YouLyric
Sign in
Sign up for free
Respiration
Share
Blackstar
What's this song about?
Generate meaning
1
Escíºchela la ciudad respirando
2
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis
3
Shining, like who on top of this?
4
People was tussling, arguing and bustling
5
Gangstas of Gotham hardcore hustling
6
I'm wrestling with words and ideas
7
My ears is pricked, seeking what will transmit
8
The scribes can apply to transcript, yo
9
This ain't no time where the usual is suitable
10
Tonight alive, let's describe the inscrutable
11
The indisputable, we New York the narcotic
12
Draped in metal and fiber optics
13
Where mercenaries is paid to trade hot stock tips
14
For profits, thirsty criminals take pockets
15
Hard knuckles on the second hands of working class watches
16
Skyscrapers is colossus, the cost of living is preposterous
17
Stay alive, you play or die, no options, no Batman and Robin
18
Can't tell between the cops and the robbers, they both partners, they all heartless
19
With no conscience, back streets stay darkened
20
Where unbeliever hearts stay hardened
21
My eagle talons stay sharpened, like city lights stay throbbing
22
You either make a way or stay sobbing
23
The shiny Apple is bruised but sweet and if you choose to eat
24
You could lose your teeth, many crews retreat
25
Nightly news repeat, who got shot down and locked down
26
Spotlight to savages, NASDAQ averages
27
My narrative rose to explain this existence
28
Amidst the harbor lights which remain in the distance
29
So much on my mind that I can't recline
30
Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine
31
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
32
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
33
Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
34
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing
35
Chest heaving, against the flesh of the evening
36
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
37
Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on shitty steps
38
We stoop to new lows, hell froze the night the city slept
39
The beast crept through concrete jungles
40
Communicatin with one another
41
And ghetto birds where waters fall
42
From the hydrants to the gutters
43
The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin
44
You on the wrong side of the track, lookin visibly shaken
45
Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers
46
With Krylon applied pressure, cats is playin God
47
By havin children by a lesser baby mother but fuck it
48
We played against each other like puppets, swearin you got pull
49
When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes
50
Gettin knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise
51
Look in the skies for God, what you see besides the smog
52
Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene
53
Thoughts that people put in the air
54
Places where you could get murdered over a glare
55
But everything is fair
56
It's a paradox we call reality
57
So keepin it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality
58
Killers Born Naturally like, Mickey and Mallory
59
Not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an NBA salary
60
Some cats be emceeing to illustrate what we be seeing
61
Hard to be a spiritual being when shit is shakin what you believe in
62
For trees to grow in Brooklyn, seeds need to be planted
63
I'm asking if y'all feel me and the crowd left me stranded
64
My blood pressure boiled and rose, cause New York niggas
65
Actin spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go
66
I take the L, transfer to the 2, head to the gates
67
New York life type trife the Roman Empire state
68
So much on my mind that I can't recline
69
Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine
70
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
71
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
72
Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
73
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing
74
Chest heaving, against the flesh of the evening
75
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
76
Yo, on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood
77
Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good
78
Threw dirt on the casket, the hurt, I couldn't mask it
79
Mixin down emotions, struggle I hadn't mastered
80
I choreograph seven steps to heaven
81
In hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leaven
82
Veteran of a cold war It's Chica-I-go for
83
What I know or, what's known
84
So some days I take the bus home, just to touch home
85
From the crib I spend months gone
86
Sat by the window with a clutched dome listenin to shorties cuss long
87
Young girls with weak minds, but they bust strong
88
Tried to call, or at least beep the Lord, but didn't have a touch-tone
89
It's a dog-eat-dog world, you gotta mush on
90
Some of this land I must own
91
Outta the city, they want us gone
92
Tearin down the 'jects creatin plush homes
93
My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones
94
Surrounded by hate, yet I love home
95
Ask my guy how he thought travellin the world sound
96
Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown
97
It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep
98
A reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
99
Deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep
100
A reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep
101
So much on my mind that I can't recline
102
Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine
103
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
104
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline
105
How the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
106
I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathing
107
Chest heaving, against the flesh of the evening
108
Kiss the eyes goodbye I'm on the last train leaving
Black Star - Respiration ft. Common
118 views
0 meanings
Go Pro
Unlimited meanings · Priority generation
Upgrade
