The Resistance - Life Interlude lyrics

{*cut and scratched: "Life"*} [KRS-One] With every breath I breathe I choose life for the children With every breath I breathe I choose a wife and good livin With every single breath that I ingest I am given A smidgen to make life-changin decisions, listen My mission with precision will position our children By the millions to start buildin our culture for the billions And trillions of people comin after us If they doubt, they won't be as fast as us Cause in our time we kick a new power rhyme We keep renewin your mind, cause soon you will find That every single breath that I breathe keeps us conscious Enough to perceive and achieve if you believe But oxygen comes from the trees Without air for four minutes forget it you catchin some Z's So which is really conscious, us or nature? Maybe the trees wish to elevate the paper And maybe this was just the fall To forget that nature thinks, we doin nothin at all And this is the way of the world The world meanin the conscious nature and the earth that swirls Like buffalo girls we go 'round the outside Kris is controversial but Kris never lied In the forest, the mountains and the hills I reside You gotta follow the purpose you feel inside {*cut and scratched: "Life"*} [KRS-One] With every single breath I choose With every single breath I move With every single breath I prove With every single breath I use With every single breath I snooze With every single breath I cruise With every single breath I choose life Not strife Or strain, some like that I came, to rearrange the game Others blame and remain the same Same same, but me the plan is plain We gotta think more humane...