Pictures On My Wall - XV.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Michael Summers
[00:00.00][Intro: Sample]
[00:00.39]I can’t breathe in this space that’s filled with your sound
[00:05.10]Can’t call a spade a spade in this town
[00:08.67]Dug a hole that I can’t get out
[00:11.16]I can’t figure, I can’t figure it out, out, out
[00:20.70][Verse 1: XV]
[00:21.84]It was a pin up, the magazines would print up
[00:24.27]That made me pick that pen up, that kept a niggas chin up
[00:27.03]That turned losers to winner, in that minute we would give up
[00:29.82]Couldn’t die down the expectations they thought we’d live up
[00:32.88]It was everything most parents hated
[00:35.10]Niggas with dreams, wearin' bling, screamin' that they made it
[00:38.01]New York rapper said ‘son’, West Coast niggas said ‘cuz’
[00:40.83]Midwest dudes said ‘fam,' damn, no wonder I related
[00:44.13]Relayed it to my grandmother that bought me comics
[00:46.80]To be honest, it ain’t bother her as much as Momma
[00:49.41]Drama expected, like the nomination of Obama
[00:52.14]Kept me in my room, hiding out like Osama
[00:54.93]Stepfather didn’t dig it, they were shovelin' dreams
[00:57.66]To an underage teen whose real father couldn’t visit
[01:00.51]So I put on those headphones and just listened
[01:03.21]As the murals on my wall turned to kingdom from a prison
[01:06.15]I hear them singing:
[01:06.87][Chorus]
[01:07.05]Keep your head up high
[01:08.28]Keep mine deep in the ground
[01:12.42]Hide away the love that I found
[01:15.33]It’s a world that I can’t get out
[01:18.06]I can’t figure it, I can’t figure it out (Hangin' pictures on my wall)
[01:21.84]Always on my mind (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[01:22.74]I can’t figure it out (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[01:25.23]Always on my mind (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[01:33.15]I can’t figure it out (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[01:39.09][Verse 2: XV]
[01:51.18]I know it’s crazy to think my pictures talked
[01:53.46]And we created a rocket, I got in and lifted off
[01:56.40]Well maybe the latter was kind of gone
[01:58.29]And the former was kind of wrong
[01:59.67]So all I have is these songs and posters up on my wall
[02:02.97]Sometimes I took them to school to feel cool
[02:05.25]Couldn’t bring the CD, the case was a jewel
[02:08.04]And I refused to burn money, I’m saving green in my room
[02:11.55]You walk in and think it was FernGully
[02:13.68]And beef wasn’t allowed, Pac was next to Biggie
[02:16.47]And Dre was next to Eazy; the idea was profound
[02:19.41]I turned the music loud and put on my own recital
[02:22.08]In a room full of my idols, made me less suicidal
[02:24.75]Traded pencil sharpening for urban marketing
[02:27.24]Lawyer, doctor, went from street scholaring
[02:29.31]White collar from police collarin’, Mom and Pops hollerin’
[02:33.06]But I just tune it out, the tune is loud as I begin and says
[02:36.15][Chorus]
[02:36.33]Keep your head up high
[02:37.56]Keep mine deep in the ground
[02:41.73]Hide away the love that I found
[02:44.61]It’s a world that I can’t get out
[02:47.37]I can’t figure it, I can’t figure it out (Hangin' pictures on my wall)
[02:51.36]Always on my mind (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[03:02.46]I can’t figure it out (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[03:08.79]Always on my mind (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[03:15.33]I can’t figure it out (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[03:16.77][Verse 3: XV ]
[03:20.97]Knocks on my door came from the same fist
[03:23.31]That just knocked me to the floor, punched me in the chest
[03:26.19]And then clocked me in the jaw; what's wrong with Dad?
[03:28.95]I haven’t done a thing in school that was this bad
[03:31.47]His ass doesn’t care, tryna fight back but it doesn’t fair
[03:34.95]Why my mom let this nigga come in here?
[03:37.08]She begins to come to tears, I’m screamin', "It’s all your fault!"
[03:40.80]He says, "What’s this bullshit up on your wall?"
[03:43.71]As I look up at the ceiling, too weak to respond
[03:46.23]With these poses of mere mortals that's seemin' like gods
[03:49.23]Tryna stand up to my feet and just even the odds
[03:51.93]But he just knocks me back down and screams at my mom
[03:54.54]He starts seein' a bond between me and these pictures
[03:57.42]He says, "Look at these niggas; what are they, father figures?"
[04:01.02]Now it’s hard to ignore
[04:02.70]That all I live for is now balled up on the floor and it's...
[04:05.64][Hook]
[04:09.96]Always on my mind (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[04:11.13]I can’t figure it out (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[04:15.75]Always on my mind (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[04:20.58]I can’t figure it out (Hanging pictures on my wall)
[04:21.54][Outro]
[04:22.56]I can’t breathe in this space that’s filled with your sound
[04:24.75]Can’t call a spade a spade in this town
[04:27.09]Dug a hole that I can’t get out
[04:39.06]I can’t figure, I can’t figure this out, out, out