Paid Dues歌词

[00:00.000] 作词 : Steven D Cooper
[00:00.512] 作曲 : Steven D Cooper
[00:01.25]Yeah!
[00:03.20]It took a long time
[00:06.23]To get to it
[00:07.97]To a good spot
[00:10.72]But I weren't where I need to be
[00:12.03]Chorus
[00:12.76]10 whole years
[00:14.76]Finally breaking through
[00:16.41]Nobody gets a handout
[00:18.05]You've gotta pay your dues
[00:19.74]10 whole years
[00:21.44]Finally breaking through
[00:22.88]Nobody gets a handout
[00:24.39]You've gotta pay your dues
[00:26.13]10 whole years
[00:27.68]Finally breaking through
[00:29.47]Nobody gets a handout
[00:30.83]You've gotta pay your dues
[00:32.57]10 whole years
[00:34.26]Finally breaking through
[00:35.71]Nobody gets a handout
[00:37.26]You've gotta pay your dues
[00:38.45]Verse 1
[00:38.99]Ever since I wrote it, trying to get up on it, can't touch this with a ten foot pole
[00:41.98]To all my opponents, people have voted, next one up this elections closed
[00:45.25]I'm so bold, this I know, I don't need jewelry to prove that I'm cold
[00:48.49]Ya'll just go wherever the wind blows
[00:50.14]Talking 'bout each other so we never leave the door
[00:51.93]That's okay, it's alright now, I back here to shine a different light now
[00:54.87]Ya'll stay clear cause this one's bright now, it's my year, I can hear that hype now
[00:58.36]I never did understand it, why another hater when we so demanded
[01:02.04]Thinking I don't see 'em but I catch 'em candid
[01:03.59]Thinking they rough but they just got sanded
[01:05.54]Ya'll kept on pushing, and pulling me now I'm fed up
[01:08.27]Not one for groupies but this competitions got her leg up
[01:11.86]And now it's my time to shine, I'm passing my rhymes while you passing time
[01:14.81]I don't really care that I'm last in line, 'cause the last shall be first and I'm first to be live
[01:18.35]I might be small but I'll crawl and pull my weight
[01:20.99]You can see me how you see me until your pupils dilate
[01:24.27]There ain't no faking it, 10 years 'till I started making it
[01:27.66]Say money don't grow on trees but if it did I'd be there shaking it
[01:30.56]Chorus
[01:31.01]10 whole years
[01:32.40]Finally breaking through
[01:34.05]Nobody gets a handout
[01:35.66]You've gotta pay your dues
[01:37.52]10 whole years
[01:39.11]Finally breaking through
[01:40.70]Nobody gets a handout
[01:42.35]You've gotta pay your dues
[01:43.90]10 whole years
[01:45.50]Finally breaking through
[01:47.09]Nobody gets a handout
[01:48.53]You've gotta pay your dues
[01:50.34]10 whole years
[01:51.88]Finally breaking through
[01:53.48]Nobody gets a handout
[01:55.07]You've gotta pay your dues
[01:56.03]Verse 2
[01:57.38]It took me a minute but I
[01:58.78]Came back on the track, they love my
[02:00.52]Quick style, but I can't sleep now, ticking even quicker
[02:02.46]To the max, no shut eye
[02:04.00]Now it's time to spread like butter
[02:05.45]You can say you hate it, but there ain't no other
[02:06.85]Who's laughing now that I shut it all down
[02:08.40]I was born to do it you can blame my mother
[02:10.04]Now can't you see, they hate but it's jealousy
[02:12.73]I was writing raps just like them, when I was 16
[02:16.47]16 ya'll... no need for me to prove it 'cause it's in the pudding
[02:19.38]Bringing back the music to the way it should be
[02:21.37]You can stand against it but you've got no footing
[02:23.22]So if they constantly hate it better go and warn 'em
[02:26.06]I've got so many bars other rappers think that I'm a warden
[02:29.41]Off in the corner with their fingers pointing,
[02:31.15]Thinking I don't see 'em but just wait 'till morning
[02:32.70]Dawn of the day I'ma spring up from the underground
[02:34.15]Left the whole industry, tired of the run around
[02:35.84]Bet you hear my name when I come around
[02:37.64]Bet you feel my reign when the thunder sounds
[02:39.12]I can hang with you or the next, it's true then I guess
[02:41.78]I'm the best that you never found
[02:42.77]Not one to listen to hatred, but man I feel it
[02:45.27]I'm not violent but I'll write another verse just to kill it
[02:48.40]Chorus
[02:48.60]10 whole years
[02:50.45]Finally breaking through
[02:51.95]Nobody gets a handout
[02:53.59]You've gotta pay your dues
[02:55.14]10 whole years
[02:56.84]Finally breaking through
[02:58.34]Nobody gets a handout
[03:00.03]You've gotta pay your dues
[03:01.57]10 whole years
[03:03.36]Finally breaking through
[03:04.95]Nobody gets a handout
[03:06.56]You've gotta pay your dues
[03:08.25]10 whole years
[03:09.90]Finally breaking through
[03:11.33]Nobody gets a handout
[03:12.89]You've gotta pay your dues
[03:15.76]It's been a long while, but I just getting started!