Respiration (feat. Common)
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โฑ๏ธ 6:05 duration
๐ ID: 1619847
๐ Lyrics
What'd you do last night?
We did umm, two whole cars
It was me, Dez, and Main Three right?
And on the first car in small letters it said
'All you see is' and then you know
Big, big, you know some block silver letters
That said 'crime in the city' right?'
It just took up the whole car?
Yeah yeah, it was a whole car and shit...
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis
Shinin', like who on top of this?
People was tusslin, arguin and bustlin
Gangstaz of Gotham hardcore hustlin
I'm wrestlin with words and ideas
My ears is picky, seekin what will transmit
The scribes can apply to transcript, yo
This ain't no time where the usual is suitable
Tonight alive, let's describe the inscrutable
The indisputable, we New York the narcotic
Strength in metal and fiber optics
Where mercenaries is paid to trade hot stock tips
For profits, thirsty criminals take pockets
Hard knuckles on the second hands of workin class watches
Skyscrapers is collosus, the cost of living
Is preposterous, stay alive, you play or die, no options
No Batman and Robin, can't tell between the cops and the robbers
They both partners, they all heartless
With no conscience, back streets stay darkened
Where unbeliever hearts stay hardened
My eagle talons stay sharpened, like city lights stay throbbin
You either make a way or stay sobbin, the Shiny Apple
Is bruised but sweet and if you choose to eat
You could lose your teeth, many crews retreat
Nightly news repeat, who got shot down and locked down
Spotlight to savages, NASDAQ averages
My narrative, rose to explain this existance
Amidst the harbor lights which remain in the distance
So much on my mind that I can't recline
Blastin holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on shitty steps
We stoop to new lows, hell froze the night the city slept
The beast crept through concrete jungles communicatin with one another
And ghetto birds where waters fall from the hydrants to the gutters
The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin
You on the wrong side of the track, lookin visibly shaken
Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers
With crime unapplied pressure, cats is playin God
But havin children by a lesser baby mother but fuck it
We played against each other like puppets, swearin you got pull
When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes
Gettin knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise
Look in the skies for God, what you see besides the smog
Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene
Thoughts that people put in the air
Places where you could get murdered over a glare
But everything is fair
It's a paradox we call reality
So keepin it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality
Killers Born Naturally like, Mickey and Mallory
Not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an NBA salary
Some cats be emceeing to illustrate what we be seeing
Hard to be a spiritual being when shit is shakin what you believe in
For trees to grow in Brooklyn, seeds need to be planted
I'm asking if y'all feel me and the crowd left me stranded
My blood pressure boiled and rose, cause New York niggaz
Actin spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go
I take the L, transfer to the two, head to the gates
New York life type trife the Roman Empire state
So much on my mind I just can't recline
Blastin holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Yo don't the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin'
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
Yo, on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood
Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good
Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
Mixin down emotions, struggle I hadn't mastered
I coreograph seven steps to heaven
And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leavened
Veteran of a cold war It's Chica-I-go for
What I know or, what's known
So some days I take the bus home, just to touch home
From the crib I spend months gone
Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin to shorties cuss long
Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong
Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
It's a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on
Some of this land I must own
Outta the city, they want us gone
Tearin' down the 'jects creatin plush homes
My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones
Surrounded by hate, yet I love home
Ask my God how he thought travellin the world sound
Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown
It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
Deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
So much on my mind I just can't recline
Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Yo how the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Kiss the Ide's goodbye, I'm on the last train leaving
We did umm, two whole cars
It was me, Dez, and Main Three right?
And on the first car in small letters it said
'All you see is' and then you know
Big, big, you know some block silver letters
That said 'crime in the city' right?'
It just took up the whole car?
Yeah yeah, it was a whole car and shit...
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis
Shinin', like who on top of this?
People was tusslin, arguin and bustlin
Gangstaz of Gotham hardcore hustlin
I'm wrestlin with words and ideas
My ears is picky, seekin what will transmit
The scribes can apply to transcript, yo
This ain't no time where the usual is suitable
Tonight alive, let's describe the inscrutable
The indisputable, we New York the narcotic
Strength in metal and fiber optics
Where mercenaries is paid to trade hot stock tips
For profits, thirsty criminals take pockets
Hard knuckles on the second hands of workin class watches
Skyscrapers is collosus, the cost of living
Is preposterous, stay alive, you play or die, no options
No Batman and Robin, can't tell between the cops and the robbers
They both partners, they all heartless
With no conscience, back streets stay darkened
Where unbeliever hearts stay hardened
My eagle talons stay sharpened, like city lights stay throbbin
You either make a way or stay sobbin, the Shiny Apple
Is bruised but sweet and if you choose to eat
You could lose your teeth, many crews retreat
Nightly news repeat, who got shot down and locked down
Spotlight to savages, NASDAQ averages
My narrative, rose to explain this existance
Amidst the harbor lights which remain in the distance
So much on my mind that I can't recline
Blastin holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on shitty steps
We stoop to new lows, hell froze the night the city slept
The beast crept through concrete jungles communicatin with one another
And ghetto birds where waters fall from the hydrants to the gutters
The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin
You on the wrong side of the track, lookin visibly shaken
Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers
With crime unapplied pressure, cats is playin God
But havin children by a lesser baby mother but fuck it
We played against each other like puppets, swearin you got pull
When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes
Gettin knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise
Look in the skies for God, what you see besides the smog
Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene
Thoughts that people put in the air
Places where you could get murdered over a glare
But everything is fair
It's a paradox we call reality
So keepin it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality
Killers Born Naturally like, Mickey and Mallory
Not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an NBA salary
Some cats be emceeing to illustrate what we be seeing
Hard to be a spiritual being when shit is shakin what you believe in
For trees to grow in Brooklyn, seeds need to be planted
I'm asking if y'all feel me and the crowd left me stranded
My blood pressure boiled and rose, cause New York niggaz
Actin spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go
I take the L, transfer to the two, head to the gates
New York life type trife the Roman Empire state
So much on my mind I just can't recline
Blastin holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Yo don't the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin'
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
Yo, on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood
Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good
Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
Mixin down emotions, struggle I hadn't mastered
I coreograph seven steps to heaven
And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leavened
Veteran of a cold war It's Chica-I-go for
What I know or, what's known
So some days I take the bus home, just to touch home
From the crib I spend months gone
Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin to shorties cuss long
Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong
Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
It's a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on
Some of this land I must own
Outta the city, they want us gone
Tearin' down the 'jects creatin plush homes
My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones
Surrounded by hate, yet I love home
Ask my God how he thought travellin the world sound
Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown
It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
Deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
So much on my mind I just can't recline
Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Yo how the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Kiss the Ide's goodbye, I'm on the last train leaving
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:00.04] What'd you do last night?
[00:01.19] We did umm, two whole cars
[00:02.70] It was me, Dez, and Main Three right?
[00:05.09] And on the first car in small letters it said
[00:06.98] 'All you see is' and then you know
[00:08.85] Big, big, you know some block silver letters
[00:11.45] That said 'crime in the city' right?'
[00:13.20] It just took up the whole car?
[00:14.44] Yeah yeah, it was a whole car and shit...
[00:16.94]
[00:36.21] The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis
[00:39.49] Shinin', like who on top of this?
[00:41.26] People was tusslin, arguin and bustlin
[00:44.02] Gangstaz of Gotham hardcore hustlin
[00:46.72] I'm wrestlin with words and ideas
[00:48.95] My ears is picky, seekin what will transmit
[00:51.48] The scribes can apply to transcript, yo
[00:54.34] This ain't no time where the usual is suitable
[00:57.38] Tonight alive, let's describe the inscrutable
[00:59.94] The indisputable, we New York the narcotic
[01:03.04] Strength in metal and fiber optics
[01:05.10] Where mercenaries is paid to trade hot stock tips
[01:07.89] For profits, thirsty criminals take pockets
[01:10.55] Hard knuckles on the second hands of workin class watches
[01:13.24] Skyscrapers is collosus, the cost of living
[01:15.81] Is preposterous, stay alive, you play or die, no options
[01:18.94] No Batman and Robin, can't tell between the cops and the robbers
[01:21.96] They both partners, they all heartless
[01:23.95] With no conscience, back streets stay darkened
[01:26.66] Where unbeliever hearts stay hardened
[01:28.80] My eagle talons stay sharpened, like city lights stay throbbin
[01:31.97] You either make a way or stay sobbin, the Shiny Apple
[01:34.91] Is bruised but sweet and if you choose to eat
[01:37.09] You could lose your teeth, many crews retreat
[01:39.97] Nightly news repeat, who got shot down and locked down
[01:42.99] Spotlight to savages, NASDAQ averages
[01:45.47] My narrative, rose to explain this existance
[01:48.12] Amidst the harbor lights which remain in the distance
[01:51.22] So much on my mind that I can't recline
[01:53.37] Blastin holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
[01:56.06] Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
[01:58.85] Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
[02:01.47] Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
[02:04.02] I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin
[02:06.97] Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
[02:09.58] Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
[02:12.26] Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on shitty steps
[02:14.85] We stoop to new lows, hell froze the night the city slept
[02:17.44] The beast crept through concrete jungles communicatin with one another
[02:20.15] And ghetto birds where waters fall from the hydrants to the gutters
[02:22.90] The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin
[02:25.39] You on the wrong side of the track, lookin visibly shaken
[02:28.15] Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers
[02:31.09] With crime unapplied pressure, cats is playin God
[02:33.53] But havin children by a lesser baby mother but fuck it
[02:36.29] We played against each other like puppets, swearin you got pull
[02:39.02] When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes
[02:41.76] Gettin knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise
[02:44.25] Look in the skies for God, what you see besides the smog
[02:47.06] Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene
[02:50.42] Thoughts that people put in the air
[02:51.45] Places where you could get murdered over a glare
[02:53.84] But everything is fair
[02:55.12] It's a paradox we call reality
[02:57.15] So keepin it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality
[03:00.41] Killers Born Naturally like, Mickey and Mallory
[03:03.00] Not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an NBA salary
[03:05.71] Some cats be emceeing to illustrate what we be seeing
[03:08.52] Hard to be a spiritual being when shit is shakin what you believe in
[03:11.33] For trees to grow in Brooklyn, seeds need to be planted
[03:14.09] I'm asking if y'all feel me and the crowd left me stranded
[03:16.79] My blood pressure boiled and rose, cause New York niggaz
[03:19.38] Actin spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go
[03:21.95] I take the L, transfer to the two, head to the gates
[03:24.60] New York life type trife the Roman Empire state
[03:27.73] So much on my mind I just can't recline
[03:30.25] Blastin holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
[03:32.76] Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
[03:35.50] Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
[03:37.99] Yo don't the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
[03:40.71] I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin'
[03:43.59] Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
[03:46.26] Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
[03:49.09]
[03:58.54] Yo, on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood
[04:02.49] Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good
[04:05.20] Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
[04:07.94] Mixin down emotions, struggle I hadn't mastered
[04:10.51] I coreograph seven steps to heaven
[04:13.36] And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leavened
[04:15.99] Veteran of a cold war It's Chica-I-go for
[04:18.78] What I know or, what's known
[04:21.10] So some days I take the bus home, just to touch home
[04:23.85] From the crib I spend months gone
[04:25.60] Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin to shorties cuss long
[04:29.32] Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong
[04:31.80] Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
[04:34.61] It's a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on
[04:37.03] Some of this land I must own
[04:38.40] Outta the city, they want us gone
[04:40.04] Tearin' down the 'jects creatin plush homes
[04:42.36] My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones
[04:45.31] Surrounded by hate, yet I love home
[04:47.93] Ask my God how he thought travellin the world sound
[04:50.62] Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown
[04:53.65] It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep
[04:56.03] Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
[04:58.76] Deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep
[05:01.20] Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
[05:04.59] So much on my mind I just can't recline
[05:06.96] Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine
[05:09.59] Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
[05:12.19] Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
[05:14.85] Yo how the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
[05:17.54] I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing
[05:20.25] Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
[05:22.94] Kiss the Ide's goodbye, I'm on the last train leaving
[05:25.74]
[00:01.19] We did umm, two whole cars
[00:02.70] It was me, Dez, and Main Three right?
[00:05.09] And on the first car in small letters it said
[00:06.98] 'All you see is' and then you know
[00:08.85] Big, big, you know some block silver letters
[00:11.45] That said 'crime in the city' right?'
[00:13.20] It just took up the whole car?
[00:14.44] Yeah yeah, it was a whole car and shit...
[00:16.94]
[00:36.21] The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis
[00:39.49] Shinin', like who on top of this?
[00:41.26] People was tusslin, arguin and bustlin
[00:44.02] Gangstaz of Gotham hardcore hustlin
[00:46.72] I'm wrestlin with words and ideas
[00:48.95] My ears is picky, seekin what will transmit
[00:51.48] The scribes can apply to transcript, yo
[00:54.34] This ain't no time where the usual is suitable
[00:57.38] Tonight alive, let's describe the inscrutable
[00:59.94] The indisputable, we New York the narcotic
[01:03.04] Strength in metal and fiber optics
[01:05.10] Where mercenaries is paid to trade hot stock tips
[01:07.89] For profits, thirsty criminals take pockets
[01:10.55] Hard knuckles on the second hands of workin class watches
[01:13.24] Skyscrapers is collosus, the cost of living
[01:15.81] Is preposterous, stay alive, you play or die, no options
[01:18.94] No Batman and Robin, can't tell between the cops and the robbers
[01:21.96] They both partners, they all heartless
[01:23.95] With no conscience, back streets stay darkened
[01:26.66] Where unbeliever hearts stay hardened
[01:28.80] My eagle talons stay sharpened, like city lights stay throbbin
[01:31.97] You either make a way or stay sobbin, the Shiny Apple
[01:34.91] Is bruised but sweet and if you choose to eat
[01:37.09] You could lose your teeth, many crews retreat
[01:39.97] Nightly news repeat, who got shot down and locked down
[01:42.99] Spotlight to savages, NASDAQ averages
[01:45.47] My narrative, rose to explain this existance
[01:48.12] Amidst the harbor lights which remain in the distance
[01:51.22] So much on my mind that I can't recline
[01:53.37] Blastin holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
[01:56.06] Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
[01:58.85] Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
[02:01.47] Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
[02:04.02] I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin
[02:06.97] Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
[02:09.58] Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
[02:12.26] Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on shitty steps
[02:14.85] We stoop to new lows, hell froze the night the city slept
[02:17.44] The beast crept through concrete jungles communicatin with one another
[02:20.15] And ghetto birds where waters fall from the hydrants to the gutters
[02:22.90] The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin
[02:25.39] You on the wrong side of the track, lookin visibly shaken
[02:28.15] Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers
[02:31.09] With crime unapplied pressure, cats is playin God
[02:33.53] But havin children by a lesser baby mother but fuck it
[02:36.29] We played against each other like puppets, swearin you got pull
[02:39.02] When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes
[02:41.76] Gettin knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise
[02:44.25] Look in the skies for God, what you see besides the smog
[02:47.06] Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene
[02:50.42] Thoughts that people put in the air
[02:51.45] Places where you could get murdered over a glare
[02:53.84] But everything is fair
[02:55.12] It's a paradox we call reality
[02:57.15] So keepin it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality
[03:00.41] Killers Born Naturally like, Mickey and Mallory
[03:03.00] Not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an NBA salary
[03:05.71] Some cats be emceeing to illustrate what we be seeing
[03:08.52] Hard to be a spiritual being when shit is shakin what you believe in
[03:11.33] For trees to grow in Brooklyn, seeds need to be planted
[03:14.09] I'm asking if y'all feel me and the crowd left me stranded
[03:16.79] My blood pressure boiled and rose, cause New York niggaz
[03:19.38] Actin spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go
[03:21.95] I take the L, transfer to the two, head to the gates
[03:24.60] New York life type trife the Roman Empire state
[03:27.73] So much on my mind I just can't recline
[03:30.25] Blastin holes in the night 'til she bled sunshine
[03:32.76] Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
[03:35.50] Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
[03:37.99] Yo don't the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
[03:40.71] I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin'
[03:43.59] Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
[03:46.26] Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
[03:49.09]
[03:58.54] Yo, on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood
[04:02.49] Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good
[04:05.20] Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
[04:07.94] Mixin down emotions, struggle I hadn't mastered
[04:10.51] I coreograph seven steps to heaven
[04:13.36] And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leavened
[04:15.99] Veteran of a cold war It's Chica-I-go for
[04:18.78] What I know or, what's known
[04:21.10] So some days I take the bus home, just to touch home
[04:23.85] From the crib I spend months gone
[04:25.60] Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin to shorties cuss long
[04:29.32] Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong
[04:31.80] Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
[04:34.61] It's a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on
[04:37.03] Some of this land I must own
[04:38.40] Outta the city, they want us gone
[04:40.04] Tearin' down the 'jects creatin plush homes
[04:42.36] My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones
[04:45.31] Surrounded by hate, yet I love home
[04:47.93] Ask my God how he thought travellin the world sound
[04:50.62] Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown
[04:53.65] It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep
[04:56.03] Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
[04:58.76] Deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep
[05:01.20] Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
[05:04.59] So much on my mind I just can't recline
[05:06.96] Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine
[05:09.59] Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
[05:12.19] Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
[05:14.85] Yo how the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
[05:17.54] I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing
[05:20.25] Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
[05:22.94] Kiss the Ide's goodbye, I'm on the last train leaving
[05:25.74]