Empire State of Mind (心中的帝国) - Jay-Z (杰斯)/Alicia Keys (艾莉西亚·凯斯)

Written by：Shuckburgh/Sewell/Carter/Hunt/Augello/Keyes

Jay-Z：

Yeah yeah I'm out that Brooklyn now I'm down in Tribeca

Right next to DeNiro but I'll be hood forever

I'm the new Sinatra and since I made it here

I can make it anywhere yeah they love me everywhere

I used to cop in Harlem hola my Dominicanos

Right there up on Broadway

Brought me back to that McDonalds

Took it to my stash spot 560 State Street

Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry

Cruising down 8th street off white Lexus

Driving so slow but BK is from Texas

Me I'm out that Bed Stuy home of that boy Biggie

Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me

Say what up to Ty Ty still sipping Mai Tais

Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives

Ni**a I be Spiked out I can trip a referee

Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from

Alicia Keys：

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 York

Jay-Z：

Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game

Sh*t I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can

You should know I bleed Blue but I ain't a Crip though

But I got a gang of niggas walking with my clique though

Welcome to the melting pot corners where we sellin' rocks

Afrika Bambaataa sh*t home of the hip hop

Yellow cab gypsy cab dollar cab holla back

For foreigners it ain't fair they act like they forgot how to add

Eight million stories out there in the naked city

It's a pity half of y'all won't make it

Me I gotta plug special Ed I got it made

If Jeezy's paying LeBron I'm paying Dwyane Wade

Three dice Cee lo three card Monte

Labor Day Parade rest in peace Bob Marley

Statue of Liberty long live the World Trade

Long live the king yo I'm from the Empire State that's

Alicia Keys：

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 York

Jay-Z：

Lights is blindin' girls need blinders

So they can step out of bounds quick the side lines is

Lined with casualties who sip the life casually

Then gradually become worse don't bite the apple eve

Caught up in the in crowd now you're in style

And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out

The city of sin is a pity on a whim

Good girls gone bad the city's filled with 'em

Mami took a bus trip and now she got her bust out

Everybody ride her just like a bus route

Hail Mary to the city you're a virgin

And Jesus can't save you life starts when the church ends

Came here for school graduated to the high life

Ball players rap stars addicted to the limelight

MDMA got you feeling like a champion

The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien

Alicia Keys：

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 York

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

Come on yeah come on

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 York