[ti:Next Generation (feat. Scarfac] [ar:Wyclef Jean] [al:The Preacher's Son] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Next Generation - Wyclef Jean (韦克莱夫·让)/Scarface/Rah Digga [00:04.11]Hold on now don't die now be strong now [00:11.41]He said I was born a crack baby [00:16.29]In a plastic bag in the alley [00:18.97]Raised in a foster home [00:20.78]With no mother to love and I never knew my papi [00:24.03]Back in the days of Bobby McFerrin [00:26.59]Used to sing don't worry be happy [00:28.75]Lord how can I be happy [00:31.43]When I don't even know my own family tree Lord [00:34.61]We are the next generation we ain't scared to die [00:39.66]The only thing I fear is the after life [00:45.08]Cos I don't know what's there on the other side [00:50.38]But I pray the Lord forgives me gives me one more try [00:56.00]Gang poppin' things doing drive-by's and angers [00:58.71]Kids going to school putting fears in their teacher [01:01.32]The teacher let them know that it ain't all good [01:03.82]Cos the gang was created to protect the neighborhood now [01:07.15]All you red now all you blue now [01:09.64]All you yellow now follow me now [01:12.45]To that place of righteousness [01:14.70]Where the only thing that matters is your consciousness he said [01:17.77]We are the next generation we ain't scared to die [01:22.74]The only thing I fear is the after life [01:27.94]Cos I don't know what's there on the other side [01:33.49]But I pray the Lord forgives me gives me one more try [01:39.71]In my father's kingdom there are many mansions [01:45.44]All the rooms are free there is no tax collection [01:50.38]I can see Biggie Tupac Moses and Abraham [01:55.63]Jason the one and two's jamming with the sun of man [02:00.36]I've been kicked I've been stabbed [02:01.67]I've been shot I've been by a [02:03.42]Person that I thought I trusted where I live [02:05.79]It's a war at the cribs walk with a strap [02:08.54]Myself cos I don't want nobody's son on my back [02:11.34]My mind playing tricks to really [02:13.84]Me out in five unless I take another hit [02:16.64]I done seen the sun set on the other side of town [02:19.20]Now I'm drifting in the darkness Heaven hold me down [02:23.37]But I know I'm born dying [02:24.81]Feel the tears of the angels looking down on me crying [02:27.37]For a lying a** but yo forgive us in a while [02:30.24]And I'm sorry never let me forget that I'm your child [02:32.85]While I'm locked up in this basement staring eye to eye with Satan [02:36.69]In this cold dark world with no patience [02:38.20]We get plotted on by agents with talks of replacing [02:40.44]The Africans Jamaicans and the Haitians in this next generation [02:44.19]We are the next generation we ain't scared to die [02:49.12]The only thing I fear is the after life [02:54.36]Cos I don't know what's there on the other side [02:59.54]But I pray the Lord forgives me gives me one more try [03:05.22]Whoa we the next generation look at what we facing [03:08.02]The kids raise themselves all kind of temptation [03:10.64]Flowers and candles decorating all the pavements [03:13.45]No the perpetrator ain't seeing no arrangements [03:16.38]Nobody cares about the feelings of the poor [03:18.81]Man they suffer while we spending eighty billion on a war uh [03:21.62]Cutting school budgets US stockmarket plummets [03:24.20]Condition's only worse and I wonder what become it [03:26.95]Metal detectors replace music classes [03:29.49]Angry little kids wanna beat their teacher's asses [03:32.24]The red and blue's somebody gotta lose [03:34.48]Reality TV be reality for who [03:37.35]I don't question what the Lord found in me [03:40.10]I just pass it on to folks with no boundaries [03:42.92]Got a long road ahead of us AIDS already gettin' us [03:45.80]Now we got stars how many will there be left of us [03:48.73]We are the next generation we ain't scared to die [03:53.78]The only thing I fear is the after life [03:59.03]Cos I don't know what's there on the other side [04:04.33]But I pray the Lord forgives me gives me one more try