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 letters it said
'All you see is..' and then you
big, big, you know some block silver
that '..crime in the city' right?"
"It just up the whole car?"
"Yeah yeah, it was a car and shit..."

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

* repeats 3X *

[spanish speaking Escuchela..

[Mos
The new rode high in the crown of the metropolis
Shinin, like who on top of
was tusslin, arguin and bustlin
Gangstaz of Gotham hardcore
I'm wrestlin with and ideas
My ears is picky, seekin 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
in metal and fiber optics
where is paid to trade hot stock tips
for profits, thirsty criminals pockets
Hard knuckles on the second hands of class watches
is collosus, the cost of living
is preposterous, stay alive, you or die, no options
No and Robin, can't tell between
the cops and the robbers, they partners, they all heartless
With no conscience, back streets stay
Where hearts stay hardened
My eagle talons STAY sharpened, like city lights throbbin
You either make a way or stay sobbin, the Apple
is but sweet and if you choose to eat
You could your teeth, many crews retreat
news repeat, who got shot down and locked down
Spotlight to savages, averages
My narrative, rose to this existance
Amidst the harbor lights remain in the distance

So on my mind that I can't recline
holes in the night til she bled sunshine
Breathe in, vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, 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
Chest heavin, the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die the last train leaving

Kweli]
Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on steps
we stoop to new lows, hell froze the night the slept
The beast crept concrete jungles
with one another
And ghetto birds where fall
the hydrants to the gutters
The walk the beats, but the beats we be makin
You on the wrong side of the track, lookin visibly
Taken plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers
with crime unapplied pressure, is playin God
but havin children by a lesser baby 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 like a blessing in disguise
Look in the skies for God, what you see besides the
is broken dreams flying away on the of the obscene
that people put in the air
Places you could get murdered over a glare
But is fair
It's a paradox we call
So keepin it real will make you casualty of abnormal
Killers Born Naturally like, Mickey and
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 when shit is shakin you believe in
For trees to grow in Brooklyn, seeds to be planted
I'm if y'all feel me AND THE CROWD LEFT ME STRANDED
My blood pressure and rose, cause New York niggaz
spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go
I take the L, transfer to the 2, to the gates
New York life trife the Roman Empire state

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

[spanish speaking Escuchela.. respirando ??

Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood at my former hood
Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for
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 the bread leavened
Veteran of a war It's Chica-I-go for
What I know or, known
So some days I take the bus home, just to home
From the I spend months gone
Sat by the window with a dome listenin to shorties cuss long
Young girls weak minds, but they butt strong
Tried to call, or at least the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
It's a dog-eat-dog world, you mush on
Some of this I must own
Outta the city, they us gone
Tearin down the 'jects plush homes
My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love
by hate, yet I love home
Ask my God how he thought the world sound
Found it to imagine he hadn't been past downtown
It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its
Of reality I touch, but for me it's to keep
Deep, I my man breathe in his sleep
Of reality I touch, but for me it's to keep

[Mos Def and
So much on my mind I can't recline
Blastin holes in the night til she sunshine
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that
out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
Yo how the ride out like an ancient mating call
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