Every Ghetto， Every City

I was just a little girl

我那时是个小女孩

Skinny legs a press and curl

非常地瘦弱

My mother always thought I'd be a star

我妈妈总认为我会成为明星

But way before my record deal

但我的专辑发售之前

The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill在这条街长大

Made sure that I'd never go too far

我不会远离这里

Every ghetto every city and suburban place I've been

我去过的每一个地方

Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem

都让我回忆起我在新耶路撒冷的日子

Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill

保守党看着我在常春藤成长

When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun

当孩子们以偷东西为乐时

"Kill the guy" in Carter park

在卡特公园 杀了他

Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark

知道黑暗

Watching kids show off the stolen ones

看着孩子展示他们偷来的战利品

Every ghetto every city and suburban place I've been

我去过的每一个地方

Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem

都让我回忆起我在新耶路撒冷的日子

You know it's hot don't forget what you've got

你知道这里很热 别忘记你自己拥有的

Looking back

回想过去

Looking back looking back looking back

回想过去

You know it's hot don't forget what you've got

你知道这里很热 别忘记你自己拥有的

Looking back

回想过去

Thinking back thinking back thinking back

回想过去

A bag of Bontons twenty cents and a nickel

全身就剩下这么点东西了

Springfield Ave had the best popsicles

斯普林菲尔德大道有最好的冰棒

Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu

星期六早上有卡通和功夫表演

Main street roots tonic with the dreds

主街道上什么都有

A beef patty and some coco bread

一个牛肉馅饼和一些可可面包

Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe

我给我的鞋上打满了补丁

'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather

这里的人以前不好惹

Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together

那个时候我和我的好朋友还在一起

Looking at the crew we thought we'd all live forever

看看他们 我们本可以长生

You know it's hot don't forget what you've got

你知道这里很热 别忘记你自己拥有的

Looking back

回想过去

Thinking back thinking back thinking back

回想过去

You know it's hot don't forget what you've got

你知道这里很热 别忘记你自己拥有的

Looking back

回想过去

Thinking back thinking back thinking back

回想过去

Drill teams on Munn street

整个团队都在街上

Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef

还记得霍桑和总理

Moving Records was on Central Ave

移动记录在中央大街上

I was there at dancing school

我当时在舞蹈学校

South Orange Ave at Borlin pool

南橘大道

Unaware of what we didn't have

记不清我们失去了什么

Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker

用记号笔把你朋友的名字写在你们的牛仔裤上

July 4th races off of Parker

在七月四号那一天

Fireworks at Martin stadium

马丁体育场放起了烟花

The Untouchable P S P where all them crazy niggers be

那些无法触及的让他们疯狂

And car thieves got away through Irvington

那些偷车贼也已经逃跑了

Hillside brings beef with the cops

警察来到山坡上吃牛肉

Self-Destruction record drops

自我摧毁

And everybody's name was Muslim

每个人的名字都叫穆斯林

Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state

感觉我吸引来了其他州的孩子

And everybody used to do the wop

每个人过去都是意大利人

Jack Jack Jack ya body

Jack

Nah the Biz Mark used to amp up the party

要保证安全

I wish those days they didn't stop

我希望那些时光还在

Every ghetto every city and suburban place I've been

我去过的每一个地方

Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem

都让我回忆起我在新耶路撒冷的日子

You know it's hot don't forget what you've got

你知道这里很热 别忘记你自己拥有的

Looking back

回想过去

Welcome back welcome back welcome back

欢迎回家

You know it's hot don't forget what you've got

你知道这里很热 别忘记你自己拥有的

Looking back

回想过去

Thinking back thinking back thinking back

回想过去

Thinking back thinking back thinking back

回想过去