The Ghetto-Donny Hathaway

[00:00.00] 作词 : Donny Hathaway/Leroy Hutson [00:01.00] 作曲 : Donny Hathaway/Leroy Hutson [00:02.00] 制作人 : Donny Hathaway/Ric Powell [00:05.62]Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto
贫民窟的放克律动 街头在咆哮 [00:15.31]Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
为生存挣扎 为活着苦熬 [00:20.88]The ghetto
这街区 [00:27.14]{Talking bout the ghetto}
{贫民窟的呐喊} [00:27.27]The ghetto
这街区 [00:30.64]The ghetto
这街区 [00:34.71]The ghetto
这街区 [00:36.77]{Funk funky ghetto}
{放克 躁动的街区} [00:38.96]Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
街道坑洼路灯熄灭危机四伏 [00:42.71]**** fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
瘾君子口叼烟管横死街角 [00:45.21]Old school buddies not doing it right
老伙计们早偏离人生正道 [00:47.21]Every day it's the same
每个清晨都重复 [00:48.83]And it's the same every night
每个深夜再重蹈 [00:49.84]I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
本不想动武但枪口会对准蠢货 [00:52.08]If he played me close and tried to test my cool
若他敢越界试探我的冷酷 [00:54.52]Every day I wonder just how I'll die
每日自问将以何种方式落幕 [00:56.84]Only thing I know is how to survive
唯一确定的只有生存之术 [00:59.15]There's only one rule in the real world
真实世界仅存铁律一条 [01:01.58]And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
照顾好自己 至亲 其他皆可抛 [01:04.09]Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
日复一日与艰难时刻过招 [01:06.40]Might deal me some shit but then crime don't pay
厄运或许降临 但罪恶终有恶报 [01:08.96]Black man tried to break into my house again
又有黑人想闯进我家门 [01:11.34]Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
以为提前出狱就能重获新生 [01:13.71]Even though my brothers do me just like that
即便同胞如此待我 [01:16.03]I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
既得恩惠自当回馈这 [01:18.39]The ghetto
这街区 [01:28.02]The ghetto
这街区 [01:37.50]So just peep the game and don't call it crap
别轻易批判这生存法则 [01:40.02]Cause to me, life is one hard rap
对我而言人生如硬核说唱 [01:42.33]Even though my sister smoked crack ****ing
尽管我姐沉沦快克毒烟 [01:44.82]She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
身怀六甲时也未曾改变 [01:47.20]600 million on a footbal team
球队豪掷六亿美金转会 [01:49.45]And her baby dies just like a **** fiend
她的婴孩却如瘾君子凋萎 [01:51.83]The story I tell is so incomplete
我的故事永远残缺不全 [01:54.27]Five kids in the house and no food to eat
五个孩童蜷缩在断粮房间 [01:56.63]Don't look at me and don't ask me why
别问我缘由也别与我对视 [01:59.08]Mama's next door getting high
母亲正在邻屋腾云驾雾 [02:01.34]Even though she's got five mouths to feed
纵然有五张待哺的嘴 [02:03.89]She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
她却把钱烧成飘渺烟雾 [02:06.39]I always tell the truth about things like this
我总直言这些残酷真相 [02:08.70]I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
不知市长是否忽略这份清单 [02:11.09]Instead of adding to the task force send some help
与其增派警力不如送来希望 [02:13.65]Waiting on him I'd better help myself
等待施救不如自救更实际 [02:15.95]Housing Authority and the O.P.D.
住房管理局与奥克兰警局 [02:18.40]All these guns just to handle me in the
所有枪口都对准这 [02:20.84]The ghetto
这街区 [02:25.71]The ghetto
这街区 [02:43.30]Even though they put us down and call us animals
即便被称作野兽遭人唾弃 [02:46.99]We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
我们赚大钱穿全新潮衣 [02:49.49]Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
驾豪车与明星缠绵悱恻 [02:51.93]Never really saying just who we are
却从未袒露真实底色 [02:54.37]We use alias names like TOOSHORT
使用艺名如TooShort混迹江湖 [02:57.05]Sell you stuff you might kill for
贩卖让人豁出性命的货物 [02:59.24]Young kids grow up and that's all they know
少年在街头文化中成长 [03:01.56]Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin shit
课堂不教生存只教会贩毒 [03:04.05]Only thing he knows is how to survive
他仅知的只有生存法则 [03:06.43]But will he kill another brother before he dies?
但死前会染上多少同胞鲜血？ [03:08.69]In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
在街区需时刻保持警觉 [03:11.44]All day long, just hoping and hoping
终日祈祷奇迹能够降临 [03:13.74]You can pay your bills and not drink too much
若付清账单且不酗酒过度 [03:15.93]Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
生活的重担或许还能承受 [03:18.30]Like me, but you don't see
如我这般你却视而不见 [03:20.75]Ten years from now, where will you be?
十年之后 你将在何处苟延？ [03:23.24]The ghetto
这街区 [03:28.12]The ghetto
这街区 [03:42.93]So much game in a Too rap
TooShort的饶舌充满生存智慧 [03:45.06]Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
黑人不必效白 白人难学黑 [03:47.18]Why you wanna act like someone else?
何必伪装成他人的模样 [03:49.56]All you gotta do is just be yourself
做最真实的自己便是光芒 [03:52.00]We're all the same color underneath
褪去肤色我们并无不同 [03:54.44]Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
ShortDog在此奉劝诸位聆听 [03:56.94]Never be ashamed of what you are
永远别为出身感到羞耻 [03:59.50]Proud to be black stand tall at heart
以黑为荣 昂首挺立天地 [04:01.81]Even though some people give you no respect
即便他人投来轻蔑目光 [04:03.94]Be intelligent, when you put em in check
智性回击方显尊严分量 [04:06.25]Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
愚昧只会招致更多践踏 [04:08.75]And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
锒铛入狱时你将无言以辩 [04:11.19]So if you don't listen it's not my fault
若把我的忠告当作耳旁风 [04:13.63]I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
我数钞票时你正偿付代价 [04:16.32]Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
在牢房虚张声势空逞口舌 [04:18.44]While me and my peoples try to get out
我与同胞正奋力挣脱这 [04:20.88]The ghetto
这街区 [04:25.44]The ghetto
这街区 [04:35.20]End
终 [06:44.78] 低音吉他 : Donny Hathaway [06:45.23] 鼓 : Morris Jennings [06:45.69] 贝斯 : Willie Weeks [06:46.14] 打击乐 : Ric Powell [06:46.60] 次中音萨克斯风 : Johnny Board/Lenard S. Druss [06:47.05] 小号 : Gary Slavo/John E. Howell/Oscar Brashear/Robert A. Lewis [06:47.50] 吉他 : Philip Upchurch [06:47.96] 长号 : John Avant/Morris Ellis [06:48.41] 大号 : Aaron Dodd [06:48.87] 电钢琴 : Donny Hathaway [06:49.32] 人声 : Donny Hathaway