《Shallow Days》歌词

[00:00:00] Shallow Days - Blackalicious

[00:00:10] I just keep moving on

[00:00:20] I just keep moving on (moving on )

[00:00:30] Time and time a brother asks why

[00:00:32] The rhyme is not laced with a gangsta touch

[00:00:34] I said "Simply because I don't live that way

[00:00:37] Still kickin' them rhymes rugged and rough"

[00:00:39] "But that won't sell

[00:00:41] Cause you gotta keep it real

[00:00:42] So that we can feel

[00:00:43] Where you're coming from

[00:00:44] Because these streets is ill so if you ain't

[00:00:46] Killing niggas in rhymes

[00:00:48] Your whole sound's just bubble gum"

[00:00:49] I said "I won't contribute to genocide;

[00:00:51] I'd rather try to cultivate the INSIDE

[00:00:54] And try to evolve the frustrated ghetto mind

[00:00:56] The devil and his army never been a friend of mine"

[00:00:59] "But niggas don't wanna hear that sh*t" said the brother

[00:01:01] Who was obviously totally misled and yelled out

[00:01:05] "murder murder kill murder" instilled in the influential THOUGHTS

[00:01:08] Of our kids' heads

[00:01:10] Shallow days you never gonna

[00:01:11] Let a brother be a brother

[00:01:12] Fully inner to the outer

[00:01:13] Caught up in all them hollow nights

[00:01:15] Can't escape cause everywhere I look

[00:01:17] People frontin' and it just ain't right

[00:01:19] Shallow days you never gonna

[00:01:21] Let a brother be a brother

[00:01:22] Fully inner to the outer

[00:01:23] Caught up in all them hollow nights

[00:01:25] Can't escape cause everywhere I look

[00:01:27] People frontin' and it just ain't right

[00:01:29] I said "Don't you know the powers that be

[00:01:31] Are using people as pawns devouring we

[00:01:33] Until they see us all gone and outta the scene"

[00:01:36] And as I passed the chronic he said "look at where I be

[00:01:39] I tried to get a job for real

[00:01:41] But all the homies HIT LIQS and rob and steal

[00:01:43] And keep fat pockets caught in a rut to catch ground

[00:01:46] This way's in plus who could you trust "

[00:01:48] I said "I'm all about protecting mine

[00:01:49] But neglecting minds BE getting left behind

[00:01:52] Why don't you change your environment "

[00:01:55] He said "This is all I know

[00:01:56] Plus my fam's all that I got I can't go"

[00:01:58] I said "You gotta make it for the FAM"

[00:02:00] "Damn " he said "I didn't make the ghetto

[00:02:02] The ghetto made the man"

[00:02:03] I said "You're more than just that "

[00:02:04] Shook his hand said "Damn you gotta find a way

[00:02:07] To break the devil's master plan yeah "

[00:02:09] Shallow days you never gonna

[00:02:11] Let a brother be a brother

[00:02:12] Fully inner to the outer

[00:02:13] Caught up in all them hollow nights

[00:02:15] Can't escape cause everywhere that I look

[00:02:17] People frontin' and it just ain't right

[00:02:18] Shallow days you never gonna

[00:02:20] Let a brother be a brother

[00:02:21] Fully inner to the outer

[00:02:22] Caught up in all them hollow nights

[00:02:24] Can't escape cause everywhere that I look

[00:02:26] People frontin' and it just ain't right

[00:02:28] The word "peace" is just an expression

[00:02:30] Used to say bye when it's time to jet

[00:02:33] And them red black and green medallions

[00:02:34] Was all just part of A trend I guess

[00:02:36] Hardly ever them around brothers' necks no more

[00:02:39] Instead of that gold gats

[00:02:41] Inspiring gangstas and macks

[00:02:43] Who at the young age of four

[00:02:44] Be seeing more drama than war veterans

[00:02:46] Instead of learning God's laws

[00:02:47] And hip-hop is a voice that we enlist that

[00:02:50] To express how we be feeling about this and that

[00:02:53] But music does reflect life

[00:02:54] And kids look up to what you portray

[00:02:56] And mimic what you act like

[00:02:58] It's time for a new day

[00:02:59] An era in rap conscious styles

[00:03:02] Makin' them aware of the happenings

[00:03:04] But their ears seem more steered towards

[00:03:06] Self-annihilation

[00:03:06] So many might laugh

[00:03:08] And write this off like I'm out here just

[00:03:10] Blowing wind maybe label it soft or unreal

[00:03:13] Something they can't feel while they keep yelling

[00:03:15] "murder murder murder kill kill kill "

[00:03:18] I just keep movin' on (moving on )

[00:03:28] I just keep movin' on (moving on )

[00:03:38] Shallow days / hollow nights

[00:03:43] Shallow days / hollow nights

[00:03:48] Shallow days / hollow nights