company you kept, the many places you slept
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[03:44.37]When you shouldnt have, geeking like a rat, jumping like a trap
[03:48.93]Contributing to sin and your ***** ***** in the court showing paper thin
[03:53.31]Got you niggers where they want you again,
[03:56.80]Floating face down in the mainstream
[03:59.93]Thats why, thats why, thats why
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[04:08.31]Everybodys a player, rubbin them kangols on their head
[04:10.25]Thinking its all about your clothes, nigger its all about your self
[04:13.12]The way you feel about your life, the times that you done shared with
[04:15.87]Your friends and family, up and down like hoes give head
[04:18.62]To ****s oh, six, serving them in the mix, but aint no mystery
[04:22.06]You know the history about this clique *****
[04:23.87]Oh, what, you want me to call you slut?
[04:26.68]Then why you ****ing all them niggers letting them all up in your guts
[04:30.55]But see that aids Im afraid thats why I play the quiet role
[04:33.49]I lay in the cut, every month thinking Ill let that fire roll
[04:36.24]Like chimneys, and smoke signals, maybe peace pipes even
[04:38.93]My partners call me big boi and first my name is not steven
[04:41.25]In the mainstream, home team banging them with these hits
[04:42.63]In the mix flowing like some **********ing swordfish