歌词
Hook: Bilal
Your inner heart, your inner mind
你的内心世界，你的内在思想
You’re the star that will always shine
你是一颗闪耀的星辰，不停地照耀发光
Forever you’ll be with me
你我情谊誓死不变
Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco
Uh, it go like
嗯，就像
You ever see the inner depths of a man’s soul?
您是否目睹过他人灵魂中的内心深处吗？
Or ninja turtles pouring out of manholes?
抑或目睹过在下水口处呈现出来的忍者神龟？
This is balance
人生贵在平衡
Between a comic and a conscious, that’s the challenge
如徘徊在无趣的意志和有趣的漫画之间，这是种挑战
Between the solitary and the conference that I examines
在曾经孑然一身的我和如今我面对人群审视的会议之间
That I imagine was a figure
我幻想着自己若是作为个人物
Would be the start of world peace and the transformation of niggas
我有能力重启世界之和平，改变黑人兄弟们的现状吗？
Like the transubstantiation of liquor
就如酒与酒之间进行交叉调制
But that’s just turnin’them into blood
可最后却把他们推进深渊，淋漓鲜血
And we’ll be right back where we was
我们会归去，踏上我们曾经来时的路
Not a peace-sign, but a fascination with scissors
那儿没有和平的示意，有时却对“剪子”（可能指羡慕女同）情谊仍萦绕心中
So I can cut
因此我要斩断它
Myself off from the calculations of empress, empires, and the sinners
我终于从皇后，帝国，罪人的算计中脱离了苦海
For advancement of human suffering
为了人类的苦难
And other things trying to impede my publishing and editorials
以及其他试图阻碍我出版和发表社论的事情
That’s gon’ bring it back to us again
终有一日我们会把我们应有的权利争取回来
A boomerang minus Halle Barry and Eddieand everybody ****ing and huh’s
回旋镖不停来回，除Halle Berry 和 Eddie外 所有人都开始嗤之以鼻
Hook: Bilal
Your inner heart, your inner mind
你的内心世界，你的内在思想
You’re the star that will always shine
你是一颗闪耀的星辰，不停地照耀发光
Forever you’ll be with me
你我情谊誓死不变
Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco
Shotgun
枪支
Even though independent cars ain’t got one
即使没有像样的豪车
I got some and more to spare
却有很多备胎之物
No more despair
毫无一丝悲观之意
My motor-ware don’t match my motivate to mate
虽然我的汽车配件与我的发动机不匹配
Also I drive to stay alive and ride this over there
我也要怀揣生命的热情驶向那儿
My momma so mad, so no alcohol in here
我的sexy lady不停狂怒，没有酒水却在发酒疯
I’m Aries Spears on my Jay-Z shit
我是Aries Spear（美国演员作家） 价值直逼Jay-Z
Affion on the Drake skit
是 Affion（美国rapper),嘲讽技术直逼公鸭
Now how many more can I make with just one voice
如今在一种主流的声音中我该如何尽力创造
They might call it fake shit
他们可能嘲讽一切都是假的
This some deep shit
需要加点深度的东西
It’s my me impersonatin’ we shit
一切这只是我的自导自演罢了
Vicariously in every rap I speak with
在我说的每一个说唱中都是可替代之物
I hope you’re speakin’for me, if I’m ever speechless
我希望若无在沉默中灭亡你可为我发声
Cause I’mma be you
因为我的心与你相连
Even though you’re not here to be with
即使你远在天边，我们难以相见
I hope I see these gangsters actin’ like teachers
我希望这些匪徒扮演好自己人生导师的角色
Wake up out they sleep, dare to dream
日夜可醒来又入眠，不失做梦之勇气
In a world so Martin Luther King-less
即使这个世界没有马丁 路德 金
Hook: Bilal
Your inner heart, your inner mind
你的内心，你的思想
You’re the star that will always shine
你是一颗星辰，不停地闪耀发光
Forever you’ll be with me
你我情谊至死不渝
Your inner heart, your inner mind
你的内心，你的思想
You’re the star that will always shine
你是一颗星星，不停地发光
Forever you’ll be with me
你我之情，永不落幕
Outro: Lupe Fiasco
And to my hero Heron, Gil Scott
对Heron(美国艺术家）, Gil Scott（美国音乐家）抱以我的崇高之意
In a discourse with Baldwin
与 Baldwin 的进行谈话
On a jet plane with no fear for fallin’
在喷气飞机上 无所畏惧地等待坠落
But wishin’ it never lands
但愿可以就这样地永不着落
Reminiscent of the dream time
来留给我们时间去梦想，遐想
Presently en route to the rise of the machine time
去往 机器时代的崛起的路上
Magazine times
杂志时间到
With coffee more sugar and milk than coffee
与以往不同，咖啡配上牛奶和方糖
Aborted rhymes, rotten beats, and failed hooks
终止那无用的押韵 烂尾的节拍和失败的抄袭
Roads as bumpy as braille books
道路就像盲文书籍一样，崎岖不平
Fail cools, bad French, and mad push at the door
拙劣的耍酷，糟透的法文，疯狂地推门
Gourmet food at the starving soiree
饥饿的soiree美食
A choice of one easy woman at a time
选择一次性的“野花”，享受其中
I’ll take three the hard way
我会采取三个艰难的方式
Trying to be as abstract as possible
试图以抽象的方式
And vulgar, the more shocking the more profitable
粗俗点讲，只要够胆量 钱财为你转
A baby fed molten gold
人人无不渴望闪闪金子
And sat upon a pedestal promote getting called 24 carot souls
渴望受到尊敬, 提升自我 欲想锻造一个24K的纯净灵魂
How to describe this
该如何描述这样
Insightful remarks such as the best thing I’ve ever heard is silence
富有洞察世间的话语，例如我所听到的最好的话语是沉默是金
Some more technically impressive
有些话的含金量足以影响他人深远
In a faux Spanish romantic hues of a Marxist dialectic
由人创造而来的浪漫西文哲理蕴藏着浓厚的马克思主义辩证法色彩
Pleasing to the critics, but pointless is the common passerby
批评者慷慨激昂的愤世嫉俗，但对普通群众来讲毫无意义
Might as well not even exist, not even a bit
可能会连一丢丢的存在感都没有的呢
In the event of my demise give everything I prize to the poor
若有一日我离开人世，我想把我身上的一切和荣誉都献给有需要的人
And to the oppressors, I leave a war
对于那些压迫者们，我会留下一场战役（与他们搏斗到底）
And so on and so forth
等着吧
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