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Peak #3,002
Peak in subgenre #1,569
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September 02, 2006
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MP3 5.3 MB • 128 kbps • 5:48
Lyrics
[YunG DeV]
lets take a walk thruogh tha city come on follow me//
through the thugs who break in for the robberies//
thru tha flames, tha smoke makes it hard to breathe//
theres got to be more more than life than just to win tha lottery//
but possibly, our livin is a philosophy//
trapped inside a box you see//why god keeps on mocking me?//
a prodigy//the smoke we tote got my mind decieved//
tha finer things, but poverty is all my eyes culd see//
im flyin free//bled and wept these tears cold//
wrote my first rhyme, at 11 years old//
let tha pencil weave slow//as im blessed from weed smoke//
serene quotes//take a breath and breathe slow// as we go//
who wulda thought i wuld survive here, 5 years and still
writin outta my tears//the ideas, is still tha same in tha scriptures//
my lifes a image, wit no frame for tha picture//
tha pain gettin sicka//feel tha rain like a sprinkler//
cryin blood for tha love from tha range in tha mirror//
its clearer//see adam & eve were beginners//
now rivers instill us, carry tha dreams of these sinners//
to forgive us they'd have to kill us and fill us of foul things//
so im floatin down stream, untill im crowned king//dats a wild theme//
but god forgive us for your broken plagues//ocean waves//
now got me floatin to tha golden gates//i hope and pray//
my pain shall lead me to tha kingdom//
many tried many died chasin afta freedom//
men have passed at last to obtain what they seeking//
adios im ghost im on tha last train leavin//
(from original song)
So much on my mind that it 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, Micky 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 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
[spanish speaking woma
