You Never Know-Immortal Technique/Jean Grae

[00:00.000] 作词 : T. Ibrahim/Felipe Coronel [00:01.000] 作曲 : T. Ibrahim/Felipe Coronel [00:36.97]She was on her way to becoming a college graduate [00:39.17] [00:40.09]Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid [00:42.23] [00:42.97]The type of latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with [00:45.09] [00:46.09]**** the horse and carriage **** her love was never for hire [00:48.77] [00:49.40]Disciplined intellectual beauty's what I desire [00:52.26]Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez [00:54.39] [00:55.44]Everyone told me kickin' it to her was hopeless [00:57.70] [00:58.56]At first I just thought she didn't mess with broke kids [01:01.37]The thug ****** always talking about how they smoke kids [01:04.18] [01:04.75]But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play [01:07.53]"I'm not even interested" is what her body language would say [01:10.90]Everyone around the way gave up trying to get in it [01:13.71]It didn't matter how good your game was she wasn't with it [01:16.83]On the block ******* was jealous but wouldn't admit it [01:19.13] [01:19.70]Talk **** and deny to everyone that they did it [01:22.19] [01:22.70]'Cause they regretted the long list of ****** that they let hit it [01:26.11]And no one ever gave them **** except McDonald's and did-**** [01:29.09]Smoking **** with thoughts of envy whenever they lit it [01:32.09]She spoke intelligently and they bit it always trying to copy [01:35.58]But when they tried to use her vocab they sounded sloppy [01:38.70]She had a style all her own respectful and pure [01:41.40]I was sick in the head for her and there wasn't a cure [01:44.99] [01:46.30][Hook - Jean Grae] [01:48.80] [01:51.61]Don't you know that time waits for no man [01:53.54]Not fate it's all planned [01:55.23] [01:56.54]I'm blessed just to know you [01:59.10] [02:00.23]I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night [02:02.66] [02:03.85]Can't find a reason why [02:05.40] [02:06.02]God came between you and I [02:08.27]If I had the chance again I'd never let you go [02:12.08]Hold tight to your love 'cause you never know [02:15.03][Verse 2] [02:15.58]Her eyes are brown and beautiful yet empty and sad [02:17.71] [02:18.27]I used to talk to her occasionally and she was glad [02:20.89] [02:21.64]That I wasn't just another ***** trying to get in it [02:23.88] [02:24.70]So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute [02:27.06] [02:27.88]I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours [02:30.56]On her birthday I gave her a poem with flowers [02:33.86]Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower [02:37.04]We talked about power to the people and such [02:38.98] [02:39.79]We spent more time together but it was never enough [02:42.16] [02:42.79]I never tried to sneak a touch or even cop a feel [02:46.16]I was too interested in keeping it real [02:48.21] [02:48.97]Perfectly honest and complete she would always call me "carino" [02:52.58]And never Technique bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks [02:56.71]Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak [02:59.33]It was because of her I even deaded all of my freaks [03:02.63]She convinced me to stop hangin' out on the streets [03:05.81]To stop robbin' and stealin' from people like you [03:08.75]Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronx Zoo [03:12.12]We sailed del Barrio and the Metropolitan too [03:13.93] [03:14.74]Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew [03:18.17]So I decided one day to tell her my feelings was true [03:21.41]I couldn't live without her so I told her facing my fears [03:24.59]But honey's only response was a face full of tears [03:27.59]She could only sob hysterically holding me tight [03:29.77] [03:30.53]I tried to speak but she wouldn't stop until I left sight [03:32.89] [03:33.58]I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light [03:36.46]Except I didn't burn I turned cold after that night [03:38.69] [03:40.24][Hook - Jean Grae] [03:40.99]Don't you know that time waits for no man [03:43.43] [03:44.11]Not fate it's all planned [03:45.98] [03:46.81]I'm blessed just to know you [03:49.79] [03:50.91]I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night [03:53.30] [03:54.54]Can't find a reason why [03:56.04] [03:56.84]God came between you and I [03:58.97]If I had the chance again I'd never let you go [04:02.08] [04:02.91]Hold tight to your love 'cause you never know [04:05.76][Verse 3] [04:06.08]I went on with my life college and my career [04:08.58] [04:09.20]Ended up locked up like an animal for a year [04:11.01] [04:12.19]Where the C O 's talk to you like they were the overseer [04:14.62] [04:15.37]Then I got sent to the hole when my exit was near [04:18.07] [04:18.70]At night in my cell I'd close my eyes and I'd see her [04:21.58]Hold her close in my dreams but when I woke she disappeared [04:24.01] [04:24.57]Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer [04:28.44]Came back in tact and on track [04:30.31]But the fact of the matter is I still felt cold [04:33.42]Even after my mother hugged me cryin' at home [04:36.74]My real ****** would catch me thinkin' out of my zone [04:39.66]******' lots of different women but I still felt alone [04:42.41] [04:43.17]Relatively well-known around the New York underground [04:45.35] [04:46.15]But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down [04:48.97]The sound of her voice and the beautiful smell of her hair [04:51.89]Though gone physically somehow it was still there [04:55.27]I had to do something because the **** was too much to bear [04:58.34]So I went and visited the building where she used to live [05:01.46]The world looks a lot different after you do a bid [05:04.45]The way your life done changed [05:06.06]While primitive minds (are) still stuck in the same game [05:08.26] [05:09.19]Like her cousin who was on the corner slangin' ******* [05:11.44] [05:12.05]Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name [05:15.37]Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up like a mother ought to [05:18.90]But her facial expression changed when I asked about her daughter [05:21.44][Hook - Jean Grae] [05:22.19]Don't you know that time waits for no man [05:23.74]Not fate it's all planned [05:25.06]I'm blessed just to know you [05:28.24] [05:29.42]I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night [05:31.80] [05:32.86]Can't find a reason why [05:34.60] [05:35.30]God came between you and I [05:36.86] [05:37.78]If I had the chance again I'd never let you go [05:40.84] [05:41.35]Hold tight to your love 'cause you never know [05:43.52] [05:44.21][Verse 4] [05:44.47]She told me that there was a note for me that was left behind [05:47.72]She had left it there waiting for such a long time [05:50.51]I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first [05:52.96] [05:53.63]I saw a tear swelling up in her eye and then she cursed [05:56.76]She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst [05:59.76]Reversed my position stepped over and opened the door [06:01.94] [06:02.82]And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor [06:06.06]"Nobody loves you more than me carino" is what the letter said [06:09.11]"By the time you get to read this I'll probably be dead [06:11.49] [06:12.18]But when you left in '97 a part of me went to Heaven [06:15.36]I thank God at least I got to know what love really was [06:18.29]But it hurt me to see what true love really does [06:21.28]'Cause even though we never made love you were all that there was [06:24.46]It was because I loved you so much that I had to make you leave [06:27.31] [06:28.06]You made me doubt the way I thought you made me want to believe [06:31.06]And then I slipped up and I let you get close to me [06:33.74]It was hard to not be openly when people spoke to me [06:36.74]This was not the way I thought my life was supposed to be [06:39.72]Baby don't you see I had a blood transfusion that left me with HIV [06:43.47] [06:44.54]Hoped the end exists for me since late in 1993 [06:47.57]I died a virgin I wish I could've given myself to you [06:50.57]I cried in the hospital because there was no one else but you [06:53.77]Promise that you'll meet me in paradise inevitably [06:55.45] [06:56.89]No matter what I'll keep your love forever with me" [06:59.18] [07:00.19]What happened for the rest of the day is still a blur [07:03.05]But I remember wishing that I was dead instead of her [07:05.93]She was buried on August 3rd [07:07.48]The story ends without a sequel [07:08.99]And now you know why Technique don't ******* fall in love with people [07:12.17]Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you [07:14.47] [07:15.03]The one you love not the person that'll simply have *** with you [07:18.28]Appreciate them to the fullest extent and then beyond [07:20.96] [07:21.72]'Cause you never really know what you got until it's gone