Afro Angel-Will Smith/Dru Hill/Kool Mo Dee

[00:00.00] 作词 : Bennett, Dorough, Smith, Smith [00:01.76]afro angel [00:03.09] [00:03.65]Here I stand before you - brown. [00:06.34]Color of the mountains [00:08.30]Colossal as the earth [00:09.74]Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery [00:13.47]Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind [00:18.17]Here I stand before you, the color of the night [00:21.61]Frozen by the potential of me [00:24.17](Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh) An Afro Angel [00:28.07] [00:29.22]Afro Angel off your pedestal from perchin above [00:32.19]You on the prowl now, downtown, searchin for love [00:35.11]In all the wrong places, outside your radio stations [00:38.24]Hopin he with new hit single, is tryin to mingle [00:41.54]Today, he is in your town, puttin it down [00:43.27]You in the car with your friends, followin my limo around [00:46.95]Puttin a bug in my boy's ear, your "S" is for free [00:49.62]You'll do anything for Omar or Phil, bring you to me [00:52.42]And then me, hypnotized by the devil as well [00:55.43]Hold out my hand as an invitation into my hotel [00:58.20]No need to RSVP, place your hand in my palm [01:01.12]As all your girlfriends getting jealous, damn she landed the bomb [01:03.85]Willing to trade your spirit for some crass, whack wage [01:08.51]Something small, something simple as a pass back stage [01:11.01]But now I lay me, down to creep [01:13.15]And I - pray the Lord my soul to keep [01:15.92]Afro Angel, born against the world [01:21.55]You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride [01:26.73]Afro Angel, sent from heaven above [01:33.39]Never forget that you are loved [01:38.27]You know that you are loved [01:41.23] [01:44.39]Lil Bobby got a gun now, age fifteen [01:48.14]Destined to spend his life inside a cage it seems [01:51.14]Rage inside, pride, been denied respect [01:53.88]He can't take it though he gotta earn it [01:55.70]But he ain't learned that yet [01:57.14]Out on the town, reckless abandon he's been bullied before [02:00.04]But now he straps, and no more [02:01.97]Attitude high [02:03.18]Flexin on every guy that walk by [02:04.88]But don't start pal [02:06.02]Cuz if the gun came from the whiz, Cowardly Lion, got heart now [02:08.53]Let's pull it on a stranger [02:10.28]Ahh, fun for the crew [02:12.07]Surprised when he realized, damn dude got one too [02:14.03]Smile's upside down now, games ain't so cute [02:17.51]Bobby's a deer in a headlights [02:19.04]Pump, drop it or I'll shoot [02:20.28]Then like a sniper, cleanin his rifle, Bobby disobeys his commands [02:23.88]One shot rings out (gunshot) then only the stranger stands [02:26.74]Could of sworn Bobby's blood formed the shape of an angel's wings [02:30.09]But for what? [02:32.98]Afro Angel, born against the world [02:37.14]You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride [02:42.06]Afro Angel, sent from heaven above [02:49.19]Never forget that you are loved [02:53.56]You know that you are loved [03:00.61]Back in high school, Tamika was the sweetest, the bomb [03:04.09]Hot to death, though in tenth grade a teenage mom [03:06.97]Knocked up by some thug named Russ in the drug game [03:10.24]But had the cutest kid you ever seen [03:12.45]Then all the pressure from her mom [03:14.47]She stepped to Russ [03:15.61]Told him it's either them drugs or us [03:17.58]Either them thugs or us [03:19.26]The ultimatum, either continue bein a thug in the world [03:22.95]Or start lovin your girl [03:24.29]And say God, bear me witness, no doubt, lovin ya dear [03:27.27]But to go from $50 Gees a week to $30 Gees a year [03:30.43]That ain't happenin [03:31.77]I guess he wasn't that strong [03:33.29]He came back the next week, and the whole family was gone [03:35.98]Yo they straight moved away, without as little as a word [03:38.93]Well, needless to say, Russ was a little perturbed [03:41.96]Then in a fury put the pressure on her girlfriend Shawn [03:44.86]And like a clumsy chef she spilled the beans on where they had gone [03:47.99]Upstate Schenectady, [03:49.88]Tamika answered the door [03:51.43]It was the last person she expected to be [03:53.42]They just stared [03:54.81]He said you love me for me? [03:56.52]You can do without the cars, vacations, and jewelry? [03:59.75]Down with me? Period. [04:01.40]Through life's stress and strife [04:02.72]She said, Yeah, He said in that case [04:04.27]Would you please be my wife? [04:05.41]Then like a sign from the sky, the baby cried [04:07.49]Like an angel sings [04:09.13]I love y'all more than anything [04:11.13]Afro Angel, born against the world [04:17.24]You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride [04:21.88]Afro Angel, sent from heaven above [04:28.58]Never forget that you are loved [04:34.40]You know that you are loved [04:39.52]Afro Angel, born against the world [04:46.12]You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride [04:50.81]Afro Angel, sent from heaven above [04:57.60]Never forget that you are loved [05:02.69]You know that you are loved