Mortal Man歌词

[00:00.000] 作词 : Lamar, Kendrick
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Lamar, Kendrick
[00:32.78]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[00:35.32]Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message
[00:38.22]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[00:40.91]And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question:
[00:43.66]
[00:44.46]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[00:46.23]
[00:47.30]When shit hit the fan 'one two, one two'
[00:50.07]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[00:52.40]
[00:53.02]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[00:54.98]
[00:55.51]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[00:58.19]Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message
[01:01.03]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[01:04.00]And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question
[01:06.65]
[01:07.16]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:09.27]
[01:10.05]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:12.54]Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends
[01:15.11]
[01:15.65]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:18.13]Do you believe in me? Are you deceiving me?
[01:20.66]Could I let you down easily, is your heart where it need to be?
[01:23.49]Is your smile on permanent? Is your vow on lifetime?
[01:26.37]Would you know where the sermon is if I died in this next line?
[01:29.23]If I'm tried in a court of law, if the industry cut me off
[01:32.04]If the government want me dead, plant cocaine in my car
[01:34.90]Would you judge me a drug kid or see me as K. Lamar
[01:37.88]Or question my character and degrade me on every blog
[01:40.68]Want you to love me like Nelson, want you to hug me like Nelson
[01:43.55]I freed you from being a slave in your mind, you're very welcome
[01:46.44]You tell me my song is more than a song, it's surely a blessing
[01:49.36]But a prophet ain't a prophet til they ask you this question
[01:52.00]
[01:52.93]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:54.96]
[01:55.84]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:58.25]Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends
[02:01.57]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan
[02:03.50]
[02:04.12]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[02:06.76]Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message
[02:09.56]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[02:12.34]And with that
[02:12.96]
[02:15.27]Do you believe in me? How much you believe in her?
[02:17.89]You think she gon' stick around if them 25 years occur?
[02:20.69]You think he can hold you down when you down behind bars hurt?
[02:23.57]You think y'all on common ground if you promise to be the first?
[02:26.30]Can you be immortalised without your life being expired?
[02:29.39]Even though you share the same blood is it worth the time?
[02:32.17]Like who got your best interest? Like how much are you dependent?
[02:34.99]How clutch are the people that say they love you and who pretending?
[02:37.89]How tough is your skin when they turn you in, do you show forgiveness?
[02:40.77]What brush do you bend when dusting your shoulders from being offended
[02:43.69]What kind of den did they put you in when the lions start hissing
[02:46.48]What kind of bridge did they burn, revenge or your mind when it's mentioned?
[02:49.48]You wanna love like Nelson, you wanna be like Nelson
[02:52.24]You wanna walk in in his shoes but you peace-making seldom
[02:55.05]You wanna be remembered that delivered the message
[02:57.59]That considered the blessing of everyone, this your lesson for everyone, say
[03:01.50]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[03:03.54]
[03:04.32]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[03:06.78]Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends
[03:09.43]
[03:10.08]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[03:12.00]
[03:12.74]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[03:15.29]Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message
[03:18.02]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[03:20.88]And if you riding with me nigga
[03:22.47]
[03:23.93]I been wrote off before, I got abandonment issues
[03:26.72]I hold grudges like bad judges, don't let me resent you
[03:29.49]That's not Nelson-like, want you to love me like Nelson
[03:32.16]I went to Robben's Island analysing, that's where his cell is
[03:35.15]So I could find clarity, like how much you cherish me
[03:37.75]Is this relationship a fake or real as the heavens be?
[03:40.51]See I got to question it all, family, friends, fans, cats, dogs
[03:43.73]Trees, plants, grass, how the wind blow
[03:46.12]Murphy's Law, generation X, will I ever be your X?
[03:49.08]Floss off a baby step, mobbed by the mouth of
[03:51.53]Pit bulls, put me under stress
[03:53.32]Crawled under rocks, ducking y'all, it's respect
[03:55.84]But then tomorrow, put my back against the wall
[03:58.07]How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead?
[04:00.82]Is it Moses, is it Huey Newton or Detroit Red?
[04:03.71]Is it Martin Luther, JFK, shoot or you assassin
[04:06.69]Is it Jackie, is it Jesse, oh I know, it's Michael Jackson, oh
[04:10.15]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[04:12.08]
[04:12.90]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[04:15.43]That nigga gave us Billie Jean, you say he touched those kids?
[04:18.80]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[04:20.55]
[04:21.23]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[04:23.84]Let my word be your earth and moon you consume every message
[04:26.65]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[04:29.45]And if you riding with me nigga, let me ask this question nigga
[04:32.46]
[04:48.14]I remember you was conflicted
[04:49.48]
[04:50.55]Misusing your influence
[04:51.96]
[04:53.03]Sometimes I did the same
[04:54.39]
[04:55.60]Abusing my power, full of resentment
[04:57.32]
[04:58.49]Resentment that turned into a deep depression
[05:00.34]
[05:01.73]Found myself screaming in the hotel room
[05:03.71]
[05:05.17]I didn't wanna self destruct
[05:06.46]
[05:08.00]The evils of Lucy was all around me
[05:09.89]
[05:11.58]So I went running for answers
[05:12.81]
[05:14.37]Until I came home
[05:15.44]
[05:17.01]But that didn't stop survivor's guilt
[05:18.70]
[05:20.40]Going back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned
[05:23.46]
[05:24.96]Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was
[05:26.97]
[05:28.17]But while my loved ones was fighting the continuous war back in the city
[05:31.51]
[05:32.48]I was entering a new one
[05:33.60]
[05:35.16]A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination
[05:39.14]
[05:41.42]Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned
[05:44.19]
[05:45.57]The word was respect
[05:46.45]
[05:48.52]Just because you wore a different gang colour than mine's
[05:50.76]
[05:52.34]Doesn't mean I can't respect you as a black man
[05:54.33]
[05:56.35]Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets
[05:59.09]
[06:00.67]If I respect you' we unify and stop the enemy from killing us
[06:05.46]
[06:07.31]But I don't know' I'm no mortal man' maybe I'm just another nigga
[06:13.68]
[06:16.34]Shit and that's all I wrote
[06:17.45]
[06:18.60]I was gonna call it Another Nigga but' it ain't really a poem'
[06:22.04]I just felt like it's something you probably could relate to' Other than that'
[06:26.59]now that
[06:26.90]I finally got a chance to holla at you'
[06:28.51]
[06:29.10]I always wanted to ask you about a certain situa--'
[06:31.87]about a metaphor actually' you spoke on the ground'
[06:36.02]
[06:37.02]What you mean 'bout that' what the ground represent?
[06:38.92]
[06:41.03]The ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil
[06:43.30]
[06:44.34]Right
[06:45.17]That's how I see it' my word is bond'
[06:46.87]I see and the ground is the symbol for the poor people'
[06:49.71]the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and
[06:52.00]swallow up the rich people'
[06:53.40]Cause the rich people gonna be so fat'
[06:55.04]
[06:55.76]they gonna be so appetising' you know what I'm saying'
[06:57.81]wealthy'
[06:58.73]appetising' The poor gonna be so poor and hungry'
[07:02.45]you know what I'm saying it's gonna be like
[07:03.84]
[07:05.79]there might be some cannibalism out this mutha'
[07:08.84]they might eat the rich
[07:09.87]
[07:10.54]Aight so let me ask you this then' do you see yourself
[07:13.90]as somebody that's rich or somebody
[07:16.40]that made the best of their own opportunities?
[07:18.88]
[07:20.22]I see myself as a natural born hustler'
[07:22.13]a true hustler in every sense of the word' I took nothin
[07:24.97]I took the opportunities'
[07:25.54]
[07:26.15]I worked at the most menial
[07:28.34]and degrading job and built myself up
[07:30.52]so I could get it to where I owned it'
[07:32.41]I went from having somebody manage me
[07:34.27]to me hiring the person that works my management company'
[07:37.20]I changed everything
[07:37.99]I realised my destiny in a matter of five years you know
[07:41.11]what I'm saying
[07:41.60]I made myself a millionaire'
[07:43.13]I made millions for a lot of people now
[07:45.28]it's time to make millions for myself'
[07:46.37]you know what I'm saying'
[07:47.59]I made millions for the record companies'
[07:49.00]I made millions for these movie companies'
[07:50.93]now I make millions for us
[07:52.18]
[07:53.97]And through your different avenues of success'
[07:56.92]
[07:57.50]how would you say you managed to keep a level of sanity?
[08:00.24]
[08:01.23]By my faith in God' by my faith in the game'
[08:04.01]and by my faith in all good things come to those
[08:07.78]that stay true' You know what I'm saying'
[08:09.90]and it was happening to me for a reason'
[08:11.88]you know what I'm saying'
[08:12.57]I was noticing' shit'
[08:14.62]I was punching the right buttons and it was happening'
[08:17.49]So it's no problem' you know
[08:19.22]I mean it's a problem but I'm not finna let them know'
[08:21.48]I'm finna go straight through
[08:22.40]
[08:23.73]Would you consider yourself a fighter at heart
[08:26.92]or somebody that only reacts
[08:30.51]when they back is against the wall?
[08:32.45]
[08:34.03]Shit' I like to think that at every opportunity
[08:36.65]I've ever been threatened with resistance it's been met with resistance'
[08:42.17]And not only me but it goes down my family tree'
[08:44.86]You know what I'm saying' it's in my veins to fight back
[08:47.16]Aight well' how long you think it take before niggas be like'
[08:52.14]
[08:53.27]we fighting a war' I'm fighting a war
[08:55.06]I can't win and I wanna lay it all down
[08:57.78]
[08:58.45]In this country a black man only have like 5 years
[09:01.52]we can exhibit maximum strength'
[09:03.49]and that's right now while you a teenager'
[09:05.12]while you still strong
[09:06.14]or while you still wanna lift weights'
[09:07.57]while you still wanna shoot back'
[09:09.22]Cause once you turn 30
[09:10.14]it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man'
[09:12.15]out of a black man in this country'
[09:14.18]And you don't wanna fight no more'
[09:15.66]And if you don't believe me you can look around'
[09:17.23]you don't see no loud mouth 30-year old mutha****as
[09:19.56]
[09:20.54]That's crazy' because me being one of your offspring of the legacy you left behind
[09:25.57]I can truly tell you
[09:26.91]that there's nothing but turmoil goin'
[09:29.16]on so I wanted to ask you
[09:31.30]
[09:32.02]what you think is the future for me and my generation today?
[09:34.92]
[09:36.04]I think that niggas is tired of grabbin'
[09:37.73]shit out the stores and next time
[09:39.48]it's a riot there's gonna be'
[09:40.62]like'
[09:40.77]uh' bloodshed for real' I don't think America know that'
[09:44.73]I think American think we was just playing
[09:46.22]and it's gonna be some more playing
[09:47.25]but it ain't gonna be no playing'
[09:49.38]It's gonna be murder' you know
[09:50.71]what I'm saying' it's gonna be like Nat Turner'
[09:52.87]1831' up in this mutha****a'
[09:55.61]You know what I'm saying' it's gonna happen
[09:57.41]
[09:59.04]That's crazy man' In my opinion' only hope
[10:02.66]that we kinda have left is music and vibrations'
[10:07.31]lotta people don't understand how important it is'
[10:09.44]
[10:10.89]Sometimes I be like'
[10:11.93]
[10:12.51]get behind a mic and
[10:13.36]I don't know what type of energy I'mma push out'
[10:15.56]
[10:16.26]or where it comes from'
[10:17.44]
[10:19.18]Trip me out sometimes
[10:20.13]
[10:20.97]Because the spirits' we ain't even really rappin''
[10:23.28]we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us
[10:25.23]
[10:25.80]Damn
[10:26.96]
[10:28.88]I wanted to read one last thing to you'
[10:30.51]
[10:31.80]It's actually something a good friend
[10:33.22]had wrote describing my world' It says
[10:38.92]
[10:40.63]The caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets
[10:42.60]that conceived it
[10:43.28]
[10:45.01]It's only job is to eat or consume everything around it'
[10:48.31]
[10:49.07]in order to protect itself from this mad city
[10:50.86]
[10:52.55]While consuming its environment the caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive
[10:55.94]
[10:57.24]One thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him' but praises the butterfly
[11:01.19]
[11:02.54]The butterfly represents the talent' the thoughtfulness' and the beauty within the caterpillar
[11:06.81]
[11:08.84]But having a harsh outlook on life
[11:10.32]the caterpillar sees the butterfly
[11:11.80]as weak and figures out a way to pimp it to his own benefits
[11:15.93]
[11:17.33]Already surrounded by this mad city
[11:18.69]the caterpillar goes to work on the cocoon
[11:21.33]which institutionalizes him
[11:22.65]
[11:24.49]He can no longer see past his own thoughts
[11:26.14]
[11:26.99]He's trapped
[11:27.48]
[11:28.63]When trapped inside these walls certain ideas
[11:30.39]start to take roots' such as going home'
[11:32.26]
[11:32.80]and bringing back new concepts to this mad city
[11:35.25]
[11:36.06]The result?
[11:36.52]
[11:37.39]Wings begin to emerge' breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant
[11:40.88]
[11:42.34]Finally free' the butterfly sheds light on situations that the caterpillar never considered'
[11:47.75]
[11:48.72]ending the internal struggle
[11:49.88]
[11:51.33]Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different'
[11:54.01]
[11:55.13]they are one and the same'
[11:56.03]
[11:58.36]What's your perspective on that?
[11:59.68]
[12:02.42]Pac? Pac?
[12:05.38]
[12:06.83]Pac?!