Sojourner歌詞

作詞 : Marlanna Evans/Patrick Douthit/Jermaine Cole/Kendra Morris/Jeremy Page
作曲 : Marlanna Evans/Patrick Douthit/Jermaine Cole/Kendra Morris/Jeremy Page
Rapsody 、J.Cole -Sojourner
Written by ：9th Wonder 、J.Cole 、Rapsody
Produced by ：9th Wonder
Aba ba ba ba ba ba
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Mhmm mhmm mhmm
Oh I swam for miles only to realize the current
Is fightin'against me and I'm so tired I'm floatin'now
Oh from here on out I've got to realize the power
Of learnin'to let go and just let God
Enjoy the ride
Yeah look
Born into pain alcoholic veins
Over analytical brain a product of the shame
And runnin'from a past that's checkered like the game
Somewhere 'long the way somebody snatched my peace and main
Maybe that's the reason I spent decades seekin'fame
And fortune hopin'that a proper portion would contain
The sadness in my eyes remember when I came
In this music business all their questions was insane
Why you never smile in your pictures I refrain
From giving you the answer 'cause that answer wasn't plain
Enough for me to see 'cause at the time
I knew my name
But didn't know myself and so I dealt with s**t the same
As a fugitive but running from the truth and s**t
I shoot the s**t with n**gas
But they never knew the s**t that's hidden deep
Within the crevices like ever since I was a child
Seen my mama with the pistol pointed at her dome and how
In the f**k do you expect for me to
Ever be the best lil'me
That I can be when trauma's deep inside of me
Like IV fluid pumpin'through the blood of wifey
While she's giving birth
To my child I know my thoughts are runnin'wild
Bear with my style this just a trial run
Just heard these kids don't know 'bout Malcolm
And I'm sort of heartbroken
'Cause the elders lost hope in our youth
And here I sit dead in the middle
Not a little boy no more
But not quite old yet wakin'up in cold sweats
Scared that I'm too disconnected from the kids'perspective
The world ain't got no patience for some s**t that's introspective
So where in the f**k that leave me irrelevant I guess
Went from heaven sent to hella bent intelligent but stressed d**n
Oh I swam for miles only to realize the current
Is fightin'against me and I'm so tired I'm floatin'now
Oh from here on out I've got to realize the power
Of learnin'to let go and just let God
Enjoy the ride
One more time
Swim good enjoy the ride yeah
Every day I rise thank God that I am alive yeah
Yeah swim good enjoy the ride yeah
Every day I rise thank God that I am alive uh
Permanent vacation for forever
Some things you gotta leave behind some people just like weather
And seasons for that reason I know I'll always have a leg up
Weatherman forecast me dead last think I'm just another n**ga
Maybe I'll be the next Black Beatle like Swae Lee
Yeah I know my worth these colonizers got to pay me
Yeah I had to go first 'cause the rest would never last
I had to show the positives for those that couldn't add
Looking at the ads they only love us if our a**
Out and so I'm out I got an audi and it's bad
I said that line 'cause n**gas only respect you if you brag
It don't work on me the same don't give a f**k 'bout what you have
Everybody claimin'boss none of you n**gas got no staff
It don't measure up the same what's a quarter to a half
Of a whole lot of problems n**ga who taught you to add
Where I'm from we don't recognize that it's good math
If you don't teach the ones
That's coming up to multiply their cash
Think for themselves think beyond sales
Everything with worth don't come with some whistles and some bells
The ones I gotta leave behind the ones you gotta bail
Meek mill I'm workin'hard ain't too far from a meek mil'
To keep it real the realest n**gas I know always kept it real
And I'ma tell you black-on-black murder been whack
9th turn me up so they can hear me in the back
Yeah and that's pretty hard for me
But you see hopeful n**gas and where they all ought to be
Scared to grow wings Birdman with a bunch of Carter beef
That's old news look n**ga you talking to modern me
Smarter we had better conversations sittin'with barbers
Puttin'hearts and heads in n**gas who don't think ahead who taught you
Schoolyard schoolyard welcome to the schoolyard
Teach you how to make moves without needin'a U-HAUL
I was on you all when I was growin'up
Now it's you all that's all on these nuts
I'm ballin'havin'a ball and I got the balls to say it
Who needs inspiration where you know when you can play it
Carolina to the heart nobody here gon'play us
The day that we expire Carolina's where they'll lay us
I woke up feelin'like Aaliyah yeah a million and one bucks
Told these n**gas I don't give a single million and one f**k rap
Oh I swam for miles only to realize the current
Is fightin'against me and I'm so tired I'm floatin'now
Oh from here on out I've got to realize the power
Of learnin'to let go and just let God
Enjoy the ride