Reason (Explicit Album Version)-Nas

[ti:Reason] [ar:Nas] [al:Streets Disciple] [by:] [offset:0] [00:03.84][Chorus: Woman singing] [00:05.05]I see people hating other people [00:08.61]Tell me what's the reason [00:11.86]That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money [00:18.43]What's the reason [00:19.49][Verse 1: Nas] [00:20.30]By the time of age nine I'm already decidin' [00:22.30]If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin' [00:24.24]Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one [00:26.43]By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment [00:29.30]And we die then so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects
我看到人们互相憎恨 [00:33.24]Watchin' them older niggaz pass pot and they high man
告诉我这是为什么 [00:36.05]I'm just a young boy snot nose hair nappy
你没钱养活自己的孩子 [00:38.80]Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me
这是为什么 [00:41.12]So I would go to school and try to get good grades [00:43.49]Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids
9岁的时候我就决定 [00:46.43]So she cussed them said "My son ain't no motherf**kin' hoodlum"
如果我能保护妈妈 收拾那些欺负人的人 [00:48.99]They judged us thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from
或者是在21岁的时候 我可以用刀或枪 [00:51.93]Got a little older and now I see
到那时候 那些坏人会闯进我们的家 [00:53.99]Young niggaz wanted by the powers that be (powers that be)
然后我们死了 因为怕这些 我一直就是个敏感的孩子 [00:57.30][Chorus: Woman singing]
我害怕比我大的家伙和高个子的男人 [00:58.74]I see people hating other people
我只是一个小男孩 流着鼻涕 头发乱蓬蓬 [01:03.30]Tell me what's the reason
警察从我身边经过 对我做出瞄准的手势 [01:07.36]That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money
于是我决定去上学 好好学习 [01:12.12]What's the reason
老师给妈妈写信 然后把我赶出学校 只因为我留了辫子 [01:14.30]For these wars we're fighting with each other
于是妈妈很生气地咒骂了他们 她说 我的儿子不是该死的无赖 [01:19.11]Season after season
人们小看我们 他们认为我们不会说话 只因为我们来自贫穷的地方 [01:22.30]When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothing comin'
现在我长大了一点 我也明白了 [01:27.43]What's the reason
小黑鬼只会处处受欺负 [01:28.31][Verse 2: Nas] [01:29.05]Uh picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th Ave
我看到人们互相憎恨 [01:32.80]She never had it it's not hers to begin with
告诉我这是为什么 [01:35.06]She gives it breakfast baths and dinners
你没钱养活自己的孩子 [01:36.56]Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on
这是为什么 [01:41.37]Ain't had a good meal in so long but so long as mommy's a maid
为了这些自相残杀 [01:44.87]Cookin' and cleanin' she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin'
我们浪费了一季又一季的时间 [01:49.18]Where's my daddy who's my daddy have you seen him
你的努力没有回报 [01:51.74]I could imagine them askin' what type of human be-ing
这是为什么 [01:54.24]Could leave his family go back to the Carribean [01:57.12]Was he locked up shot up does he have freedom
想象这样的画面吧 一个黑人保姆推着一个婴儿在第五大道上走着 [01:59.68]Mom said wipe your tears keep readin'
她并不想这样 [02:01.74]But daddy's somewhere spirit broken feelin' defeated
她给孩子做早餐 给他洗澡 做晚餐 [02:04.49]A man feels he has to conquer all
她对那个孩子那么温柔 这时她自己的孩子却留在没有电话的家里 [02:06.93]The world is his oyster his pearl so y'all know
长时间没吃过一顿好饭 但是只要妈妈还是女仆 [02:09.12][Chorus: Woman singing]
她还在努力工作 就一定能喂饱她的孩子 [02:10.68]I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace
我的爸爸在哪 我的爸爸是谁 你见过他吗 [02:16.81]'Cause this world keeps spinning yet still I wonder what's the reason
我能想象人们问道 他是什么人 [02:24.24]
他竟然能离开他的妻儿 回到加勒比海上 [02:25.05]I see people hating other people
他是被锁住了吗 被打死了吗 他有自由吗 [02:29.68]Tell me what's the reason
妈妈说别哭了 好好念书吧 [02:32.80]When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin'
但是爸爸在某个地方 心里受到打击无比受伤 [02:38.24]What's the reason
一个男人应该有所担当 [02:41.06]Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa
世界就在他手中 [02:41.37][Verse 3: Nas] [02:42.18]I know a girl her boyfriend was a fugitive
我觉得我们都应该安安静静地生活 [02:43.80]She's intuitive be on some stupid sh*t
世界还在变化着 我还是想知道为什么 [02:46.18]She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother [02:48.62]Now he away doin' numbers now she gay with her lover
我看到人们互相憎恨 [02:51.18]How many niggaz gon' die this summer
告诉我这是为什么 [02:54.00]I pump life in my music but still life is a wonder
你的努力没有回报 [02:56.93]There's a officer in a squad car he's a prostitute serial killer
这是为什么 [03:00.87]It's odd huh 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife [03:04.75]He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night [03:07.31]Little bad a** bastard lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz
我认识一个女孩 她的男朋友是个逃犯 [03:10.49]In her pad while she slept
她只对一些没用的怪事有直觉 [03:12.49]They said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twister
她报警是因为她恨她的妈妈 [03:16.68]Ni**a what you expect Imagine what's next
现在她的男朋友走了 她又成了同性恋 [03:20.62][Chorus: Woman singing]
今年夏天有多少黑人死去了 [03:21.43]I see people hating other people
音乐是我生命的寄托 但我还是感到困惑 [03:23.93]Tell me what's the reason
那辆警车里的警官是个杀人恶魔 [03:27.12]That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money
这很奇怪吧 可他每周都和他的妻子去教堂 [03:33.19]What's the reason
在晚上 他调戏他的儿子 他的妻子视而不见 [03:36.69]For these wars we're fighting with each other
那个小坏蛋用火柴烧死了Betty Shabazz [03:39.12]Season after season
他趁她熟睡的时候 把火柴放在她的床垫里面 [03:42.62]When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothing comin'
人们说在世界出现危机的时候 是布什赞助了希特勒 [03:47.75]What's the reason
伙计 你想要什么 猜猜接下来会发生什么 [03:49.94][Woman harmonizes as Nas talks:] [03:51.50]"Uh uh man man'll search the whole planet looking for what
我看到人们互相仇恨 [03:57.17]Try to conquer all So what To all my niggaz with they
告诉我这是为什么 [04:02.67]Kids that love they kids man All the daddies out there
我们没钱养活自己的孩子 [04:07.10]To all the niggaz that died tryin'a figure out what's what
这是为什么 [04:11.29]Tryin'a be the biggest of the big you know Yeah yeah
为了这些自相残杀 [04:16.60]
我们浪费了一季又一季的时间 [04:17.42]Ladies forgive us Gotta forgive us For we know not what
你的努力没有回报 [04:22.41]We do Breakin' hearts leavin' the crib buggin' out and
这是为什么 [04:26.79]Sh*t Just man man "