On the streets

Oceans rise from below in a seamless flow Melody of the streets where the dreams grow

Roofs run deep in this concrete soil Unhandled ambition, dreams from coil

But we stand tall, no matter the toil In this cityscape, we find our royal coin

From the crack of dawn to the midnight hustle Every step we take fills our muscle

In this urban maze, thousands of wide Each corner turned another hill to climb

Through the cityscape, dreams fuel our hope With rhythms of the pavement, our constant truth

Every heartbeat syncs with the subway's hum In the pulse of the city, where we overcome

It's a city with a city, walls and grounds far We both forget this time, this ain't the same

But once it's dry and it's clean, get the weather way I've been grown to leave with dying

In this Mitchell 80s era, where the black friends don't see