Wrote My Way Out (书写我的人生之路) - Nas/Dave East/Lin-Manuel Miranda (林-曼努尔·米兰达)/Aloe Blacc // I wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 When the world turned it's back on me 当整个世界与我为敌 I was up against the wall 我已无路可退 I had no foundation 我孤身一人 No friends and no family to catch my fall 没有朋友 没有家人在我失意之时给我信心 Running on empty with nothing left in me but doubt 我已一无所有 内心一片空虚 但是 I picked up a pen 我以笔为戎 And wrote my way out 书写自己的人生 I picked up the pen like Hamilton 我像汉密尔顿一样以笔为戎 Street analyst now I write words that try to channel them 我出身街头 如今 我用文字为平民大众指引方向 No political power just lyrical power 不用兵戈相向 只用感情力量 Sitting on a crate on a corner sipping for hours 坐在酒吧的角落 畅饮几个小时 Scheming on a come up from evening to sun up 彻夜不眠 才思如泉涌一般 My man awaiting trial misdemeanors we younger 当我们年少无知 我的兄弟触犯了法律 Courtroom prejudice insufficient evidence 但是法庭证据不足 Jailhouse lawyers these images still relevant 那些律师心存偏见 至今我仍无法忘怀 Flickering lights inside my project hall 灯红酒绿迷醉了我的双眼 Sickening the mice crawl all night long 我像一只受伤的老鼠一般 苟延残喘 And '87 Reaganism many pages I've written on 我崇尚里根主义 为此写下了厚厚的诗篇 Writing songs about rights and wrongs and bails bonds 我写的歌曲充斥着是非曲直 Master bedroom bigger than the crib that I was raised at 如今我的生活与过去大相径庭 I'm the architect like I wrote the code to Waze app 我就像一个建筑师 用笔写着这个社会的是非曲直 I'm driven black Elohim from the streets of queens 在大街小巷 我就是说唱之王 The definition of what it was written means 只有心思缜密之人 Know what I mean 才能与我心灵相通 I wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 When the world turned it's back on me 当整个世界与我为敌 I was up against the wall 我已无路可退 I had no foundation 我孤身一人 No friends and no family to catch my fall 没有朋友 没有家人在我失意之时给我信心 Running on empty there was nothing left in me but doubt 我已一无所有 内心一片空虚 但是 I picked up a pen 我以笔为戎 And I wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 I really wrote my way up out of 6E 我要书写自己的人生 丢掉过去的卑微出身 Develop relationships with fiends I know they miss me 我和恶魔日益亲近 我知道他们想念我 Before the metro cards it was tokens I did the ten speed 在时代变迁之前 我要加快速度 Never had wrote a rhyme in my life what was a sixteen 我从未让自己的人生循规蹈矩 At sixteen arrested in housing trip to the mountains 十六岁时被逮捕入狱 然后跨越重重阻碍 Came right back trapping off couches watching for mouses 回到家里 躺在沙发上 看着老鼠占据了我的地盘 Only tools we was posed with had to spot smoke lit 我们只能想方设法重燃激情 The haters just confusion pay attention how them jokes switch 仇恨者的世界陷入一片混乱 要时刻小心他们会做出怎样的举动 Theodora was my favorite of my 奢侈大牌是我的最爱 Mama couldn't afford them I learnt everything on the border 但妈妈没钱购买 我学会了想方设法自给自足 That's a big 8 coke parties with private dancers with no mixtape 开始尽情放纵 纵享奢靡生活 Bumble bee tuna now we could get steak 从一无所有到功成名就 I persevered composition I kept it close 我始终坚持自己的本心 将不好的诱惑拒之门外 Competition near I'm a spartan without the spear 我就像一个斯巴达勇士 即使没有武器 也能近身攻击 Three hundred rhymes it was written before I wrote it 所向披靡 在我名声大噪之前 我的人生就被书写 Opportunity knocking might miss it that window closing 机会已经到来 如果我紧闭心扉 也许就会失去机会 This poetry in motion I'm a poet 在这个动荡的世界 我是一个诗人 I wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 When the world turned it's back on me 当整个世界与我为敌 I was up against the wall 我已无路可退 I had no foundation 我孤身一人 No friends and no family to catch my fall 没有朋友 没有家人在我失意之时给我信心 Running on empty there was nothing left in me but doubt 我已一无所有 内心一片空虚 但是 I picked up a pen 我以笔为戎 And wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 High speed dubbing these rhymes in my dual cassette deck 我要让自己的人生流传百世 Running out of time like I'm Jonathan Larson's rent check 我的时间消耗殆尽 我要像强纳生拉森一般把握有限的生命 My mind is where the wild things are Maurice Sendak 我要像莫里斯桑达克一样天马行空 In withdrawal I want it all please give me that pen back 当我重返舞台 我想拥有一切 请把命运的主宰权还给我 Y'all I caught my first beating from the other kids when I was caught reading 当我第一次和其他孩子发生冲突 我就了解了这个世界的残酷 Oh you think you smart blah start bleeding 你觉得自己才智过人 那你就要开始付出代价 My pops tried in vain to get me to fight back 我的爸爸曾经试图让我用拳头反击 但都是徒劳而已 Sister tapped my brains said pssh you'll get 'em right back 我的姐姐教我使用大脑 她说 用你的才智赢回所有 Oversensitive defenseless I made sense of it I pencil in 敏感多心 满心防备 我懂得了以笔为戎的意义 The lengths to which I'd go to learn my strengths and knock 'em senseless 我会用写作的力量让那些对手一败涂地 These sentences are endless so what if they leave me friendless 写作的力量无穷无尽 如果他们留我孤身一人 将会怎样 Damn you got no chill f**king right I'm relentless 该死 你热情似火 显得我冷酷无情 I know Abuela's never really gonna win the lottery 我知道 祖母从来不会中彩票大奖 So it's up to me to draw blood with this pen hit an artery 所以 我要带着满腔热血 以笔为戎 横扫一切 This Puerto Rican's brains are leakin' through the speakers 波多黎各人的想法传遍大街小巷 And if he can be the shining beacon this side of the G.W.B. and 如果他可以尽情闪耀光芒 这个世界就会与众不同 Shine a light when it's gray out 在茫茫黑暗里绽放耀眼的光芒 I wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 Oh I was born in the eye of a storm 我在暴雨之中出生 No lovin' arms to keep me warm 没有人给予我温暖 This hurricane in my brain is the burden I bear 我独自一人忍受着狂风暴雨 I can do without I'm here I'm here 我已无能为力 只能孤身一人 孤身一人 Cause I wrote my way out 因为我要书写自己的人生 I picked up the pen like Hamilton 我像汉密尔顿一样以笔为戎 I wrote my way out of the projects 我要书写自己的人生 Wrote wrote my way out of the projects 活出自己的精彩 Picked up the pen like Hamilton 像汉密尔顿一样以笔为戎 I wrote my way out of the 我要书写自己的人生 Wrote wrote my way out of the projects 活出自己的精彩 I wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 Picked up the pen like Hamilton 像汉密尔顿一样以笔为戎 I wrote my way out of the 我要书写自己的人生 I wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 Really I saw like a hole in the rap game 我看到说唱的世界充满腥风血雨 So if I wanted to put my little two cents in the game 如果我想用自己薄弱的力量谱写精彩 Then it would be from a different perspective 那我就得另辟蹊径 I wrote my way out 我要书写自己的人生 I thought that I would represent for my neighborhood 我觉得 我会代表这个世界 活出精彩 And tell their story be their voice 代表他们说出自己的心声 自己的心声 In a way that nobody has done it 还没有人做过这种事情