Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Respiration | Текст песни

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• Mos Def & Talib Kweli
• Respiration

[Mos Def]

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis

Shinin, like who on top of this?

People was tusslin, arguin and bustlin

Gangstaz of Gotham hardcore hustlin

I'm wrestlin with words and ideas

My ears is picky, seekin 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

Strength 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 workin class watches

Skyscrapers is collosus, 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 throbbin

You either make a way or stay sobbin, 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 existance

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 breathin

Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening

Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

[Talib Kweli]

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 crime unapplied pressure, cats is playin God

but 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 niggaz

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

[Mos Def and crew]

So much on my mind I just 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

Yo don't the bass ride out like an a