Lyrics by:Carter/Siffre/Wills
以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
Composed by:Romeo Beresford & Shawn Carter & Hayden Brown & Jonathan Burks
Uh huh uh huh uh
Gee gee geyeah
Baby watchin' streets
宝贝 注视着街头
Uh huh uh huh uh
You don't have to look
你不必回头
Uh huh uhThe streets is watching
嗯哼 街头正盯着你
Check it check
听着 听着
Uh huh uh check
嗯哼 听着
ACLook if
I shoot you
若我向你开枪
I'm brainless
便是愚蠢至极
But if you shoot me then you're famous what's a ******to do
但若你射杀我 却能一举成名 这困境该如何抉择
When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking
当整条街都紧盯着 街区时刻在倒计时
Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
就等着你行差踏错 犯下第一个致命失误
Can't ignore it that's the fastest way to get extorted
无法视而不见 这是最快招致灾祸的方式
But my time is money at twenty-five
二十五岁的光阴就是金钱
I can't afford it
我负担不起
Beef is sorted like
冲突像歌帝梵巧克力般精致包装
Godiva chocolates
******you bought it
*你自食其果*
I pull the slide back and ******it
我拉开保险栓*解决纷争*
Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass
计划终止 放你和同伙一马
This rhyme you're operating on ******time
你押韵的节奏*早已过时*
Y'all ******ain't worth my shells all y'all ******ztryin to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to
你们这些*根本不值得我浪费子弹 你们只想破坏我的生意 阻挠我的交易
John McNale
The type to start a beef then run to the cops
那种挑起事端又跑去报警的货色
When I see you in the street got one in the drop
在街上遇见你时 我随时准备动手
Would I rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop
我宁愿在巡演中每场赚个盆满钵满
Taking pictures with some *******in front of the drop
和*们在豪车前合影
The streets is watching
街头正注视着一切
When the streets is watching
当街头凝视着你时
Blocks keep clocking
街区时刻运转
Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
就等着你行差踏错 犯下第一个致命失误
Can't ignore it
无法视而不见
Now it's hard not to kill ******s
现在很难不伤害某些人
It's like a full time job not to kill ******s can't chill
克制暴力就像全职工作 无法放松
The streets is watching you when you froze your arms
街头注视着你 当你举起武器
******s wanna test you and your gun goes warm
总有人想挑衅 直到你的枪管发烫
Can't get caught with your feet up gotta keep your heat up
不能放松警惕 必须时刻保持警觉
Sweet ******s running 'round swearing *******t is sweeter
甜言蜜语四处流传 谎言被粉饰得动听
Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader
一旦被标记 游戏就变成盲从
Everybody want a piece of your scrilla so you gotta keep it realer
人人都想分一杯羹 所以你必须保持清醒
Kidnap ******s wanna steal ya
有人觊觎想要掠夺你
Broke ******s want no cash they just wanna kill yafor the name ******s don't know the rules
穷途末路者不为钱财 只想取你性命
Disrespectin' the game want you to blow your cool
不懂规则的人亵渎游戏
Force your hand of course that man's plottin'
逼你失控 那人显然在暗中谋划
Smarten up the streets is watching it's on
街头暗处无数双眼睛在窥视
When the streets is watching
当街头凝视着你时
Blocks keep clocking
街区时刻运转
Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
就等着你行差踏错 犯下第一个致命失误
Can't ignore it
无法视而不见
My street mentality flip bricks forever know me and money
我的街头生存法则 永远与金钱纠缠
We like armed co-defendants ******s we stick together
我们如同持械共犯 生死与共
*******t whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground
为利益不择手段 将赌局推向深渊
Hustle harder to see if indic******ent time came around
拼命奔波只为等待命运转机
Now you can look up and down the streets and
如今你寻遍街头巷尾
I can't be found
却不见我踪迹
Put in twenty-four hour *******fts but that ain't me now
曾日夜颠倒的勾当已非我所愿
Got a face too easy to trace ******s mouths got slow leaks
面容太易被指认 告密者唇齿漏风
Had to hide between my workers couldn't play those streets
只得藏身同伴之间 再难混迹街头
She got his face like
她凝视他的神情
Mercury you jerkin' me
如水星般捉摸不定
Hectic had to call upon my wolves to send ******s the message
混乱中我召唤兄弟传递警告信号
I said this Let's play fair and we can stay here
我说不如公平较量 才能相安无事
I'm trying to transform you
我正试图改变你的轨迹
Boyz II Men like daycare
男孩们像托儿所般需要管教
Hey there's money to be made and ******s got the picture
看呐这里有利可图 他们已心知肚明
Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer
不再虚度光阴后 我们日渐富裕
Then hard times fell upon us half of my staff had warrants
直到厄运降临 半数兄弟遭通缉
The other half in the casket lay dormant
另一半长眠于棺木中
I felt like life was cheating me for the first time in my life
生平第一次 我感到被生活欺骗
I was getting money but it was like my conscious was eating me
虽赚得盆满钵满 良知却日夜啃噬
Was this a lesson
这是否是
God teaching me
上帝的训诫
Was he saying that
祂是否在警示
I'm playing the game straight from
我正参与这场
Hell from which few came back
从地狱归者寥寥的赌局
Like bad coke pimp or die was my mindframe bad
如同劣质*** 皮条客或死亡是我的思维定式
Was ******s thinkin' simplify was turning *******crack
那些*人以为简化生活就能把*变成快钱
Ain't a whole lot of brain to that just trying to maintain a stack
这根本不需要多少头脑 只想保住那叠钞票
And knock a lot like two trains that's on the same track'
就像两列火车在同条轨道上迟早相撞
Fore I get my life together like the oars
在我像船桨般重整人生之前
I bring back
我要找回
In the bottom of the pot where no water gets hot
在锅底永远烧不开水的地方
Got my transporter take it 'cross the border then stop
让我的运货人穿越边境就停下
Set up shop with a quarter of rock here's the plan
在街角支起小摊 兜售违禁品 这就是我的计划
For three straight weeks ******s slaughtered the block
整整三周 街区被鲜血染红
But you know the game is 'lluted ******up me and my dues
但你知道这游戏早已变质 让我付出代价
One drop can wipe a ******out faster than the cops
一滴就能让人消失 比警察来得更快
And this unstable way of living just had to stop
这种动荡的生活必须终止
Half of my ******s got time we done real things
半数兄弟身陷囹圄 我们都曾真实活过
By ninety-four became the subject of half of y'all ******s rhymes
到九四年 已成为你们半数歌词的主题
Public apoligies to the families of those caught up in my street
向那些卷入我街头生活的家庭致以公开歉意
But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in the streets
但这就是我们这些迷失灵魂的宿命 在街头长大
The life and times of a demonic mind excited with crime
恶魔般心智的生活轨迹 为犯罪而兴奋
And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
奢华的享受只会让我更加癫狂
I figured '
我意识到
*******t why risk myself
***何必铤而走险
I just write it in rhymes
不如将故事写成韵脚
And let you feel me and if you don't like it then fine'
让你感受我的世界 若不喜欢也随你便
The mindstate of a ******who boosted the crime rate
一个恶徒的心态 让犯罪率飙升
So high in one city they send
高到整座城市惊动
National Guards to get me ya dig
甚至派来国民警卫队围剿我 你懂吗
The streets
这就是街头