Maleah Joi Moon、Shoshana Bean、chris Lee - The Gospel
[ti:The Gospel]
[ar:Maleah Joi Moon/Shoshana Bean/chris Lee]
[al:Hell's Kitchen (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (Deluxe Edition) (Explicit)]
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[00:00.29]The Gospel - Maleah Joi Moon/Shoshana Bean/chris Lee
[00:00.99]Lyrics by:Alicia Keys/Robert Fitzgerald Diggs/Christopher Batson/Dennis D Coles/Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean/Lamont Hawkins/Shawn L Martin/Corey Todd Woods
[00:30.76]It's like
[00:32.21]Like all of New York City
[00:33.80]Is singing to you
[00:35.05]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[00:37.47]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[00:40.10]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[00:42.73]Yeah yeah yeah
[00:45.00]I said we're all God's children
[00:46.78]Products of the ghetto
[00:48.11]Mama cooked the soup
[00:49.21]Daddy did the yelling
[00:50.80]Uncle was a drunk
[00:51.93]Cousin was a felon
[00:53.45]And when he got pinched
[00:54.72]He told 'em he wasn't tellin'
[00:56.16]Auntie was a cook
[00:57.32]Her husband was a crook
[00:58.75]'Cause every job he had
[00:59.92]They be payin'
[01:01.50]Him off the books
[01:02.77]Knowledge is all it took
[01:04.10]In the tenement
[01:05.21]I was listenin' to the hook
[01:06.83]Change gon' come
[01:08.00]Spirit of Sam Cooke
[01:09.32]And when the feds comin'
[01:10.76]Everybody be shook
[01:12.02]Now we doing life like
[01:13.40]Eddie Murphy and Martin
[01:14.72]On the chain gang
[01:15.84]I was singing into the coffin
[01:17.40]Roaches and the rats
[01:18.51]Heroin in the cracks
[01:20.10]Couldn't blame me
[01:21.17]I'm just giving the facts
[01:22.78]I'm tryna hit the top
[01:23.83]'Cause the bottom ain't where it's at
[01:25.51]Everybody got a past
[01:26.48]But you can never go back
[01:27.87]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[01:33.14]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[01:38.95]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[01:41.44]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[01:44.16]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[01:46.80]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[01:54.41]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[02:18.33]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[02:39.75]Oh oh oh oh
[02:50.24]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[03:17.52]I'll tell it like it is
[03:18.84]How we ever gon' live?
[03:20.04]If we ain't gettin' money
[03:21.28]How we feedin' the kids?
[03:22.76]It's a revolving door
[03:23.79]When brothers be doing bids
[03:25.29]I know it sound wrong
[03:26.45]But the dope'll be what it is
[03:28.15]Survival of the fittest
[03:29.29]This poor girl's the illest uh
[03:31.41]Broke mirrors and black cats
[03:32.51]Give me heebie jeebies
[03:33.56]Life seems hard but nothing
[03:35.17]Ever come easy
[03:35.99]Whatever's in the dark will
[03:37.39]Always become the light
[03:38.69]If you ain't in the battle
[03:39.85]How you gon' win the fight?
[03:41.43]Gotta speak the truth when
[03:42.87]I'm up in the booth
[03:44.10]The streets be flyin' birds
[03:45.30]But they don't be on the roof
[03:46.75]Poverty is a pain like you pullin' a tooth
[03:49.30]Told the streets don't let me go
[03:50.61]Like I'm Bishop in Juice
[03:52.17]Roaches and the rats
[03:53.29]Heroin in the cracks
[03:54.73]Couldn't blame me
[03:55.79]I'm just giving the facts
[03:57.38]Tryna hit the top
[03:58.59]Bottom ain't where it's at
[04:00.08]Everybody got a past
[04:01.43]But you can never go back
[04:02.58]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[04:07.74]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[04:13.75]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[04:15.88]Sing
[04:16.28]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[04:18.13]You gotta sing
[04:18.90]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[04:20.78]Just as a king
[04:21.63]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[04:24.14]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[04:26.71]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[04:29.46]Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[04:31.74]Enough Ali upstairs now