《Growing Up In This World》歌词

[00:00:00] Growing Up In This World - Jackson Turner (黑杰克)

[00:00:02] Written by：Jackson Turner/Soulspeak

[00:00:04] Arranger：Soulspeak

[00:00:05] Producer：Souslpeak/Jackson Turner

[00:00:18] Growing up in this world of enormous extremes

[00:00:21] Separated by nation but together we bleed

[00:00:24] Every struggle within reaches a point of release

[00:00:27] Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees

[00:00:29] You need money to make money its simple addition

[00:00:32] There's people living with nothing I get the picture

[00:00:34] It's bigger than individual lives and criminal minds

[00:00:38] Hypnotized by the television listen and buy consume

[00:00:41] Public schools teaching free market values

[00:00:44] How to be exploited 101 and the house rules

[00:00:47] Communities are packed Latinos and Blacks

[00:00:49] No opportunity for ownership their people are trapped

[00:00:52] And it's real

[00:00:53] Can't invest in the quality of life when

[00:00:56] All the money leaving following the white man

[00:00:59] And he never gonna fight fair f**k a dream

[00:01:02] Type cast living the American nightmare

[00:01:05] Ghetto teens on the block with crack rocks and stash spots

[00:01:09] Trying to eat and increase their back pocket

[00:01:11] Ain't no laptops pools or backyards

[00:01:13] Just concrete steal bars and get wars

[00:01:17] The hood is part of your identity

[00:01:19] So you struggle till the day you rest in peace and never leave

[00:01:22] Trying to hide from the pain in a bottle of Pueto-Rock rum

[00:01:26] Your job sucks cleaning sh*t with a mop bucket

[00:01:29] At your local Block Buster

[00:01:30] You knocked up a fast little cock-loving chick with no condom on

[00:01:35] Now you gotta deal with child support

[00:01:37] And the cycle continues trapped like a dying dog

[00:01:41] Growing up in this world of enormous extremes

[00:01:44] Separated by nation but together we bleed

[00:01:47] Every struggle within reaches a point of release

[00:01:50] Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees

[00:02:15] Look up the meaning of property it's as simple as pie

[00:02:18] They keep the pieces for themselves and they leave us the side dishes

[00:02:22] If this is a contest it's mission impossible

[00:02:24] The business man is the pimp and the politician the prostitute

[00:02:29] Guess who the one getting f**ked is

[00:02:31] They call us criminals they don't know dick about justice

[00:02:34] Slums filled with laborers from the countryside

[00:02:37] Thrown off the land cause the loan was two months behind

[00:02:40] Sub-prime decency does not apply

[00:02:43] Ain't no competition when big business being subsidized

[00:02:46] You try to find a job out in Islamabad

[00:02:48] F**k a nine to five

[00:02:50] You in the factory from five to nine with your neck soar

[00:02:53] Making textiles with an XLarge that's exported to dress shops

[00:02:56] On West 4th street in New York

[00:02:59] Living standards on a level that's unreasonable

[00:03:01] So you sleep on the floor

[00:03:03] Up in the morning praying for the fait of your two kids

[00:03:06] Child labor violation lies and abuses

[00:03:09] The union got you in a strangle hold

[00:03:12] Cause their working with the management to keep your wages low

[00:03:15] Bank rolled with a paper trail through the labor bureau

[00:03:18] Plus they've got the union dues that you paying to them

[00:03:21] Work you like a slave and it makes sense

[00:03:23] Cause if the goods we buy are cheap then they can pay us even less

[00:03:27] Growing up in this world of enormous extremes

[00:03:30] Separated by nation but together we bleed

[00:03:33] Every struggle within reaches a point of release

[00:03:36] Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees