I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Leading the way to new things
12 Matching Annotations
- May 2021
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A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
Like the statue of liberty?
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With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Symbolizing how big it is
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nvented by mill-owners inspired by the hoax of Ossian, To control their savage Scottish workers, tamed By a fabricated heraldry: MacGregor,
How would the elements of the hoax translate on implementing them into a now working system.
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The city never sleeps, full of villains and creeps
Painting even more of a picture of what New York is to him
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Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain
Life is really hard where he's from but he must stay solid
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It's like the game ain't the same
Not an annotation but biggie goes through with talking about this concept on the song ''things done changed''
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sitting bent up in the stairwayOr either on the corner betting Grants with the cee-lo champs
Talking about the different locations he slangs that rock at
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Young girls are grazed, each block is like a mazeFull of black rats trapped, plus the Island is packed
Comparing the blocks of his neighborhood to to a maze and the people there to rats. When he says the island is packed he is talking about rikers island which housed a lot of prisoners.
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Be having dreams that I'm a gangsta; drinking Moets, holding TecsMaking sure the cash came correct, then I steppedInvestments in stocks, sewing up the blocks to sell drugsWinning gunfights with mega-copsBut just a negro walking with his finger on the triggerMake enough figures until my pockets get bigger
In new york, a lot of peoples mindset is like this fast paced, focused, and hustle oriented as the city is well known for that. This reflects a meaning of ''new york state of mind''
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Pick the Mac up, told brothers, "Back up, " the Mac spitLead was hitting negroes, one ran, I made him backflipHeard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't lookGave another squeeze, heard it click, "yo, my stuff is stuck"Try to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in dangerFinally pulled it back and saw 3 bullets caught up in the chamberSo now I'm jetting to the building lobby
They are having a shootout on his block
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I cannot dance opon my Toes ‑No Man instructed me ‑But oftentimes, among my mind,A Glee possesseth me
Nice way of putting it, emphasizing how she is self taught.
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