作词 : Lonnie Rashid Lynn/Peter Phillips/Ivan Lins/Vitor Martins

作曲 : Lonnie Rashid Lynn/Peter Phillips/Ivan Lins/Vitor Martins

I'm fortunate to be alive

Can't explain how I got here, but we've arrived

The deliverance and diligence for which we strive

Is the feeling there's no ceiling is when we rise

Fortunate to have friends who don't synthesize

I keep good company, we enterprise

Had a strong gaze since infant eyes

I guess I can see the power in the prize

Incentivized by the streets I identified

Other people's struggles I don't minimize

Fortunate to be born and raised in the Chi

Salt of the earth people with the bravest eye

They say your God is truth, I wasn't raised to lie

Fortunate to be so que sera

Every day that I get up, I trace the sky

And draw with the Most High on the place that I

Am

And that's fortunate

Fortunate for the breath of life

And the breath of the Lord through Reverend Wright

Fortunate in my house ain't a desperate wife

I studied life so I can test the mic

The laboratory of a rapper's story

From the alley to the allegory

I pour rhyme in the time, let it travel from me

The war with self is the biggest battle for me

Fortunate when I was twelve, I let rap allure me

Fortunate through the wilderness, I see the trees

In the forest, there's a lot of fallen MCs

Fortunate that the God shared the lessons He returned to the essence

I still feel his presence

Most of my brethren are from '87

Childhood friends, I'm glad that I kept them

Fortunate for the wisdom of the elders

And my grandmother and mother's love that never failed us

I'm fortunate

Fortunate I was raised around my Uncle Steve

And my Uncle Charles, they both told me, "Believe"

The seeds of a revolutionary

Evolution's very

Necessary

To become fruits and berries of our labor

Told to search for a savior

Fortunate I had a chance to raise her

In the days of the unknown, I'm fortunate to come home

To blocks we fought and swung on

Fortunate the Lord put me on the path

To use the microphone for a rod and a staff

Fortunate that my heart and the beat knocks

The windy city street bop, I'm fortunate for Pete Rock

I'm fortunate

Come on

I'm fortunate

Say what?

Fortunate

Fortunate

Fortunate

Fortunate

Come on

Yes

I'm fortunate

Let's go

I'm fortunate

Say what?

Fortunate

Fortunate

We fortunate

Fortunate

What?

Let's get it

Fortunate

I'm fortunate

Fortunate

What?

I'm fortunate

I'm fortunate

Come on

Fortunate