[00:00.000] 作曲 : Gary Lucas
[00:00.003] And I think I been countin' my hardest days
[00:03.150] Lord, won't you save me? Oh
[00:08.285] You know what I've been prayin' for
[00:10.805] And I never thought I'd see this day, yeah
[00:17.898] I gotta make it change
[00:22.203] And I think I been countin' my hardest days
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[00:24.245] Uh, writin' plans to make a new report (Yeah)
[00:27.705] Grind hard and turn my basement to a jewelry store
[00:30.403] If you don't do it for your kids, then who you do it for?
[00:33.315] I'm tryna read and learn some sh!t I never knew before
[00:35.996] Focused on investments (Yeah) build me up some new resorts
[00:38.816] We can manifest it (Word) you'd rather hit the Louis store
[00:41.405] Wastin' all your blessings, care about the ones who doubt you
[00:44.722] Just to impress some hoes who never gave a f!ck about you
[00:47.336] Just what I discovered
[00:48.766] Never believed in family, that word is really a cover
[00:51.688] Just a title that have the advantage to keep you under (Oh, yeah)
[00:54.375] I got n!gga I consider brothers more than my brothers
[00:57.341] So watch it, you show your colors
[00:58.919] We livin' in a world where prison walls is depravation (Yeah)
[01:01.828] Livin' in a world where snitchin' calls for celebration (Yeah)
[01:04.749] Livin' in a world where niggas crawl and segregation
[01:07.216] Rainy nights and desperation, pray we fight the legislation
[01:10.413] Protest until we flatline, paralyzed (Uh)
[01:13.037] They throwin' stones at my Black Lives Matter signs (Oh)
[01:16.119] Made a change but we still not satisfied
[01:18.917] I can't smile half the time I'm still (I'm still)
[01:20.926] I'm still waitin', sittin' plottin' on the couch (Word)
[01:23.375] ‘Cause I know that I ain't safe when all these cops is on the prowl (Yeah)
[01:25.992] Tryna think of other ways, but we ain't got no other route
[01:28.834] I'm startin' to understand that sh!t that Pac was talkin' ‘bout (Word)
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[01:31.920] And I think I been countin' my hardest days
[01:35.597] Lord, won't you save me? Oh
[01:40.843] You know what I've been prayin' for (Uh, uh, uh, uh)
[01:43.422] And I never thought I'd see this day (Uh, uh, uh, uh) yeah
[01:50.549] I gotta make it change
[01:54.922] And I think I been countin' my hardest days
[01:58.810] Lord, won't you save me? Oh
[02:03.864] You know what I've been prayin' for
[02:06.772] And I never thought I'd see this day, yeah
[02:13.826] I gotta make it change
[02:17.715] And I think I been countin' my—
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[02:19.885] Look, time is money and the clock tickin'
[02:23.190] I teach my son love and respect, that's a God given (Word)
[02:25.819] My sperm donor never been sh!t, just a flop
[02:28.411] Listen, if it wasn't for my step-pops, I'd prolly turn out different (Facts)
[02:31.952] Probably be in a cell doin' a life sentence (Facts)
[02:34.862] Probably have twenty baby mamas and nine b!tches (Facts)
[02:37.576] Probably grow up misguided, twisted inside the system
[02:40.045] Dropped out and failed ‘cause nobody listen to my admission (Yeah)
[02:43.585] Sick of gettin' in fights with n!ggas less educated
[02:46.210] Sick of gettin' advice from n!ggas who never made it (Ooh)
[02:49.158] Sick of bein' polite to people with lesser patience
[02:51.546] Oftentimes, I wonder where I would be if I never made it
[02:54.778] The hatin' always comes from n!ggas
[02:56.601] That wish they had all your blessings or the clout (True)
[02:58.975] And bad vibes forever, but I'm destined on this route (Yeah)
[03:01.521] I'm startin' to understand that sh!t that X was talkin' ‘bout (Word)
[03:04.344] And I think I been countin' my—
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[03:06.024] Worst thing comes to worst
[03:07.640] I f!ckin' die a tragic death or some sh!t
[03:10.162] And I'm not able to see out my dreams
[03:14.612] I at least wanna know that the kids perceive my message
[03:20.084] And were able to make something of themselves
[03:22.034] And able to take my message
[03:23.885] And use it and turn it into somethin' positive
[03:26.445] And to, to at least have a good life
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[03:28.768] If it ain't black owned, I'm prolly gon' use it to chop crack on
[03:32.338] Hard white for all them hard nights I had my back on
[03:34.849] Roach-infested carpet, tip-toe in my mother's room
[03:37.292] See a dresser and felt no pressure when takin' a twenty off it
[03:40.503] Compton like a closed coffin, we walkin' to school coughin'
[03:43.568] Often high off the gun smoke, Boston had at the front door
[03:46.479] Cookin' class, I'm JAY, Hov', rock it up on they stove
[03:49.269] Me and my teacher goin' back and forth like Noname and J. Cole
[03:52.159] You said I would never be what? I wouldn't amount to what?
[03:54.929] Now you in this Trader Joe's, same lines, sayin', “Wassup?” (Oh)
[03:57.956] Talkin' ‘bout like how you like my songs, not knowin' it was me
[04:00.586] Security had me in a headlock and I told you I couldn't breathe
[04:03.508] Now it's Black Lives Matter and white letters on your shirt
[04:06.519] Now how many black lives did you help, or did you hurt?
[04:09.473] Did you handicap, block, push to excel or did you hinder?
[04:12.380] Since hindsight's 20/20, I guess you don't remember
[04:15.069] Now you with your mixed child, havin' all these mixed feelings
[04:18.078] But do your black husband know you tried to burn down our village?
[04:20.898] But never mind, from the line, that's for y'all to figure out
[04:23.966] Just know that boy who wasn't sh!t bailed all his n!ggas out
[04:27.058] And it's my black queen, I kiss her on her black lips
[04:29.494] And she rock Off-White ‘cause she support black sh!t
[04:32.613] And I'm blacker than a Steeler helmet or a Spike Lee flick
[04:35.511] Black like the pick stuck in the afro of Kaepernick