《Stay Down》歌词

[00:00:00] How many days we gonna live our life

[00:00:03] Struggling on the streets

[00:00:06] How many days we gotta live our life

[00:00:09] Searching for a way to eat

[00:00:11] You gotta stay down stay down just

[00:00:13] To see a brighter day

[00:00:14] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:00:17] Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

[00:00:20] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:00:22] How many blacks gotta die by the hands of another

[00:00:24] Don't you understand that man's the same color

[00:00:27] So that man is your brother

[00:00:28] That's what happens when that man is from the gutter

[00:00:30] And that man is a hustler trying to survive,

[00:00:32] Moving grams of that butter

[00:00:34] See, his momma was a d**e fiend,

[00:00:36] Poppa was a rolling stone

[00:00:37] He never knew what family was

[00:00:38] He grew up in a broken home

[00:00:40] Ever since twelve years old he was known as grown

[00:00:43] Cause ever since twelve years old he was on his own

[00:00:45] And even though it seemed like school

[00:00:47] Was the best plan

[00:00:48] His only choice was distributing the rock like Def-jam

[00:00:51] While everybody else was getting diplomas

[00:00:53] He graduated from the middle

[00:00:55] Of the strip to the corner

[00:00:56] But I don't knock him cause he tryin to bubble

[00:00:59] There's no food on the table,

[00:01:00] The rents past due and that's why he hustles

[00:01:02] And I ain't sayin that its right to be dealin

[00:01:04] All I'm sayin is I feel him I guess

[00:01:06] I just see eye 2 eye wit his struggle you know

[00:01:08] How many days we gonna live our life

[00:01:10] Struggling on the streets

[00:01:14] How many days we gotta live our life

[00:01:16] Searching for a way to eat

[00:01:19] You gotta stay down stay down just

[00:01:21] To see a brighter day

[00:01:22] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:01:25] Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

[00:01:28] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:01:30] Now baby girl's got a promising future

[00:01:33] But her moms passed away while

[00:01:34] She was younger and her father's a loser

[00:01:36] He'd always abused her but what else

[00:01:38] You expect from a coward

[00:01:39] He wasn't even proud

[00:01:40] When she got accepted to Howard

[00:01:41] And even though she loves college everyday

[00:01:44] It would stress her

[00:01:44] But it wasn't cause of exams or she hate her professor

[00:01:47] It was her financial situation here

[00:01:49] She couldn't pay a semester

[00:01:51] And the only means of making it better

[00:01:53] Was totally reversing the role

[00:01:54] Lap dancing working

[00:01:56] That pole even though deep down its hurting her soul

[00:01:59] And even if it meant taking off her clothes

[00:02:01] She was down for what ever to help her accomplish

[00:02:03] Her personal goals

[00:02:04] And I ain't trippin off a-how shortie livin

[00:02:07] She gotta pay her tuiton put food in the kitchen

[00:02:09] And that's why she strippin

[00:02:10] And I ain't sayin I agree with her job

[00:02:12] But sh*t times is hard

[00:02:13] I guess I just see eye to eye

[00:02:15] With her vision you know

[00:02:16] How many days we gonna live our life

[00:02:18] Struggling on the streets

[00:02:21] How many days we gotta live our life

[00:02:24] Searching for a way to eat

[00:02:27] You gotta stay down stay down just

[00:02:28] To see a brighter day

[00:02:30] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:02:32] Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

[00:02:35] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:02:38] Now see the moral of the story is this

[00:02:40] If you ain't tryin to help stop our troubles

[00:02:42] Then don't knock our hustle

[00:02:44] Cause really at the end of the day its not ya'll struggle

[00:02:47] But you always got something to say

[00:02:48] Well hear this f**k you

[00:02:50] Yeah that's right I'm talking to

[00:02:51] You come try to sleep in our beds

[00:02:53] Eat off our plates, take a walk in our shoes

[00:02:55] Look at the world from our view try

[00:02:57] To live by our rules

[00:02:58] Drink the same water we do,

[00:02:59] Put your kids in our schools

[00:03:01] I guarantee you won't maintain your health

[00:03:03] You'll probably try to end it all

[00:03:04] And hang yourself or bang yourself

[00:03:06] You couldn't possibly understand all pain we felt

[00:03:09] And without folding your hands play

[00:03:11] The games we dealt

[00:03:12] I'm being real I ain't tryin to be evil

[00:03:14] Look how we live, look how ya'll live

[00:03:16] C'mon be serious how is we equal

[00:03:17] Matter fact I feel I'm wasting my time

[00:03:20] I'm finished writing this rhyme

[00:03:21] Ya'll never gonna see eye to eye

[00:03:22] With my people you know

[00:03:24] How many days we gonna live our life

[00:03:26] Struggling on the streets

[00:03:29] How many days we gotta live our life

[00:03:32] Searching for a way to eat

[00:03:34] You gotta stay down stay down just

[00:03:36] To see a brighter day

[00:03:37] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:03:40] Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

[00:03:43] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:03:46] How many days we gonna live our life

[00:03:49] Struggling on the streets

[00:03:51] How many days we gotta live our life

[00:03:55] Searching for a way to eat

[00:03:57] You gotta stay down stay down just

[00:03:59] To see a brighter day

[00:04:00] Stay down stay down just to live a better way

[00:04:03] Stay down stay down just to live a brighter day

[00:04:06] Stay down stay down just to live a better way