The G****l - Maleah Joi Moon/Shoshana Bean.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Alicia Keys/Robert Fitzgerald Diggs/Christopher Batson/Dennis D Coles/Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean/Lamont Hawkins/Shawn L Martin/Corey Todd Woods
[00:30.272]It's like
[00:31.893]Like all of New York City is singing to you
[00:34.698]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:37.365]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:40.022]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:42.658]Yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:44.842]I said we're all god's children
[00:46.502]Products of the ghetto
[00:47.957]Mama cooked the soup
[00:49.159]Daddy did the yelling
[00:50.647]Uncle was a drunk
[00:51.849]Cousin was a felon
[00:53.209]And when he got pinched
[00:54.447]He told them he wasn't tellin'
[00:56.005]Auntie was a cook
[00:57.044]Her husband was a crook
[00:58.520]'Cause every job he had
[00:59.610]They be paying him off the books
[01:01.342]Ghetto University knowledge is all it took
[01:03.990]In the tenement, I was listenin' to the hook
[01:06.590]Change gon' come, spirit of Sam Cooke
[01:09.169]And when the feds comin', everybody be shook
[01:11.993]Now we doing life like Eddie Murphy and Martin
[01:14.632]On the chain gang, I was singing into the coffin
[01:17.313]Roaches and the rats
[01:18.525]H****n in the cracks
[01:19.950]Couldn't blame me
[01:21.145]I'm just giving the facts
[01:22.453]I'm tryna hit the top 'cause the bottom ain't where it's at
[01:25.009]Everybody got a past, but you can never go back
[01:27.648]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[01:32.999]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (Oh)
[01:38.630]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[01:41.326]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[01:44.012]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[01:46.665]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[01:54.019]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[02:18.001]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[02:39.303]Oh, oh, oh, oh
[02:50.009]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[03:17.154]I'll tell it like it is
[03:18.548]How we ever gon' live?
[03:19.926]If we ain't gettin' money
[03:21.181]How we feedin' the kids?
[03:22.468]It's a revolving door
[03:23.694]When brothers be doing bids
[03:25.173]I know it sound wrong, but the dope'll be what it is
[03:27.812]Survival of the fittest, this poor girl's the illest, huh
[03:31.032]Broke mirrors and black cats give me heebie-jeebies
[03:33.318]Life seems hard, but nothing ever come easy
[03:35.846]Whatever's in the dark will always become the light
[03:38.484]If you ain't in the battle, how you gon' win the fight?
[03:41.325]Gotta speak the truth when I'm up in the booth
[03:43.826]The streets be flyin' birds, but they don't be on the roof
[03:46.511]Poverty is a pain like you pulling a tooth
[03:48.943]Told the streets, "Don't let me go"
[03:50.466]Like I'm Bishop in Juice
[03:51.965]Roaches and the rats
[03:53.166]H****n in the cracks
[03:54.669]Couldn't blame me
[03:55.879]I'm just giving the facts
[03:57.327]Tryna hit the top, bottom ain't where it's at
[03:59.754]Everybody got a past, but you can never go back
[04:02.317]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (Oh)
[04:07.667]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (Oh)
[04:13.334]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[04:15.528]Sing
[04:16.028]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[04:17.797]You gotta sing
[04:18.672]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[04:20.480]Just as a king
[04:21.367]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[04:24.008]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[04:26.661]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[04:29.310]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Oh)
[04:31.170]Enough! Ali, upstairs now!