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Respiration
Blackstar

Escúchela la ciudad respirando

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis

Shining, like who on top of this?

People was tussling, arguing and bustling

Gangstas of Gotham hardcore hustling

I'm wrestling with words and ideas

My ears is pricked, seeking 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

Draped 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 working class watches

Skyscrapers is colossus, 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 throbbing

You either make a way or stay sobbing

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 existence

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 breathing

Chest heaving, 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 Krylon applied pressure, cats is playin God

By 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 niggas

Actin spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go

I take the L, transfer to the 2, head to the gates

New York life type trife the Roman Empire state

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 breathing

Chest heaving, 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 choreograph seven steps to heaven

In hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leaven

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 bust 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 guy 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

A reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep

Deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep

A reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep

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

How the bass ride out like an ancient mating call

I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing

Chest heaving, against the flesh of the evening

Kiss the eyes goodbye I'm on the last train leaving


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