Luyện nghe bài hát Respiration

"What'd you do night?"
"We did umm, two whole
It was me, Dez, and Main right?
And on the car in small letters it said
'All you see is..' and then you
big, big, you know some silver letters
that '..crime in the city' right?"
"It took up the whole car?"
"Yeah yeah, it was a car and shit..."

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

* woman 3X *

speaking woman] Escuchela..

[Mos
The new moon rode high in the crown of the
Shinin, like who on top of
People was tusslin, arguin and
Gangstaz of hardcore hustlin
I'm wrestlin words and ideas
My is picky, seekin what will transmit
the scribes can to transcript, yo
This ain't no time where the usual is
alive, let's describe the inscrutable
The indisputable, we New the narcotic
Strength in metal and optics
where is paid to trade hot stock tips
for profits, criminals take pockets
Hard knuckles on the hands of workin class watches
is collosus, the cost of living
is preposterous, stay alive, you play or die, no
No Batman and Robin, can't between
the and the robbers, they both partners, they all heartless
With no conscience, back streets darkened
Where hearts stay hardened
My talons STAY sharpened, like city lights stay throbbin
You either make a way or stay sobbin, the Apple
is bruised but and if you choose to eat
You could your teeth, many crews retreat
Nightly news repeat, who got down and locked down
Spotlight to savages, NASDAQ
My narrative, to explain 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 sunshine
Breathe in, vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed retrace the skyline
the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train

[Talib
Breathin in deep breaths, sittin on shitty steps
we stoop to new lows, froze the night the city slept
The beast through concrete jungles
with one another
And birds where waters fall
from the to the gutters
The beast the beats, but the beats we be makin
You on the wrong side of the track, lookin shaken
Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the
with crime unapplied pressure, is playin God
but havin children by a lesser mother but fuck it
we played against each other like puppets, swearin you got
when the only you got is the wool over your eyes
Gettin knowledge in jail a blessing in disguise
Look in the skies for God, what you see the smog
is broken dreams away on the wings of the obscene
Thoughts that put in the air
Places you could get murdered over a glare
But everything is
It's a paradox we reality
So keepin it real will you casualty of abnormal normality
Killers Born Naturally like, and Mallory
Not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an NBA
Some cats be to illustrate what we be seeing
Hard to be a spiritual when shit is shakin what you believe in
For trees to in Brooklyn, seeds need to be planted
I'm asking if feel me AND THE CROWD LEFT ME STRANDED
My blood boiled and rose, cause New York niggaz
actin spoiled at shows, to the the spoils go
I take the L, to the 2, head to the gates
New York life trife the Roman Empire state

Def and crew]
So much on my mind I just recline
holes in the night til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that
out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Yo don't the bass out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can the city breathin
Chest heavin, against the of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train

speaking woman] Escuchela.. respirando ??

Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my hood
Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for
Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't it
down emotions, struggle I hadn't mastered
I coreograph seven steps to
And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread
Veteran of a cold war It's for
What I or, what's known
So some days I the bus home, just to touch home
From the crib I spend gone
Sat by the with a clutched dome listenin to shorties cuss long
Young girls with weak minds, but they strong
Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't a touch-tone
a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on
Some of this land I own
the city, they want us gone
Tearin the 'jects creatin plush homes
My circumstance is Cabrini and Love Jones
Surrounded by hate, yet I home
Ask my God how he thought travellin the world
Found it hard to imagine he hadn't past downtown
It's deep, I heard the city in its sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to
Deep, I my man breathe in his sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me it's to keep

Def and crew]
So much on my mind I just can't
Blastin holes in the night til she bled
Breathe in, inhale from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the
Yo how the bass ride out like an ancient mating
I take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing
Chest heavin, against the of the evening
Kiss the goodbye, I'm on the last train leaving