How many days we gonna live our life
我们还要在这种环境下生活多久
Struggling on the streets
挣扎在这个街区
How many days we gotta live our life
我们还要在这种煎熬下生活多久
Searching for a way to eat
去寻找食物
You gotta stay down stay down just
你应该坚持下去
To see a brighter day
那么你将会看到更加光明的那一天
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活的更好
Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day
坚持下去 为了更加光明的未来
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活的更好
How many blacks gotta die by the hands of another
有多少黑人死于他人之手
Don't you understand that man's the same color
难道你不明白 我们有着相同的肤色
So that man is your brother
他就是你的兄弟啊
That's what happens when that man is from the gutter
当他从恶劣的环境中走出来时 就发生了那些
And that man is a hustler trying to survive
他是个为了生存而说谎的骗子
Moving grams of that butter
随手偷些生活用品
See his momma was a d**e fiend
看 他的妈妈是个***
Poppa was a rolling stone
而爸爸是个无业游民
He never knew what family was
他从不知道家为何物
He grew up in a broken home
他成长在一个破败的家庭中
Ever since twelve years old he was known as grown
自从12岁以后 他懂得了成长
'Cause ever since twelve years old he was on his own
因为从那时起 他就开始孤身一人
And even though it seemed like school
即使学校对他来说
Was the best plan
是最好的选择
His only choice was distributing the rock like Def-jam
但他唯一的选择还是像Def-jam一样随风而逝
While everybody else was getting diplomas
当每个人都获得毕业文凭时
He graduated from the middle
他的学历却只停留在
Of the strip to the corner
中学阶段
But I don't knock him cause he tryin to bubble
但我并没有制止他 因为他在生活中挣扎着
There's no food on the table
桌子上没有食物
The rents past due and that's why he hustles
租金也没办法交付 这就是他为什么要行骗的原因了
And I ain't sayin that its right to be dealin
虽然我不会认同他的行为
All I'm sayin is I feel him I guess
但我想说的只是 我想我能与他感同身受
I just see eye 2 eye wit his struggle you know
你知道的 我认同他 知道他的挣扎
How many days we gonna live our life
我们还要在这种环境下生活多久
Struggling on the streets
挣扎在这个街区
How many days we gotta live our life
我们还要在这种煎熬下生活多久
Searching for a way to eat
去寻找食物
You gotta stay down stay down just
你应该坚持下去
To see a brighter day
那么你将会看到更加光明的那一天
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活的更好
Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day
坚持下去 为了更加光明的未来
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活的更好
Now baby girl's got a promising future
现在 宝贝女孩得到了未来的期许
But her moms passed away while
但她的母亲却去世了
She was younger and her father's a loser
她是那么年轻而她的父亲却是个失败者
He'd always abused her but what else
他总是虐待她 但你还能
You expect from a coward
从这个懦夫身上期望什么呢
He wasn't even proud
他甚至没有可自豪的地方
When she got accepted to Howard
当她被哈佛录取时
And even though she loves college everyday
即使她每一天是那么向往着大学生活
It would stress her
但对她来说还是倍感压力
But it wasn't cause of exams or she hate her professor
这并不是因为测验或者她厌恶她的教授
It was her financial situation here
而是因为她在经济上的困难
She couldn't pay a semester
她甚至无法支付一学期的学费
And the only means of making it better
而唯一能使这一切变得更好的方式
Was totally reversing the role
就是完全颠倒角色
Lap dancing working
做一个舞女
That pole even though deep down its hurting her soul
这个极端甚至伤害到她的灵魂
And even if it meant taking off her clothes
如果这意味着褪去衣裳
She was down for what ever to help her accomplish
她也会**** 只为帮助自己实现
Her personal goals
她的人生理想
And I ain't trippin off a-how shortie livin
我无法想象底层阶级是怎样生活的
She gotta pay her tuiton put food in the kitchen
她需要支付她的学费和她的生活用品
And that's why she strippin
而这就是她做舞女的原因
And I ain't sayin I agree with her job
我也无法认同她的职业
But sh*t times is hard
但是世态炎凉
I guess I just see eye to eye
我想我只是和
With her vision you know
她的看法一致 你懂得
How many days we gonna live our life
我们还要在这种环境下生活多久
Struggling on the streets
挣扎在这个街区
How many days we gotta live our life
我们还要在这种煎熬下生活多久
Searching for a way to eat
去寻找食物
You gotta stay down stay down just
你应该坚持下去
To see a brighter day
那么你将会看到更加光明的那一天
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活得更好
Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day
坚持下去 为了更加光明的未来
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活得更好
Now see the moral of the story is this
现在 看看这些道德典例吧
If you ain't tryin to help stop our troubles
如果你无法解决这些社会问题的话
Then don't knock our hustle
那么就不要再打击这些底层人士了
Cause really at the end of the day its not ya'll struggle
因为 虽然你不会有要挣扎的那一天
But you always got something to say
但是你总是需要说些什么的
Well hear this f**k you
你TM好好听着这些
Yeah that's right I'm talking to
我说的这些都是正确的
You come try to sleep in our beds
你睡在我们的床上
Eat off our plates take a walk in our shoes
吃光食物 穿着我们的鞋溜着弯儿
Look at the world from our view try
看看我们眼中的世界
To live by our rules
去生活在我们的秩序下吧
Drink the same water we do
与我们同饮一瓢水
Put your kids in our schools
让你的孩子在我们的学校里上学吧
I guarantee you won't maintain your health
我向你保证 你不会调整自己的健康
You'll probably try to end it all
或许你会试图结束这一切
And hang yourself or bang yourself
结束自己的生命
You couldn't possibly understand all pain we felt
你或许不会明白我们感受到的所有痛苦
And without folding your hands play
没有切身的感受
The games we dealt
我们所在处理的生活问题
I'm being real I ain't tryin to be evil
我会真实地存在 不会坠入邪恶之中
Look how we live look how ya'll live
看看我们是怎样在生活 看看你将怎样生活
C'mon be serious how is we equal
严肃点 我们怎样才是人人平等的
Matter fact I feel I'm wasting my time
事实上 我觉得我是在浪费自己的时间
I'm finished writing this rhyme
我就要完成这段旋律了
Ya'll never gonna see eye to eye
你永远也不会认同
With my people you know
我们的 你懂得
How many days we gonna live our life
我们还要在这种环境下生活多久
Struggling on the streets
挣扎在这个街区
How many days we gotta live our life
我们还要在这种煎熬下生活多久
Searching for a way to eat
去寻找食物
You gotta stay down stay down just
你应该坚持下去
To see a brighter day
那么你将会看到更加光明的那一天
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活得更好
Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day
坚持下去 为了更加光明的未来
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活得更好
How many days we gonna live our life
我们还要在这种环境下生活多久
Struggling on the streets
挣扎在这个街区
How many days we gotta live our life
我们还要在这种煎熬下生活多久
Searching for a way to eat
去寻找食物
You gotta stay down stay down just
你应该坚持下去
To see a brighter day
那么你将会看到更加光明的那一天
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活得更好
Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day
坚持下去 为了更加光明的未来
Stay down stay down just to live a better way
坚持下去 为了生活得更好