Nujabes - City Lights Lyrics

Everything about this song perfect the instrumental their voices the vibes 🌊

I wish I could find someone to jam with... this song hits so damm hard!!! finest hip hop you could hear.

Perfection.

Most comments here are about the beat and flow; the real gem here is the story within the lyrical content. Anyone who has been in dark space that this story tells can feel the music rather than jam to it. This goes so deep.

nujabes the creator of chillhop

I'm here because this is the second stop on my tour of the things i'll miss when i finally kill myself.


I found this song after you died Nujabes. You're the only person i've ever felt understood the wonder, the beauty and the utter despair of this life and your music was one of the reasons i lived another 10 years longer than i thought i would.


I should have been wrists slit at 21 bleeding into a shower cubicle.


You gave me 10 years more of hope, enabling me to have the courage to keep moving on and seeing more.


Thank you so much for that.

Please don't be mad at me for giving up hope. I tried to stay as long as i could man...

Sanjay Ramzan damn son

Hey man I don't know if you're still alive but if you are, here is my email [email protected] I'll listen to what you have to say and we can work together in digging you out of the pit you're in. As bleak as things may seem and as foggy the road ahead may be right now, I want you to know that like all things, it will pass and when it does you'll look back and thank yourself for not giving up. Please if you're still alive, send me an email and we can talk..

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Rainy train ride reminiscing shit🇲🇦

I can't wait to get these on mp3, I've been listening to this for 4 to 5 years now.

Heard the instrumental 100 times but i just cant rock with the vocal version the same

Is Nujabes the one rapping?

ladiesman21707 no he’s the DJ, Phase Rock and Substantial are the ones rapping

Essa batida viciante ❤

RIP Jun Seba. Almost a decade later we haven't forgotten you. I promise those of us that heard you never will.

We never will....

I absolutely love how Pase Rock and Substantial go back and forth on verse 2. I can't explain why but it's so natural. You can really get lost in it. Not to mention how good the beat it. Many times I've sat on the hill by my city and just vibed to this. I don't know where my life would be without Nujabes. Rest in Beats.

This song reminds me of Europe. Walking around Paris and Rome at night

Whish they played some this at my black history program

anyone know the chords to this on piano ive looked everywhere for a tutorial chords sheet music but have come up empty handed. If anyone is able to find the chords i will be eternally grateful... one of my favorite songs

Its like 2 notes

music would be different if this lofi master was still alive

do not call this lofi it has nothing to do with lofi at all

@epic_gamer72 ALSO KNOWN AS THE MONK yeah people assume nujabes does, sure there are minor similarities but nujabes was clearly on his own level with his music. Lofi hella repetitive

Rest in paradise

my favourite song from nujabes

[Verse 1: Pase Rock]
Always in trouble need love on the double spent cake
And a lifetime climbing to the level
Contract with the devil loopholed expiration date
On the side of good people always set the record straight
Round and round the piano keys meditate
Felt in the music need it now can't let it wait
Not a secret everything is all out and exposed
It's going down like the water in the river flows
How it goes another day another story told
Stuck inside the puzzle searching still trying to get a hold
Forgotten souls got lost in the cold trying
To get freedom now they need 'em walking down to hope road
Said they hope so but it was a no go
Front row stage show well placed logo
Fancy lights and the cameras are on
But he don't care he's just there to sing another sad love song

[Hook: Pase Rock]
Fade to black the soundtrack to another night
The music of the rain and the city lights
Feel no pain it makes the whole city bright
Without the sparkle or hype it's just another night

[Verse 2]

(Pase Rock)
And they all knew what it was from the first glance
No excuses should've planned in advance man

(Substabtial)
Documented on ProTools or Tascam
Struggles & hustles of an ordinary black man

(pase rock)
Spin a record with two week life span
Can't find a good girl so we hug the mic stand

(Substantial)
Not a lot of paper left in his right hand
Making enemies of folks he treated like fam

(pase rock)
Stone cold solid rock every point stop
What you lean on soon as the pressure drops

(Substantial)
Ghetto hot
Know the ledge and you'll hear the shot
But he'll never stop
'Til his name's known on every block

(pase rock)
Spread my wings fly away to the night beat
He's wide awake while the rest of the city sleeps

(Substantial)
In these gritty streets
Dudes creep with plenty heat
Pay it no mind and we grind losing plenty sleep

[Verse 3: Substantial]
Yo... Yo...
Some play for keeps while you laid asleep
In the dark your worst nightmare waits for he
Anything discern, no dawn or despair
Air's crisp and calm I think a storm is near
And I'm watching lightning dance across the skyline
Usually miss it, rarely find time
To bask in blackness, hint of line shine
But in a jazz pub chilling, sippin with fine wine
Hypnotize by the strum of the upright
Feel like lost souls got their eyes on me some nights
So keep my eyes wide and move cautious
Slip and find yourself in a brand new coffin
By the morning...
Now you're the one with the night breed
You should've known better if you're anything like me
But the city lights will seduce you
Daywalkers beware if it's not what you're used to

Hit this and some other Nujabes up on the train to Universal Studios in Osaka while on leave w/ mates. Perfection.

thought I have listened to everything nujabes, but here I am funding new stuff.

this isnt even a rare song. it is on a studio album...
there are a lot of rare songs from nujabes, specially from colaborations with other artists like hiroto and nakamura.

City Skylines at Night and This...

Too good.

godtier hip-hop.

Always in trouble, need love on the double

Instantly reminded of Atlanta, Chicago and Brooklyn

They took this shit off of Spotify?!?!?!?! This guy died...So fucked up. Rip

MARKULI0 I think they need permission from the Record Label, since the family most likely wants people to buy the music instead of listening for free.

Nujabes songs removed from spotify and it brings me here

Aki Same here bro. Rip spiritual state on Spotify

They're back up

This is that banger right here.

The vibe on this is smooth, the piano and bass is reminiscent of an old Laura Nyro song.

Never boring even after a 2 hour loop

D a y walkers beware if its not what your used too

D a y walkers beware if its not what your used too

wakin around San Francisco with this playing is one of the best things I'll ever do

Sauce I know what you mean. San Francisco is something else. I went there with friends on a band trip and had one of the best times of my life.

I feel ya bruh from the city too the song blends in with it

@Gary E.M.Y. agreed

*If he was still around, the generation of today would be influenced by his flow.*

nujabes produced the beat, the two rappers are still alive

Summer nights in New York City, strolling through forest-themed parks, too high for my own mentality to handle, listening to City Lights ........perfect Saturday night.

Man I love this song...puts me in this state of pure bliss

This is Sage Nebulous with Lyrics

Isn't it?

Nah, Pase Rock and Substantial

I can see myself in 30 years throwing floppy disks with this shit on it at people down the street in an attempt to keep actual music relevant.

To Pimp a Butterfly told the story of black America in a musically and lyrically intelligent way, topped pretty much every Top Albums of 2015 list and was at the same time a huge commercial success. Bad music has always been produced, but we only see the good when we look back.

That's cool

Reow Reow you better start now. Radio play sucks.

i’m going to save all this to my ipod and pop it out in 30 years with this and everybody gonna be like daaaaaamn

so underrated
respect to Nujabes and any artist similar

Check out "Relax your Mind" from Uyama Hiroto, a japanese producer that worked with Nujabes and was frind of him.
Peace!

Smoothest hip-hop song ever?

Respect from Spain.

No eres el único español al que le gusta nujabes

Hyderabad pakistan

iiLeeDz tal cual

respect from maryland bros

May be, unless I love it

Listening to this while taking a evening stroll in central Kyoto during the gorgeous cherryblossom period. Amazing.

You just described a dream of mine.

Benzen must be incredible

Hope to do that in a few years, if all goes well I can get into a teaching program that will have me travelling to japan for a few years, really hope I can get onto it

@Jack White would love to visit japan one day and travel myself, hey its been a lil minute any update on you gettin' in that teaching class bro?

Jamie Adams hey man, I’m currently on a uni foundation course and should be going on to a visual effects degree at the end of the year so once I’ve finished my course hopefully in a few years I’ll be eligible for the teaching programme as I forgot you require a degree to sign up I believe, but yeah if all goes well then in a few years once I finish uni I’ll sign up and see what happens, if I have any big news regarding the teaching course I’ll be sure to let you know, may have to wait a while though 😂

This is as smooth as it gets. Total harmony and flow, the real deal!

Absolutely stunning. The flow on this could travel forever with anybody, I really mean how much I love this song.

Perfect.

Wow i missed out on this song on spiritual state. Man...the beat is one of his BEST 

Rest In Peace beat angel. rest in peace 

Miss this in Hip Hop. RIP Jun Seba gonna blast this until my last breath

verse 1 is pase rock, verse 2 is pase rock and substantial and verse 3 is substantial for anyone interested.

Thank you!

this tune is not on spotify, that says everything

supreme

Tru hip-hop music. I will be listening to this 20-30 years from now, Lord Willing. That's how classic his sounds are now. They don't music like they used to.

still listening?

Amen brother.

R.I.P NUJABES :3

good stuff