[00:00.000] 作词 : Common [00:00.231] Here's a little that must be told [00:02.896] (*beat scratches*) [00:04.141] From beginning to end (*beat scratches*) [00:05.978] Here's a little story that must be told (*beat scratches*) [00:10.025] From beginning to end} [00:10.470] [00:10.979] Verse 1 [00:11.276] I got so much trouble on my mind [00:14.639] So I take time out my day [00:16.914] To pray and I say, now lay me down to sleep [00:19.813] Hopin' that I keep my soul [00:21.707] Peep, I'm gettin' old and this a cold, cold world [00:24.667] And I ain't even got a bomber [00:26.071] Livin' with my momma, it's the same routine [00:28.242] Keep my room clean, I'm lookin' to do some new things [00:31.029] But ain't shit to do [00:31.961] I'm twenty-two, catch [00:33.714] In the prime of my life, I have no time for a wife [00:36.371] I funnel through the tunnel, disgruntled [00:38.582] Tryin' to find me some light [00:39.952] In the rim of darkness, I too sing [00:42.857] I may not be the darkest, brother [00:44.867] But I was always told to act my age, not my color [00:47.595] Not knowin' that my color, was out of the original [00:50.357] So now I sing the new negro spiritual [00:53.398] [00:55.239] It goes, 'get up, stand up [00:58.537] Stand up for your rights [01:01.526] Get up, stand up [01:04.320] Don't give up the fight [01:06.730] It's like, how can you understand the pain [01:09.264] When you never had to stand under the rain? [01:12.078] When it rains, it pours [01:13.705] And it's about to come down hard, thank God [01:16.803] I found you [01:17.680] Hook [01:18.083] {here's a little story that must be told} (*beat scratches*) [01:21.170] {sample: my life, my life, my life, my life} [01:23.833] {Double Trouble: here's a little story that must be told} [01:26.586] {sample: my life, my life} [01:27.635] {Double Trouble: from beginning to end} [01:28.659] Verse 2 [01:28.980] As I walk down the road of existence [01:31.860] I get resistance from all angles [01:34.214] I tangle for cash [01:35.607] Hopin' it'll last 'til the end of the week [01:38.220] But all I eat is fast food [01:40.335] And you know how junk food goes right through ya [01:42.679] So I return *to* the a-rab, then on the way back [01:45.387] I stop- at the liquor store, grab me a six pack [01:48.251] Knowin' that once I'm done with that I'll be back [01:50.617] To get some more [01:51.602] Once I get started I don't wanna stop (ahh...) [01:53.984] And I can't turn around, brew- I can't turn it down [01:57.150] Ironically I turn it up, my liver I burn it up [01:59.593] It's my life I live it up, the cup I gotta give it up [02:02.444] One day [02:03.927] I'm cruisin' down a one-way street [02:05.942] And I done passed *fun* day- three blocks ago [02:08.631] It itself, life is an obstacle [02:10.658] As I maneuver through the manure I try to be responsible [02:14.062] I want a job but I ain't lookin' (how come?) [02:16.722] I ain't tryin' to degrade myself, bein' nobody's Calvin I'm a couch bum [02:20.282] What makes it bad, I had incentive [02:22.287] But that disintegrated to a state that stagnated [02:25.081] I procrastinated [02:26.192] I can't recall a day without bein' intoxicated, or blowed [02:30.144] I'm dealin' with a full deck, at any day I can fold [02:33.166] What makes it bad, I wasn't dealt that bad a hand [02:36.068] And I had a plan [02:37.460] But things didn't go through [02:39.160] The way they were supposed to [02:40.608] Thank God I found you [02:41.631] Hook [02:41.898] (*scratch*) {here's a little story that must be told} [02:44.441] {my life, my life, my life, my life (*scratches*)} [02:47.353] {here's a little story that must be told} (*scratches*) [02:50.051] {my life, my life} { from beginning to end [02:52.886] Here's a li-little, sto-story that must be told} (*scratches*) [02:55.600] {my life, my life, my life, my life} (*scratches*) [02:58.515] {here's a li-little, sto-story that must be told (*scratches*) [03:01.225] {my life, my life, my life, my li-(*distorted*)} [03:03.646] Verse 3 [03:03.934] It's like a jungle, sometimes [03:05.767] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under, I ponder [03:08.885] And try to keep my [03:09.952] Concentration In this idiotic nation [03:12.216] They say become a doctor, but I don't have the patience [03:15.050] Adjacent to that situation [03:17.155] I want an occupation that I'm into [03:19.256] Cause yet have I begin to [03:21.346] Live to my potential, I went to [03:23.415] School for fourteen years and my best teacher was experience, I reminisce [03:27.064] And wish, I could go back in time to eighty-nine [03:29.540] When there was just' 'sunshine' [03:31.097] But now it's like, I'm gettin' older there's so much strain and stress [03:34.478] I don't think I'll ever be happy until I rest in peace [03:37.345] Of mind, and find who I am [03:40.195] But thank God I found you [03:42.402] Hook [03:42.759] (*scratches*) [03:43.048] {here's a little story that must be told} (*scratches*) [03:45.766] {my life, my life, my life, my life} (*scratches*) [03:48.540] {here's a little story that must be told (*scratches*) [03:51.319] {my life, my life {from beginning to end}, my life, my life} [03:54.103] {here's a little story that must be told} (*scratches*) [03:56.875] {sample: my life, my life, my life {here's a little, little} my life, my life} [03:59.407] {sto, sto-story that must, must, must, must [04:02.756] (*rewind*) mu-must (*distortion*) must be told [04:05.233] Mu-mu-mu- (*distortion*) mu-mu- (*scratches*) must be told [04:10.825] Mu-mu- (*distortion, scratches*) mu- (*scratches*) [04:13.689] Mu-mu- (*distortion, scratches*) mu- (*scratches*) [04:14.997] Must be told (yeah...) [04:16.374] (*scratches*) must be told [04:22.792] (*scratches*) must be to- (*distortion*) [04:27.131] Outro [04:28.876] {trouble, down, the drain... (*echo*) [04:33.058] Trouble... [04:34.412] Trouble, down, the drain... (*echo*) [04:37.914] Trouble... [04:39.363] Trouble, down, the drain...(*echo*) [04:43.004] {*repeat*} [04:45.099] Samples:Stoop Rap - Double Trouble (Rap) [04:45.582] Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers Ubiquity [04:46.021] Written By:No I.D. & Common