Climb the Stairs - David Wiffen

In a room above a busy street The echoes of a life The fragments and the accidents Separated by incidents Listened to by walls We share the same spaces Repeated in the corridors Performing the same movements Storey to storey Building to building Street to street We pass each other Storey to storey Building to building Street to street We pass each other Listened to by walls We share the same spaces Repeated in the corridors Performing the same movements The nature of your tragedy Is chained around your neck Do you lead or are you led? Are you sure that you don't care? There are reasons here to give your life And follow in your way The passion lives to keep your faith Though all are different all are great Climbing as we fall We dare to hold on to our fate And steal away our destiny To catch ourselves with quiet grace Storey to storey Building to building Street to street we Pass each other on the stairs Listened to by walls We share the same spaces Repeated in the corridors Performing the same movements Storey to storey Building to building Street to street we Pass each other on the stairs

(Intro) Yo, alot of people be steppin to us like Y'all from San Francisco right? Nah G we show alot of love But in the state of California from Humboldt to Oceanside ya dig But L.A. is where it all happens for the Dub and Thes One All you MC's say L.A. when you on stage And when you do spit that hot verse We gonna make it happen man (Verse One: Double K) Who wanna test? We lickin' off shots in the west We make believers out the best Lay the weak to rest In southern California ain't no place like this Have to stuff y'all too and we created this shit So don't be saggin young buck in the presence of this Don't even come from the city and your runnin your lips I'm 'bout to make a call get the news van out Explain to trisha (? to your da'?) on how your crew ran out We comin live from the trey two three area code Mad clouds of smoke and ain't no room for snow Sucka niggaz with sucka beats Stay in the back seat and buckle up for the ride I'm chillen with bad guys And got time on my side Cause this is my city this is where I live And if ya bring bad vibes I got something to give Hangin out under the sun is an everyday thang And gettin crazy in the labs the only way I bang Don't step to me with that mean face Buddy I'm all smiles and I'm countin the miles Down Crescent Heights boulevard Home of the stars Get ya pulled out ya car for frontin' too hard Just listen, you ain't down with the streets my brotha? I can forsee in your future ther'es some runnin for cover Alot of y'all talk a good game But ain't playin I learned about the hood and now feel thats where your stayin Fools be givin you the mad dog after the show Cause we ain't feelin them flows Or your designer clothes Its phony people in L.A. I counted its alot And if the hanus catch your a bully there claimin your block Just get it right its Crescent Heights all day all night The community where I was raised Livin my days Wishin I could be the mayor i'd deport you fools And send you back to squareland cause over here we brew Authentic people in the town Throw up your dub take a drag It's Double K signin off from the home of the bodybags (Verse Two: Thes One) Yo about five years after they kill Creep up the hipe Wrestlee moovahs the sleepers Drugdealers rock beepers T tops, jerry curls, jelly flip flops for girls C.B.'s on the strip and a commercial for world All wheels I whistle to my crew up on the block The color soundtrack rock the fat burger do box My L.A. U.S.C memories are every sticks who filed down clowns Claimin the same tricks on this turf My roots go deep like turbo Nerf And the cops still sweat us I roll on all blocks like I'm sellin paletas And rock the bells Home of the drive-by where they pop the shells I eat at (? chuttles en la baka?) not Taco Bell And if your not from the city then you should probably bail Cause alot of cats are implants Claimin our labels something to say and something to prove and At the shows with the flows and they think the crowds groovin Its like the 405 at 5: 30 nobodys movin I'm tired of non-recognition losin the mission to proven to cats That my soundtracks and L.A. hat When newjacks strap New York rap on the block With a palm tree it makes me sick All you underground producers get off Premier's dick and just (chill) I'm headed back to Pe-dro to sit up on the hill Next to the Korean bell eatin bizzy bee Watchin waves swell high visibility catalina and sail boats Hollywood hip hop soaps and sit-com dreams I make morphine for beat fiends Support L.A. teens stay trippin with Cal Green O.G. Jerry Duffey when I'm on your screen I'm friends with neighborhood crack heads And I know (? Ben?) L.A. is the place where I solve my problems In it i'll never fear I'll always stay here Cause when I'm in L.A. my family's there

조금만 조금만 더 올라 보자 한 걸음 더 걸음 더 힘내 보는 거야 앞만 보며 쉼 없이 걷다 보니 이 계단 끝에 날 기다리던 햇살의 spotlight 하지만 이젠 너무 오래 있었나 봐 어느새 차가운 밤공기만 돌아 조금 아쉽지만 이제는 안녕 인사를 남기고 내려갈 시간이야 다시 돌아올 수 있을까 많이 불안하고 망설여져 어떡해 이미 익숙해진 갈채와 따뜻한 기억들 정말 뒤로하고 내려갈 수 있을까 아무렇지 않은 척 조금씩 조금씩 내디뎌 봤어 한 걸음씩 걸음씩 밤공기 속으로 어느샌가 내딛는 내 발자국 소리에 끌려 내 몸에 힘이 솟는 걸 느껴 오를 땐 그토록 부럽던 뒷모습 지나온 계단 뒤로 던져 놓고서 속도를 즐겨 봐 나만의 리듬 누구의 시선도 신경쓰지 않아 다시 해가 떠오르나 봐 빛이 내 주변을 색색깔로 물들여 햇살이 내리는 곳마다 아름다운 것들 내 안의 용기가 채워지는 걸 느껴 비로소 이곳에서 다시 해가 떠오르나 봐 빛이 내 주변을 색색깔로 물들여 햇살이 내리는 곳마다 아름다운 것들 내 안의 용기가 채워지는 걸 느껴 비로소 이곳에서 북쪽 계단에서 발견한 비밀