Jackson Turner《Growing Up in this World》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.32]Growing Up In This World - Jackson Turner (黑杰克) [00:18.39]Growing up in this world of enormous extremes [00:21.22]Separated by nation but together we bleed [00:24.22]Every struggle within reaches a point of release [00:27.10]Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees [00:29.90]You need money to make money its simple addition [00:32.12]There's people living with nothing I get the picture [00:34.82]It's bigger than individual lives and criminal minds [00:38.15]Hypnotized by the television listen and buy consume [00:41.87]Public schools teaching free market values [00:44.59]How to be exploited 101 and the house rules [00:47.31]Communities are packed Latinos and Blacks [00:49.95]No opportunity for ownership their people are trapped [00:52.88]And it's real [00:53.86]Can't invest in the quality of life when [00:56.67]All the money leaving following the white man [00:59.67]And he never gonna fight fair f**k a dream [01:02.32]Type cast living the American nightmare [01:05.57]Ghetto teens on the block with crack rocks and stash spots [01:09.02]Trying to eat and increase their back pocket [01:11.49]Ain't no laptops pools or backyards [01:13.93]Just concrete steal bars and get wars [01:17.43]The hood is part of your identity [01:19.62]So you struggle till the day you rest in peace and never leave [01:22.64]Trying to hide from the pain in a bottle of Pueto-Rock rum [01:26.27]Your job sucks cleaning sh*t with a mop bucket [01:29.29]At your local Block Buster [01:30.69]You knocked up a fast little cock-loving chick with no condom on [01:35.28]Now you gotta deal with child support [01:37.51]And the cycle continues trapped like a dying dog [01:41.15]Growing up in this world of enormous extremes [01:44.08]Separated by nation but together we bleed [01:47.04]Every struggle within reaches a point of release [01:50.03]Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees [02:15.92]Look up the meaning of property it's as simple as pie [02:18.79]They keep the pieces for themselves and they leave us the side dishes [02:22.14]If this is a contest it's mission impossible [02:24.94]The business man is the pimp and the politician the prostitute [02:29.19]Guess who the one getting f**ked is [02:31.09]They call us criminals they don't know **** about justice [02:34.00]Slums filled with laborers from the countryside [02:37.10]Thrown off the land cause the loan was two months behind [02:40.42]Sub-prime decency does not apply [02:43.10]Ain't no competition when big business being subsidized [02:46.28]You try to find a job out in Islamabad [02:48.98]F**k a nine to five [02:50.10]You in the factory from five to nine with your neck soar [02:53.05]Making textiles with an XLarge that's exported to dress shops [02:56.81]On West 4th street in New York [02:59.09]Living standards on a level that's unreasonable [03:01.94]So you sleep on the floor [03:03.59]Up in the morning praying for the fait of your two kids [03:06.69]Child labor violation lies and abuses [03:09.86]The union got you in a strangle hold [03:12.29]Cause their working with the management to keep your wages low [03:15.26]Bank rolled with a paper trail through the labor bureau [03:18.59]Plus they've got the union dues that you paying to them [03:21.59]Work you like a slave and it makes sense [03:23.96]Cause if the goods we buy are cheap then they can pay us even less [03:27.85]Growing up in this world of enormous extremes [03:30.86]Separated by nation but together we bleed [03:33.89]Every struggle within reaches a point of release [03:36.65]Rather die on my feet than have to live on my knees