[00:00.000] 作词 : Lonnie Lynn Jr./Kanye West/Leon Moore/Umar Bin Hassan/Abiodun Oyewole
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Lonnie Lynn Jr./Kanye West/Leon Moore/Umar Bin Hassan/Abiodun Oyewole
[00:14.747]Memories on corners with the fo's and the mo's
[00:17.829]Walk to the store for the rose, talking straightforward to hoes
[00:20.755]Got uncles that smoke, and some put blow up they nose
[00:23.863]To cope with the lows, the wind is cold and it blows
[00:26.711]In their socks and their soles, n*ggas holding they rolls
[00:30.159]Corners leave souls opened and closed, hoping for mo'
[00:33.581]With nowhere to go, n*ggas rolling in droves
[00:36.376]They shoot the wrong way, cause they ain't knowin' their goals
[00:39.276]The streets ain't safe cause they ain't knowing the code
[00:42.462]By the foes I was told, either focus or fold
[00:45.545]Got cousins with flows, hope they open some doors
[00:48.627]So we can cop clothes and roll in a Rolls
[00:51.684]Now I roll in a Olds, with windows that don't roll
[00:54.636]Down the roads where cars get broken and stole
[00:57.770]These are the stories told by Stony and Cottage Grove
[01:00.774]The world is cold, the block is hot as a stove
[01:03.752]On the corners
[01:04.980]I wish I could give you this feeling
[01:07.227]I wish I could give this feeling
[01:10.779]On the corners n*ggas rob or kill
[01:13.391]And dying just to make a living, huh?
[01:15.586]We overstated, we underrated, we educated
[01:18.851]The corner was our time when time stood still and
[01:22.587]Gators and snakeskins in
[01:24.467]Yellow and pink and collared blue
[01:26.583]Profiles glorifying them
[01:28.333]Street lights and deep nights, cats trying to eat right
[01:31.625]Riding no-seat-bikes, with work to feed hypes
[01:34.760]So they can keep sweet Nike's, they head and they feet right
[01:37.738]Desires of street life, cars and weed types
[01:40.924]It's hard to breathe nights, days are thief-like
[01:43.929]The beasts roam the streets, the police is Greek-like
[01:46.959]Game at its peak, we speak and believe hype
[01:50.093]Bang in the streets hats cocked left or deep right
[01:53.124]It's steep life, coming up where n*ggas is sheep-like
[01:56.128]Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
[01:59.289]G's with three stripes, seeds that need light
[02:02.345]Cheese and recite, needs and BE strife
[02:05.480]The corner, where struggle and greed fight
[02:07.831]We write songs about wrong 'cause it's hard to see right
[02:11.566]Look to the sky, hoping it will bleed light
[02:14.596]Reality's a *****, and I heard that she bites
[02:17.600]The corner
[02:18.541]I wish I could give you this feeling
[02:20.866]I wish I could give this feeling
[02:24.236]On the corners n*ggas rob or kill
[02:26.926]And dying just to make a living, huh?
[02:29.695]The corner was our magic, our music, our politics
[02:33.822]Fires raised as tribal dances and war cries
[02:37.584]Broke out on different corners
[02:39.021]Power to the people
[02:40.379]Black power
[02:41.137]Black is beautiful
[02:42.234]Black church services, murderers, Arabs serving burgers
[02:45.395]As cats with gold permanents, move they bags as herbalists
[02:48.529]The dirt isn't just fertile, it's people working and earning this
[02:51.403]The curb getters go where the cash flow and the current is
[02:54.485]It's so hot that n*ggas burn to live
[02:57.751]The furnace is, where the money moving, the determined live
[03:00.729]We talk sh*t, play lotto, and buy German beers
[03:04.229]It's so black packed with action that's affirmative
[03:06.946]The corners
[03:07.573]I wish I could give you this feeling
[03:09.976]I wish I could give this feeling
[03:13.293]On the corners n*ggas rob or kill
[03:16.036]And dying just to make a living, huh?
[03:18.440]The corner was our Rock of Gibraltar, our Stonehenge
[03:22.410]Our Taj Mahal, our monument
[03:24.970]Our testimonial to freedom, to peace, and to love
[03:29.960]Down on the corner