Wrote My Way Out - Nas/Dave East/Lin-Manuel Miranda/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
Tell the real story
我要让真相水落石出