Respiration

Respiration easy guitar chords by Black Star, Common

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  • Intro 1
    Am


    Verse 1
    Am

    Escúchala, la ciudad respirando
    Verse 2
    Am

    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
    Verse 3

    remain in the distance
    Am

    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
    Verse 4
    Am

    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
    Verse 5

    trife the Roman Empire state
    Am

    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,
    Em

    against the flesh of the evening

    Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
    Am
    Yo,
    Verse 6
    Bm
    Am


    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
    Verse 7
    Am

    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
    Outro 1

    leaving
    Am
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