[00:00.000] 作词 : Jimmy van heusen/Johnny Burke/Jermaine Cole/William "Willie B." Brown

[00:01.000] 作曲 : Jimmy van heusen/Johnny Burke/Jermaine Cole/William "Willie B." Brown

[00:31.290]I grew up, a ******' screw up

[00:33.590]Tie my shoe up,

[00:34.350]wish they was newer

[00:35.480]Damn, need somethin' newer

[00:37.110]In love with the baddest girl in the city,

[00:39.440]I wish I knew her

[00:40.310]I wish I won't so shy,

[00:41.800]I wish I was a bit more fly

[00:43.540]I wish that I, could tell her

[00:45.670]how I really feel inside

[00:46.450]That I'm the perfect ***** for her,

[00:48.950]but then maybe that's a lie

[00:49.920]She like a certain type of *****,

[00:51.600]and it's clear I'm not that guy

[00:53.240]Ball player, star player,

[00:54.620]I'm just watchin' from the side

[00:57.140]On the bench,

[00:57.540]cause my lack of confidence won't let me fly

[00:59.680]I ain't grow up with my father,

[01:01.410]I ain't thinkin' bout that now

[01:02.930]Fast forward four years or

[01:04.860]so from now I'll probably cry

[01:06.330]When I realize what I missed,

[01:07.810]but as of now my eyes are dry

[01:09.480]Cause I'm tryna stay alive,

[01:10.910]In the city where too many ****** die

[01:13.550]Dreamin' quiet tryna dodge a suit and tie

[01:15.740]Who am I? Aye who am I (Yeah)

[01:22.160]Things change, rearrange and so do I

[01:26.290]It ain't always for the better dawg I can't lie

[01:29.600]I get high cause the lows can be so cold

[01:32.850]I might bend a little bit but I don't fold

[01:36.010]One time for my mind and two for yours

[01:39.330]I got food for your

[01:41.270]thoughts to sooth your soul

[01:42.450]If you see my tears fall just let me be

[01:45.690]Move along, nothing to see

[01:47.630]I always did **** the hard way,

[01:49.610]my ****** slangin' in the hallway

[01:51.810]Burnt CD's and trees like this was broadway,

[01:55.220]Times Square

[01:56.200]Kept the dimes there in the locker

[01:58.200]Some Reggie Miller

[01:59.480]With more brown hairs than Chewbacca

[02:01.670]Whispers that he got it for the low low

[02:03.910]Sell a, dime for a dub,

[02:05.930]them white boys ain't know no better

[02:07.710]Besides,

[02:08.520]what's twenty dollars to a ***** like that?

[02:11.060]He tell his pops he need some lunch

[02:12.790]and he gon' get it right back

[02:14.170]I peep game

[02:15.230]Got home snatched my mama keychain,

[02:17.320]took her whip

[02:18.380]The appeal, too ill to refrain

[02:20.470]I hit the boulevard pull up

[02:21.800]to my ***** front door

[02:24.080]His mama at home,

[02:25.200]she still let em' hit the blunt though

[02:27.110]I told her hello

[02:28.230]and sat with my ***** and laughed

[02:30.360]And talked about

[02:31.430]how we gon' smash all the ******* in class

[02:33.440]I complimented

[02:34.300]how I see him out here getting his cash,

[02:36.710]and just asked

[02:37.980]"What a ***** gotta do to get that? Put me on"

[02:40.940]He just laughed when he seen I was sure

[02:43.170]17 years breathing his demeanor said more

[02:46.400]He told me,

[02:48.140]"***** you know how you sound right now?

[02:49.720]If you wasn't my mans,

[02:52.310]I would think that you a clown right now

[02:53.030]Listen, you everything I wanna be

[02:55.550]that's why I ***** with you

[02:56.820]So how you looking up to me,

[02:58.640]when I look up to you

[03:00.220]You bout to go get a degree,

[03:02.170]I'ma be stuck with two choices

[03:04.000]Either graduate to weight

[03:05.420]or selling number two

[03:06.550]For what? A hundred bucks or two a week?

[03:09.040]Do you think that you would know

[03:10.940]what to do if you was me?

[03:12.470]I got, four brothers,

[03:14.450]one mother that don't love us

[03:16.740]If they ain't never want us

[03:18.470]why the **** they never wore rubbers?"

[03:20.000]I felt ashamed to have ever complained

[03:22.300]about my lack of gear

[03:23.530]And thought about how far we done came

[03:25.570]From trailer park to a front yard

[03:27.510]with trees in the sky

[03:28.750]Thank you mama dry your eyes,

[03:30.740]there ain't no reason to cry

[03:31.900]You made a genius and I,

[03:33.220]ain't gon' take it for granted

[03:35.160]I ain't gon' settle for lesser,

[03:36.810]I ain't gon' take what they handed

[03:38.430]Nah I'm gon' take what they owe me

[03:39.950]and show you that I can fly

[03:41.630]And show ol' girl what she missing

[03:43.260]The illest ***** alive

[03:44.990]Aye who am I?

[03:46.100]Things change, rearrange and so do I

[03:48.800]It ain't always for the better dawg I can't lie

[03:52.060]I get high cause the lows can be so cold

[03:55.370]I might bend a little bit but I don't fold

[03:59.080]One time for my mind and two for yours

[04:02.090]I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul

[04:04.950]If you see my tears fall just let me be

[04:08.400]Move along, nothing to see

[04:10.140]I never felt better