Freeway Murmur

[Verse 1]
We watch the headlights on the Cross Bronx bleed into a smear
Third week of August and the air's too thick to breathe in here
Papi left the sofrito simmering on the stove again
Our knuckles scraped the same from climbing up that chain-link fence
We trace the constellations hidden by the project light
Pass around a melted Fanta, pretending we alright
We talk a million miles a minute 'bout who's beefin', who's a fraud
But never say the one word hanging heavy over all of us.

[Verse 2]
Remember when we pooled our ones to buy that busted Honda Civic?
Swore we'd make it past the Hudson, that the whole world was our ticket
'Til the axle cracked on Fordham, heard you whisper "'Guess that's that."
We just left it on the corner, never even looked back
Now we catch it in the corner of our eye, that sour-patch regret
The gumball-machine promise that we ain't collected yet
And your new man says he's different, but we see it in his face
The same exhausted map that's tryna leave this goddamn place.

[Chorus]
Don't say it loud, don't say it loud
We're ghosts inside a moving crowd
Don't say it loud, we'll make a sound
And burn this whole sweet city down.

[Bridge]
Last night I had a dream we were all laughing on a boat
And the water wasn't dirty, it was sweet right down the throat.

[Chorus]
Don't say it loud, don't say it loud
We're ghosts inside a moving crowd
Don't say it loud, we'll make a sound
And burn this whole sweet city down.

[Outro]
Yeah, we burn this whole sweet city down...
Don't say it loud.