Thought dreams were made in NYC
But since I moved from west to east
I cannot f*ckin' rest in peace
This city gets the best of me
Time to go I'm subway bound, ay
It's dark and dirty underground, ay
There's shady shadows all around me
I scream but no one hears a sound, ay
I been reminiscin'
I been really missin'
City of the angels
But everything it changes
Thought the world was small but now I see it's always rearrangin'
Bigger badder tragedies wish I could escape in a spaceship
Ooh
Now I'm in Manhattan
I don't know what happened
Suddenly I'm older
Don't got a friendly shoulder
The world feels so much colder here
I'm lost again in Brooklyn
But everywhere I'm looking
All I see are strangers
And dark alley dangers
I just can't explain this
This shit is outrageous
Wish I was back in Californ-i-a
But in this concrete jungle I must stay
Lions and tigers hunting me for prey
Just hopin' I can make through another day
Never thought I'd say this but I miss that LA traffic
Stuck on the 101 call up my bitch like ay what's crackin'
Every day we smoke away a jay and stay relaxin'
Every night we in the light we ready for the action
God damn I f*ckin' hate this
Lost in a sea of faces
I feel so f*ckin' faceless
So I'm filling up pages
With all my rhymes and rages
I'm craving my oasis
God damn I f*ckin' hate this
Lost in a sea of faces
I feel so f*ckin' faceless
So I'm filling up pages
With all my rhymes and rages
Im craving my oasis
Back when I was a teen, oh
I couldn't feel a thing, no
An angel with no wings showed
Me how to chase my dreams
But now I'm running free
And I lost everything
In the city that never sleeps