Luyện nghe bài hát Respiration

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

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

* repeats 3X *

[spanish speaking Escuchela..

Def]
The new moon high in the crown of the metropolis
Shinin, who on top of this?
People was tusslin, and bustlin
of Gotham hardcore hustlin
I'm with words and ideas
My ears is picky, what will transmit
the scribes can to transcript, yo
This ain't no time where the is suitable
Tonight alive, let's describe the
The indisputable, we New York the
Strength in metal and fiber
where mercenaries is paid to hot stock tips
for profits, thirsty take pockets
Hard knuckles on the second hands of workin class
Skyscrapers is collosus, the cost of
is preposterous, alive, you play or die, no options
No and Robin, can't tell between
the cops and the robbers, both partners, they all heartless
With no conscience, back streets stay
Where unbeliever hearts hardened
My eagle talons STAY sharpened, like city stay throbbin
You either a way or stay sobbin, the Shiny Apple
is bruised but and if you choose to eat
You could lose your teeth, many retreat
news repeat, who got shot down and locked down
Spotlight to savages, averages
My narrative, to explain this existance
Amidst the lights which remain in the distance

So much on my mind that I can't
Blastin holes in the night til she bled
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright that shine
out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Heard the bass ride out 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 like the last train

Kweli]
Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on steps
we stoop to new lows, hell the night the city slept
The beast crept through jungles
communicatin one another
And ghetto birds where fall
from the hydrants to the
The beast walk the beats, but the we be makin
You on the side of the track, lookin visibly shaken
them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers
with crime unapplied pressure, cats is God
but havin children by a lesser mother but fuck it
we against each other like puppets, swearin you got pull
when the only pull you got is the wool over your
Gettin knowledge in jail a blessing in disguise
Look in the for God, what you see besides the smog
is broken flying away on the wings of the obscene
Thoughts that put in the air
Places where you could get murdered over a
But is fair
It's a we call reality
So keepin it real make you casualty of abnormal normality
Killers Naturally like, Mickey and Mallory
Not the ways'll get you capped like an NBA salary
Some be emceeing to illustrate what we be seeing
Hard to be a spiritual being shit is shakin what you believe in
For to grow in Brooklyn, seeds need to be planted
I'm asking if y'all feel me AND THE CROWD ME STRANDED
My blood boiled and rose, cause New York niggaz
spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go
I take the L, to the 2, head to the gates
New York life type trife the Roman Empire

[Mos Def and
So on my mind I just 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 the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the breathin
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the
Sigh before we die like the last leaving

[spanish speaking Escuchela.. respirando ??

Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my hood
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 mastered
I coreograph seven steps to
And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread
Veteran of a cold war Chica-I-go for
What I or, what's known
So some days I take the bus home, to touch home
From the crib I spend gone
Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin to cuss long
Young girls with minds, but they butt strong
Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but have a touch-tone
a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on
Some of land I must own
Outta the city, they want us
down the 'jects creatin plush homes
My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love
Surrounded by hate, yet I love
Ask my God how he thought travellin the world
Found it hard to he hadn't been past downtown
deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me hard to keep
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
holes in the night til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars shine
out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Yo how the bass out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the breathing
Chest heavin, the flesh of the evening
Kiss the goodbye, I'm on the last train leaving