[Produced by Rahki]
[Skit]
“We got a young brother that stands for something!
我们这里有个小兄弟颇有志气!
We got a young brother that believes in the all of us!
我们这里有个小兄弟值得相信!
Brother Kendrick Lamar! 这哥们是Kendrick Lamar!
He’s not a rapper, he’s a writer, he’s an author!
他不是说唱歌手 他是写手 是作家!
And if you read between the lines, we’ll learn how to love one another!
倘若你读过他的作品 那么我们将会学到如何彼此相爱!
But you can’t do that — right on!
但你现在不能这么做!
— I said, you can’t do that without loving yourself first. ”
我说 在你洁身自好之前 你不能这么做!
【Kendrick在这里引用了牧师对他但赞扬 为这首歌的宗教主题埋下伏笔 iTunes版本中没有此Skit】
[Sample]
This is a world premiere!
这是全世界的先知!
[Intro]
I done been through a whole lot
我一路走来经过的太多
Trial, tribulation, but I know God
人生轨迹 苦难教训 我忠于上帝
【是K.Dot对上帝的信仰才让他从战火纷飞的康普顿一路走来】
Satan wanna put me in a bow tie
魔鬼想要扼杀我的光荣
Praying that the holy water don’t go dry
只能祈祷圣水永不枯竭
【Holy Water指上帝的保护】
As I look around me
环顾我自己
So many motherfuckers wanna down me
灭我的仇恨那么多的傻逼铭记
【K.Dot在其先前作品Shot Down中提到过】
But ain’t no nigga never drown me
但是没有一个能够把机会握在手心
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
唯有在这肮脏的双面镜前找到我才有意义
【double-mirror是一种双向镜。经常放在审讯室 在外面的人看不见自己 里面的人只看得到自己的倒影 Dirty隐喻了他过去的肮脏和犯下的错误】
[Hook]
And I love myself
我洁身自好
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
(世界是个战火纷飞警标环绕的贫民窟)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)
(我才不介意他能得到任何其想要的)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
(他说我不该慵懒度日 生活不只是杀害)
I love myself 我洁身自好
(One day at a time, sun gon’ shine)
(总会有一天 日光会普照大地)
[Verse 1]
Everybody looking at you crazy (Crazy)
所有人都疯狂的看向你
What you gon’ do? (What you gon’ do?)
你会有什么反应?
Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving)
高昂你的头永远不停息
Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you)
还是让偏执絮绕着你?
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
时尚警察你快安息 我的风格跟随我心
【Fashion Police是指那些以时尚为口号对人们穿着评头论足的人】
On my sleeve, let the runway start
看看我的袖套 我的风格自成一道
You know the miserable do love company
同病相怜之意众人皆知
What do you want from me and my scars?
你们还想从我这掠夺伤痕?
【K.Dot的上一张专辑是讲述他早前的生活 人们还想看到他更多这样的作品】
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
每个人都缺乏自信 没有信心
How many times our potential was anonymous?
潜在之力又有几次能够显形?
【照应歌曲主题 自爱 要自爱 就必须要对自己有信心】
How many times the city making me promises?
又有几次能让城市许下对我们的诺言?
So I promise this
所以我许下这些字句
[Hook]
And I love myself
我洁身自好
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
(世界是个战火纷飞警标环绕的贫民窟)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)
(我才不介意他能得到任何其想要的)
I love myself 我洁身自好
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
(他说我不该慵懒度日 生活不只是杀害)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(One day at a time, sun gon’ shine)
(总会有一天 日光会普照大地)
[Verse 2]
They wanna say there’s a war outside and a bomb in the street
他们总说外面战火纷飞街头永不宁静
And a gun in the hood and a mob of police
一把枪就弄来一群警察围击
And a rock on the corner and a line full of fiends
角落的岩石遮掩着一次次交易
And a bottle full of lean and a model on the scene, yup
一个满的精益瓶和屏幕上的美女
【指当今许多说唱歌手的歌曲主题 表示K.Dot与他们不同 做积极的歌曲】
These days of frustration keep y’all on ducking rotation
这些沮丧的日子中你们浸于烟雾里
【These Days是K.Dot兄弟 Black Hippy成员Ab-Soul的近作】
I duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum basis
去你妹的装逼自拍 我根本看不下去
【Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum是动画片Jack In The Beanstalk的语言】
Dreams of realities peace
做梦也要讲究实际
Blow steam in the face of the beast
烟雾缭绕弥散脸庞
【The Face Of The Beast指有纹身的脸 Blow Steam指飞叶子】
The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now
好像天空下坠 风儿哭泣
【引用其歌曲HiiiPower中原句】
The strong in me, I still smile
我却依旧强劲 微笑到底
[Hook]
And I love myself
我洁身自好
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
(世界是个战火纷飞警标环绕的贫民窟)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)
(我才不介意他能得到任何其想要的)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
(他说我不该慵懒度日 生活不只是杀害)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(One day at a time, sun gon’ shine)
(总会有一天 日光会普照大地)
[Bridge]
Walk my bare feet (Walk my bare feet) 我赤足行立
Down, down valley deep (Down, down valley deep) 走向深渊不曲
Fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum) 我坚持我自己
My heart undone (My heart undone) 我跟随我的心
[Hook]
[Hook]
And I love myself
我洁身自好
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
(世界是个战火纷飞警标环绕的贫民窟)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)
(我才不介意他能得到任何其想要的)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
(他说我不该慵懒度日 生活不只是杀害)
I love myself
我洁身自好
(One day at a time, sun gon’ shine)
(总会有一天 日光会普照大地)
[Verse 3]
I went to war last night
昨夜战争飞起
With an automatic weapon, don’t nobody call a medic
自动枪械 也无补给
I’mma do it ’til I get it right
我会努力决不放弃
I went to war last night
昨夜战争飞起
I’ve been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
我从少年时期就用压力来解决问题
【来自康普顿 生活艰难 也提到他的作品Dear Moleskine中类似语句】
Duckin’ every other blessin’, l can never see the message
低头不停祈祷 不曾看到真理
I can never take the lead, I can never bob and weave
从来不是领袖 绝对不会装逼
【Bob And Weave是拳击手法】
For my nigga that be letting ‘em annihilate me
呈给想要堙灭我的兄弟
And it’s evident I’m moving at a meteor speed
我以彗星般的速度让你措手不及
Finna run into a building, lay my body in the street
寻觅藏身之地 或是葬身街区
Keep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I’m free
我的票子都被藏匿 用来孝敬母亲
【K.Dot用52.4万美金购置了一栋豪宅】
Give my story to the children and the lesson they can read
这是我的经历给孩子涨涨记性
And the glory to the feeling of the holy unseen
这份高尚的荣誉归咎于那圣灵
【Holy Unseen是看不见的神圣 指代圣灵 即高尚的精神】
Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, “I love myself!”
一切都看遍 能让你嘶吼内心 “我爱我自己!”
[Outro]
I lost my head
我还弄不清
I’ve must misread what the good book said
我一定是误解了什么重要的东西
【结尾引用宗教教育 2 Timothy 4.5 表示在不迷失的情况下 做好自己的福音工作 尽职尽责】
Oh woes keep me, it’s a jungle inside
我搞得一团糟 内心好似丛林
【引用Grandmaster Flash的经典之作The Message】
Give myself again ’til the well runs dry
让我做回自己 知道灵感枯竭之际
【Well这里指创作灵感】
- 专辑:i
- 歌手:Kendrick Lamar
- 歌曲:i