Book Of Life - Common.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Common
[00:00.231] Here's a little that must be told
[00:02.896] (*beat scratches*)
[00:04.141] From beginning to end (*beat scratches*)
[00:05.978] Here's a little story that must be told (*beat scratches*)
[00:10.025] From beginning to end}
[00:10.470]
[00:10.979] Verse 1
[00:11.276] I got so much trouble on my mind
[00:14.639] So I take time out my day
[00:16.914] To pray and I say, now lay me down to sleep
[00:19.813] Hopin' that I keep my soul
[00:21.707] Peep, I'm gettin' old and this a cold, cold world
[00:24.667] And I ain't even got a bomber
[00:26.071] Livin' with my momma, it's the same routine
[00:28.242] Keep my room clean, I'm lookin' to do some new things
[00:31.029] But ain't shit to do
[00:31.961] I'm twenty-two, catch
[00:33.714] In the prime of my life, I have no time for a wife
[00:36.371] I funnel through the tunnel, disgruntled
[00:38.582] Tryin' to find me some light
[00:39.952] In the rim of darkness, I too sing
[00:42.857] I may not be the darkest, brother
[00:44.867] But I was always told to act my age, not my color
[00:47.595] Not knowin' that my color, was out of the original
[00:50.357] So now I sing the new negro spiritual
[00:53.398]
[00:55.239] It goes, 'get up, stand up
[00:58.537] Stand up for your rights
[01:01.526] Get up, stand up
[01:04.320] Don't give up the fight
[01:06.730] It's like, how can you understand the pain
[01:09.264] When you never had to stand under the rain?
[01:12.078] When it rains, it pours
[01:13.705] And it's about to come down hard, thank God
[01:16.803] I found you
[01:17.680] Hook
[01:18.083] {here's a little story that must be told} (*beat scratches*)
[01:21.170] {sample: my life, my life, my life, my life}
[01:23.833] {Double Trouble: here's a little story that must be told}
[01:26.586] {sample: my life, my life}
[01:27.635] {Double Trouble: from beginning to end}
[01:28.659] Verse 2
[01:28.980] As I walk down the road of existence
[01:31.860] I get resistance from all angles
[01:34.214] I tangle for cash
[01:35.607] Hopin' it'll last 'til the end of the week
[01:38.220] But all I eat is fast food
[01:40.335] And you know how junk food goes right through ya
[01:42.679] So I return *to* the a-rab, then on the way back
[01:45.387] I stop- at the liquor store, grab me a six pack
[01:48.251] Knowin' that once I'm done with that I'll be back
[01:50.617] To get some more
[01:51.602] Once I get started I don't wanna stop (ahh...)
[01:53.984] And I can't turn around, brew- I can't turn it down
[01:57.150] Ironically I turn it up, my liver I burn it up
[01:59.593] It's my life I live it up, the cup I gotta give it up
[02:02.444] One day
[02:03.927] I'm cruisin' down a one-way street
[02:05.942] And I done passed *fun* day- three blocks ago
[02:08.631] It itself, life is an obstacle
[02:10.658] As I maneuver through the manure I try to be responsible
[02:14.062] I want a job but I ain't lookin' (how come?)
[02:16.722] I ain't tryin' to degrade myself, bein' nobody's Calvin I'm a couch bum
[02:20.282] What makes it bad, I had incentive
[02:22.287] But that disintegrated to a state that stagnated
[02:25.081] I procrastinated
[02:26.192] I can't recall a day without bein' intoxicated, or blowed
[02:30.144] I'm dealin' with a full deck, at any day I can fold
[02:33.166] What makes it bad, I wasn't dealt that bad a hand
[02:36.068] And I had a plan
[02:37.460] But things didn't go through
[02:39.160] The way they were supposed to
[02:40.608] Thank God I found you
[02:41.631] Hook
[02:41.898] (*scratch*) {here's a little story that must be told}
[02:44.441] {my life, my life, my life, my life (*scratches*)}
[02:47.353] {here's a little story that must be told} (*scratches*)
[02:50.051] {my life, my life} { from beginning to end
[02:52.886] Here's a li-little, sto-story that must be told} (*scratches*)
[02:55.600] {my life, my life, my life, my life} (*scratches*)
[02:58.515] {here's a li-little, sto-story that must be told (*scratches*)
[03:01.225] {my life, my life, my life, my li-(*distorted*)}
[03:03.646] Verse 3
[03:03.934] It's like a jungle, sometimes
[03:05.767] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under, I ponder
[03:08.885] And try to keep my
[03:09.952] Concentration In this idiotic nation
[03:12.216] They say become a doctor, but I don't have the patience
[03:15.050] Adjacent to that situation
[03:17.155] I want an occupation that I'm into
[03:19.256] Cause yet have I begin to
[03:21.346] Live to my potential, I went to
[03:23.415] School for fourteen years and my best teacher was experience, I reminisce
[03:27.064] And wish, I could go back in time to eighty-nine
[03:29.540] When there was just' 'sunshine'
[03:31.097] But now it's like, I'm gettin' older there's so much strain and stress
[03:34.478] I don't think I'll ever be happy until I rest in peace
[03:37.345] Of mind, and find who I am
[03:40.195] But thank God I found you
[03:42.402] Hook
[03:42.759] (*scratches*)
[03:43.048] {here's a little story that must be told} (*scratches*)
[03:45.766] {my life, my life, my life, my life} (*scratches*)
[03:48.540] {here's a little story that must be told (*scratches*)
[03:51.319] {my life, my life {from beginning to end}, my life, my life}
[03:54.103] {here's a little story that must be told} (*scratches*)
[03:56.875] {sample: my life, my life, my life {here's a little, little} my life, my life}
[03:59.407] {sto, sto-story that must, must, must, must
[04:02.756] (*rewind*) mu-must (*distortion*) must be told
[04:05.233] Mu-mu-mu- (*distortion*) mu-mu- (*scratches*) must be told
[04:10.825] Mu-mu- (*distortion, scratches*) mu- (*scratches*)
[04:13.689] Mu-mu- (*distortion, scratches*) mu- (*scratches*)
[04:14.997] Must be told (yeah...)
[04:16.374] (*scratches*) must be told
[04:22.792] (*scratches*) must be to- (*distortion*)
[04:27.131] Outro
[04:28.876] {trouble, down, the drain... (*echo*)
[04:33.058] Trouble...
[04:34.412] Trouble, down, the drain... (*echo*)
[04:37.914] Trouble...
[04:39.363] Trouble, down, the drain...(*echo*)
[04:43.004] {*repeat*}
[04:45.099] Samples:Stoop Rap - Double Trouble (Rap)
[04:45.582] Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers Ubiquity
[04:46.021] Written By:No I.D. & Common