POWER歌詞

[00:00.000] 作詞 : Elan Parker/Olu Fann/Thomas Decarlo Callaway/Nicholas Scott Cannon/Taji Ausar
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Elan Parker/Olu Fann/Thomas Decarlo Callaway/Nicholas Scott Cannon/Taji Ausar
[00:08.993]EARTHGANG
[00:23.319]Nigga be pressed to claim a street with a white man name
[00:26.261]I pulled up to put you up on game
[00:28.568]What's your focus? What you doin'? What you want out this life?
[00:31.659]I want power, can't never be satisfied with fame
[00:34.719]I'm just a man of the people
[00:36.000]From 'round the way like the Beatles
[00:37.622]I been exposed to new levels
[00:38.931]I'm always tryna do better
[00:40.770]Roll with my roadies like Cheadle
[00:42.294]You say the top can get lonely, I say the bottom is lethal
[00:45.045]I want the crown, I'm medieval
[00:46.845]See us gettin' this money, they still don't see us as equals
[00:49.596]They know that we don't control shit
[00:51.373]Comin' up in small doses
[00:52.910]Sometimes I sit back and roll up and I think of my heroes and so it goes
[00:56.794]Gain the world, lose your soul
[00:58.062]Skull and bones, Puffy Combs
[00:59.550]Too many niggas dead and gone when they just got on
[01:02.345]And I'd be lyin' if I said it's nothin' wrong
[01:04.629]Sometimes I sit back and roll up and I just think of my heroes and so it goes
[01:08.720]Gain the world, lose your soul
[01:10.258]Skull and bones, Puffy Combs
[01:11.705]CeeLo Green
[01:11.956]Power, power, power
[01:18.051]Power, power, power
[01:32.923]EARTHGANG
[01:35.232]Put down your God and pick up your Bible (Yeah)
[01:37.790]Put down your picket signs and pick up your rifle (Brap-brap-brap-brap)
[01:40.677]Messages conflictin', twistin' on my mental (Yeah)
[01:43.739]Love on your enemies, don't you trust your kinfolk (Ayy, **** them niggas over there, man, he always need somethin', he always askin' for money)
[01:46.462]Family feudin' on American dreamboats
[01:49.957]Top of the food chain what them people kill for (Uh)
[01:52.824]Down on your knees and pray up to God or
[01:55.677]Stand on your feet and rise above all, uh
[01:58.901]As a child, I was miseducated
[02:00.894]I grew up praisin' power, guns, drugs, misogynation
[02:03.932]Fire inside, blazin', constantly wakin'
[02:06.682]Me and my demons engagin' in conversation on how we finna get paid
[02:10.208]But through it all, I placed my hands on my balls, that's a power grab (Yeah)
[02:13.776]They see a Black man shining, they'll shoot him down fast
[02:17.089]**** CEOs takin' your shows and firin' you at night like Nick, that's a cannon blast
[02:23.937]They'll try to undercut your ass, buy out your cast
[02:26.946]Say you crazy as hell, Chappelle status
[02:29.751]CEOs takin' your shows and firin' you at night like Nick, that's a cannon blast
[02:35.255]CeeLo Green, Nick Cannon
[02:35.507]Power, power, power (Shit, that shit powerful right there, haha)
[02:41.371]Power, power, power (You know what's the wild shit? I just named my daughter Powerful)
[02:47.235]Power, power, power (And niggas thought I was crazy for that, ayy, call me crazy)
[02:52.917]Power, power, power ('Cause niggas that think they crazy enough to change the world the ones that actually do that shit)
[02:57.487]Yo, I got you (Powerful)
[02:58.256]CeeLo Green
[02:59.034]Whether what I do, you into or not (Not)
[03:00.757]I done been to the top (Top)
[03:02.306]And I done been through a lot (A lot)
[03:03.603]And if I offend you or not (Not)
[03:05.083]I might convince you to stop (Stop)
[03:06.820]See, I done been in the room (Room)
[03:08.116]Watch others bend and assume (Assume)
[03:09.659]And I got friends in the tomb (Ooh)
[03:11.209]Boy, I done been in the back (Back)
[03:12.517]And I have witnessed the axe (Axe)
[03:14.067]What kind of business is that? (That)
[03:15.628]A slave master's business is black (Is black)
[03:17.116]But I have listened
[03:18.413]I done been in a compromising position
[03:20.241]I done been in they pockets to get on the playlist, I done been in the system
[03:23.083]But I hit different (Different)
[03:24.810]This industry shit different (Different)
[03:26.117]It's a major motion picture budget, it's lit different (Different)
[03:29.110]My wrist different (Different)
[03:30.330]And every woman I'm with's different (Different)
[03:32.126]Try goin' back to the old you sometime and you'll miss different (Different)
[03:35.172]But the corporate is morbid
[03:36.731]They wanna put a mark in your forehead
[03:38.280]A quake in their handshake
[03:39.859]But you fake for the fan's sake
[03:41.340]But I'm better than average
[03:42.559]And I deserve to have this
[03:44.347]And I mean mug the men in the suits and ties looking at me like I'm a bad bitch
[03:47.459]But I never lost my religion, so I'm lucky
[03:49.457]When a lot of these other artists right here thinkin' to themselves, "Damn, why don't nobody wanna **** me?"
[03:53.353]I'm so glad that I'm ugly
[03:54.830]Boy, stop, I'm beautiful
[03:56.398]These mother****ers'll kill you, be in the front row of your funeral
[03:59.151]Just want you to know
[04:00.379]Remain a man every minute of your hour
[04:02.338]A lot of these mother****ers be all plugs with no power
[04:05.143]CeeLo Green, Nick Cannon
[04:05.395]Power, power, power (Yeah, so let the words of my mouth and the meditation in my heart be acceptable in the sight of the most high, yeah)
[04:11.246]Power, power, power (Pretty much all I'm sayin' is I'ma do what I can and I'ma let God do what I can't)
[04:17.335]Power, power, power (Shit, I'm just tryna make it 'fore the light change and I fall off like a bike chain, it's a minor setback for a major comeback, shit, we do everything all black)
[04:23.192]Power, power, power (We own that shit, we reppin' for all Blacks, that's why they had to give my shit back, powerful)