Cee of R.E.A.L Music - Balladeer [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1: Cee]
No one to talk to as he sits in his room

‘Cause his dad, he was gone way back in '02
And his mom has no time cause she has to feed nine
And her job’s full-time, borderline lost her mind

She needs financial aid just to get the rent paid
Don’t worry 'bout utilities, electric is a waste
So around about 8, they just sit in the darkness
Poverty-stricken neighborhood’s been tarnished

Add to the fact that the crime rate’s higher
Caught up in a gang, all nine kids fire
Shooting, killing, stealing, taking rims off people’s tires
It’s the life that you are living under constant threat of dying

They just want to be free one day

A better life is what they want to see some day

There’s only one way to escape says someone

And that is far away into the clouds up above him

[Hook]
I wonder if we belong in this world at all

‘Cause no one wants to be stuck in this world alone

Too many thoughts in my head to explain it to ya'll

So I guess I’m gonna have to explain it through song
(x2)

[Verse 2: Cee]

Now the oldest one is nothing like the other eight
He’s almost an adult at seventeen years of age

Stayed to himself mostly and rarely went away

All the while he was hoping just to see a better day

Listened to some CDs that were borrowed from a friend

Listened to them everyday, from beginning to end

The rule was not to have it in the school but that was bent

Coming home to pink slips on the door, can’t pay the rent

The music is a light to his dark life

He listened to it quiet sitting on a dark night
His brothers tryna get cut like a sharp knife
While he just observes it all under the starlight

Yeah, he just wants to be free one day

A better life is what he wants to see some day

There’s only one way to escape says someone

And that is far away into the clouds up above him

[Hook x2]

[Verse 3: Cee]
It’s been a few months later and the music’s still his favorite

Connection’s grown deeper now he’s trying to create it

Now he’s got a dream and the ambition to chase it

He wants to make a difference to the game, he wants to change it
Make it better than it ever was, or will be
Sick and tired of living in the slums, so filthy

Attracted to the sounds of the drums, the ill beats

Nothing but a pen, paper, and a hope that he’ll be

Able to go down as the greatest of all time

One year later he’s comprised some of the best rhymes

Had to stay focused even though they weren’t the best times
Got a call from a record label, “you’ve been signed"

Now he’s gonna be free one day
A better life is what he’s gonna see some day

There’s only one way to escape says someone

And that is far away into the clouds up above him

[Hook x2]