[Kweli] [ Kweli ]

Go right to left, left to right 去从右到左，从左到右

Middle passage connection 中间通道连接

Yeah, about to build 是啊，约建

Tell you which way to go 告诉你走哪条路

   

[Both] [全部]

We go right to left, left to right 我们去从右到左，从左到右

If you fight to the death, what's left to fight 如果你决一死战，还剩下什么打

[X4] [ X4 ]

Yo, here we go 哟，我们开始吧

   

[Kweli] [ Kweli ]

I wanna write away 我想要写的走

I wanna write here 我想在这里写

I wanna write brave words to fight fear 我想要写的豪言壮语来战胜恐惧

Write dreams and nightmares 写梦和噩梦

Might scare the folks stuck in the day 可能会吓到卡在一天的乡亲

But nothing to say, 但没什么可说的，

Well I'm way ahead by light years 嗯，我前进的道路由光年

So beware we keep the lights on 所以要小心，我们不断的灯

I wanna write the songs from right to wrong 我想要写的歌从右到错

Right on 在右

Riding the light so you see in the dark 骑光让你在黑暗中看到

So deep you gotta be still like your beating heart 那么深，你得来还是喜欢你的心脏跳动

My words apply the pressure to make the bleeding stop 我的话适用于使出血停止的压力

See the art, living right, eating smart 看到了艺术，生活的权利，聪明吃

I wanna right to life, a right to death 我想生命权，死刑的权利

Police read your rights from right to left 警方由右至左读你的权利

But I never write to remain silent 但我从来不写保持沉默

I fight through police line 我从警察打线

Cops walk the beat that I write to 警察走了我写的节拍

I teach minds, write rhymes with the right sound 我教的思想，写儿歌用正确的声音

Right now, journalists write up 眼下，记者写了

I write down 我写下来

   

[Both: Chorus] [全部：合唱]

Party people put a hand in the sky 党的人把一只手在天空

Grab a cloud and squeeze til no man is dry 抢云和挤压直到没有人干

We wet it up, go ask the people if they plannin to die 我们湿润起来，去问问人，如果他们规划中死亡

Can't stay to live, consumers is plannin to buy 不能停留住，消费者是规划中购买

Smoke death operators is standing by 烟雾死亡运营商是站在

They take you order for the slaughter of the family why 他们把您订购的家庭为何屠宰

Do they make it so hard for a man to provide 难道他们做起来很辛苦的人提供

You better get wit it, or {stand to the side [X7]} 你最好机智，或{站到一边[ X7 ] }

   

[Vinia Mojica] [ Vinia Mojica ]

And the story line goes on 和故事线继续

Right to left, who's right who's wrong 从右到左，谁是对的谁是错的

Fuck the politics and pride 他妈的政治和骄傲

I just to try to stay alive 我只是尝试活路

To witness where the battle lines are drawn 见证那里的战线拉

Speak my mind and sing my song 说出自己的想法，唱我的歌

I'm passin on the moral y'all 我passin对你们的道德

This is ain't play 这不是玩

True, you got to know the way 诚然，你必须知道的方式

It's hard now 这很难，现在

Open eyes 睁眼

See hopeful lives 看到希望的生活

Sing it now 现在唱吧

   

[Kweli] [ Kweli ]

Making my way through life 使得通过生活我的路

Talking to elders and taking advice 谈起长老，并采取建议

Ignoring their words and paying the price 无视他们的话，并为此付出代价

Living in the world where false preachers got us praying to christ 生活在世界上，假传道人把我们祈求基督

Get with the young girls in the choir and laying the pipe 获取与少女合唱团和铺设管道

No control of our soul we all wait at the light 我们的灵魂无法控制，我们都在等待光

So comfortable they we hating to fight to make it right 太舒服了，他们恨我们要争取作出正确

Late at night I'm controlled by the DJ on the mic 夜深了，我在DJ的麦克风控制

I love hip-hop and every joint he playing is tight 我喜欢的hip- hop和每一个关节，他打很紧

A day in the life is a brick in the foundation of like 在生命中的一天是在基础砖状

A maze in Egypt amazing when I'm creating a sight 在埃及惊人的迷宫，当我创建一个视线

For the world to behold and the story to last 对于世界脱俗的故事到最后

So one day ghetto children can visit their glorious past 所以有一天贫民窟的孩子可以访问他们的辉煌的过去

After Pac and Notorious past what do we have 经过Pac和臭名昭著的过去我们有什么

Niggas worth more when they dead, it's so sad 黑鬼更有价值，当他们死了，它是如此的难过

Started with the slavery we finish the plan 开始我们完成了计划中的奴隶

But I broke the cycle, and became a man 但我打破的怪圈，成了一个男人

   

[Both: Chorus] [全部：合唱]

   

[Kweli] [ Kweli ]

Come on, 来吧，

I got my man Savion in the house 我得到了我的男人Savion的房子

We about to put it down 我们即将爱不释手

Here we go 开始了