[ti:The Bigger Picture]
[ar:Lil Baby]
[al:Rap 2020]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:00.000] 作词 : Dominique Jones/Rai'Shaun Williams/Noah Pettigrew
[00:00.018] 作曲 : Dominique Jones/Rai'Shaun Williams/Noah Pettigrew
[00:00.370] Protests and growing national outcry continues over
[00:05.710] (Section 8 just straight cooked this mother****er up)
[00:06.710] The death of George Floyd
[00:08.080] Last night, people protesting in Minneapolis escalated
[00:11.480] As demonstrators were lashed by tear gas and rubber ******s
[00:15.930] The main message here, the main message here,
[00:17.520] The main message here
[00:18.210] Is that they want to see those officers involved
[00:20.320] They want to see those officers arrested
[00:22.750] Officers arrested
[00:23.860] (I can't breathe, I can't breathe)
[00:27.400] Trade my 4x4 for a G63, ain't no more free Lil Steve
[00:30.990] I gave 'em chance and chance and chance again,
[00:32.760] I even done told them please
[00:34.260] I find it crazy the police'll shoot you
[00:35.890] And know that you dead, but still tell you to freeze
[00:37.580] ****ed up, I seen what I seen
[00:38.780] I guess that mean hold him down if he say he can't breathe
[00:40.990] It's too many mothers that's grieving
[00:42.410] They killing us for no reason
[00:43.630] Been going on for too long to get even
[00:45.310] Throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas
[00:47.070] I went to court and they sent me to prison
[00:48.820] My mama was crushed when they said I can't leave
[00:50.600] First I was drunk, then I sobered up quick
[00:52.290] When I heard all that time that they gave to Taleeb
[00:54.240] He got a life sentence plus
[00:55.680] We just some products of our environment
[00:57.540] How the **** they gon' blame us?
[00:59.110] You can't fight fire with fire
[01:00.550] I know, but at least we can turn up the flames some
[01:02.680] Every colored person ain't dumb and all whites not racist
[01:05.990] I be judging by the mind and heart,
[01:07.890] I ain't really into faces
[01:09.540] ****ed up, the way that we livin'
[01:10.950] Is not getting better, you gotta know how to survive
[01:12.670] Crazy, I had to tell all of my loved ones
[01:14.500] To carry a gun when they going outside
[01:16.310] Stare in the mirror whenever you drive
[01:17.940] Overprotective, go crazy for mine
[01:19.730] You gotta pay attention to the signs
[01:21.380] Seem like the blind following the blind
[01:23.100] Thinking 'bout everything that's going on
[01:24.840] I boost security up at my home
[01:26.620] I'm with my kind if they right or they wrong
[01:28.420] I call him now, he'll pick up the phone
[01:30.200] And it's five in the morning, he waking up on it
[01:31.980] Tell 'em wherever I'm at, then they comin'
[01:33.700] I see blue lights, I get scared and start runnin'
[01:35.350] That shit be crazy, they 'posed to protect us
[01:37.180] Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us
[01:38.880] While they go home at night, that shit messed up
[01:40.820] Knowing we needed help, they neglect us
[01:42.540] Wondering who gon' make them respect us
[01:44.380] I can see in your eye that you fed up
[01:45.990] **** around, got my shot, I won't let up
[01:47.860] They know that we a problem together
[01:49.510] They know that we can storm any weather
[01:51.320] It's bigger than black and white
[01:52.470] It's a problem with the whole way of life
[01:54.420] It can't change overnight
[01:55.660] But we gotta start somewhere
[01:57.420] Might as well gon' 'head start here
[01:59.310] We done had a hell of a year
[02:00.870] I'ma make it count while I'm here
[02:02.970] God is the only man I fear
[02:04.620] **** it, I'm goin' on the front line
[02:06.510] He gon' bust your ass if you come past that gun line
[02:08.140] You know when the storm go away, then the sun shine
[02:09.840] You gotta put your head in the game when it's crunch time
[02:11.610] I want all my sons to grow up to be monsters
[02:13.230] I want all my daughters to show out in public
[02:14.960] Seems like we losing our country
[02:16.280] But we gotta stand up for something, so this what it comes to
[02:18.560] Every video I see on my conscience
[02:20.170] I got power, now I gotta say somethin'
[02:21.930] Corrupted police been the problem where I'm from
[02:23.650] But I'd be lying if I said it was all of them
[02:25.580] I ain't do this for the trend, I don't follow them
[02:27.350] Altercations with the law, had a lot of them
[02:29.040] People speaking for the people, I'm proud of them
[02:30.880] Stick together, we can get it up out of them
[02:32.450] I can't lie like I don't rap about killing and ****,
[02:34.340] But I'm telling my youngins to vote
[02:35.780] I did what I did
[02:36.620] 'cause I didn't have no choice or no hope,
[02:38.230] I was forced to just jump in and go
[02:39.540] This bullshit is all that we know,
[02:40.630] But it's time for a change
[02:41.550] Got time to be serious, no time for no games
[02:43.150] We ain't takin' no more, let us go from them chains
[02:44.910] God bless they souls, every one of them names
[02:46.710] It's bigger than black and white
[02:47.940] It's a problem with the whole way of life
[02:50.080] It can't change overnight
[02:51.320] But we gotta start somewhere
[02:53.150] Might as well gon' 'head start here
[02:54.990] We done had a hell of a year
[02:56.320] I'ma make it count while I'm here
[02:58.460] God is the only man I fear
[03:00.250] They trainin' officers to kill us,
[03:02.010] Then shootin' protestors with these rubber ******s
[03:03.770] They regular people, I know that they feel it
[03:05.330] These scars too deep to heal us
[03:06.850] What happened to COVID? Nobody remember
[03:08.400] It ain't makin' sense, I'm just here to vent
[03:10.110] It happen to one of your people, it's different
[03:11.840] We get it, the system is wicked, just learn how to pick it
[03:14.180] Knowledge is power,
[03:15.020] I swear I'm a witness, I know that I'm gifted
[03:16.690] I won't go too deep 'cause I'm scared they'll get me
[03:18.370] Ain't scared to admit it, some shit I can't mention
[03:20.110] It's people who can, well, here's the chance
[03:21.830] I won't take the stand,
[03:22.770] But I'll take a stand for what I believe
[03:24.510] Must not be breathing the air that I breathe
[03:26.270] You know that the way that I bleed, you can bleed
[03:28.040] I never been a fan of police
[03:29.490] But my neighborhood know I try to keep peace
[03:31.480] So it's only right that I get in the streets
[03:33.180] March for a reason, not just on GP
[03:34.900] Our people died for us to be free
[03:36.630] **** do you mean? This was a dream
[03:38.480] Now we got the power that we need to have
[03:40.220] They don't want us with it and that's why they mad, yeah
[03:42.430] It's bigger than black and white
[03:43.620] It's a problem with the whole way of life
[03:45.860] It can't change overnight
[03:47.100] But we gotta start somewhere
[03:48.980] Might as well gon' 'head start here
[03:50.670] We done had a hell of a year
[03:52.110] I'ma make it count while I'm here
[03:54.120] God is the only man I fear
[03:55.860] It's bigger than black and white
[03:57.770] It's a problem with the whole way of life
[03:59.860] It can't change overnight
[04:01.040] But we gotta start somewhere
[04:02.870] Might as well gon' 'head start here
[04:04.620] We done had a hell of a year
[04:06.140] I'ma make it count while I'm here
[04:08.010] God is the only man I fear