[00:00.000] 作曲 : Dean, McVey, Vandross
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[00:00.309] 24/7, I'm in trouble for nothing
[00:01.280] To the laws on the topic, of they daily discussion
[00:03.138] Blood pumping and rushing,
[00:04.043] I gotta struggle to survive
[00:04.925] I be rapping, but I can do with a nine to five
[00:06.841] Long as it be legal, I be will to try
[00:08.745] All I need is a pair of wings,
[00:09.685] I be willing to fly
[00:10.440] Trying to get a piece of the pie,
[00:11.786] And ain't I taking I work for it
[00:12.726] I be doing right,
[00:13.679] But I'm being punished on Earth for it
[00:14.746] What else can I do, to make it on this scene
[00:16.384] Seem like whatever I do, will get me up in prison
[00:18.405] Never see me on the corner,
[00:19.298] Never caught me with crack
[00:20.284] Got a dream of leaving the ghetto,
[00:21.584] And ain't coming back
[00:22.316] Homicide detectives,
[00:23.384] Trying to threaten me with some time
[00:24.244] Only thing I ever murdered,
[00:25.243] Was college ruled lines
[00:26.124] It's a pattern of punishment,
[00:27.064] In America's design
[00:27.877] Arrested and incarcerated for other peoples crimes,
[00:30.003] It's so amazing
[00:31.209] Sometime one time, stereotype me
[00:37.710] The jewelry, and gold teeth
[00:41.704] They swear, I've got to be running drugs
[00:45.430] But I am just a man, trying to Satan free
[00:52.605] Through hell, is where they're taking me
[00:56.646] I swear it's so amazing, to be a thug
[01:00.569] A True Hero Under God's sight, from above
[01:04.852] Everyday, I see my people in poverty
[01:05.932] And when I say my people, I mean everybody I see
[01:07.825] And no discrimination, on Caucasian or Asian
[01:09.810] Or Mexican, Samoan, lesbians or the gay men
[01:12.050] Everybody got a day to die, and they won't miss it
[01:13.908] Better be ready for company, when death come visit
[01:15.626] Man I wish Adam and Eve,
[01:16.427] Wouldn't been in the garden
[01:17.426] Now the devil swinging at me,
[01:18.622] Got me weaving and bobbing
[01:19.527] Homies are being murdered,
[01:20.642] By lieutenants to sergeants
[01:21.524] Like ****s, we uprooted just as soon we harvest
[01:23.172] Searching for sunshine, suffocated by darkness
[01:25.041] Looking for protection,
[01:26.028] In God's heavenly fortress
[01:27.027] They tell me when I make it,
[01:28.002] There'll be no more pain
[01:28.930] Ain't gotta be nervous,
[01:29.906] About somebody knowing your name
[01:30.882] Everybody is your family, it's love around you
[01:32.727] Even on earth,
[01:33.551] God is your upper when people down you so amazing
[01:36.292] Am I cursed, while on this earth
[01:38.625] Cause I can't find, better days
[01:42.269] But still, I give the Lord praise
[01:45.764] Even though, these pirates request my blood
[01:49.643] But I am just a man, trying to stay Satan free
[01:57.282] Through hell, is where they're taking me
[02:01.391] I swear it's so amazing, to be a thug
[02:05.002] A True Hero Under God's sight, from above
[02:09.749] The weight of my stress, is like a fifty ton boulder
[02:10.922] Making my head heavy, can't be lifted by my shoulders
[02:12.907] No wonder why my head down, I be thinking too hard
[02:14.742] And be smoking like a tail pipe,
[02:15.729] And drinking too hard
[02:16.647] I decided to give it up, and give it to God
[02:18.422] Instead of living in the world,
[02:19.501] I'mma live in the Lord
[02:20.384] Gave up cussing this time,
[02:21.382] While I'm spitting my bars
[02:22.323] With a vision of me in prison, that vision is fraud
[02:24.228] Investigators cooking the case, cooking too hard
[02:25.607] I know they know I didn't do it,
[02:27.048] Cause they looking for Claude
[02:28.127] Nobody hollin' at me, got me feeling like an outlaw
[02:29.742] Had a case against a brother, but I broke it apart
[02:31.703] No weapon formed against me sha'll prosper,
[02:33.306] If it's written
[02:34.165] Even though machetes be cutting,
[02:35.279] And guns be spitting
[02:35.964] I got a Satan proof vest on,
[02:36.823] Stopping the devil head on
[02:37.763] With Jesus I'mma stop him,
[02:38.762] That's some'ing you can bet on amazing
[02:39.968] Sometime one time, stereotype me
[02:46.785] The jewelry, and gold teeth
[02:50.684] They swear, I've got to be running drugs
[02:54.643] But I am just a man, trying to stay Satan free
[03:02.317] Through hell, is where they're taking me
[03:06.206] I swear it's so amazing, to be a thug
[03:10.084] A True Hero Under God's sight, from above
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