Could've Been Different (feat. Blu & Shamir) - McKinley Dixon/Blu.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : McKinley Dixon/Blu/Sam E. Yamaha
[00:10.469][Chorus: McKinley Dixon & Shamir]
[00:11.306]Grew up making humble pacts
[00:12.345]Like the world will know our name
[00:13.596]Now we're staring out the window, pray these wings can hold our frame
[00:16.642]Oh my god, oh my god
[00:19.658]I just might jump off the roof
[00:21.408]Now we're standing in the meadows, where the flowers know our name
[00:25.814]We ain't ran from where we grew up
[00:27.283]Shit, we'd prolly go insane
[00:28.752]Oh my god
[00:31.032]Oh my god
[00:31.974]I just wanna jump off the roof
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[00:33.330][Verse 1: McKinley Dixon]
[00:34.797]We, tricksters by nature who once favored summer stars
[00:37.876]Biggest steps on concrete, but still look both ways for them cars
[00:40.971]Babies beating on they chest, claim one day the world is ours
[00:43.736]Til mama throw open window and yell my name from afar
[00:46.580]With a face made of sunshine, first child of the blood line
[00:49.908]The punch before you run kind, don't just say shit nigga
[00:52.721]Spreading word as we run from where ocean hits the sun
[00:55.517]What's it that that you wish the world knew about your loved ones?
[00:57.236]We—
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[00:59.220][Chorus: McKinley Dixon & Shamir]
[00:59.648]Grew up making humble pacts
[01:00.564]Like the world will know our name
[01:01.753]Now we're staring out the window, pray these wings can hold our frame
[01:04.564]Oh my god, oh my god
[01:07.657]I just might jump off the roof
[01:10.423]Now we're standing in the meadows, where the flowers know our name
[01:13.534]We ain't ran from where we grew up
[01:15.534]Shit, we'd prolly go insane
[01:16.752]Oh my god
[01:18.485]Oh my god
[01:19.969]I just wanna jump off the roof
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[01:21.393][Verse 2: McKinley Dixon]
[01:22.612]Fear of god
[01:23.799]Fear of law
[01:24.548]Fear her straight forward gaze
[01:25.423]You not quick enough
[01:26.424]The raised hand, shit, it always gon' graze
[01:28.487]Altar boys just came home, from the stoop playing dice
[01:31.521]Through screen doors her shape forms, she died for this life
[01:34.579]Once or twice
[01:35.501]Take a step back when you finna aim
[01:37.737]Young boy got a talent for gifting ghosts such beautiful names
[01:40.657]Still the age where this hurt, to us, a wonderful game
[01:43.735]Head out the window, pray these wings hold up both our frames
[01:46.580]Pacing back and forth, I can't find the words worth this ink
[01:50.485]I look up to the poster on my wall and I ask
[01:53.033]"What you think?"
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[01:54.127][Verse 3: Blu]
[01:54.799]Heh, me?
[01:55.769]You see I think bright though the mind is dark
[01:58.845]Open my optics to optimism, that's what I was taught
[02:01.674]To live like I'm blind, yet always guided by God
[02:04.471]And I do this for anyone who looks anything like my mom
[02:07.283]You askin me what I think, I'm just a poster on your wall
[02:10.611]And I think you know the answer is right in your catalogue
[02:13.689]McKinley, you showed me the importance of self belief
[02:16.752]Be love, be jazz, you ain't gotta be me
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[02:19.736][Chorus: McKinley Dixon & Shamir]
[02:20.412]Grew up making humble pacts
[02:21.095]Like the world will know our name
[02:22.877]Now we're staring out the window, pray these wings can hold our frame
[02:25.688]Oh my god, oh my god
[02:28.501]I just might jump off the roof
[02:31.283]Now we're standing in the meadows, where the flowers know our name
[02:34.595]We ain't ran from where we grew up
[02:36.611]Shit, we'd prolly go insane
[02:37.864]Oh my god
[02:39.361]Oh my god
[02:40.580]I just wanna jump off the roof