《STREET LIVIN’》歌词

[00:00:00] STREET LIVIN' (街头生活) - The Black Eyed Peas (黑眼豆豆)

[00:00:00] Written by：will.i.am/apl.de.ap/Taboo/Joshua Alverez

[00:00:05] Streets streets

[00:00:14] Livin' in the streets

[00:00:19] Street livin' caught in a trap

[00:00:22] Guns or books sell crack or rap

[00:00:24] Be like kings or be like pawns

[00:00:26] They called us coons now they call us cons

[00:00:29] Street *s be packing pistols

[00:00:31] Terrorists be blasting missles

[00:00:34] Crips and Bloods and retail thugs

[00:00:36] CIA planes bring Colombian drugs

[00:00:38] Don't push me 'cause I'm close to hell

[00:00:40] The teachers in my neighborhood can hardly spell

[00:00:43] And compare to them prison guards get payed well

[00:00:45] Ten years no bail is 4 years at Yale

[00:00:48] So forget about the statue of General Lee

[00:00:50] Because the status of blacks are generally

[00:00:52] Gonna end up in some penitentiary

[00:00:55] Systematically that's how they made it to be

[00:00:57] Listen they derailed the soul train

[00:01:00] And put a nightmare into every Martin Luther King

[00:01:02] And privatized prisons are owned by the same

[00:01:04] Slave masters that owned the slave trade game

[00:01:07] And racists no longer have to be racist

[00:01:09] 'Cause *s kill more *s than the KKK did

[00:01:12] Now every time I hear a new def jam

[00:01:14] *s killing *s like they Ku Klux Klan

[00:01:17] I understand what's a ni**a to choose

[00:01:19] Be the killer or be the dead dude in the news

[00:01:22] I get it what's a ni**a to do

[00:01:23] No education in the hood got a ni**a confused

[00:01:27] Street livin' tough conditions

[00:01:29] Brainwashed by the television

[00:01:31] We lost in the war we live in

[00:01:34] Double cross love lost no religion

[00:01:36] Street livin' oh my gosh

[00:01:38] Another brother got shot by the searg'

[00:01:41] Another cop got off with no charge

[00:01:43] If you black in the hood you at large

[00:01:46] You're guilty until we prove you're innocent

[00:01:48] If you're ivory they treat you different

[00:01:50] If you're ebony they assume you're temperament

[00:01:53] Well be vigilant and they call you militant

[00:01:55] You'll get shot and they'll say the incident

[00:01:57] Is 'cause you're beligerent

[00:01:58] What a coincidence

[00:02:00] Born and bred but you're still an immigrant

[00:02:02] If you ain't dead you can see imprisonment

[00:02:05] There's more *s in the prisons than there ever slaves cotton picking

[00:02:10] There's more *s that's rotting in the prisons

[00:02:12] Than there ever slaves cotton picking

[00:02:14] So how we gon' get out the trap

[00:02:17] Guns or books sell crack or rap

[00:02:19] Street livin' hustle or hoops

[00:02:22] Guns or books get shot or shoot

[00:02:24] Street livin' ain't no rules

[00:02:26] Break the law make the breakin' news

[00:02:28] The life you choose could be the life you lose

[00:02:31] *s getting stuck for the Nike shoes

[00:02:34] Street livin' ain't no joke

[00:02:36] It's a cold world better bring your coat

[00:02:38] Revoke 'cause the streets are broke

[00:02:40] And now they wanna take away our dreams and hopes

[00:02:43] Street livin' no economics

[00:02:45] No way out of the Reaganomics

[00:02:48] Infected by the black plague new bubonic

[00:02:50] No comprende we speak ebonics

[00:02:53] Street livin' what's your position

[00:02:55] You can take action or take a dick

[00:02:57] Listen you can get f**ked by the system

[00:03:05] Or you can say f**k the system

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