[00:00.000] 作词 : J. Cole
[00:01.000] 编曲 : J. Cole
[00:02.57]Yeah, uh
[00:04.44]Uh, yea
[00:10.04]Yea, uh
[00:11.46]Fayettenam, *****
[00:13.52]Hahaah uh
[00:14.80]Carolina, *****
[00:16.39]Yeah, Yea, let's bring it in
[00:22.30]Yea, this is for my *****s in the struggle
[00:28.89]Yea, this is for my *****s in the struggle
[00:31.46]Uh, uh, uh
[00:33.14]Nothing but sweat, tears
[00:34.42]Just another perspective
[00:37.22]Yeah
[00:38.78]Yo, uh
[00:43.36]Lifestyles of the young, black and genius
[00:46.04]Sons strapped with guns packed in jeans
[00:47.95]And the blunts got my lungs black as Jesus, (yea)
[00:50.05]Play where killers hung at and slung crack for leisure
[00:52.76]And tell a ***** run that get gun clap for sneakers
[00:55.53]Young *****s emulate what's coming out the speakers
[00:58.42]So everything we learn came from rappers, not teachers
[01:01.25]Cause if we can't relate, then how the hell you gonna reach us?
[01:03.90]Surrounded by crooked cops and preachers, (yea) Who am I trusting?
[01:07.07]No time to think about illegal when your stomachs touching
[01:09.77]By any means, *****, even if the gun is busting
[01:12.52]I see the world for what it is now
[01:14.80]I see the odds is looking slim for our kids now
[01:17.37]Cause, uh, it wasn't set up for my people to rise, (yea)
[01:20.53]My *****s slang, but I see the pain deep in they eyes
[01:23.38]*****s living like they don't give a ****
[01:25.10]And I don't blame 'em, it's a cold world, live it up! (live it up)
[01:28.53]The things that I've seen, (seen)
[01:30.24]The dreams that I dream, (dream)
[01:33.06]The rain in my sky
[01:35.65]The pain in my eyes
[01:38.64]But know that it gets better baby
[01:42.02]Hope that it gets better baby
[01:44.80]Don't let this world break you, (you) naw, naw
[01:48.08]Don't let them break you, (you)
[01:49.63]Yea, uh
[01:51.11]I look up in the sky, see that ghetto bird circling
[01:54.28]And rollers on the block, my *****s on the curb, cursing them, (****)
[01:56.90]Another day in the ville, do I stay in and chill? (no)
[01:59.57]Or go play in the field?
[02:00.67]Help my mother paying these bills, you tell me, *****!
[02:03.28]We young, black, some strapped
[02:05.24]Them whites got they lunch pack for school, we had our guns packed
[02:08.27]And all a ***** wanna do is take his momma from that
[02:11.12]But they'd rather lock us up and make sure we don't come back
[02:13.73]You kill a ***** over beef and cheddar even better
[02:16.56]Just one less **** they won't have to arrest soon
[02:19.20]**** a crooked cop three times
[02:20.79]*****, I'm getting cake and ain't a ***** finna eat mine
[02:23.70]That's why a ***** looking like a street sign, (yea)
[02:25.76]Posted on the corner 'til it's sleep time
[02:27.78]Wake up and it's feeling like somebody hit the rewind, (why)
[02:30.40]Cause them ghetto birds circulate, my *****s still cursin em
[02:33.19]Another day in the city, my *****s say it with me, yea!
[02:36.06]The things that I've seen, (seen)
[02:37.45]The dreams that I dream, (dream)
[02:39.91]The rain in my sky
[02:42.75]The pain in my eyes
[02:45.56]But know that it gets better baby
[02:48.94]Hope that it get better baby
[02:51.61]Don't let this world break you, (you) naw, naw
[02:54.95]Don't let them break you, (you)
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