[Chorus: Woman singing] [合唱：女人唱]

I see people hating other people 我看到人们憎恨别人

Tell me what's the reason 告诉我是什么原因

That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money 那你的孩子是饿了，你是不是没有钱

What's the reason? 是什么原因呢？

   

[Verse 1: Nas] [诗歌1 ：纳斯]

By the time of age nine I'm already decidin' 由9岁的时候我已经decidin

If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin' 如果我可以保护妈妈从引擎盖被格斗

Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one 或全光照刀或枪，当我21

By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment 通过然后将它们抽油烟机的woulda推自己的方式在我们的公寓

And we die then, so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects 我们死了以后，所以我一直在计划一个年轻的神经崩溃

Watchin' them older niggaz pass pot and they high man 凝视着他们年长的兄弟们通锅，他们高的人

I'm just a young boy, snot nose, hair nappy 我只是一个小男孩，鼻涕鼻子，头发尿布

Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me 警察搭squeezin “他们触发的手指在我

So I would go to school and try to get good grades 所以，我会去学校，尽量取得好成绩

Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids 老师写妈妈踢我离开学校就吃辫子

So she cussed them, said "My son ain't no motherfuckin' hoodlum" 于是她讨论过他们，说： “我的儿子是不是没有娘流氓”

They judged us, thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from 他们判断我们，以为我们愚蠢“的原因我们来自哪里

Got a little older and now I see 有洁癖的，现在我明白了

Young niggaz wanted by the powers that be (powers that be) 年轻的兄弟们希望通过该会（权力是这样）的权力

   

[Chorus: Woman singing] [合唱：女人唱]

I see people hating other people 我看到人们憎恨别人

Tell me what's the reason 告诉我是什么原因

That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money 那你的孩子是饿了，你是不是没有钱

What's the reason? 是什么原因呢？

For these wars we're fighting with each other 对于这些战争我们正在争取与对方

Season after season 年复一年

When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin' 当你干活的艰苦，但没有什么科曼

What's the reason? 是什么原因呢？

   

[Verse 2: Nas] [诗2：纳斯]

Uh, picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th Ave 呃，画面黑色保姆和一篮婴儿推着倒第五大道

She never had it, it's not hers to begin with 她从来没有过，这是不是她开始与

She gives it breakfast, baths and dinners 她给它的早餐，浴室和晚餐

Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on 黄柏这么温柔，而她自己的孩子独自住在家里，没有电话

Ain't had a good meal in so long, but so long as mommy's a maid 是不是有这么久好饭，但只要妈咪的女佣

Cookin' and cleanin', she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin' 乱打“和洗洁用品” ，她想喂她的孩子和她的孩子们都在作梦

Where's my daddy, who's my daddy, have you seen him? 哪里是我的爸爸，谁是我的爸爸，你见过他吗？

I could imagine them askin', what type of human be-ing 我能想象他们阿斯金 ，什么类型的人来，荷兰国际集团

Could leave his family, go back to the Carribean? 可以离开了他的家人，回到加勒比海？

Was he locked up, shot up, does he have freedom? 难道他关起来，拍了起来，他有自由吗？

Mom said wipe your tears, keep readin' 妈妈说你擦去眼泪，继续看书“

But daddy's somewhere, spirit broken, feelin' defeated 但爸爸的地方，精神坏了，感觉打败

A man feels he has to conquer all 一个人觉得自己有征服一切

The world is his oyster, his pearl so y'all know 世界是他的牡蛎，他的珍珠让你们都知道

   

[Chorus: Woman singing] [合唱：女人唱]

I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace 我找不到任何理由，为什么我们不能每个人都生活在和平

'Cause this world keeps spinning, yet still I wonder what's the reason “原因是这个世界都在旋转，但仍不知是什么原因

   

I see people hating other people 我看到人们憎恨别人

Tell me what's the reason 告诉我是什么原因

When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin' 当你干活的辛苦，但也没什么科曼

What's the reason? 是什么原因呢？

Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa 哦，哇哦，哇！

   

[Verse 3: Nas] [第3节：纳斯]

I know a girl, her boyfriend was a fugitive 我认识一个女孩，她的男友是个逃犯

She's intuitive, be on some stupid shit 她的直觉，是对一些蠢事

She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother 她打电话给警察，因为她恨自己的母亲

Now he away doin' numbers, now she gay with her lover 现在他走干什么号码，现在她的同性恋与她的情人

How many niggaz gon' die this summer? 有多少兄弟们坤死这个夏天？

I pump life in my music, but still life is a wonder 我在音乐生活泵，但仍然生活是个奇迹

There's a officer in a squad car, he's a prostitute serial killer 有一个在一队车一军官，他是一个妓女连环杀手

It's odd, huh? 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife 很奇怪，对吧？因为他与妻子同警察在教堂

He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night 他molestin “他的儿子和她忽略了它在夜间

Little bad ass bastard, lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz 有点坏的屁股混蛋，灯光匹配，并杀死贝蒂沙巴兹

in her pad while she slept 在她的键盘，而她睡

They said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twister 他们说，普雷斯科特·布什资助希特勒，而世界上的捻线机

Nigga, what you expect? Imagine what's next 兄弟们，你还指望什么？试想一下，接下来会发生什么

   

[Chorus: Woman singing] [合唱：女人唱]

I see people hating other people 我看到人们憎恨别人

Tell me what's the reason 告诉我是什么原因

That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money 那你的孩子是饿了，你是不是没有钱

What's the reason? 是什么原因呢？

For these wars we're fighting with each other 对于这些战争我们正在争取与对方

Season after season 年复一年

When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin' 当你干活的艰苦，但没有什么科曼

What's the reason? 是什么原因呢？

   

[Woman harmonizes as Nas talks:] [女人和谐为纳斯会谈： ]

"Uh, uh, man, man'll search the whole planet, looking for what “嗯，嗯，人， manll搜索整个地球，寻找什么

Try to conquer all. So what? To all my niggaz with they 试图征服一切。所以呢？我所有的兄弟们与他们

kids that love they kids, man. All the daddies out there 孩子爱自己的孩子，男人。所有的爸爸在那里

To all the niggaz that died tryin'a figure out what's what 为了所有死去tryina弄清楚什么是什么的兄弟们

Tryin'a be the biggest of the big, you know. Yeah, yeah Tryina是最大的大的，你知道。是啊，是啊

Ladies forgive us. Gotta forgive us. For we know not what 女士们原谅我们。得原谅我们。因为我们不知道什么

we do. Breakin' hearts, leavin' the crib, buggin' out and 我们做的。伤了的心，要走了婴儿床，迷恋出来，

shit. Just man... man." 狗屎。正直的人......男人。 “