[00:00.000] 作词 : Pharrell Williams/Chad Hugo/Shawn Carter
[00:00.486] 作曲 : Pharrell Williams/Chad Hugo/Shawn Carter
[00:00.973] This here's a ballad for all the fallen soldiers (This ain't music)
[00:04.287] I'm 'bout to show you how a hustler's life (This is life man)
[00:06.949] And a soldier's life parallel
[00:09.133] And the one thing they got in common is a mother's pain
[00:11.368] (Forget about music for a second)
[00:13.189] Picture a split screen (Forget musicians)
[00:14.454] On one side, you got a hustler getting ready for the block
[00:17.008] (Human beings)
[00:17.388] Other side (People)
[00:18.186] You got a soldier getting ready for boot camp (It's life)
[00:20.825] They're both at war, stay with us
[00:22.579] Did you ever notice, before you blink
[00:27.844] Life goes fast?
[00:33.280] So don't you worry, about what you see
[00:39.136] It will pass
[00:45.701] You lost him mama, the war's calling him
[00:48.740] Feel it's his duty to fall in line with all of them
[00:51.670] He's a soldier
[00:52.860] Rose through the ranks as the head of your household
[00:55.481] Now it's time to provide bank, like he's supposed to
[00:58.801] Now just remember why he's gone 'til November
[01:01.315] It's part of him growing up
[01:03.170] His shirt soaks up your tears as he holds ya
[01:05.836] Your heart beating so fast, speeding his pulse up
[01:08.847] Yeah, I know it sucks, life ain't all rosebuds
[01:11.683] A couple of speed bumps, you gotta take your lumps
[01:14.515] Off to boot camp, the world's facing terror
[01:17.511] Bin Laden been happening in Manhattan
[01:20.053] Crack was anthrax back then, back when
[01:23.119] Police was Al'Qaeda to black men
[01:25.553] While I was out there hustling, sinning with no religion
[01:28.472] He was off to war, killing for a living
[01:31.060] Did you ever notice, before you blink
[01:36.333] Life goes fast?
[01:41.757] So don't you worry, about what you see
[01:47.578] It will pass
[01:54.368] Days turn to nights, nights turn to years
[01:57.139] Years turn to "How the **** we make it in here?"
[01:59.972] My barracks average couple fights a day
[02:02.825] Get you locked in a hole, won't see the light of day
[02:05.422] And I feel like I'm just writing my life away
[02:08.320] I never thought shit could end up quite this way
[02:11.120] There's a war going on outside no man is safe from
[02:14.458] I'm here for the good fight, only the fakes run
[02:17.450] I'm here for the purple heart, if I can't take one
[02:20.303] For my team or my siblings, what's my reason for living?
[02:23.083] I love my niggas more than anything else
[02:25.472] This war's about my family, me needing the wealth
[02:28.314] You don't understand how useless as men we felt
[02:31.100] 'Til you become a five-star general
[02:34.028] Shout out to my niggas that's locked in jail
[02:36.992] P.O.Ws that's still in the war for real, for real
[02:39.751] Did you ever notice, before you blink
[02:44.785] Life goes fast?
[02:50.349] So don't you worry, about what you see
[02:56.391] It will pass
[03:01.986] Your baby boy is getting grown
[03:04.732] So your baby boy is moving on
[03:07.486] (I've gotta chase it) I'm gon' chase it
[03:10.759] (And I'm gon' make it, yeah) I'ma make it
[03:13.388] Your baby boy is getting grown
[03:16.194] So your baby boy is moving on
[03:18.901] (I'm gonna make it) I'm gon' make it
[03:22.138] (Even if I gotta chase it) You gotta take it
[03:24.312] Woo, yeah
[03:25.776] Mama say a prayer, your son's becoming a man
[03:28.624] This war's taxing to him like Uncle Sam
[03:31.316] He ain't gon' always make the right choice, understand
[03:34.116] Every choice that he make, he make 'em for his fam
[03:36.961] It's death before dishonor
[03:38.633] And if he's gone, you should honor his memory
[03:40.668] Don't cry, we all gon' die eventually
[03:42.987] But if he's locked in the penitentiary, send him some energy
[03:46.196] They all winners to me, what's up Emory?
[03:48.449] Did you ever notice, before you blink
[03:53.405] Life goes fast?
[03:58.864] So don't you worry, about what you see
[04:05.015] It will pass
[04:28.375] Yeah, DJ Clue, Desert Storm
[04:33.866] The Blueprint, Part Two
[04:37.346] Time for bonus coverage, c'mon