[00:00.00] 作词 : Taurus Bartlett/Javon Reynolds/Sidney Reynolds/Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman/Derrick Peck/Bryan James Sledge/Bruce Hornsby
[00:01.00] 作曲 : Taurus Bartlett/Javon Reynolds/Sidney Reynolds/Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman/Derrick Peck/Bryan James Sledge/Bruce Hornsby
[00:08.28]Well respected in this hip-hop lil' Polo be spittin' facts
[00:10.68]A lot of rappers doin' way more stuntin' than givin' back
[00:12.95]You ain't my color then you don't know the struggle of livin' black
[00:15.25]Cops kill us and we protest what type of shit is that
[00:17.35]Man if the police shoot at one of my brothers I'm blickin' back
[00:19.56]We hate each other so we just wanna score and go tit-for-tat
[00:21.98]All these shorties want is points they ain't chasin' a different stat
[00:24.33]Really riskin' it all what's the point when that nigga rat
[00:26.09]We seventeen got forty years in that court when we gettin' cracked
[00:28.48]Stuck in the system they just watchin' us fail while they sittin' back
[00:30.81]The government cuttin' checks but can't cut a nigga some slack
[00:33.17]It's hard to get a job so we hustle and flip a pack
[00:35.40]It's all a set-up no wonder why they call this b***h a trap
[00:37.45]Life was messed up a matter of time 'til that nigga snap
[00:40.04]Post-traumatic stress so them triggers keep gettin' tapped
[00:42.01]R I P Malcolm I promise to conquer and fill them gaps
[00:44.29]Them corners leave a nigga boxed in tryna break free
[00:46.70]Crazy how I love the same block that tried to break me
[00:48.83]Pray that I ain't in my own hood when they take me
[00:51.11]This all we know a life of peace what we can't see
[00:53.33]I'm from where we unheard and we can't speak
[00:55.68]We go to school they try to tell us what we can't be
[00:57.75]Profit with a billion-dollar mind like I'm JAY-Z
[00:59.46]They killed Martin for dreamin' and now I can't sleep
[01:02.34]Why would the devil take my brother if he close to me
[01:04.54]Now if you scared take my soul you see my bros in me
[01:06.80]We missin' you man this ain't how this shit supposed to be
[01:08.95]Feel like I'm stuck I wish them streets never proposed to me
[01:11.40]Out there posted in the field with them soldiers deep
[01:13.44]So now the other side wanna put a hole in me
[01:15.65]Like every day might be the end of the road for me
[01:17.86]We die young so I couldn't picture a older me
[01:20.10]Fightin' demons let them d**gs take control of me
[01:22.32]All in my head go and kill what they told to me
[01:24.73]'Member we ain't have a thing same clothes for weeks
[01:26.99]Hardbody that's how them situations molded me
[01:29.02]Needed money and grew accustomed to this fast life
[01:31.27]Pressure from this way of livin' so we blast pipes
[01:33.52] shit got me stressin' three hundred and sixty-five nights
[01:35.01]Them people workin' against us like we don't have rights
[01:37.94]It don't matter what this money and this fame can give
[01:40.19]I've been hurtin' tryna smile through the pain and tears
[01:42.37]Wish we could go back to them days when we played as kids
[01:44.62]A lot of shit changed that's just the way it is
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[01:48.33]That's just
[01:49.25]That's just the way it is
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[01:52.54]Some things'll never
[01:53.62]Some things'll never change
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[01:57.21]Oh oh that's just the way it is
[02:00.51]Way it is
[02:02.10]The way it is
[02:03.72]Ooh
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[02:06.11]That's just
[02:07.06]That's just the way it is
[02:09.75]Some things'll never
[02:11.41]Some things'll never change no-no-no-no-no
[02:14.02]Yeah that's just the way it is
[02:18.25]Way it is
[02:19.25]The way it is
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[02:21.63]Yeah
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[02:23.27]Never never
[02:25.15]Ayy
[02:25.49]Some things will never change
[02:28.46]Some things'll never change
[02:30.02]Never never
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[02:32.72]No that's just the way it is
[02:35.20]Some things'll never change
[02:39.99]Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm
[02:40.19]Mmm-mmm-mmm
[02:40.56]Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm
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[02:44.36]Mmm-mmm-mmm
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[02:56.37]You finally made it big brother
[02:58.42]You're the G O A T