Meet The Parents-JAY-Z

[00:00.00] 作词 : Carter, Smith [00:01.00] 作曲 : Shawn Carter & Justin Smith [00:02.14]Woo! Uhh, uhh [00:04.31] [00:05.19]It's "The Gift & the Curse" [00:06.32] [00:08.52]Uhh, uhh yea [00:11.42]First they love me then they hate me [00:12.87]then they love me again [00:13.96] [00:15.45].. they love me again [00:16.46] [00:17.09]Let's take a trip down.. I gotcha [00:21.81] [00:22.83]Let's take a trip down memory [00:24.05] [00:24.88]lane at the cemetery [00:26.02]Rain grey skies, seems at the end of every [00:29.21]young black life is this line, "Damn - him already [00:32.20]Such a good kid," got us pouring Henn' already [00:34.98]Liquor to the curb for my, ******s up above [00:37.30]When it, cracks through the pavement [00:38.92]that's my way of sendin love [00:39.93]So, give Big a hug, tell Aa-liyah I said hi [00:43.25]'Til the next time I see her, on the other side [00:45.44] [00:45.99]He was just some thug that, caught some slugs [00:48.34] [00:48.92]And we loved him cause, in him we, saw some of us [00:51.87]He walked like us, talked like us [00:54.00] [00:54.63]His back against the wall [00:55.85]****** fought like us - damn [00:57.47] [00:58.17]Poor Isis, that's his momma name [00:59.88]Momma ain't strong enough to raise [01:01.62]no boy, what's his father name [01:03.59]Shorty never knew him [01:04.84]though he had his blood in him [01:06.26]Hot temper, momma said he act [01:08.05]just like her hu******and [01:09.17]Daddy never ****** with him [01:10.68]so the streets raised him [01:12.02]Isis blaming herself [01:12.83]she wish she could've saved him [01:14.28] [01:14.80]Damn near impossible, only men can raise men [01:17.54]He was his own man [01:18.58]not even him can save him [01:20.27]He put his faith in a [01:21.48]thirty-eight in his waist [01:22.85]But when you live by [01:24.11]the gun you die by the same fate [01:25.81]End up, dead before thirty-eight and umm [01:28.82]That's the life of us raised [01:30.31]by winter, it's a cold world [01:32.33]Old girl turned to coke [01:33.53]tried to smoke her pain away [01:35.05]Isis, life just, ended on that rainy day [01:37.92]When she got the news her boy [01:39.36]body could be viewed [01:40.32]down at the City Morgue [01:41.58]opened the drawer, saw him nude [01:43.26]Her addiction grew, prescription drugs, ******ft and brew [01:47.10]Angel dust, dipped in WOO! [01:49.24]She slipped into, her own fantasy world [01:51.72] [01:52.29]Had herself pregnant by a different dude [01:54.75]But reality bites and, this is her life [01:57.79]He wasn't really her hu******and [01:59.44]though he called her wife [02:00.67]It was just this night when, moon was full [02:03.62]And the stars were just right [02:05.11]and the dress was real tight [02:06.33]Had her sounding like Lisa Lisa [02:08.17]I wonder if I take you home [02:09.51]will you still love me after this night [02:11.54] [02:12.51]Mike was the hardhead from the around the way [02:14.83]that she wanted all her life [02:16.49]******t she wanted all the hype [02:18.10]Used to hold on tight [02:19.38]when he wheelied on the bike [02:20.63]He was a Willie all her life [02:22.00]he wasn't really the one to like [02:23.44]It was a, dude named Shy who [02:25.22]would really treat her right [02:26.40]He wanted to run to the country [02:27.75]to escape the city life [02:28.99] [02:29.53]But I-sis, like this, Broadway life [02:31.57]She loved the Gucci sneakers [02:33.49]the red green and whites [02:35.05]Hangin out the window when [02:36.46]she first seen him fight [02:37.96]She was so turned on that [02:39.40]she had to shower twice [02:40.46] [02:40.98]How ironic it would, be some fight that [02:43.79]turned into a homicide [02:45.17]that'll alter their life [02:46.57]See Mike at thirty-two was [02:47.79]still on the scene [02:49.44]Had a son fifteen that he never saw twice [02:51.67] [02:52.26]Sure he saw him as an infant [02:53.88]but he dissed on him like [02:55.34]"If that was my son, he would look much different [02:58.06]See I'm light-skinned and that baby there's dark [03:00.77]so it's, momma's baby; poppa's maybe [03:03.09] [03:03.69]Mike was still crazy out there running [03:05.60]the streets （****** ******s want?） [03:06.69]Had his old reliable [03:07.69]with thirty-eight gun in his reach [03:09.35]It's been fourteen years [03:10.69]him and Isis ain't speak [03:12.16]He running around like life's a peach, 'til one day [03:15.18]he approached this thug that, had a mean mug [03:17.61] [03:18.22]And it looked so familiar [03:19.68]that he called him "Young Cuz" [03:20.70]Told him, get off the strip [03:22.30]but the boy ain't budge （****** you） [03:23.94]Instead he pulled out a newer thirty-eight snub [03:26.62]He clearly had the drop [03:28.14]but the boy just paused （hold up） [03:29.39]There was somethin in this man's [03:30.95]face he knew he seen before [03:32.31]It's like, lookin in the mirror [03:33.74]seeing hisself more mature [03:34.88] [03:35.42]And he took it as a sign from the almighty Lord [03:38.24]You know what they say about he [03:39.94]who hesitates in war [03:41.21]（What's that?） He who hesitates is lost [03:43.63]He can't explain what he saw before [03:45.51]his picture went blank [03:46.49]The old man didn't think he [03:47.95]just followed his instinct [03:49.36] [03:49.92]Six shots into his kid, out of the gun [03:52.58]******s be a father, you're Killing your son [03:55.40]Six shots into his kid, out of the gun [03:58.53]******s be a father, you Killing your sons