[00:00.000] 作词 : Johnny Burke/Jimmy van heusen/Jermaine Cole/William Brown
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Johnny Burke/Jimmy van heusen/Jermaine Cole/William Brown
[00:13.90]I got a story for you all
[00:25.72]Yeah~
[00:28.06]Listen!
[00:29.35]I grew up, a ****in' screw up
[00:31.56]Tie my shoe up, wish they was newer
[00:33.72]Damn, need somethin' newer
[00:34.92]In love with the baddest girl in the city,
[00:37.18]I wish I knew her
[00:38.34]I wish I weren't so shy,
[00:39.95]I wish I was a bit more fly
[00:41.10]I wish that I,
[00:42.48]could tell her how I really feel inside
[00:44.27]That I'm the perfect nigga for her,
[00:45.93] but then maybe that's a lie
[00:47.44]She like a certain type of nigga,
[00:49.42]and it's clear I'm not that guy
[00:50.50]Ball player, star player,
[00:52.52]I'm just watchin' from the side
[00:53.63]On the bench,
[00:54.75]cause my lack of confidence won't let me fly
[00:56.89]I ain't grow up with my father,
[00:58.72] I ain't thinkin' bout that now
[01:00.01]Fast forward four years or so from now I'll probably cry
[01:03.13]When I realize what I missed,
[01:04.59]but as of now my eyes are dry
[01:06.35]Cause I'm tryna stay alive
[01:07.91]In the city where too many niggas die
[01:10.01]Dream in quiet tryna dodge a suit and tie
[01:12.27]Who am I?
[01:15.53]Aye who am I? (Yeah)
[01:19.28]Things change, rearrange, or so do I
[01:22.36]It ain't always for the better dawg, I can't lie
[01:25.49]I get high cause the lows can be so cold
[01:28.56]I might bend a little bit but I don't fold
[01:31.67]One time for my mind and two for yours
[01:34.78]I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul
[01:38.03]If you see my tears fall just let me be..
[01:41.03]Move along, nothing to see
[01:43.04]I always did shit the hard way,
[01:45.02] my niggas slangin' in the hallway
[01:47.68]Burnt CD's and trees like this was Broadway
[01:50.79]Times Square,
[01:51.64] kept the dimes there in the locker
[01:53.61]Some Reggie Miller
[01:54.67]With more brown hairs than Chewbaca
[01:56.79]Whispers that he got it for the low low sell a
[01:59.39]Dime for a dub, them white boys ain't know no better
[02:02.41]Besides, what's twenty dollars to a nigga like that?
[02:05.53]He tell his pops he need some lunch and he gon' get it right back
[02:08.75]I peep game,
[02:09.87]got home snatched my mama keychain
[02:11.82]Took her whip,
[02:12.91]the appeal, to ill to refrain
[02:14.84]I hit the boulevard pull up to my nigga front door
[02:18.00]His mama at home,
[02:19.42]she still let em' hit the blunt though
[02:21.07]I told her hello and sat with my nigga and laughed
[02:24.33]And talked about how we gon' smash all the bitches in class
[02:27.34]I complimented how I see him out here getting his cash,
[02:30.67]and just asked
[02:31.57]"What a nigga gotta do to get that?!
[02:33.75] Put me on"
[02:34.69]He just laughed when he seen I was sure
[02:37.05]17 Years breathing his demeanor said more
[02:40.06]He told me,
[02:40.93]"Nigga you know how you sound right now?
[02:43.22]You won't my mans, I would think that you a clown right now."
[02:46.38] listen!
[02:47.03]"You everything I wanna be that's why I ****s with you
[02:50.06]So how you looking up to me, when I look up to you?"
[02:53.33]"You bout to go get a degree, I'm bout to be stuck with two choices:
[02:56.81]Either graduate to weight or sell a number two
[02:59.37]For what? A hundred bucks or two a week?
[03:01.88]Do you think that you would know what to do if you was me?
[03:04.95]I got, four brothers, one mother that don't love us
[03:08.81]If they ain't never want us why the **** they never wore rubbers?"
[03:11.94]I felt ashamed to have ever complained about my lack of gear
[03:15.59]And thought about how far we done came
[03:17.65]From trailer park to a front yard with trees in the sky
[03:20.86]Thank you mama dry your eyes, there ain't no reason to cry
[03:23.88]You made a genius and I,
[03:25.72]ain't gon' take it for granted
[03:27.04]I ain't gon' settle for lesser,
[03:28.57]I ain't gon' take what they handed
[03:30.31]Nah I'm gon' take what they owe me and show you that I can fly
[03:33.27]And show ol' girl what she missing
[03:34.72]The illest nigga alive
[03:36.33]Aye who am I?
[03:37.25]Things change, rearrange, or so do I, (Aye who am I?)
[03:40.31]It ain't always for the better dawg, I can't lie (Aye who am I?)
[03:43.33]I get high cause the lows can be so cold
[03:46.49]I might bend a little bit but I don't fold
[03:49.71]One time for my mind and two for yours
[03:52.77]I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul
[03:55.89]If you see my tears fall just let me be
[03:59.00]Move along, nothing to see