[00:00.00] 作词 : Johnny Burke/Jimmy van heusen/Jermaine Cole/William Brown

[00:01.00] 作曲 : Johnny Burke/Jimmy van heusen/Jermaine Cole/William Brown

[00:13.90]I got a story for you all

[00:25.72]Yeah~

[00:28.06]Listen!

[00:29.35]I grew up, a ****in' screw up

[00:31.56]Tie my shoe up, wish they was newer

[00:33.72]Damn, need somethin' newer

[00:34.92]In love with the baddest girl in the city,

[00:37.18]I wish I knew her

[00:38.34]I wish I weren't so shy,

[00:39.95]I wish I was a bit more fly

[00:41.10]I wish that I,

[00:42.48]could tell her how I really feel inside

[00:44.27]That I'm the perfect nigga for her,

[00:45.93] but then maybe that's a lie

[00:47.44]She like a certain type of nigga,

[00:49.42]and it's clear I'm not that guy

[00:50.50]Ball player, star player,

[00:52.52]I'm just watchin' from the side

[00:53.63]On the bench,

[00:54.75]cause my lack of confidence won't let me fly

[00:56.89]I ain't grow up with my father,

[00:58.72] I ain't thinkin' bout that now

[01:00.01]Fast forward four years or so from now I'll probably cry

[01:03.13]When I realize what I missed,

[01:04.59]but as of now my eyes are dry

[01:06.35]Cause I'm tryna stay alive

[01:07.91]In the city where too many niggas die

[01:10.01]Dream in quiet tryna dodge a suit and tie

[01:12.27]Who am I?

[01:15.53]Aye who am I? (Yeah)

[01:19.28]Things change, rearrange, or so do I

[01:22.36]It ain't always for the better dawg, I can't lie

[01:25.49]I get high cause the lows can be so cold

[01:28.56]I might bend a little bit but I don't fold

[01:31.67]One time for my mind and two for yours

[01:34.78]I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul

[01:38.03]If you see my tears fall just let me be..

[01:41.03]Move along, nothing to see

[01:43.04]I always did shit the hard way,

[01:45.02] my niggas slangin' in the hallway

[01:47.68]Burnt CD's and trees like this was Broadway

[01:50.79]Times Square,

[01:51.64] kept the dimes there in the locker

[01:53.61]Some Reggie Miller

[01:54.67]With more brown hairs than Chewbaca

[01:56.79]Whispers that he got it for the low low sell a

[01:59.39]Dime for a dub, them white boys ain't know no better

[02:02.41]Besides, what's twenty dollars to a nigga like that?

[02:05.53]He tell his pops he need some lunch and he gon' get it right back

[02:08.75]I peep game,

[02:09.87]got home snatched my mama keychain

[02:11.82]Took her whip,

[02:12.91]the appeal, to ill to refrain

[02:14.84]I hit the boulevard pull up to my nigga front door

[02:18.00]His mama at home,

[02:19.42]she still let em' hit the blunt though

[02:21.07]I told her hello and sat with my nigga and laughed

[02:24.33]And talked about how we gon' smash all the bitches in class

[02:27.34]I complimented how I see him out here getting his cash,

[02:30.67]and just asked

[02:31.57]"What a nigga gotta do to get that?!

[02:33.75] Put me on"

[02:34.69]He just laughed when he seen I was sure

[02:37.05]17 Years breathing his demeanor said more

[02:40.06]He told me,

[02:40.93]"Nigga you know how you sound right now?

[02:43.22]You won't my mans, I would think that you a clown right now."

[02:46.38] listen!

[02:47.03]"You everything I wanna be that's why I ****s with you

[02:50.06]So how you looking up to me, when I look up to you?"

[02:53.33]"You bout to go get a degree, I'm bout to be stuck with two choices:

[02:56.81]Either graduate to weight or sell a number two

[02:59.37]For what? A hundred bucks or two a week?

[03:01.88]Do you think that you would know what to do if you was me?

[03:04.95]I got, four brothers, one mother that don't love us

[03:08.81]If they ain't never want us why the **** they never wore rubbers?"

[03:11.94]I felt ashamed to have ever complained about my lack of gear

[03:15.59]And thought about how far we done came

[03:17.65]From trailer park to a front yard with trees in the sky

[03:20.86]Thank you mama dry your eyes, there ain't no reason to cry

[03:23.88]You made a genius and I,

[03:25.72]ain't gon' take it for granted

[03:27.04]I ain't gon' settle for lesser,

[03:28.57]I ain't gon' take what they handed

[03:30.31]Nah I'm gon' take what they owe me and show you that I can fly

[03:33.27]And show ol' girl what she missing

[03:34.72]The illest nigga alive

[03:36.33]Aye who am I?

[03:37.25]Things change, rearrange, or so do I, (Aye who am I?)

[03:40.31]It ain't always for the better dawg, I can't lie (Aye who am I?)

[03:43.33]I get high cause the lows can be so cold

[03:46.49]I might bend a little bit but I don't fold

[03:49.71]One time for my mind and two for yours

[03:52.77]I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul

[03:55.89]If you see my tears fall just let me be

[03:59.00]Move along, nothing to see