Laws - Fly [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1: Laws]
When I was still writing down words
Back when freestyle meant coming off the dome
I knew this older rapper and he had a lot of birds
I gotta keep it real, I was trying to be his clone
And that was good enough for a town that you could say was two horse
Especially in the South when you trying to rap like New York
Lunch period, chicks, he would bag ‘em up
I was still self service, using napkins up
I felt the sun from his shadow, he walking 'round like wanna battle?
I sat right in his corner and I soaked up all his game
So when I got approached, I'd use his quotes on all these lames
I was sure that he wouldn’t even mind
I put my twist in something that you couldn’t redesign
I would smile when he put me in his lines
He would notice, right after, he would pull me to the side and say…

[Hook]
Boy, when you get to the top, don’t you ever look down, no
‘Cause we rise and fall like snow in the night
You move too fast and you went and missed your life

[Verse 2: Laws]
We outgrew a little hometown, his mom let us take the car
We on the road now, it was so epic, rehearsing on the way
Getting ready for the showdown, I tried to dress, I like to kick it instead
My mother saw my du-rag like take that shit off your head
Pull up your pants pendejo, feeling like my spine was yellow
Still trying to cop my own cell phone, I would call my shorty from his
He would drop me off at the crib and afterwards, he would be all in my biz
Like do your girl got a friend? I’m thinking back to honey, smiling
He had chicks all around so why son wilding?
He said he done so much winning in battling, the guys embraced him
But all the women were mannequins, when he was my age
He slept in his rhyme page and when he wasn’t scribbling
He was traveling and then he told me…

[Hook 2]
Boy, when you get to the top, don’t you ever look down, no, no
‘Cause we rise and fall like snow in the night
You move too fast and you went and missed your life

[Verse 3: Laws]
Yo, he stressing but all he did was sit up on his couch
Recession, mom threatening to kick him out the house
Now that was the start of the real trouble
I started noticing grey in his beard stubble
All his friends went to school and made big gwap
He still backpack, trying to save Hip-Hop, man
His heart's cold
But it used to be so fire, all he got left is Teen Club show fliers
Went and developed my sound and found a middle ground
But he would always rock the same little crowd
His ego grew till there wasn’t a stage left so right on cue
I had to exit stage left, cue my theme music, close the curtains
And that was eight years ago, homeboy was hurting
Sometimes in my shows in the back row, I think I see him
But he dip before I’m catching ’em though then I think…

[Hook 3]
Boy, when you get to the top, don’t you ever look down, no
‘Cause we rise and fall like snow in the night
You move too fast and you went and missed your life
Rising and falling like snow in the night