[Hook:] [钩： ]

I've tried to do right 我试图做正确的

Seems as though the only way is selling my soul 仿佛只有这样，卖了我的灵魂

It's getting hard out here 这是很难走出这里

Does anybody feel me? 有谁感觉到我吗？

Cause I'm drowning in shame 因为我淹没在耻辱

Trying to maintain 试图维持

Wide awake chasing my dreams 清醒追逐我的梦想

Is anybody out there? 是否有人在吗？

Can anybody hear me? 任何人都可以听到我吗？

[Verse 1: Ab-Soul] [诗歌1 ： AB-魂]

Sometimes I gotta ask myself what do I do it for 有时候，我得问自己，我该怎么做了

Is it to cover up the fact I'm really insecure? 它是为了掩饰我真的很没有安全感的事实？

See music made it possible for me to be somebody 见的音乐使人们有可能对我来说是某人

So if you had to say yourself 所以，如果你说的话你自己

Is my intention pure? 我打算纯？

Am I the next Shakur? 我是下一个沙克？

Or an intention whore? 或有意妓女？

Am I big in this prom or am I premature 我在这个舞会大还是我过早

Does anybody feel me or am I too far to reach 有谁觉得我还是我太远到达

Like the edge of the world, from Redondo beach 像世界的边缘，距离雷东多海滩

Some say I manifest destiny when I'm on these beats 有人说我天命的时候我在这拍

Others say I ain't flashy enough to shine 别人说我不够华丽闪耀

You need a chain at least 你需要一个链条，至少

And you can be more hood 而且你可以更油烟机

You got niggas on both sides 你有黑鬼两侧

You acting like you ain't good 你表现得像你不好

Well you from Carson right 那么你从卡森权

[?] was tight [？]紧

And you hot 和你热

But can you make another soul on ice 但你可以在冰上另一个灵魂

Everybody trynna tell me what I shouldn't and should 每个人都trynna告诉我，我不应该和应

But will they still wanna [?] it up when I go 'wood 但是他们还是要[？]它，当我去'木

[Hook] [钩]

[Verse 2: Punch] [诗2：打孔]

My niggas searching for a pot o' gold 我的黑鬼寻找一个锅O'金

I can [?] to cool my heart to stone 我可以[？]我的心脏冷却至石

Pumping cement through my veins 在我血管里抽水泥

Taking everything for granted 采取一切是理所当然的

Who can recognise my pain 谁又能知道我的伤痛

Y'all niggas never did hear me 你们都黑鬼从来没有听到我

So I quit calling out to niggas 所以我辞职了呼唤黑鬼

Let y'all deal with it, I figured 让你们对付它，我想

Why cast my pearls to swine 为什么投我的珍珠猪

If you don't know about grapes 如果你不知道葡萄

I couldn't tell you 'bout wine 我不能告诉你什么叫酒

I couldn't tell you 'bout these lines 我不能告诉你什么叫这些行

They just hit me like rain 他们只是打我如雨

Without a cloud in the sky 无云的天空

On a summer's day 在一个夏天的一天

Ay, I guess it's how I was raised 唉，我想这是我从小接受的

Accurate knowledge, while my peers frolicked and played 准确的知识，而我的同伴嬉戏，发挥

My product was in some ways, disrupting my coming of age 我的产品在某些方面，打乱我的时代的到来

Future looking dim and Ab-Soul wear shades 未来的期待暗淡AB-魂穿色调

I'd never cover my face 我从来没有支付我的脸

I look death in the eyes, didn't blink one time 我看着死在眼里，没有闪烁一次

I never felt more alive than that day 我从来不觉得比白天更有活力

But who's to say I'm different 但谁又能说我与众不同

And when I speak niggas scared they ain't listening 当我说黑鬼害怕他们不听

And that's beyond me 这就是超越我

But I believe just four more minutes 但我相信，只有四分钟时间

And the truth was stranger than fiction once reality get to kicking in 而事实是比虚构更离奇的现实一次去踢

It's like the modern day Noah's Ark, they took no note 这就像现代的诺亚方舟，他们没有采取任何注

Their bare heart came back and bit them no their hope floating 他们裸露的心脏回来了，咬他们不希望自己的浮

That's why I'm fishing through a sea of niggas 这就是为什么我通过黑鬼的海底捞

They don't hear me and I don't see 'em niggas 他们不听我的，我没有看见他们的黑鬼

[Hook] [钩]

[Verse 3: Ab-Soul] [第3节： AB-魂]

You see, it's like the Titanic scene 你看，它就像泰坦尼克号的场景

With the rescue boats 随着救援艇

Slash dramatic in that 戏剧性的削减在

I can save y'all with quotes 我能救你们都用引号

I dropped the gym adrenaline accelerated my pulse 我放弃了健身房肾上腺素加速我的脉搏

And I can say it's dope but what do I really know 我可以说这是涂料，但什么才是我真正知道

Currently the word is that I'm too abstract 目前，这个词是我过于抽象

I can barely get my engineer to mix my tracks 我几乎让我的工程师混我的轨道

I'm trynna provide you with facts 我trynna为您提供的事实

Trynna keep it real Trynna保持真实

But y'all not interested in that 但你们都在不感兴趣

You're more concerned with my appeal 你更关心我的呼吁

You rather see me on youtube, unconcealing and still 你愿意看到我在YouTube上， unconcealing仍

Or on WorldstarHipHop, with diamonds in my wristwatch 或WorldstarHipHop ，在我的钻石手表

Or a media take-out 或媒体外带

Victim of a media stakeout 媒体放样的受害者

Cursing them out so bad 骂出来这么差

Most of my words were blanked out 我的大部分话都空白了

I hate it when my name is mentioned with the same niggas 我恨它，当我的名字被提及与同黑鬼

Who other than their DNA are the same niggas 谁比他们的DNA等都是一样的黑鬼

They in the same circle, fuck the same bitches 他们在同一个圈子，他妈的相同的母狗

Shake the same hands, man I'm trynna expand 摇动手中一样，男人我是trynna扩大

For me it's gotta be to catch a flight back to Carson 对我来说，这得是要赶飞机回卡森

I'm a need a passport for it 我需要一本护照吧

If you don't wanna hear me do your boy a favour 如果你不想听我做你的孩子一个忙

And press fast-forward, and listen to the emotion in the chorus 然后按快进，并听取了情感在合唱

No this ain't a [?] outfit 不，这不是一个[？]穿搭

But if it was I wore it 但如果是我穿着它

Come from a different cloth, rippin my bars 从不同的布来了， rippin我吧

Pause 暂停

With my bare hands I can move the earth 与我赤手空拳，我可以撬动地球

Just cause I said it in my verse 只是因为我说我的诗章

That's the power of words 这就是文字的力量

You may not ever get what I was trying to accomplish 你可能永远不会得到我试图完成

I might not ever get to do a song with Jay 我可能永远不会得到跟周杰伦的一首歌

And hear him brag on Hot97 about how I'm so [?] 而且听他吹嘘的Hot97我是如何很[？]

I'm ready to throw in the towel like laundry day 我已经准备好投入，例如洗衣日毛巾

But I feel as though I've reached the point of no return 不过，我觉得好像我已经达到了不归路

Like an expired thirty day warranty 如过期30天保修

And I deserve to be the best artist you heard 我应该是你听过的最好的艺术家

And I put that on, [?] 我把上， [？]

That's my word 这是我的话