City Sounds Like You

Slide by bodega we used to kiss your voice in the breeze
Still soundin' like this
Coat still hangin', ring in the drawer
Got pieces of you I don't miss no more
Dreams got taxed, bills his first
We had heat, then it flipped and reversed
You faded out like a rearview blur
But your in every beat, in every word
Still echo forever in a one-way lane
I stayed holdin' what you let drain
I gave my heart, you gave me space
But the bass still bang with your name

I still hear you
In the crosswalk beep and the traffic roar
I still feel you
In the midnight steam and avenue blues
I still want you
Though I moved I never moved through
You left the city
But the city sounds like you
In the echo, in the light
The city sounds like you

The city sounds like you
Window down, ridin' slow to nowhere
Tried to mute the pain but you still there
Every block got your laugh in the wind
Even Waze reroute bring me back again
You said I was stuck in the same old zone
But I was buildin' up a love from Stone
You wanted slow, I gave real fast
But I still want your love when the nights passed
Every night tho
You chose out, I stayed loud
You packed quiet, I screamed proud I gave my soul you gave a face
Now I'm talkin' to shadows in alleyways

Still loud in this silence in the window hum, in the traffic light
I still miss you
Like a verse that never hits quite right
I still need you
In the slylines bleeding hue
You left the city
But the city sounds like you

Even now, girl you all around
I lit candles in the dark where we used to laugh
Wrote you lines in my head every Uber path
You said you wanted soft
But this love was Bronx loud
Brooklyn raw and still It was yours
Still yours
Still yours

I still hear you
In the whistle of the train at two
I still feel you
Though the beat ain't built for two
I still crave you
In the echo of my truth
You left the city
But the city sounds like you
Even now girl, even now
You said goodbye
But left the chorus playin'
Still playin'
Still playin'