Nujabes - Strive [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1]

I’m growing everyday, mark what I say
I’m tracing a path from the past to the future
Gotta be my own woman, stand on my own two
Eat food, get paid despite what others do
To thine own self be loyal, true it is
I got pets, two cats, and they act just like kids
When they hungry they cop fits and then collectors want money
So how a stranger gonna up take that from me?
Burn my time and energy, jerks ain’t no friends to me
Solitude be the remedy? Nah
I need love in my life, friends by my side
Live stimulation, banter, conversation
Good vibrations, don’t think I’m asking for much
But these things don’t just fall out the sky
Skunk got me so crunked, it make me want to spend my whole life high
Float on a puff of smoke and hope ?
Multiply my ESP, sharpen my focus
Things look grim now, they used to look hopeless

[Hook]

Don’t stop striving, it’s going to be good, baby
If you need guidance, take a minute and marinate, yeah
Who you gonna help when you can’t help yourself?
Where you gonna go when there ain’t no place left?

[Verse 2]

Some days I get a ray of understanding and the answers are clear
Next day it fades away like it was never here
Sometimes I’m inclined to believe that time ain’t stable
Or my mind not stable? I check and see if the rhymes still stable
Peeling cards and read my life off the table
Taste what I hate out the bottle
Goes down sweet when I swallow
Though it smells like contradiction
Ask, “Is this enriching my life?”
Inch by inch I get by
If I flinch and move do I ? flesh and bone
My illest rhyme floated on my tombstone
Even when I come home, it’s not prescribed for time ? long

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

All the naysayers who pop junk and waste time
They don’t embrace life and it shows
Kids I used to know, even when I squint
Can’t really place the face
Details time erased, years spent in space
Yo it’s nothing personal
These days I don’t even have the strength to get emotional
Hold golden perspective, make earnest effort
? retrace my steps through global sections
Reconnecting with those over choice liquor toasts
Nothing to keep me back from me
When I plans closely, analyze what my daddy told me
He took time to explain it, learned from how he lived ?
Fire in my belly burn like a furnace
Desire in my eyes both stronger than pie
Burn less with the rest of them
Take what’s in stride
And to rank amongst the best of them
?
Pray what I say be relevant
To every single ? and every tenament
? outside the jackpots ? leverage
Ask for what you want and keep talking till you getting it, word

[Hook]