Excursions
Excursions - A Tribe Called Quest
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Written by：Kamaal Fareed/A Tribe Called Quest
Back in the days when I was a teenager
回到我还是个青少年的时光
Before I had status and before I had a pager
在我拥有地位和寻呼机之前
You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop
你可以找到Abstract在听嘻哈音乐
My pops used to say it reminded him of Bebop
我爸爸曾说这让他想起了比博普
I said well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles
我说爸爸你难道不知道事物是循环的吗
Way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael
就像Bobby Brown和Michael一样充满活力
It's all expected things are for the looking
这一切都是预料之中的
If you got the money Quest is for the booking
如果你有钱，Quest就在等着你
Come on everybody let's get with the fly mode
来吧，大家一起来感受这飞翔的节奏
Still got room on the truckload of black boom
满载黑色力量的卡车仍有空间
Listen to the rhymes then get a mental picture
聆听这些韵律，脑海中浮现画面
Of this black man and black woman fixture
那是黑人与黑人女性的结合
Why do I say that cos I gotta speak the truth man
我为何这样说？因为我必须讲出真相
Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and
为音乐倾注心血，这就是最好的证明
Planted on the ground the act is so together
扎根于大地，行动如此一致
Bona fide strong you need leverage to sever
真实而强大，需要力量才能割裂
The unit yes the unit yes the unit called the jazz is
这个团体，是的，这个团体，是的，被称为爵士的团体
Delivering each year an LP filled with street goods
每年都会推出一张充满街头气息的专辑
You can find it on your rack in your record store
你可以在唱片店的架子上找到它
If you get the record say your thoughts are adored
如果你拿到了这张唱片，请说出你的想法，它们会被珍视
And appreciated cause we're ever so glad we made it
并且被感激，因为我们非常高兴能够成功
We work hard so we gotta thank God
我们努力工作，所以我们要感谢上帝
Dishing out the plastic do the dance till you're spastic
挥洒汗水，跳舞直到筋疲力尽
If you diss it gets drastic
如果你轻视它，事情会变得很糟糕
Listen to the rhyme cause it's time to make gravy
倾听这韵律 因为现在是收获的时刻
If it moves your booty then shake shake it baby
如果它让你动起来 那就尽情摇摆吧 宝贝
All the way to Africa a.k.a the Motherland
一路到非洲 也就是我们的母土
Stick out the left then I'll ask for the other hand
伸出左手 然后我会要求另一只手
That's the right hand Black man
那是右手 黑人兄弟
Only if you are noted as my man
只有当你被认可为我的伙伴时
If I get the credit then I think I deserve it
如果我得到赞誉 那是我应得的
If you fake moves don't fix your mouth to word it
如果你的动作是假的 就别开口解释
Get in the zone of positivity not negativity
进入积极而非消极的领域
Cos we gotta strive for longevity
因为我们追求的是长久的生命力
If you botch up what's in that a**
如果你搞砸了那背后的东西
What
什么
A pair of Nikes size ten and a half
一双十码半的耐克鞋
We gotta make moves words
我们必须行动起来
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
我们永远无法假装行动 来吧 来吧
We gotta make moves words
我们必须行动起来
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
我们永远无法假装行动 来吧 来吧
We gotta make moves
我们必须采取行动
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
我们永远无法假装行动 来吧 来吧
We gotta make moves
我们必须采取行动
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
我们永远无法假装行动 来吧 来吧
Time time is a ship on a merciless sea
时间是一艘在无情海洋中航行的船
Drifting toward an average of nothingness
漂向虚无的平庸
Until it can be retarded for its own destiny
直到它能够延缓自己的命运
Time is an inanimate object
时间是无生命的物体
Praying and praying and praying with no justification for relief
祈祷再祈祷 却找不到解脱的理由
Time is dancing boogalooing away all memories of past
时间跳着舞 带走了所有过去的记忆
We gotta be a winner all the time
我们必须时刻成为赢家
Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime
不能被嘻哈的陷阱所困
With the d**e raps and d**e tracks we move blocks
用真实的节奏和韵律 我们推动着街区
From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks
从时尚女孩到最坚强的硬汉
Musically the Quest is on the rise
音乐之旅正在崛起
We on these excursions so you must realize
我们在这些旅程中，你必须明白
That continually I pop my Zulu sh*t
我始终坚持我的真实态度
If you don't like it get off the Zulu tip
如果你不喜欢，就别靠近我的世界
So what can you do in the times which exist
在这个时代，你能做些什么？
You can't fake moves on your brother or your sis
你不能对兄弟姐妹虚情假意
But if your sis is a b**ch brother is a jerk
但如果你的姐妹刻薄，兄弟自私
Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work
那就远离他们，继续专注于你的道路
Whatever it may be in today's society
无论当今社会如何变迁
Everything is fair least that's how it seems to me
一切似乎都是公平的
You must be honest and true to the next
你必须对他人诚实真诚
Don't be phony and expect one not to flex
不要虚伪还指望别人不反击
Especially if you rhyme you have to live by the pen
尤其是如果你写词，就要以笔为生
Your man is your man then treat him like your friend
你的兄弟就是你的兄弟，要像对待朋友一样对待他
All it is is the code of the streets
这一切只是街头的法则
So listen to the knowledge being dropped over beats
所以聆听这些在节奏中传递的智慧
Beats that are hard beats that are funky
节奏强劲 节奏动感
They could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie
它们能让你上瘾 像*瘾君子一样
What you gotta do is know the Tribe is in the sphere
你要做的就是知道 Tribe 在圈子里
The Abstract Poet prominent like Shakespeare
抽象诗人像莎士比亚一样杰出
Or Edgar Allan Poe or Langston Hughes
或像爱伦·坡或兰斯顿·休斯
We gotta make moves
我们必须采取行动
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
我们永远无法假装行动 来吧 来吧
We gotta make moves
我们必须采取行动
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
我们永远无法假装行动 来吧 来吧
We gotta make moves
我们必须采取行动
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
我们永远无法假装行动 来吧 来吧
We gotta make moves
我们必须采取行动
Never ever ever could we fake moves come on come on
我们永远无法假装行动 来吧 来吧
Time is running out on black power advocates in the day
时间正在流逝 白天的黑人权力倡导者
And white thigh supporters at night
和夜晚的白人支持者
Every time you see them they're chasing some white woman
每次你见到他们 他们都在追逐那些白人女性
With their tongue hanging out
舌头耷拉着
Time is running and passing passing and running
时间在流逝 流逝又匆匆
Running and passing passing and running
匆匆又流逝 流逝又匆匆