Jonylah Forever - Lupe Fiasco

You live forever
你永生不灭
How 'bout them bullets ain't slow you up
子弹不会让你放慢脚步
You ain't really die and we watched you grow up
你没有真的死去我们看着你长大
At 12 months you took your first steps
十二个月的时候你迈出了人生的第一步
Awkwardly across the kitchen floor to your best
尴尬地穿过厨房的地板展现你最好的一面
Your first breaths that we can call words
你的第一次呼吸我们可以称之为话语
You In your father's lap on November 23rd
11月23日你坐在你父亲的膝上
And they were Live for me and he did for you
他们为我而活他为你而活
Flipped to Neutron and stayed inside the crib for you
变成了中子星我为你待在家里
And this commitment from your father
你父亲的承诺
Imparted a deep sense of value you forever harbor
给予我深深的价值感你永远的港湾
We were all so proud as we seen you getting smarter
看到你越来越聪明我们都很骄傲
And the bond grow deeper between a mother and a daughter
母女之间的纽带愈发牢固
But you were not a martyr
但你不是殉道者
Find out I was just a bad dream
发现我只是一场噩梦
Goodbye
再见
At six you started reading whole books
六岁的时候你开始读整本书
At seven you knew how a brain looked
七岁的时候你就知道脑子是什么样的
And could roughly describe all the different regions
可以大致描述所有不同的地区
Could tell when we was sick and even knew the reason
知道我们生病的时候也知道原因
The world wasn't at peace gunfire every weekend
世界并不和平每个周末都枪林弹雨
But you were hardly there cause you was always leaving
可你几乎不在我身边因为你总是离我而去
Field museum planetarium aquarium
菲尔德博物馆天文馆水族馆
You saw something special in that tank you were starin' in
你在你凝视的水缸里看到了特别的东西
And in those moments as a little girl
在我小时候的那些时光里
You realized it was a bigger world
你发现这是一个更大的世界
Bigger than the South Side bigger than Chicago
比南方的繁华比芝加哥的繁华
You were bigger still wanted rims on your car though
你长大了可你还是想要给你的车装上轮圈
And big a*s woofers in your car door
你的车门上放着大大的音响
So you could wang like your daddy at the park eating sharks
所以你可以像你爸爸一样在公园吃鲨鱼
Went to King where you were teased for being smart
去了King那里你因为聪明被人嘲笑
Where you bumped into Hadiya teaching art
你在哪里遇到了Hadiya教授艺术
You live forever
你永生不灭
Find out I was just a bad dream
发现我只是一场噩梦
Neither ever nor never goodbye
永不分离
Neither ever nor never goodbye
永不分离
Neither

At sixteen is when you got your scholarship
十六岁的时候你就能拿到奖学金
At twenty two is when you got your doctorate
二十二岁就是你拿到博士学位的时候
Even now it's kind of hard to believe
即使到了现在也有点难以置信
But your father taught you work hard and achieve
可你的父亲教导你要努力拼搏
And you complied
你顺从了我
Accepted by every medical school you applied
你申请的每一所医学院都接受你
But the coolest thing is when they offered you that high paying slot you replied

They need me in the hood and that's where you reside
他们需要我在街头混你就住在那里
Free clinic nobody denied
义诊没人否认
And that's where you heard the shots and quickly ran outside
你就在那里听到枪声赶紧跑出去
And saw a man and a van and a bleeding baby in his hands
看见一个男人一辆货车手里抱着一个鲜血淋漓的婴儿
Fading fast but you knew she could survive
迅速消失但你知道她可以撑下去
Did everything you could to keep this girl alive
你竭尽所能让这个女孩好好活着
Stabilized until the ambulance arrived
在救护车到来之前情况稳定下来
And in that moment where you gave your help
在你给予帮助的那一刻
I bet you didn't know that you saved yourself
我打赌你不知道你拯救了自己
Fold down your hands give me a sign
放下你的双手给我一个信号
Hooked on your lies
沉迷于你的谎言
Lay down next to me don't listen when I scream
躺在我身边不要听我的尖叫
Bury your doubts and fall asleep
抛开疑虑酣然入睡
Lord have mercy
上帝可怜可怜我吧