Common - Respiration
Time: 4:08
I choreograph seven steps to Heaven (what?)
In Hell, waitin' to exhale and make the bread leaven
Veteran of a cold war, it's Chica-I-go for

add yeast, cause to rise; cause to puff up with a leaven
Heard in 14 songs (31M+ combined views) — most famously in "Respiration" by Common.
Updated August 17, 2026
Time: 4:08
I choreograph seven steps to Heaven (what?)
In Hell, waitin' to exhale and make the bread leaven
Veteran of a cold war, it's Chica-I-go for

Time: 0:17
Welcome to Heaven, oh-oh
Check out our sick decor, the spirits leaven, oh
Please, keep your brimstone off the floor

Time: 3:45
This life, this life is so heavy, lost my son, he in heaven
I was chasing this leaven hanging with dudes that is deadly
But this life is now over, moreover I'm ready go on

Time: 4:49
Classic so wie Billie-Ocean-Samples
Renditen an der Millionengrenze geh'n aus hohen Eingängen hervor wie ich beim Leaven meiner Suiten in Manhattan

Time: 1:38
It's lethal but it's living proof
Instead of leaving smiles leaven death inside of our living room
And instead of college, they got us slangin' after high school

Time: 1:50
A small piece of the sky inside
You know that heaven is a leaven
There is low and dry and so we get

Time: 0:53
A-j moar schik hebt
Het leaven is één groot feest
A-j moar schik hebt

Time: 1:33
The water and the wine
The everlasting leaven
My life, my truth, my way

Time: 1:34
Though you're already there
The daily bread will leaven
All hope, all pain, all care

Time: 0:19
For righteousness and the good that you do
If in the bread you put a little leaven
Kingdom is yours and it's the Kingdom of Heaven

Time: 1:53
I don't really wanna be alone sometimes like I'm standing in a cycle
Fall in love and leaven broken hearted
And I would've died for you

Time: 0:58
My feet on the ground and my heart in heaven
I am bread made without the leaven
Oh you have made me a child of God

Time: 0:49
Then I rise
It's like leaven
Our father who art in heaven

Time: 0:53
Just come back home
Darlin' your leaven my life to ruin
I'm so all alone
