Luyện nghe bài hát Respiration

"what'd you do last "
"we did umm, two cars
It was me, dez, and main three
And on the first car in small it said
'all you see is..' and then you
Big, big, you know block silver letters
said '..crime in the city' right? "
"it just took up the car? "
"yeah yeah, it was a car and shit..."

[spanish speaking woman] escuchela.. la ciudad
(translation of spanish: to it.. the city breathing)

* repeats 3x *

[spanish speaking escuchela..

def]
The new rode high in the crown of the metropolis
Shinin, who on top of this?
People was tusslin, arguin and
Gangstaz of gotham hustlin
I'm wrestlin with words and
My ears is picky, seekin what transmit
The scribes can to transcript, yo
This ain't no time the usual is suitable
Tonight alive, describe the inscrutable
The indisputable, we new york the
in metal and fiber optics
Where mercenaries is to trade hot stock tips
For profits, thirsty criminals take
Hard on the second hands of workin class watches
Skyscrapers is collosus, the cost of
Is preposterous, stay alive, you or die, no options
No batman and robin, can't between
The cops and the robbers, both partners, they all heartless
With no conscience, back stay darkened
Where hearts stay hardened
My eagle talons stay sharpened, like city lights stay
You either make a way or sobbin, the shiny apple
Is bruised but and if you choose to eat
You could lose your teeth, many retreat
Nightly repeat, who got shot down and locked down
Spotlight to savages, averages
My narrative, rose to this existance
Amidst the harbor lights which in the distance

So much on my mind that I recline
Blastin holes in the night til she bled
Breathe in, inhale from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, smoke retrace the skyline
Heard the bass out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can the city breathin
heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die the last train leaving

kweli]
Breathin in deep city breaths, on shitty steps
We stoop to new lows, hell froze the the city slept
The crept through concrete jungles
Communicatin with one
And ghetto birds where waters
the hydrants to the gutters
The beast the beats, but the beats we be makin
You on the wrong side of the track, visibly shaken
Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the
With crime unapplied pressure, cats is god
But havin by a lesser baby mother but fuck it
We against each other like puppets, swearin you got pull
the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes
Gettin knowledge in like a blessing in disguise
Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the
Is dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene
that people put in the air
Places where you could get murdered a glare
But everything is
It's a paradox we call
So keepin it will make you casualty of abnormal normality
Killers born like, mickey and mallory
Not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an nba
Some be emceeing to illustrate what we be seeing
Hard to be a spiritual being shit is shakin what you believe in
For trees to grow in brooklyn, need to be planted
I'm if y'all feel me and the crowd left me stranded
My blood pressure boiled and rose, cause new york
Actin at shows, to the winners the spoils go
I take the l, to the 2, head to the gates
New york type trife the roman empire state

[mos def and
So much on my mind I can't recline
Blastin holes in the til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from stars that shine
out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Yo don't the bass ride out like an ancient mating
I can't it y'all, I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, the flesh of the evening
Sigh we die like the last train leaving

speaking woman] escuchela.. respirando ? ?

Yo...on the amen, corner I stood lookin at my former
Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my was gone for good
dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
Mixin down emotions, struggle I hadn't
I coreograph seven to heaven
And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread
of a cold war it's chica-i-go for
What I know or, what's
So some days I take the bus home, just to home
the crib I spend months gone
Sat by the window with a clutched listenin to shorties cuss long
Young girls with weak minds, but butt strong
Tried to call, or at beep the lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
It's a dog-eat-dog world, you mush on
Some of land I must own
the city, they want us gone
Tearin down the 'jects creatin plush
My circumstance is cabrini and love jones
Surrounded by hate, yet I love
Ask my God how he thought the world sound
Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been downtown
It's deep, I heard the city breathe in it's
Of I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
Deep, I heard my man in his sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to

def and crew]
So much on my mind I just can't
Blastin in the night til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright that shine
Breathe out, smoke retrace the skyline
Yo how the bass ride out an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the breathing
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the
the ide's goodbye, I'm on the last train leaving