Hook
It's the city Life, living the city life
We don't know another way hope and pray hope for change
It's the city life, Living the city life
We don't know another way hope and pray hope for change
We hope for change, We hope for change
I can hear the city talking / straight through my soul when I'm walking so some folks think I'm marchin'
Verse 1
And Martin/ told them they would see the promise land
But the land that you were promised is the land you stand on
Corners are empires masked with skulls and bones of red and blue
To decorate the domes and the thrones of the solders that are just trying to find a way home
So they're on the corner with poison stuffed in socks
The rocks that heat homes on these city blocks
And I'm not trying to condone or call wrong or right
It's up to you how you choose to live the city life, the city life
It's up to you how you choose to live it.
It's the city Life, living the city life
Hook
We don't know another way hope and pray hope for change
It's the city life, Living the city life
We don't know another way hope and pray hope for change
We hope for change, We hope for change

Verse 2
Just around the corner there are some Martians
They live in spacious brownstone apartments
They walk with lap dogs and a confident stride
Feeling safe because their block has been re-gentrified
Aint no chicken, liquor, lottery, or lake trout signs
It's cafes, boutiques, fine spirits and wine
This is truly a species of a different kind
Like Plymouth Rock revisited
And never know they living in a war zone and city hall condones the violence
Identify it with a blue light / revitalize it
The sounds right shit / push out the poor folks
Push out the violence
Put it in a smaller space, you know, centralize it
Then take away resources as the death toll rises
The city life, politics of city life
and no it aint right but it's the reason the I write
Cause we get so caught up trying to survive this shit
We get distracted from the fact that we're living it
The city life, It's up to you how you choose to live it
It's up to you

Hook
We don't know another way hope and pray hope for change
It's the city life, Living the city life
We don't know another way hope and pray hope for change
We hope for change, We hope for change