所属专辑:Win Lose Or Draw
歌手: Pras Michel
时长: 04:11
When I grow up I'ma be a superstar[00:00:04]
Ah-ha alright baby[00:00:07]
They don't know how it feels[00:00:10]
(When you're out on your own yeah)[00:00:16]
(And you're lookin for that home)[00:00:19]
They don't know what it is[00:00:20]
(When the world's on your shoulder)[00:00:26]
(And your baby gotta be a soldier)[00:00:27]
Yo I was born in the pro-jects with roaches and rats[00:00:30]
And our credentials were our nines and gats[00:00:32]
Stay the hell out the hood read the welcomin mats[00:00:35]
I remember them days it was hard bein black[00:00:37]
Welfare checks and government cheese[00:00:40]
Take your family in portrait everybody smile say cheese[00:00:42]
And it's a wonder how I kept my head from goin under[00:00:44]
Sun don't shine where there's lightning and thunder[00:00:47]
Some got ways some got means[00:00:50]
But still we all just got hopes and dreams[00:00:52]
The two blend together like d**e and fiends[00:00:54]
Cope with teens has that new gangster lean[00:00:57]
Everybody just wanna be a ghetto star[00:01:00]
Fly cribs and drivin them big cars[00:01:03]
That's all Mr President hear the voice of the youth[00:01:05]
I don't lie I speak the truth[00:01:08]
They don't know how it feels[00:01:10]
(When you a single mother)[00:01:16]
(And don't have that significant other)[00:01:17]
They don't know what it is[00:01:19]
(To be in the ghetto)[00:01:26]
(And your life be in slow mo')[00:01:27]
Uhh yeah[00:01:29]
Been around the world a couple times with the ReFugees[00:01:30]
From the boot of Italy to the land of Pawnee [00:01:32]
Fell in love a couple times on the London Bridge[00:01:34]
Fast cars fast life that's how I wanted to live[00:01:37]
What a crusade one of my great escapades[00:01:40]
Cut many hearts like the game of spades[00:01:42]
But nuttin was as fatal when they blew the World Trade[00:01:45]
Now we at war momma tradin lives for grenades[00:01:47]
Send in the troops here comes the brigades[00:01:50]
American resolve and our hearts'll never fade[00:01:52]
I know you somewhere out there chillin in the shades[00:01:55]
But I hate to be the one to rain on your parade[00:01:57]
See God is merciful and God bless his children[00:02:00]
That's how we gonna reconstruct them buildings[00:02:02]
So stop the killings we runnin out of graves[00:02:05]
In the land of the free and the home of the brave[00:02:07]
They don't know how it feels[00:02:10]
(To hear our babies cry)[00:02:16]
(And watch our mothers die)[00:02:18]
They don't know what it is[00:02:20]
(To see our brothers in prison)[00:02:26]
(While they losin their religion)[00:02:28]
These eyes of mines are like camera lens[00:02:29]
Loved by many but stabbed by my friends[00:02:32]
Is this the end Some may cry out loud[00:02:34]
But I won't worry we gonna make it now[00:02:37]
The ghetto fed up but they won't break us down[00:02:40]
It's an eye for an eye what goes around comes around[00:02:43]
Do dis for my peeps who couldn't speak[00:02:44]
Survival of the fittest what happens to the weak [00:02:48]
They either in between above or beneath[00:02:49]
Tryin to play me like a scrub in a passenger seat[00:02:52]
Racial profile to say the least (okay)[00:02:54]
There won't be no peace in the belly of the beast c'mon[00:02:58]
But we gonna make it through baby[00:03:00]
Even though the world is so crazy[00:03:03]
And if they ask you tell 'em it's pain times three[00:03:04]
Cause it's a million of them kids stressin just like me[00:03:08]
BABY [00:03:10]
They don't know how it feels[00:03:10]
(To see us go to war)[00:03:16]
(And see the people free for no more)[00:03:18]
They don't know what it is[00:03:19]
(To be a black man in America)[00:03:26]
(And feel like they're comin to get'cha)[00:03:27]
They don't know how it feels[00:03:31]
(To work for minimum wage)[00:03:36]
(As your life starts to fade)[00:03:39]
They don't know what it is[00:03:41]
(To be down to your last buck)[00:03:46]
(And no one really gives a mother-HA)[00:03:48]