LIBERTY CITY SHADOWS

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Intro

Yeah... Liberty City... 305... shadows don't leave...

Verse 1

Grew up where the Metrorail rattles over trap houses in Overtown Palm trees sway pretty but the choppas sing the same song Momma working double at the Publix on 27th, still short on rent Daddy ghosted when the storm hit, left us with the government check Hurricane season flood the block, we still had to push that work Corner store corner boys plotting, every laugh hide a hurt I seen shorties turn to ghosts before they hit eighteen Now I'm twenty-something still dodging the same scene

Chorus

Liberty City shadows, they follow me home Lost my dog to the game, now I'm all alone Palm trees sway but the pain don't go In the 305 where the real ones know Shadows, shadows, they follow me home Shadows, shadows, they follow me home

Verse 2

My mans got hit on 62nd, over nothing but a chain We was just posted at the court, talking 'bout breaking the game Now his mama screaming at the wake, holding that faded picture I poured out a four for him, but the pain still richer Every night I hear them shots replay in my head Wife asking why I can't sleep, I tell her it's the county in my bed I hustle just to feed the fam, flip that pack on Biscayne But every dollar feel like blood money, still can't escape the rain

Chorus

Verse 3

Whole county built on broken promises and privatized jails They gentrify the Grove but the bodies still on the rails Politicians smiling for the cameras on South Beach While the kids in Liberty dodging bullets for a piece Hialeah, Little Haiti, Allapattah all the same Immigrants chasing dreams but the system play the game They give us crumbs and call it progress, we call it survival Every funeral another page in the county's Bible

Bridge

Sometimes I just sit on the Metrorail, watching the city blur Asking God why the good ones always leave first No answer... just the rattle of the tracks...

Verse 4

Remember when the storm took the roof off the trap in Miami Gardens We still had to move that work while the water rose to our shins Family in Hialeah sending prayers in Spanish on the phone But the rent due Monday and the corner calling my name again

Verse 5

I ain't saying I got the answers, just scars from the fight Every day I wake up choosing wrong just to make it right Liberty City raised me, shadows still in my veins But I keep pushing for the ones who didn't make it out the rain

Chorus

Outro

Yeah... Liberty City... shadows don't leave...

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