歌曲 | Mainstream |
歌手 | OutKast |
专辑 | ATLiens |
[00:00.00] | 作词 : Barnett, Benjamin, Knighton ... |
[00:38.74] | Revolutionary, scary |
[00:41.00] | Thought provoking, spoken, |
[00:42.43] | Words of a chain I dont feel but I see, |
[00:45.12] | Visions from me |
[00:46.06] | At twenty three making us free in my community |
[00:48.24] | One day is what I live for, |
[00:50.37] | Aint thinking about no hope no more |
[00:51.81] | I got my boots I kick it till I get with |
[00:55.78] | Adapt and overcome, oh hum hum |
[00:58.03] | Go get my gun, load up for fun, and put down with the frown |
[01:02.08] | What goes round comes round from m.l.k. to cascade |
[01:05.65] | I know its through them plenty figures |
[01:07.90] | Cocaine dealers walk the wrong side |
[01:09.59] | Up in they rides, |
[01:10.46] | Looking cleaner then I seen them the last time |
[01:12.53] | Then selling dimes, now its quarter keys, stacking gs |
[01:15.15] | In the south indies |
[01:16.34] | My nigga them folks riding bicycles among vehicles |
[01:19.96] | Off in the hood |
[01:20.84] | Knowing each and every nigger sellin, but can you blame |
[01:23.71] | The fact the only way a brother can survive the game |
[01:26.08] | The block hard to get by the dope dealing, fatal killings |
[01:28.65] | In fair times so writing rhymes |
[01:31.08] | It aint just the police |
[01:32.21] | We kill each other just lost another brother |
[01:34.52] | Fast living will get you took, |
[01:35.96] | Thinking it cant happen to you and then it do |
[01:38.46] | Off crooked schemes its just a dream |
[01:41.21] | Floating face down in the mainstream |
[01:43.19] | |
[01:45.24] | Think it is when it aint all peaches creamand |
[01:47.34] | |
[01:48.45] | Thats why some are found floating face down in the main stream |
[01:52.89] | |
[01:55.70] | They swan divin |
[01:56.64] | Fit they name be thrashing an album |
[01:58.76] | Go-kart rushin to finish their album then you find them |
[02:01.43] | Lost, dog paddling, back stroking, what done happened? |
[02:03.56] | Be rhymin catching the day when the recipe calls for black and |
[02:06.37] | Wrong ingredients, |
[02:06.81] | Maybe too much herbs and spices, |
[02:08.68] | Maybe you got hungry for the wrong dish |
[02:10.68] | Southern greens and this entice them how them joke the same |
[02:13.25] | So Im gonna sing just like them to get where they at |
[02:15.31] | Ill even break my by back to touch their rim if I gotta |
[02:17.74] | My alta mater be that I follow |
[02:19.37] | I bite whatever thats looking tasty, water it down then swallow |
[02:21.74] | I hope you vomit, wont call no names cause thats not my job |
[02:24.13] | It just applies to whom it may concern you know who you are |
[02:26.75] | But if you dont you never will, you just receive the steel |
[02:29.43] | But then it might get ugly cause trust me niggas do feel |
[02:32.06] | The way that I felt when I wrote this, but we must stay in focus |
[02:34.68] | We kings and queens up in this thing, of get all rid them jokers |
[02:36.96] | Face down, face down, face down |
[02:40.25] | |
[02:51.72] | I let you stay in my crib, now you know where I live |
[02:55.85] | When you was hungry, fed you a hot meal, look at the hand you deal |
[03:00.97] | Me crudball business giving niggers inches so here, take a foot |
[03:04.90] | Luck only counts in rabbits feet and horseshoes, |
[03:08.21] | Experience is sometimes the best teacher until we get our own plate |
[03:12.22] | I hope you dont mind me eating off of yours, |
[03:14.78] | Process momma moping like jerry |
[03:16.60] | Meanwhile, fairies of the street tinkling pixie dust over greenery |
[03:19.58] | |
[03:21.09] | Never to obtain another level of con-science |
[03:23.59] | Only to test, to poke and see |
[03:25.69] | Why laying here, they scheme over one another mouth to feed |
[03:29.00] | ? ? ? with a decision to make, now words shake your destiny |
[03:32.56] | But a missle will take it all the way just as quick as you can say |
[03:35.88] | I wish I never did what I did now face this bid |
[03:39.57] | It was the company you kept, the many places you slept |
[03:42.62] | |
[03:44.37] | When you shouldnt have, geeking like a rat, jumping like a trap |
[03:48.93] | Contributing to sin and your nigga bitch in the court showing paper thin |
[03:53.31] | Got you niggers where they want you again, |
[03:56.80] | Floating face down in the mainstream |
[03:59.93] | Thats why, thats why, thats why |
[04:02.31] | |
[04:08.31] | Everybodys a player, rubbin them kangols on their head |
[04:10.25] | Thinking its all about your clothes, nigger its all about your self |
[04:13.12] | The way you feel about your life, the times that you done shared with |
[04:15.87] | Your friends and family, up and down like hoes give head |
[04:18.62] | To dicks oh, six, serving them in the mix, but aint no mystery |
[04:22.06] | You know the history about this clique bitch |
[04:23.87] | Oh, what, you want me to call you slut? |
[04:26.68] | Then why you ****ing all them niggers letting them all up in your guts |
[04:30.55] | But see that aids Im afraid thats why I play the quiet role |
[04:33.49] | I lay in the cut, every month thinking Ill let that fire roll |
[04:36.24] | Like chimneys, and smoke signals, maybe peace pipes even |
[04:38.93] | My partners call me big boi and first my name is not steven |
[04:41.25] | In the mainstream, home team banging them with these hits |
[04:42.63] | In the mix flowing like some mother****ing swordfish |
[00:00.00] | zuò cí : Barnett, Benjamin, Knighton ... |
[00:38.74] | Revolutionary, scary |
[00:41.00] | Thought provoking, spoken, |
[00:42.43] | Words of a chain I dont feel but I see, |
[00:45.12] | Visions from me |
[00:46.06] | At twenty three making us free in my community |
[00:48.24] | One day is what I live for, |
[00:50.37] | Aint thinking about no hope no more |
[00:51.81] | I got my boots I kick it till I get with |
[00:55.78] | Adapt and overcome, oh hum hum |
[00:58.03] | Go get my gun, load up for fun, and put down with the frown |
[01:02.08] | What goes round comes round from m. l. k. to cascade |
[01:05.65] | I know its through them plenty figures |
[01:07.90] | Cocaine dealers walk the wrong side |
[01:09.59] | Up in they rides, |
[01:10.46] | Looking cleaner then I seen them the last time |
[01:12.53] | Then selling dimes, now its quarter keys, stacking gs |
[01:15.15] | In the south indies |
[01:16.34] | My nigga them folks riding bicycles among vehicles |
[01:19.96] | Off in the hood |
[01:20.84] | Knowing each and every nigger sellin, but can you blame |
[01:23.71] | The fact the only way a brother can survive the game |
[01:26.08] | The block hard to get by the dope dealing, fatal killings |
[01:28.65] | In fair times so writing rhymes |
[01:31.08] | It aint just the police |
[01:32.21] | We kill each other just lost another brother |
[01:34.52] | Fast living will get you took, |
[01:35.96] | Thinking it cant happen to you and then it do |
[01:38.46] | Off crooked schemes its just a dream |
[01:41.21] | Floating face down in the mainstream |
[01:43.19] | |
[01:45.24] | Think it is when it aint all peaches creamand |
[01:47.34] | |
[01:48.45] | Thats why some are found floating face down in the main stream |
[01:52.89] | |
[01:55.70] | They swan divin |
[01:56.64] | Fit they name be thrashing an album |
[01:58.76] | Gokart rushin to finish their album then you find them |
[02:01.43] | Lost, dog paddling, back stroking, what done happened? |
[02:03.56] | Be rhymin catching the day when the recipe calls for black and |
[02:06.37] | Wrong ingredients, |
[02:06.81] | Maybe too much herbs and spices, |
[02:08.68] | Maybe you got hungry for the wrong dish |
[02:10.68] | Southern greens and this entice them how them joke the same |
[02:13.25] | So Im gonna sing just like them to get where they at |
[02:15.31] | Ill even break my by back to touch their rim if I gotta |
[02:17.74] | My alta mater be that I follow |
[02:19.37] | I bite whatever thats looking tasty, water it down then swallow |
[02:21.74] | I hope you vomit, wont call no names cause thats not my job |
[02:24.13] | It just applies to whom it may concern you know who you are |
[02:26.75] | But if you dont you never will, you just receive the steel |
[02:29.43] | But then it might get ugly cause trust me niggas do feel |
[02:32.06] | The way that I felt when I wrote this, but we must stay in focus |
[02:34.68] | We kings and queens up in this thing, of get all rid them jokers |
[02:36.96] | Face down, face down, face down |
[02:40.25] | |
[02:51.72] | I let you stay in my crib, now you know where I live |
[02:55.85] | When you was hungry, fed you a hot meal, look at the hand you deal |
[03:00.97] | Me crudball business giving niggers inches so here, take a foot |
[03:04.90] | Luck only counts in rabbits feet and horseshoes, |
[03:08.21] | Experience is sometimes the best teacher until we get our own plate |
[03:12.22] | I hope you dont mind me eating off of yours, |
[03:14.78] | Process momma moping like jerry |
[03:16.60] | Meanwhile, fairies of the street tinkling pixie dust over greenery |
[03:19.58] | |
[03:21.09] | Never to obtain another level of conscience |
[03:23.59] | Only to test, to poke and see |
[03:25.69] | Why laying here, they scheme over one another mouth to feed |
[03:29.00] | ? ? ? with a decision to make, now words shake your destiny |
[03:32.56] | But a missle will take it all the way just as quick as you can say |
[03:35.88] | I wish I never did what I did now face this bid |
[03:39.57] | It was the company you kept, the many places you slept |
[03:42.62] | |
[03:44.37] | When you shouldnt have, geeking like a rat, jumping like a trap |
[03:48.93] | Contributing to sin and your nigga bitch in the court showing paper thin |
[03:53.31] | Got you niggers where they want you again, |
[03:56.80] | Floating face down in the mainstream |
[03:59.93] | Thats why, thats why, thats why |
[04:02.31] | |
[04:08.31] | Everybodys a player, rubbin them kangols on their head |
[04:10.25] | Thinking its all about your clothes, nigger its all about your self |
[04:13.12] | The way you feel about your life, the times that you done shared with |
[04:15.87] | Your friends and family, up and down like hoes give head |
[04:18.62] | To dicks oh, six, serving them in the mix, but aint no mystery |
[04:22.06] | You know the history about this clique bitch |
[04:23.87] | Oh, what, you want me to call you slut? |
[04:26.68] | Then why you ing all them niggers letting them all up in your guts |
[04:30.55] | But see that aids Im afraid thats why I play the quiet role |
[04:33.49] | I lay in the cut, every month thinking Ill let that fire roll |
[04:36.24] | Like chimneys, and smoke signals, maybe peace pipes even |
[04:38.93] | My partners call me big boi and first my name is not steven |
[04:41.25] | In the mainstream, home team banging them with these hits |
[04:42.63] | In the mix flowing like some mother ing swordfish |