This Can't Be Life (Explicit Version) - JAY-Z/Beanie Sigel.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Gamble, Kenneth / Huff, Leon / Carter, Shawn C. / Jordan, Brad
[00:00.807] 作曲 : Gamble, Kenneth / Huff, Leon / Carter, Shawn C. / Jordan, Brad
[00:01.614] Geah.. whassup?
[00:07.424] To all my street niggas, project niggas
[00:10.353] Real niggas, worldwide
[00:12.520] Let's reflect, everybody got a story
[00:18.435] We all ghetto B, here's mine
[00:21.534] Geah
[00:23.820] See I was, born in sewage, born to make bomb music
[00:26.864] Flow tight like I was born Jewish
[00:29.443] Used the streets as a conduit
[00:31.271] I kept arms .38 longs inside my mom's Buick
[00:35.015] At any given moment Shawn could lose it, be on the news
[00:38.151] Iron cuffs - arms through it, or stuffed with embalming fluid
[00:41.174] Shit, I'm going through it - mom dukes too
[00:43.644] Tears streaming down her pretty face, she got her palms to it
[00:46.596] My life is getting too wild
[00:48.554] I need to bring some sort calm to it
[00:50.393] Bout to lose it voices screaming "Don't do it!"
[00:52.552] It's like '93, '94, 'bout the year
[00:54.840] That Big and Mack dropped and Illmatic rocked
[00:58.063] Outta every rag drop, and the West had it locked
[01:00.719] Everybody doing them, I'm still stretching on the block
[01:03.391] Like "Damn, I'ma be a failure"
[01:05.781] Surrounded by thugs, drugs, and drug paraphernalia
[01:09.260] Cops, courts, and their thoughts is to derail us
[01:12.131] Three-time felons in shorts with jealous thoughts
[01:14.982] Trying to figure where your mail is
[01:16.422] Guesstimate the weight you selling
[01:18.070] So they can send shots straight to your melon; wait!
[01:20.806] It gets worse, baby momma water burst
[01:23.314] Baby came out stillborn, still I gotta move on
[01:26.041] Though my heart still torn, life gone from her womb
[01:28.965] Don't worry, if it was meant to be, it'll be soon
[01:31.944] This can't be life, this can't be love
[01:37.991] This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
[01:43.785] This can't be life, this can't be love
[01:49.318] This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
[01:53.498] Chill dog
[01:54.670] Second oldest born, from Michelle Brown my mother
[01:57.536] Hell bound, grew with two sisters and one brother
[02:00.391] Pop wasn't around, so many stories that's another
[02:03.132] I'm thinking damn; how my older sister going make me tougher
[02:06.220] When steel sharpens steel, I'ma keep it real
[02:09.088] I'm tired of trying to hide my pain behind the syrups and pills
[02:12.044] Dead to the world, stretched out like a corpse for real
[02:14.821] Y'all niggas thinking what y'all reading in The Source is real
[02:17.764] What my life like, you looking at the source, it's real
[02:20.538] What your life like? Mine dog, of course it's real
[02:23.366] Passing judgment, you niggas second-guessing Beans
[02:25.966] 'Cause you don't eat swine don't make you Mu'min
[02:28.351] Dog you know a couple suras, out the Qur'an
[02:31.184] I guess you all on your din and I ain't on mine
[02:33.932] Stop that Akki, 'fore I send shots though your body
[02:37.041] Make 'em feel hell on earth before Allah drop me
[02:39.509] I feel the line's drawn here, nutting more can stop me
[02:42.394] 'Til them feds pick me up, or them boys pop me
[02:45.297] There's only three things that make Mack not act like Beans
[02:48.156] Amatullah Tisha, Po Aldin, Samir Amin
[02:51.174] My seeds dog, gotta teach 'em that before I leave, dog
[02:54.212] Shit I know that I'ma see 'em when I leave, dog
[02:57.160] I come back in the afterlife
[02:59.404] Like **** it, I done touched hell twice; what's the meaning?
[03:03.484] This can't be life, this can't be love
[03:08.697] This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
[03:14.554] This can't be life, this can't be love
[03:20.000] This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
[03:25.086] Now as I walk into the studio to do this with Jig'
[03:27.822] I got a phone call from one of my nigs
[03:29.958] Said my homeboy Reek, he just lost one of his kids
[03:33.514] And when I heard that I just broke into tears
[03:35.918] And see in the second hand; you don't really know how this is
[03:39.168] But when it hits that close to home you feel the pain at the crib
[03:42.102] So I called mine, and saddened my wife with the bad news
[03:44.954] Now we both depressed, counting our blessings 'cause Brad's two
[03:47.850] Praying for young souls to laugh at life through the stars
[03:50.642] Loving your kids just like you was ours
[03:52.708] And I'm hurting for you dog; but ain't nobody pain is like yours
[03:56.215] I just know that heaven'll open these doors
[03:58.385] And ain't no bright side to losing life; but you can view it like this
[04:01.917] God's got open hands homie, he in the midst.. of good company
[04:05.706] Who loves all and hates not one
[04:07.388] And one day you gon' be with your son
[04:09.689] I could've rapped about my hard times on this song
[04:13.220] But heaven knows I woulda been wrong
[04:15.584] I wouldn'ta been right, it wouldn'ta been love
[04:18.293] It wouldn'ta been life, it wouldn'ta been us
[04:20.845] This can't be life
[04:22.897] This can't be life, this can't be love
[04:28.198] This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
[04:33.859] This can't be life, this can't be love
[04:39.525] This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
[04:44.871] This can't be life...