Empire State of Mind II (Alicia Keys)

I loovee Jay-Z and Alicia's collaboration but I <3 Alicia's version. Maybe because it's easier to understand (Jay-Z's rap is way too NY ghetto for me to comprehend!) hehe. Or maybe, in a way, I can relate with Alicia! hah! Anyway, i'm posting the lyrics below! :D



Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Lyrics



Ooohh New York x2



Grew up in a town that is famous as the place of movie scenes

Noise is always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean

If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what they say

Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway



Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams

Baby, I'm from New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothing you can't do

Now you're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new

Big lights will inspire you

Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!



On the avenue, there ain't never a curfew, ladies work so hard

Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God

Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge

Some will sleep tonight with a hunger for more than an empty fridge



I'm gonna make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams

Baby, I'm from New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothing you can't do

Now you're in New York

These street will make you feel brand new

http://www.elyricsworld.com/empire_state_of_mind_(part_ii)_lyrics_alicia_keys.html

Big lights will inspire you

Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!



One hand in the air for the big city,

Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty

No place in the world that can compare

Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah



In New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothing you can't do

Now you're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new

Big lights will inspire you

Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!

Shontelle - Plastic People

Carry me home away from all these things


That keep deceiving me

I’m all alone nowhere no one

To show me where to go

Take my money wear my shirt

Using me to do your dirt

Judging me when all the time

You’re the one that did the crime

Someone tell me what’s the truth

Save the children, save the youth

What about our hopes and dreams

You’re not what you really seem oh



{Chorus}

Nation of the plastic people

Here’s the church and here’s its people

Preaching good and doing evil

Trying to treat you less than equal

Saying this and meaning that

Twisting up into your back

Don’t be cast into the sequel

Living in a nation of plastic people (plastic people)



{Verse 2}

You’re just like a rose I wanna grow

So I can serve my purpose here

I wanna fly before I die

Be like a bird and touch the sky

Take my home, and take my name

Generation cellophane

There’s no difference all the same

I don’t know when I’m ashamed

Can you walk inside my shoes?

Don’t be mad if I refuse

Artificial attributes,

Different leaders same old news



{Chorus}

Shontelle Plastic People lyrics found on http://www.directlyrics.com.com/shontelle-plastic-people-lyrics.html



{Verse 3}

What do you know,

It’s a situation begging for salvation

Looking to the sky to answer to all my frustration

There’s a choice I’m making

And there’s a chance I’ll take it

It’s the only life I got to live so I can’t fake it

Yeeaahhh

Ohhhh



Generation.

Desperaton.

Demonstration.

Provocation.

Population.

Segregation.

Isolation.

Suffocation.

Degradation.

Desolation.

Living in a plastic nation.



{Chorus}



Generation.

Desperaton.

Demonstration.

Provocation.

Population.

Segregation.

Isolation.

Suffocation.

Destination of the nation.

Generation.

Desolation.

Living in a plastic nation.

Living in a plastic nation.

i feel so lonely...

I'm turning 22 in a few days and never before have I felt this loneliness...
I now feel the need/pressure TO PUT MYSELF OUT THERE on the battlefield.

Barf!

DAMN! I'm getting fatter again! :(

(Kuya Jam & Ayen's Day 12/28/09)

What I'm wearing (as if anyone's interested. hahaha. this is my weight blog, not Chicotopia!)

*Dress - Thrifted Zara

* Belt - gift from aunt M

* Fascinator/headband - SM

* Bag - Chanel (thrifted!)

* Booties - Ilaya Couture

*Watch - tag heuer (abor from uncle B)

I have been avoiding the GYM like the plague since October. Sure, I have transferred to Gold's gym since december but still, I haven't gotten my MOJO to go lift some weights and burst my heart through cardio...EEEP!

But I digress. This new year, I'll be back with a VENGEANCE!!! I'll go back gymming again for good!! It's such a waster not to use my membership. It's quite costly for someone poor like me.

SO I SOLEMNLY SWEAR, ON THIS BLOG OF MINE, I WILL REACH MY GOAL WEIGHT THIS YEAR!

I need to get rid of this excess fat that i have to finally be freed from my self-pity and hang ups. I must and I will!

PS

Another motivation for MOI!!!

When I'm finally "healthy" or "skinny" enough, I'll now have a reason to dress up more often and post pics on Chicotopia, My Style Diary and most importanly...on this blog!! eeep!!!

PPS

Shet, my bingo arms have returned. and so does my thunder thighs!!! lunges,squats and sit ups needed!!! argggh!!!

of to sleep now! so that I can wake up early, go home on time and HIT D GYM HARD!!!

xoxo,

KellyBirkin