Bridge The Gap - Carpe Diem [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

INTRO: RAY LEWIS
Let me tell you something
If tomorrow wasn't promised, what would you give for today?
Forget everything else
Forget that there was any sunlight left
What would you spend today thinking about?
Yourself? Or the man that's beside you?
Or the man that you know you'd give everything in your heart for

VERSE 1: K.R.A
Ever since seventeen, I've been messing with green
Step in the scene and I'm repping the team
Who repping a dream of fiends who fiend to redeem their self-esteem
But it seems that they ain't got means to get it clean, so...
Here's some clean soap, a towel, and a bathrobe
And you can use it as a metaphor for your last hope
Am I that dope? Or is it cause I made it from the bottom to the top
Just hanging on my last rope
Grab a fat coat, it's cold out here, the coke is sold out here
The show is sold out, it's so wild, there's no doubt, I'll go out
Just gotta keep it pushing
Really ain't that satisfied with how my future's looking so I'm booking
Gunning for the exit
Baby momma's crying cause she's 9 months pregnant
Aching, baby's in the oven and it's baking
Thought she loved the daddy till she found out he was vacant
Now she's shaking on the floor, in the eyes of God mistaken as a whore
Took too many pills but she takes a little more
Popping Percocets like she's taken them before
Now the cops is breaking down the door and it's awful...

CHORUS 2X
I said please don't step in the light cause...
Everything's gon' be alright just...
Hold your head up and get up
But don't you ever let up, even when you sick and tired and fed up

VERSE 2: K.R.A
This is for my boys with the hearts of lions
Who were taught defiance in an awkward silence
Them soldiers, fighting for the bleeding and dying
Grieving and crying who be needing some guidance
It's a science: everything's a matter of matter
But does it really even matter when the blood is getting splattered
From the violence, people need to open their eyelids
Pick up an appliance and apply it to the pilot of compliance
Telling you I'm sick of the virus
Seeing bullshit like they shit in my iris
Dodge and bob cats and call that Tyrus
Try us, you can never buy trust
Learn to get ahead by listening to my guts
Dial up, fly up, I gotta spread my wings
Cause everything is everything...

INTERLUDE: RAY LEWIS CONTINUED
You get one opportunity in life to do whatever you gon' do
To lay your foundation and to make whatever mark you gon' make
Whatever legacy you gon' leave
Leave your legacy!
Wins and losses come a dime a dozen
But effort? Nobody can judge effort
Because effort is between you and you

VERSE 3: ADAM B. FREE
It's so dark, but I still smile today
I can see the rain and the clouds from like a mile away
It's so bright, but I can't smile today
Handling a fight with depression's what I display
I can say I can make a really big difference
Every time I flow it is so significant
Magnificent, the picture is perfect
Sick with the urges, I've been uninsured and...
I've been assured that everything would work out
When you see you're living a lie it really hurts now
I needa burst out, push on, stand up
It seems so hard when you in the fucking land of...
Misery, bitterness, and jealousy
You telling me selling weed's a motherfucking felony?
I've never dreamed of a place so backwards
If heaven's on its way it couldn't come no faster
I wanna reach up to the clouds and just pull it down
I wanna reach out to the people to not fool around
Like do you even realize that you're being used?
You can see it in my fucking eyes when I speak the truth
I see abuse and, misused authority
For those in denial you can go on ignoring me...

CHORUS 2X
I said please don't step in the light cause...
Everything's gon' be alright just...
Hold your head up and get up
But don't you ever let up, even when you sick and tired and fed up