所属专辑:Troubadour (International Version (Explicit))
歌手: K’Naan
时长: 03:33
Somalia - K'naan[00:00:00]
Uh[00:00:13]
Yeah[00:00:16]
Somalia[00:00:20]
Yeah[00:00:23]
I spit it for my block[00:00:24]
It's an ode I admit it[00:00:26]
Here the city code is lock and load[00:00:27]
Any minute is rock 'n' roll[00:00:29]
And you rock 'n' roll[00:00:31]
And feel your soul leavin'[00:00:32]
It's just the wrong dance[00:00:33]
That'll leave you not breathin'[00:00:35]
I'm not particularly proud of this predicament but[00:00:37]
I'm born and bred in this tenement[00:00:40]
I'm sentimental what[00:00:41]
Plus it's only right to represent my hood and what not[00:00:43]
So I'm about to do it in the music[00:00:46]
In the movies[00:00:48]
Cut to the chase pan across to the face[00:00:48]
I'm right there[00:00:51]
Freeze frame on the street name[00:00:52]
Oops wait a minute[00:00:54]
This is where the streets have no name[00:00:55]
And the drain of sewage[00:00:57]
You can see it in this boy[00:00:58]
How the hate is brewin'[00:01:00]
'Cause when his tummy tucks in[00:01:01]
F**k the pain is fluid[00:01:03]
So what difference does it make entertaining[00:01:04]
Threw it[00:01:07]
Some get high mixing coke and gun powder[00:01:07]
Sniffin'[00:01:10]
She got a gun but could have been a model or physician[00:01:10]
So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean[00:01:13]
To never know a simple day without a big commotion[00:01:17]
It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion[00:01:20]
And when I try and sleep[00:01:23]
I see coffins closin'[00:01:24]
So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean[00:01:26]
To never know a simple day without a big commotion[00:01:29]
It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion[00:01:32]
And when I try and sleep[00:01:35]
I see coffins closin'[00:01:36]
Yeah yeah we used to take barbed wire[00:01:38]
Mold them around discarded bike tires[00:01:42]
Roll 'em down the hill on foot blazin'[00:01:45]
Now that was our version of mountain bike racing damn[00:01:47]
Do you see why it's amazing[00:01:51]
When someone comes out of such a dire situation[00:01:53]
And learns the English language[00:01:56]
Just to share his observation[00:01:57]
Probably get a Grammy without a grammar education[00:01:59]
So f**k you school and f**k you immigration[00:02:02]
And all of you who thought I wouldn't amount to constipation[00:02:05]
And now I'm here without the slightest fear and reservation[00:02:08]
They love me in the slums and in the native reservations[00:02:11]
The world is a ghetto with ministering deprivation[00:02:14]
My mommy didn't raise no fool[00:02:18]
Did she hot your[00:02:19]
I promise[00:02:20]
I would get it and remain strictly loyal[00:02:21]
'Cause when they get it then[00:02:23]
They let it all switch and spoil[00:02:24]
But I just illuminated it like kitchen foil[00:02:26]
A lot of main stream niggas is yappin' about yappin'[00:02:29]
A lot of underground niggas is rappin' about rappin'[00:02:33]
I just wanna tell you what's really crackalackan[00:02:35]
Before the tears came down this is what happened[00:02:39]
So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean[00:02:42]
To never know a simple day without a big commotion[00:02:45]
It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion[00:02:48]
And when I try and sleep I see coffins closin'[00:02:51]
So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean[00:02:54]
To never know a simple day without a big commotion[00:02:57]
It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion[00:03:00]
And when I try and sleep[00:03:03]
I see coffins closin'[00:03:05]
Uh[00:03:13]
Yeah[00:03:16]
Somalia[00:03:20]