[Verse]

Graffiti screams over bricks bloodstained,

Where hustlers trade dreams for a pocket of pain.

Neon lights buzz, but they never glow warm,

Each siren sings the city's twisted norm.

[Chorus]

Trumpets wail in alleys, melodies bleed,

Echoing stories of hunger and greed.

Concrete whispers secrets, can't unsee,

Survival rhymes carved in the heart of the city.

[Verse 2]

Corner store clerks serving shadows and sins,

A hollow laugh escapes where the light grows thin.

Subway rumbles, people lost in a daze,

Tracks playing rhythms of habitual haze.

[Bridge]

Under streetlights, the truth starts to bend,

Reality's cruel, but we all play pretend.

Sax moans through the smoke of countless regrets,

City's a band, its music never forgets.

[Verse 3]

Stilettos click beats over sorrow-filled sidewalks,

Lips spitting wisdom in soft, coded small talks.

High rises choke skies, prisoners to steel,

Soul of the city it's forced to conceal.

[Chorus]

Trumpets wail in alleys, melodies bleed,

Echoing stories of hunger and greed.

Concrete whispers secrets, can't unsee,

Survival rhymes carved in the heart of the city.