[ilingku:100]
[ver:v1.0]
[ti:Letter To The Future]
[ar:Heavy D & The Boyz]
[al:Peaceful Journey]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:00.000]Letter To The Future (Album Version) - Heavy D & The Boyz
[00:03.810]Written by：Pete Rock/Heavy D
[00:07.635]People
[00:11.198]The world today is in a very difficult situation
[00:16.046]And we all know it
[00:18.413]Because we're the ones who created it
[00:21.219]What's wrong with our future
[00:26.415]What's wrong with our future
[00:31.597]What's wrong with our future
[00:36.862]What's wrong with our future
[00:40.767]Bust this
[00:41.984]How long will this last
[00:44.163]A friend to the end a memory in the past
[00:46.976]You think you're big 'cause you walk with a shotgun
[00:49.496]I got new for you your days are numbered son
[00:52.249]Why don't you get yourself a job
[00:54.442]When your kid grows up do you want him to rob
[00:57.451]Look at your mother tear drops
[00:59.743]She just received a phone call from the cops
[01:02.378]Your son will do life 'cause he wigged a man's wife
[01:04.957]Shot her with a gun and stabbed her with a knife or
[01:08.058]Take a look at your mother's heart torn
[01:10.045]She just received a phone call from the morgue
[01:12.850]Your son is dead from three shots to the head
[01:15.424]The killer left a note and this is what the note said
[01:18.197]Never be bigger than you are
[01:20.674]Never try to pose like you're a superstar
[01:23.281]Next time you rob somebody and
[01:24.353]You give him the death wish
[01:25.966]When you pull the trigger ni**a don't miss
[01:28.863]Is this how you wanna be
[01:31.146]Dead on the street or locked in a penetentiary
[01:33.999]It's cool to be free
[01:35.982]And it's alright for you to be you and for me to be me
[01:38.935]Look at you 15 years old
[01:41.452]Coolin on the corner with a can of old gold
[01:44.304]Whatever happened to school
[01:46.415]Yeah sure you go to school but you go to be cool
[01:49.568]To sport sneakers that you took from somebody
[01:51.984]To talk about the kid that you bucked at some party
[01:54.576]Life is a gamble and you're losin
[01:57.106]Before it's too late brother you better start choosin
[02:00.000]Left from right right from wrong
[02:02.717]Or you'll be singin that old blues song
[02:05.246]Yo you gotta buck em or else you're soft
[02:07.532]Some I knew thought the same now they're way up north
[02:10.465]You ain't soft 'cause you didn't buck a shot
[02:12.834]Put the pistol down throw up your hands see what ya got
[02:15.419]Old Johnny walker from around the block
[02:17.930]Was livin' rather large 'till he got knocked
[02:20.516]He had livin' large on his Jeep plates
[02:22.649]Livin' large on his real estate
[02:23.977]He even bought a diamond livin' large name plate
[02:25.861]He used to look at cops and smile in their face
[02:28.533]Drive a BMW and pump the bass
[02:31.038]One day he made a move for a friend
[02:33.387]The friend the voice said
[02:34.258]Yo I need ten Johnny said when
[02:36.551]Later on that day Johnny went to play the game
[02:40.229]He normally plays
[02:41.702]To do a favour for a chum
[02:43.700]You see a friend is a friend but then some are none
[02:46.468]'Cause when he got to the spot they were supposed to meet
[02:49.662]All he found was a police infested street
[02:52.199]I guess havin a friend is rough
[02:54.135]'Cause now Johnny's up north doin push ups gettin buffed
[02:57.100]You see this chain I've got I've got it honestly
[03:00.028]You see the clothes I wear I've got it honestly
[03:02.620]You see the Jeep I drive I've got it honestly
[03:05.228]I work hard it ain't easy being me
[03:07.597]Never had an excuse for life
[03:09.990]Just did what I did now what I do I do it right
[03:12.853]Jumbo Jumbo they cry on the block
[03:15.364]5 0 5 0 lay low here comes the cops
[03:18.211]Man your lifestyle is petro
[03:20.660]On your knees again because Jumbo said so
[03:23.454]Free Mandela you cried
[03:25.491]But you still sell d**e to brothers and sisters outside
[03:28.416]Martin Luther king had a dream ooh yeah
[03:31.040]That's exactly what turned his dream into a nightmare
[03:33.755]Malcolm X said by any means necessary
[03:36.198]He didn't mean just for you brother he meant for everybody
[03:39.018]Maybe if we were still slaves we'll be closer however
[03:41.689]Pickin cotton was bad but we picked it together
[03:44.248]I pray for you and you pray for me
[03:46.679]Sincerely yours the overweight lover heavy D
[03:50.224]What's wrong with our future
[03:55.120]What's wrong with our future
[04:00.160]What's wrong with our future
[04:05.407]What's wrong with our future
[04:10.863]What's wrong with our future
[04:15.712]What's wrong with our future
[04:21.088]What's wrong with our future
[04:26.031]What's wrong with our future
[04:31.279]What's wrong with our future
[04:35.092]What's wrong with our future