[Verse 1] [诗歌1 ]

She was on her way to becoming a college graduate 她是在她即将成为大学毕业生

Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid 甚至不会停下来跟我们的孩子平均

The type of latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with 拉丁的类型我会坐下来思考婚姻

Fuck the horse and carriage shit, her love was never for hire 他妈的马和马车，妈的，她的爱是永远不会出租

Disciplined, intellectual beauty's what I desire 纪律严明，知性美女就是我的愿望

Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez 传单比萨尔玛·海耶克和珍妮弗·洛佩兹

Everyone told me, kickin' it to her was hopeless 每个人都告诉我，唱歌的是她是没有希望的

At first I just thought, she didn't mess with broke kids 起初我只是想，她没有惹破产孩子

The thug niggas always talking about, how they smoke kids 暴徒黑鬼总是在谈论，他们怎么抽烟的孩子

But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play 但富嗅焦的孩子有没有戏

"I'm not even interested" is what her body language would say “我什至不感兴趣”是她的肢体语言会说

Everyone around the way, gave up trying to get in it 周围的每个人的方式，放弃了试图在这

It didn't matter how good your game was, she wasn't with it 没有关系你的游戏有多好，她没有与它

On the block, bitches was jealous, but wouldn't admit it 在程序，母狗是嫉妒，但不承认的话

Talk shit, and deny to everyone that they did it 谈狗屎，并拒绝给大家，他们做到了

'Cause they regretted the long list of niggas that they let hit it 因为他们感到遗憾的黑鬼的长名单，他们让我们打它

And no one ever gave them shit except McDonald's and did-dick 而且从来没有人给他们的狗屎，除了麦当劳，做，迪克

Smoking weed with thoughts of envy, whenever they lit it 抽大麻羡慕的想法，每当他们把它点燃

She spoke intelligently and they bit it, always trying to copy 她谈到智能，就咬它，总是试图复制

But when they tried to use her vocab, they sounded sloppy 但是，当他们试图用她的词汇，他们听起来稀松

She had a style, all her own, respectful and pure 她有一个风格，都是自己做的，尊重和纯

I was sick in the head for her, and there wasn't a cure 我生病的头给她，而且没有治愈

   

[Hook - Jean Grae] [钩 - 让GRAE ]

Don't you know that, time waits for no man 难道你不知道，时间不等人

Not fate, it's all planned 不是命运，这一切都计划

I'm blessed just to know you 我很幸运只知道你

I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night 我曾经爱过，我已经失去了刚刚整夜抱着你

Can't find, a reason why 找不到一个理由

God came, between you and I 神来了，你和我之间

If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go 如果我再有机会，我不会让你走

Hold tight to your love, 'cause you never know 紧抓住你的爱，因为你永远不知道

   

[Verse 2] [诗歌2]

Her eyes are brown and beautiful, yet empty and sad 她的眼睛是棕色的，美丽的，但空洞而忧伤

I used to talk to her occasionally, and she was glad 我曾经跟她说话偶尔，她很高兴

That I wasn't just another nigga trying to get in it 那我是不是只是一个黑人试图在这

So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute 因此，每一个现在，然后我们会停下来聊一分钟

I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours 我没有噱头，以便分钟变成小时

On her birthday, I gave her a poem with flowers 在她生日那天，我给她的诗与花

Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower 然后，我带她出去吃晚饭后，她表弟的婴儿洗澡

We talked about, power to the people and such 我们谈到，电于民而这种

We spent more time together but it was never enough 我们花了更多的时间在一起，但它永远都不够

I never tried to sneak a touch, or even cop a feel 我从来没有试过偷偷摸，甚至警察的感觉

I was too interested, in keeping it real 我太感兴趣，在保持它真正的

Perfectly honest and complete, she would always call me "carino", 坦白说，完整的，她总是叫我“卡里诺”

And never Technique, bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks 永不技术，给我买了一个新的书来读，每2 〜3周

Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak 永远的改变了我的想法的表达，当我说话

It was because of her, I even deaded all of my freaks 那是因为她，我什至deaded我所有的怪胎

She convinced me, to stop hangin' out on the streets 她说服了我，停止犹豫不决，在街头

To stop robbin' and stealin', from people like you 要停止罗宾和stealin “ ，从喜欢你的人

Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronx Zoo 相反，我带她出去阿波罗和布朗克斯动物园

We sailed del Barrio and the Metropolitan too 我们航行德尔巴里奥和大都会太

Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew 到了一点时，我是不是跟她还是我的船员

So I decided one day, to tell her my feelings was true 所以我决定有一天，告诉她我的感受是真实的

I couldn't live without her so I told her, facing my fears 我不能没有她，所以我告诉她，面对我的恐惧

But honey's only response, was a face full of tears 但是亲爱的唯一反应，满是泪水的脸

She could only sob hysterically, holding me tight 她只能歇斯底里地哭泣，紧抱着我

I tried to speak, but she wouldn't stop until I left sight 我想说话，但她不会停止，直到我离开视线

I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light 我觉得谁得到自己太接近光的飞蛾

Except I didn't burn, I turned cold after that night 除了我没烧，我那天晚上之后转冷

   

[Hook] [钩]

   

[Verse 3] [诗歌3 ]

I went on with my life, college and my career 我继续我的生活，大学，我的职业生涯

Ended up locked up like an animal for a year 最终锁定了像动物的一年

Where the C.O.'s talk to you like they were the overseer 当CO的谈话你喜欢他们的工头

Then I got sent to the hole, when my exit was near 后来，我被送到了洞，当我的退出是近

At night in my cell, I'd close my eyes and I'd see her 晚上在我的手机，我会闭上双眼，我看到她的

Hold her close in my dreams, but when I woke she disappeared 抱紧她在我的梦里，但当我醒来，她消失了

Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer 只是一个空单元格，直到国家给我假释的夏天

came back, in tact and on track 回来后，机智和轨道

But the fact of the matter, is I still felt cold 但事实上，是我仍然觉得冷

Even after my mother, hugged me, cryin' at home 即使我的母亲，抱住我，哭泣，在家里

My real niggas would catch me thinkin', out of my zone 我真正的黑鬼会抓我想的，我的区

Fuckin' lots of different women, but I still felt alone 他妈的很多不同的女人，但我还是觉得孤独

Relatively well-known around the New York underground 比较有名的周围纽约地下

But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down 但我一直在想她，我们如何使用下来

The sound of her voice, and the beautiful smell of her hair 她的声音，和美丽的气味她的头发

Though gone physically, somehow it was still there 虽然身体不见了，不知它仍然存在

I had to do something, because the shit was too much to bear 我必须做一些事情，因为狗屎太多负担

So I went and visited the building where she used to live 于是我就去参观了她曾经生活过的建筑

The world looks a lot different after you do a bid 世界看上去有很多不同的，你做竞价后，

The way your life done changed 顺便你的生活做改变

While primitive minds (are) still stuck in the same game 尽管原始的头脑（被）还停留在同一场比赛

Like her cousin who was on the corner slangin' cocaine 喜欢她的表妹是谁在角落slangin “可卡因

Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name 阶梯式大堂，拍了拍旁边的按钮，她的姓

Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up, like a mother ought to 她的妈妈忽然响起了我，抱住我，就像一个母亲应该

But her facial expression changed, when I asked about her daughter 但她的表情变了，当我问及她的女儿

   

[Hook] [钩]

   

[Verse 4] [第4节]

She told me that there was a note for me, that was left behind 她告诉我，有我一张纸条，那被留下

She had left it there waiting, for such a long time 她已经离开那里等着，这么长的时间

I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first 我倾向于问这个问题，但她首先提出来的

I saw a tear swelling up in her eye, and then she cursed 我看到了眼泪肿胀在她的眼睛，然后她大骂

She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst 她告诉我，这封信是我开始思考最差

Reversed my position, stepped over and opened the door 扭转我的位置，跨过打开门

And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor 果然有一个信封在地板上我的名字

"Nobody loves you more than me carino" is what the letter said “没有人爱你胜过我卡里诺”的信中说什么

   

"By the time you get to read this, I'll probably be dead “到时候你能读到这，我可能会死

But when you left in '97 a part of me went to Heaven 但是，当你离开97我的一部分去了天堂

I thank God at least I got to know what love really was 我感谢上帝，至少我知道了什么是爱真的是

But it hurt me, to see what true love really does 但它伤害了我，要明白什么是真正的爱情确实

'Cause even though we never made love, you were all that there was [因为即使我们从来没有爱，你所有的，有

It was because I loved you so much that I had to make you leave 那是因为我爱你这么多，我不得不让你离开

You made me doubt the way I thought, you made me want to believe 你让我怀疑我的思维方式，你让我要相信

And then I slipped up, and I let you get close to me 然后，我滑倒了，我让你靠近我

It was hard to not be openly when people spoke to me 这是很难不被公开，当人们对我说话

This was not the way I thought my life was supposed to be 这不是我想的办法我的生活应该是

Baby don't you see, I had a blood transfusion that left me with HIV 宝贝你不明白，我有一个输血给我留下了艾滋病毒

Hoped the end exists for me since late in 1993 希望年底的存在对我来说，因为晚于1993年

I died a virgin, I wish I could've given myself to you 我死了处女，我希望我能一直给自己给你

I cried in the hospital because there was no one else but you 我哭了，在医院，因为没有其他人，但您

Promise that you'll meet me in paradise inevitably 保证你会见到我在乐园里难免

No matter what, I'll keep your love forever with me" 无论怎样，我会永远保持你爱我“

   

What happened for the rest of the day is still a blur 发生了什么事在一天剩下的时间仍是一片模糊

But I remember wishing that I was dead, instead of her 但我记得希望我已经死了，而不是她

She was buried on August 3rd 她被安葬于8月3日

The story ends without a sequel 没有续集故事的结局

And now you know why Technique, don't fucking fall in love with people 现在你知道为什么技术，不他妈的爱上的人

Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you 认为，你爱紧密，如果他们在你旁边的人

The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you 你爱的人，对事不对人说会简单地和你做爱

Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 他们体会到的最大范围内，然后再超越

'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone 因为你永远不知道你得到了什么，直到它消失