[00:00.000] 作词 : Jackson Turner
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Soulspeak
[00:18.19]Growing up in this world of enormous extremes
[00:21.02]Separated by nation but together we bleed
[00:24.02]Every struggle within reaches a point of release
[00:26.90]Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees
[00:29.70]You need money to make money its simple addition
[00:31.92]There's people living with nothing I get the picture
[00:34.62]It's bigger than individual lives and criminal minds
[00:37.95]Hypnotized by the television listen and buy consume
[00:41.67]Public schools teaching free market values
[00:44.39]How to be exploited 101 and the house rules
[00:47.11]Communities are packed Latinos and Blacks
[00:49.75]No opportunity for ownership their people are trapped
[00:52.68]And it's real
[00:53.66]Can't invest in the quality of life when
[00:56.47]All the money leaving following the white man
[00:59.47]And he never gonna fight fair **** a dream
[01:02.12]Type cast living the American nightmare
[01:05.37]Ghetto teens on the block with crack rocks and stash spots
[01:08.82]Trying to eat and increase their back pocket
[01:11.29]Ain't no laptops pools or backyards
[01:13.73]Just concrete steal bars and get wars
[01:17.23]The hood is part of your identity
[01:19.42]So you struggle till the day you rest in peace and never leave
[01:22.44]Trying to hide from the pain in a bottle of Pueto-Rock rum
[01:26.07]Your job sucks cleaning **** with a mop bucket
[01:29.09]At your local Block Buster
[01:30.49]You knocked up a fast little cock-loving chick with no condom on
[01:35.08]Now you gotta deal with child support
[01:37.31]And the cycle continues trapped like a dying dog
[01:40.95]Growing up in this world of enormous extremes
[01:43.88]Separated by nation but together we bleed
[01:46.84]Every struggle within reaches a point of release
[01:49.83]Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees
[02:15.72]Look up the meaning of property it's as simple as pie
[02:18.59]They keep the pieces for themselves and they leave us the side dishes
[02:21.94]If this is a contest it's mission impossible
[02:24.74]The business man is the pimp and the politician the prostitute
[02:28.99]Guess who the one getting ****** is
[02:30.89]They call us criminals they don't know **** about justice
[02:33.80]Slums filled with laborers from the countryside
[02:36.90]Thrown off the land cause the loan was two months behind
[02:40.22]Sub-prime decency does not apply
[02:42.90]Ain't no competition when big business being subsidized
[02:46.08]You try to find a job out in Islamabad
[02:48.78]**** a nine to five
[02:49.90]You in the factory from five to nine with your neck soar
[02:52.85]Making textiles with an XLarge that's exported to dress shops
[02:56.61]On West 4th street in New York
[02:58.89]Living standards on a level that's unreasonable
[03:01.74]So you sleep on the floor
[03:03.39]Up in the morning praying for the fait of your two kids
[03:06.49]Child labor violation lies and abuses
[03:09.66]The union got you in a strangle hold
[03:12.09]Cause their working with the management to keep your wages low
[03:15.06]Bank rolled with a paper trail through the labor bureau
[03:18.39]Plus they've got the union dues that you paying to them
[03:21.39]Work you like a slave and it makes sense
[03:23.76]Cause if the goods we buy are cheap then they can pay us even less
[03:27.65]Growing up in this world of enormous extremes
[03:30.66]Separated by nation but together we bleed
[03:33.69]Every struggle within reaches a point of release
[03:36.45]Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees