Luyện nghe bài hát Rain Water

(Various Samples)
The question was to me the other day
why I seem to have joy.
I'd like to take time to set the record straight.
All the joy I've known has disappeared...

(Brother Ali)
Uh, motherfuckin' thin air.
Like it's never even there.
My joy done me y'all.
I never hang my head man.

And God's rain water flow through the gutter
that we today, gotta stay brave brotha.
Keep you your lip stiff, keep fist clenched.
At times you gotta kick your way this bitch.

1
And I stop feelin' guilty smilin'.
A wise man once told me that cloud has a silver linin'.
I wanted to believe him but its a trick to em'
when the around me continue dyin'.
Grandad was in the twilight of his
when he his eyes tight and opened his wrists wide.
make a tenth round fighter with a winning score
decide he to throw the towel before the whistle blow?
I'll never know, but I inherited his poetic soul
so the yet to show.
Is life so obscene that death's serine?
Or was an old auther trying to write his own scene?
Nothin like knowin that the woman who gave me this life is being eaten from the inside.
I thought we'd make shit right.
I I'd have viewed it once clear
before you done here.
That's two in one year that I let here,
lovin' me, without one single tear.
I'm one of the strongest people left
or ya'll stone me for even trying to steal breath.

X2

2
They say "Shit, scrapper, you all by yourself ya?"
straight, I got a jail cell nature.
Been boxed up but I've never settled in.
got tough, started developing leather skin.
I learned to make that that tells predators
it's better to reassess who you bout to wrestle with.
I'm on one like the first drum of the beat.
Clear my lungs, spit on the street.
tellin me we got nothing to fear but fear itself
but I fear I have no fear left.
Someday I'm gonna wanna back these calluses
and really feel life and that where my challenge is.
I've been kickin and bitin for so
that when they me a rescue rope I'll be too weary to hold on
and see the light. So I through the tears
in the key of life, the way a ego might.

X2

My joy done me ya'll.
She show her face around these parts.
Every time she come she chased off,
so she distant.

3
If it weren't for me squintin he know the sun was out.
I every word that come out of his fuckin mouth.
treat him special, don't know nothin bout him.
If they saw what his wife see they fuss about him.
He do shit right but rap and make babies
and babies daddy at home consistent,
but rap daddy on the road religious.
So even in my two loves my is so conflicted.
My son into this world innocent
and he deserves everything that to live in it.
And home I made for him is broken,
I'm hopin his love for me never grow thin.
It hurts daddy to know and to know
you cryin at the hospital I'm out tryin to rock a show.
I made a vow that we'd never be broke
and I'd never be a burden on friend.
So when I've on my farewell stage,
when I've wrote my last hook in my rhyme book,
I get the last nod of approval from my family,
this is the man I to be.

X4

Sometimes I feel I'm almost gone. You ever felt that way?