Logic feat. Oddisee - Pipeline [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1: Logic]
Comin' from nothin', try to see tomorrow
People feelin' forced to steal cause they can't ask to borrow
We come from families where pops never stayed around
Grew up on playgrounds where killers spray rounds
Complexes with regular SWAT takedowns
Streets covered in blood with cops who barely make rounds
That's why I write lines, automatics circulate the pipeline
Lyricism that fight crime, follow the right signs
How can a mother watchin' bullets rain, watch her son shine?
Most of us taught to shoot and steal, run from one time
A life in prison only take one crime, not one dime as we drop it
This the mentality, needs stoppin'
It don't start at the home, it start in the street
Systemic redlinin' on which side gon' eat
If you had to shoot and steal just to get your next meal, you probably will
That's how the people where I'm from feel
All we know is what we know, they done fed us a pill
But when it comes to bullets on our block, we must appeal
They make us pick a side, no one to confide
When we young they tell us we could be whatever but they lied
People killin' over sex, drugs, money, women, and pride
This doesn't stop with the pipeline, it starts with the right time
To open up these young minds and system
Callin' community politicians to take people from beneath
And put 'em in higher positions, this is your job to keep more alive
That's why I put the gat down and never glorify
Things that leave most families mortified, it starts at the bottom
Change the young man's mind and you got 'em
Don't just lock 'em up after you caught 'em
Go and teach 'em to fish
If you won't do it, I'ma do it, I'ma reach 'em with this
I've been there, I seen drugs in the crib
Robbers and killers, cook crack at twelve years old
All the bullshit they instill us, feel like
All you know is all you got, but it's not
You are so much more than sellin' someone else's dope from the shore
With a promise that you'll never be poor
Nothin' but lies homie, put the gun down and rise, homie
If you seen the shit I did when I was young, you wouldn't know me
What I'm sayin' is, ain't no one perfect
System is crooked, that's why you work
Sell a key and buy a house, chop a brick and get a grip
Man, that shit, it make me sick, it's like a blind man I'm tryin' to teach
But you better learn the language If you tryin' to reach
Too many people on the news, they just tryin' to preach
But they don't know about what go down homie, put the gun down, homie

[Chorus: Logic]
Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up
This is motivator for the people that been fed up
Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up
This is motivator for the people that never let up
Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up
This is motivator for the people that been fed up
Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up
This is motivator for the people that never let up

[Verse 2: Oddisee]
Reasons to live and reasons to kill
A fine line between alive and hope you leaving a will
So many lives paid the cost, we keep receipts in field
But still, Congress got no need for a bill
No traces, no faces, but the money is hard to hide
Stock prices rise at the rate of a mother's cry
Hard to let it slide, when they slid you wanna ride
To live another day, you exist, but something died
My innocence was lost when I witnessed a brother lie
In front the house, his father bought, escaping the call of crime
You can't outrun a bullet, they don't wait at the border line
The county ain't no different, come to safety, we all deprived
Hagerstown to Waldorf, switches to sawed-off
The clip come with extensions, be more, but we all short
Let's all apply pressure on the state laws, don't let up
We all rise 'til the legislation's signed, get up

[Chorus: Logic]
Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up
This is motivator for the people that been fed up
Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up
This is motivator for the people that never let up
Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up
This is motivator for the people that been fed up
Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up
This is motivator for the people that never let up