[ti:Empire State Of Mind]
[ar:Jay-Z/Alicia Keys]
[al:Promo Only Urban Radio November 2009]
[by:]
[00:00.00]Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z
[00:01.33]Composed by：Al Shuckbur
[00:02.67]JAY-Z：
[00:09.59]Yeah
[00:10.71]Yeah I'm out that Brooklyn now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.36]Right next to De Niro but I'll be hood forever
[00:16.09]I'm the new Sinatra and since I made it here
[00:18.97]I can make it anywhere yeah they love me everywhere
[00:21.60]I used to cop in Harlem-hola my Dominicanos
[00:24.36]Dimelo
[00:24.54]Right there up on Broadway brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:27.24]Took it to my stash spot 560 State Street
[00:29.98]Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry
[00:32.73]Cruisin' down 8th Street off-white Lexus
[00:35.44]Drivin' so slow but BK is from Texas
[00:38.36]Me I'm out that Bed-Stuy home of that boy Biggie
[00:41.05]Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[00:43.83]Say what up to Ty Ty still sippin' Mai Tais
[00:46.54]Sittin' courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives
[00:49.27]N***a I be spiked out I could trip a referee
[00:52.03]Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from
[00:55.25]Alicia Keys/Jay-Z：
[00:55.82]In New York
[00:56.71]Ayy aha
[00:58.21]Uh yeah
[00:58.53]Concrete jungle
[00:59.52]Yeah
[00:59.69]Where dreams are made of
[01:02.19]There's nothin' you can't do
[01:04.96]Yeah
[01:05.17]Okay
[01:05.36]Now you're in New York
[01:07.72]Aha aha aha
[01:09.22]Uh yeah
[01:09.86]These streets will make you feel brand-new
[01:13.05]New
[01:13.25]Big lights will inspire you
[01:15.53]Come on
[01:16.00]Okay
[01:16.19]Let's hear it for New York
[01:17.54]You welcome OG
[01:18.43]Uh
[01:18.92]New York
[01:19.66]Yeah
[01:20.10]New York
[01:20.92]Uh
[01:21.08]I made you hot n***a
[01:22.06]Jay-Z：
[01:22.50]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:25.49]S**t I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
[01:28.26]You should know I bleed blue but I ain't a Crip though
[01:30.87]But I got a gang of n***as walkin' with my clique though
[01:33.65]Welcome to the meltin' pot corners where we sellin' rock
[01:36.49]Afrika Bambaataa s**t home of the hip-hop
[01:39.27]Yellow cab gypsy cab dollar cab holla back
[01:41.89]For foreigners it ain't fair they act like they forgot how to add
[01:44.59]Eight million stories out there in the naked
[01:47.46]City it's a pity half of y'all won't make it
[01:50.23]Me I gotta plug Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[01:52.84]If Jeezy's payin' LeBron I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:55.86]Three dice cee-lo three-card Marley
[01:58.56]Labor Day Parade rest in peace Bob Marley
[02:01.47]Statue of Liberty long live the World Trade
[02:04.15]Long live the king yo I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:07.21]Alicia Keys/Jay-Z：
[02:07.73]In New York
[02:08.71]Ayy
[02:09.62]Uh yeah
[02:10.32]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:14.18]There's nothin' you can't do
[02:15.75]That boy good
[02:16.91]Okay
[02:17.22]Now you're in New York
[02:20.26]Uh yeah
[02:21.77]Welcome to the bright lights baby
[02:22.47]These streets will make you feel brand-new
[02:25.22]Big lights will inspire you
[02:28.23]Okay
[02:28.38]Let's hear it for New York
[02:30.52]Uh
[02:30.76]New York
[02:31.76]Yeah
[02:32.19]New York
[02:33.14]Uh
[02:34.39]Jay-Z：
[02:35.43]Lights is blinding girls need blinders
[02:38.05]So they can step out of bounds quick the side lines is
[02:41.08]Lined with casualties who sip the life casually
[02:43.62]Then gradually become worse don't bite the apple Eve
[02:46.46]Caught up in the in-crowd now you're in-style
[02:48.88]Into the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out
[02:51.84]City of sin is a pity on a whim
[02:54.32]Good girls gone bad the city's filled with them
[02:57.32]Mami took a bus trip now she got her bust out
[03:00.25]Everybody ride her just like a bus route
[03:03.15]"Hail Mary" to the city you're a virgin
[03:05.48]And Jesus can't save you life starts when the church end
[03:08.63]Came here for school graduated to the high life
[03:11.45]Ball players rap stars addicted to the limelight
[03:14.04]MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
[03:16.66]The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien
[03:19.06]Alicia Keys/Jay-Z：
[03:19.64]In New York
[03:20.15]Ayy ow
[03:21.20]Uh yeah
[03:22.50]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:26.28]There's nothin' you can't do
[03:29.12]Okay
[03:29.40]Now you're in New York
[03:32.29]Uh yeah
[03:33.80]These streets will make you feel brand-new
[03:37.20]Big lights will inspire you
[03:40.12]Okay
[03:40.32]Let's hear it for New York
[03:42.31]Uh
[03:42.66]New York
[03:43.69]Yeah
[03:44.05]New York
[03:45.33]Uh
[03:46.32]Alicia Keys：
[03:47.76]One hand in the air for the big city
[03:49.92]Oh
[03:50.26]Street lights big dreams all lookin' pretty
[03:52.65]Oh
[03:53.02]No place in the world that could compare
[03:55.44]Nah
[03:55.83]Put your lighters in the air everybody say
[03:58.29]"Yeah yeah"
[03:59.60]Come on come on
[04:01.34]"Yeah yeah"
[04:02.31]Come on
[04:03.24]In New York
[04:05.75]Uh yeah
[04:06.64]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:10.58]There's nothin' you can't do
[04:13.32]Okay
[04:13.73]Now you're in New York
[04:16.69]Uh yeah
[04:17.98]These streets will make you feel brand-new
[04:21.57]Big lights will inspire you
[04:24.23]Okay
[04:24.59]Let's hear it for New York
[04:26.99]Uh
[04:27.19]New York
[04:28.02]Yeah
[04:28.33]New York
[04:29.52]Uh