(Ooh, Ohh) （哦，哦）

Here I stand before you - brown. 在这里，我站在你面前 - 棕色。

Color of the mountains 山上的颜色

Colossal as the earth 巨大的地球

Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery 在我自己的快乐和痛苦包裹着很香

Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind 我的翅膀羽毛瘫痪了我的心的距离

Here I stand before you, the color of the night 在这里，我站在你面前，夜晚的颜色

Frozen by the potential of me 由我的潜力冻结

(Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh) An Afro Angel （嗯，嗯，嗯，嗯，嗯，嗯，嗯，嗯，嗯）非裔天使

   

Afro Angel off your pedestal from perchin above 非洲裔天使开来perchin上方的基座

You on the prowl now, downtown, searchin for love 您在徘徊，现在，市中心， searchin爱

In all the wrong places, outside your radio stations 在所有错误的地方，你的电台外

Hopin he with new hit single, is tryin to mingle 新单曲河滨他，就是试着打成一片

Today, he is in your town, puttin it down 如今，他是在你的城市， puttin下来

You in the car with your friends, followin my limo around 您在车上与您的朋友，身边跟随着我的豪华轿车

Puttin a bug in my boy's ear, your "S" is for free 在我的男孩的耳朵Puttin的错误，你的“S”是免费的

You'll do anything for Omar or Phil, bring you to me 你会做什么的奥马尔和菲尔，带给你我

And then me, hypnotized by the devil as well 然后我催眠魔鬼，以及

Hold out my hand as an invitation into my hotel 伸出我的手，邀请到我的酒店

No need to RSVP, place your hand in my palm 无需RSVP ，把你的手在我的手心

As all your girlfriends getting jealous, damn she landed the bomb 所有你的女朋友越来越嫉妒，该死的，她降落炸弹

Willing to trade your spirit for some crass, whack wage 愿意交易的精神，为一些粗鲁，乱作一团工资

Something small, something simple as a pass back stage 小东西，因为一通后台简单的东西

But now I lay me, down to creep 但现在我躺在我，下至蠕变

And I - pray the Lord my soul to keep 而我 - 祈祷耶和华我的灵魂跟上

   

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Afro Angel, born against the world 非洲裔天使，天生对世界

You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride 你没有出卖自己的灵魂，扔掉你的骄傲

Afro Angel, sent from heaven above 非洲的天使，从上面天赐

Never forget that you are loved 永远不要忘记自己是被爱着

You know that you are loved 你知道你是爱

   

Lil Bobby got a gun now, age fifteen 律鲍比有枪了，年龄15

Destined to spend his life inside a cage it seems 注定要度过他的一生似乎在一个笼子里

Rage inside, pride, been denied respect 里面的愤怒，骄傲，一直否认有关

He can't take it though he gotta earn it 他不能把它虽然他得赚钱

But he ain't learned that yet 但他并不了解，但

Out on the town, reckless abandon he's been bullied before 出城，看穿他被人欺负才

But now he straps, and no more 但现在他带，并没有更多的

Attitude high 姿态高

Flexin on every guy that walk by Flexin对每一个走过的人

But don't start pal 但不启动PAL

Cuz if the gun came from the whiz, Cowardly Lion, got heart now 如果的Cuz枪来自飕飕，胆小的狮子，有心脏现在

Let's pull it on a stranger 让我们把它在一个陌生人

Ahh, fun for the crew 啊，好玩的船员

Surprised when he realized, damn dude got one too 惊讶，当他意识到，该死的家伙得到了一个过

Smile's upside down now, games ain't so cute 微笑的倒挂下来，现在，游戏是不是太可爱了

Bobby's a deer in a headlights 鲍比在头灯的鹿

Pump, drop it or I'll shoot 泵，砸，不然我就开枪

Then like a sniper, cleanin his rifle, Bobby disobeys his commands 然后像一个狙击手，洗洁他的步枪，鲍比不服从他的命令

One shot rings out [gunshot] then only the stranger stands 一杆响起了[枪击]那么只有看台上的陌生人

Could of sworn Bobby's blood formed the shape of an angel's wings 可以结拜Bobby的血液形成了一个天使的翅膀的形状

But for what? 但是，为了什么？

   

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Afro Angel, born against the world 非洲裔天使，天生对世界

You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride 你没有出卖自己的灵魂，扔掉你的骄傲

Afro Angel, sent from heaven above 非洲的天使，从上面天赐

Never forget that you are loved 永远不要忘记自己是被爱着

You know that you are loved 你知道你是爱

   

Back in high school, Tamika was the sweetest, the bomb 早在高中的时候，塔米卡是最甜蜜的，炸弹

Hot to death, though in tenth grade a teenage mom 在十年级一个十几岁的妈妈热得要死，但

Knocked up by some thug named Russ in the drug game 撞倒了一些暴徒名为拉斯在药物的游戏

But had the cutest kid you ever seen 但有可爱的孩子，你见过

Then all the pressure from her mom 然后，所有从她妈妈的压力

She stepped to Russ 她走到拉斯

Told him it's either them drugs or us 告诉他这是不是他们的药物或美国

Either them thugs or us 无论他们打手或美国

The ultimatum, either continue bein a thug in the world 最后通牒，要么继续在世界贝因暴徒

Or start lovin your girl 或启动爱着你的女孩

And say God, bear me witness, no doubt, lovin ya dear 说上帝，给我作见证，毫无疑问，爱着亲爱的雅

But to go from $50 Gees a week to $30 Gees a year 但是从美元一个星期50 Gees的一年去30元格斯

That ain't happenin 这不是happenin

I guess he wasn't that strong 我猜他是不是强

He came back the next week, and the whole family was gone 他回来了下周，全家不见了

Yo they straight moved away, without as little as a word 哟，他们直接离开，没有少一个字

Well, needless to say, Russ was a little perturbed 好了，不用说，拉斯心里有点忐忑

Then in a fury put the pressure on her girlfriend Shawn 然后在把愤怒压在她的女友余文乐

And like a clumsy chef she spilled the beans on where they had gone 像一个笨拙的厨师，她洒在他们走后豆

   

Upstate Schenectady, 上州斯克内克塔迪，

Tamika answered the door 塔米卡应门

It was the last person she expected to be 这是最后一个人，她有望成为

They just stared 他们只是盯着

He said you love me for me? 他说，你爱我吗？

You can do without the cars, vacations, and jewelry? 你可以不使用汽车，休假和珠宝？

Down with me? 打倒我吗？

Period. 期。

Through life's stress and strife 通过生活中的压力和冲突

She said, Yeah, He said in that case 她说，是的，他在这种情况下说

Would you please be my wife? 请你做我的妻子吗？

Then like a sign from the sky, the baby cried 然后像从天空的标志，宝宝哭了

Like an angel sings 像天使一样唱歌

I love y'all more than anything 我爱你们比什么都

   

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Afro Angel, born against the world 非洲裔天使，天生对世界

You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride 你没有出卖自己的灵魂，扔掉你的骄傲

Afro Angel, sent from heaven above 非洲的天使，从上面天赐

Never forget that you are loved 永远不要忘记自己是被爱着

You know that you are loved 你知道你是爱

   

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