Rick Rikard - Living to Die [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[2Pac Speaking]
Like, I mean, it's so hard to sell that "all we need is each other speech." Especially when your stomach's hurting
That's how it all is and it's like nobody ever stop
To be even more real, and I hate to make this, like, sad story, but it's real
Now America's got jewels, and they got, they paid, and everything, and they lending money to everybody except us
But I thought it was just so beautiful how she would just be strong and she would do it
It's going to be too late, you know what I'm saying? And that's when you got to pay your own karma. That's when God makes you punished
I mean nobody should be hitting to lotto for $36 million and we got people starving on the streets
The only thing we can really leave behind is culture, is music, you know? And-and-and dignity and determination, that's who we are

[Verse 1]
Everyday I see wrong with the world
The 1% makes us work for their diamonds the pearls
The police mistrust any brother on the street
Or gun 'em down, and you wonder why we carrying heat
We escape all the troubles of our ancestor's land
But in our mind is the trouble that we can't understand
Your parents come home late, and never question why they doin' it
You don't want to see your momma's tears when you ruin it
The streets run along with history, never accept
That the way you live your life is always fearing death
I've never had any money, but yo, on the real
Even though I got a job, I'm still forced to steal
I hope I never have to fight another day in my life
So please take away the pain, I just want to see the light, picture that

[Hook]x2
You know I wonder if they're laugh when I am dead
Why am I fighting to live if I'm just living to fight?
Why am I trying to see when there ain't nothing inside?
Why am I trying to give when no one gives me a try?
Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die?

[Verse 2]
Wake up every morning with a pain in my head
It's amazing how I live but I still ain't dead
I can't believe everything that I've seen is so real
A man kills another man for a hundred dollar bill
Grown men living off the cigarettes that they sell
The same ones have their kids facing life in jail
And I hear people saying that the streets ain't important
You gotta be about the party life or you're boring
Well what about the sister faced death or abortion
Or people that you know that might get deported
It's easy to forget the places you come from
But they don't forget about you until you're done, son
One thing is all it takes to ruin your life
But don't mind the pain it's a part of living, right?
So step back for moment if you want to see the truth
Like a wildfire spreading the love, it's on you

[Hook]x2
You know I wonder if they're laugh when I am dead
Why am I fighting to live if I'm just living to fight?
Why am I trying to see when there ain't nothing inside?
Why am I trying to give when no one gives me a try?
Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die?