歌手:Jay-Z
专辑:《The Black Album》

作词 : Carter, Shawn C.
作曲 : Carter, Shawn C.
Interlude -Jay-Z
Written by ：Justin SmithShawn Carter/Justin SmithShawn Carter
The other night when I was researching
What was going to be discussed today
I came across a passage wrote down
I think it really exemplifies
What the young brother next to me was just talking about
And I learned that all things must come to an end
It is an inevitable part of the cycle of existance
All things must conclude
Take the analogy of a tree that grows in Brooklyn
Among the steel and the concrete with all its glorious
Branches and leaves
One day it too will pass on its legacy
Through the seeds it dropped to the ground
And as the wind carries these seeds throughout
Wherever they might move a new life
Will begin for each one of them as
They stand as a monument to the one that came before
That came before
That came before
That came before
That came before