
Date of issue: 31.12.1999
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Virgin Records America
Song language: English
Who's There? (Feat. Les Nubians) |
These distraught thoughts of a single mother in a homeless shelter |
About pain and heartache, ain’t nothing you can tell her |
The case worker says that she should find a job |
But does this worker know what kind of jobs that there are? |
Degrading things like cleaning up people’s vomit |
For a little bit of dough, and plus your brain gets nothing from it |
I’m smarter than that this girl thinks to herself |
I’m worth more than that, she thinks to herself |
She pours a drink for herself while she stares out the window |
This guy says he got work for her, maybe she should go to him yo |
The money’s good, and plus he’ll dress her up nice |
She left her baby’s daddy cuz he beat her up twice |
She don’t really like sex |
But she hates welfare checks |
And where there’s money, that’s where she thinks there’s respect |
And what’s this girl’s purpose? |
Will she self-destruct? |
When this sisters about to go down, who’s there to help her up? |
Qui prendra soin de moi, quand dans mon coeur il fait trop froid |
Quand dans la nuit je traîne ma peine; |
Dans l’indifférence générale, je taille ma route |
Qui prendra soin de moi, quand je serai au plus bas |
Qui me dira lève la tête |
Tu vaux mieux que ça. |
Who’s there? |
Who’s there? |
These distraught thoughts of a young man in a rooming house |
This messed up life, this poverty, he could do without |
But what options does he have when all hope is gone? |
A brother gotta eat, plus all the Henny and all the smoke is gone |
All it takes is one quick stick |
Gotta fill his belly now, which vic should he pick? |
He does his dirt all by his lonely, forget his homies |
He doesn’t fell like splitting any loot, them suckas be acting phony |
So much potential but all gone to waste |
Now he lurks in night, with a loaded gun on his waist |
Too late for this lost soul, his life’s in a chokehold |
Mentality is weak, and doing crime is all he knows |
Never caring who he hurts, as long as he’s taking money |
Forget an education, and legal ways of making money |
And what’s this kid’s purpose? |
Will he self-destruct? |
When a brother’s about to go down, who’s there to help him up? |
Who’s there for my people on the streets? |
(Who's there? Who’s there?) |
Who’s there for my people who got nothing to eat? |
(Who's there? Who’s there?) |
They build more prisons, and close down schools |
Who’s there to teach the children the golden rules?(Who's there? Who’s there?) |
Who’s there for my people in the streets?(Who's there? Who’s there?) |
Who’s there for my people who got nothing to eat?(Who's there? Who’s there?) |
They break our family, neglect the elderly |
Who’s there to bring a cure? |
Where’s the remedy?(Who's there? Who’s there?) |
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