Habitat-Mos Def

[00:00.000] 作词 : Davis, Prosper, Smith [00:09.887] We all got to have, a place where we come from [00:14.651] This place that we come from is called home [00:19.790] We set out on our travels, we do the best we can [00:24.720] We travel this big earth as we roam [00:30.011] We all got to have, a place where we come from [00:34.742] This place that we come from is called home [00:39.818] And even though we may love, this place on the map [00:44.676] Said it ain't where ya from, it's where ya at [00:49.866] I come up in the street around some real wild brothers [00:52.287] With more than one name and more than one baby mother [00:54.772] More than one case, been on more than one run [00:57.293] Got more than one enemy and more than one gun [00:59.789] Partner, all that's left to want is more [01:02.269] While these cats that's less privileged is just more raw [01:04.643] Less space cause the projects laced with more flaws [01:07.203] Less sleep cause the nights ain't peace, it's more war [01:09.661] The can is raw like thirsty, rainy season thunder claps [01:12.183] On the block with your old pop pleading number act [01:14.670] To the spot with the red top fiends is huddled at [01:17.142] To the crib where the little kids spend their summers trapped [01:19.569] With the jungle cats, lions and tigers, leopards and cheetahs [01:22.076] For gazelle you get chased like a zebra, they blaze cheeba-cheeba [01:25.292] And dominate the weaker on the street [01:27.028] Hungry bellies only love what they eat and it's hard to compete [01:30.157] When they smile with your heart in they teeth [01:32.095] And the odds is stacked high beyond and beneath [01:34.530] Son I been plenty places in my life and time [01:37.159] And regardless where home is, son home is mine [01:39.681] We all got to have, a place where we come from [01:44.494] This place that we come from is called home [01:49.542] We set out on our travels, we do the best we can [01:54.429] We travel this big earth as we roam [01:59.610] We all got to have, a place where we come from [02:04.583] This place that we come from is called home [02:09.349] And even though we may love, this place on the map [02:14.459] Said it ain't where ya from, it's where ya at [02:19.487] Some people live out in-New York City [02:21.890] Some people live in-Atlanta [02:24.162] Some people got to live-Chicago [02:26.793] Some people do live-Miami [02:29.474] All my people at-California [02:31.743] And other people got to live-London [02:34.375] And everybody got to live in the whole big world [02:36.948] Together just you and me [02:39.159] When I think of home, my remembrance of my beginning [02:41.931] Laundromat helping ma dukes fold the bed linen [02:44.520] Chillin in front my building with my brother and them [02:46.823] Spending nights in Bushwick with my cousins and them [02:49.237] Wise town and Beat Street, federal relief [02:51.762] Slowly melting in the morning grits we used to eat [02:54.434] Sticking to your teeth and teeth is hard to keep [02:56.828] With every flavor Now & Later only a dime apiece [02:59.323] Old timers on the bench playing cards and thangs [03:01.735] Telling tales about they used to be involved in things [03:04.244] Start to drinking, talking loud, cussing up and showing out [03:06.836] On the phone, call the cops, pick'em up, move'em out [03:09.640] And it's all too common to start wildin [03:11.875] I'm a pirate on an island seeking treasure known as silence [03:14.364] And it's hard to find [03:15.388] Block parties in dark lobbies [03:16.921] Funeral homes packed but only dark bodies [03:19.348] I can't sleep hardly, stirred up like Bob Marley [03:21.866] Marley Marl played the symphony, remember we recall [03:24.296] Son I been to many places in my space and time [03:26.805] And whatever my home is, son home is mine [03:29.356] We all got to have, a place where we come from [03:34.201] This place that we come from is called home [03:38.905] We set out on our travels, we do the best we can [03:44.143] We travel this big earth as we roam [03:49.041] We all got to have, a place where we come from [03:54.232] This place that we come from is called home [03:59.065] And even though we may love, this place on the map [04:04.154] Said it ain't where ya from, it's where ya at