Keystone Kings

[Verse 1]
The scent of cafecito still hangs heavy in the morning air,
And I watch the dominoes click, remembering who was there.
Before the tower rose, when the foundation felt like quicksand,
My old block was my bedrock, my only promised land.

[Chorus]
Yeah, who built the frame, who only saw the spire?
My roots remember who fanned the quiet fire.
The keystone brothers, from the dust and the desire,
Now the cracks show who truly stood higher.

[Verse 2]
Now new hands reach, with blueprints shiny and grand,
They didn't know the erosion, the cracks we filled by hand.
The rhythm of the clave on the block was our heartbeat's drum,
Before the spotlight hit, before the big contracts come.

[Chorus]
Yeah, who built the frame, who only saw the spire?
My roots remember who fanned the quiet fire.
The keystone brothers, from the dust and the desire,
Now the cracks show who truly stood higher.

[Bridge]
It's a bittersweet echo, this view from the highest floor,
The roots run deep, but some branches reach no more.
Did they forget the taste of mangos picked fresh from the street?
Or only remember the harvest, suddenly sweet?

[Outro]
The foundation holds, but the ghost of loyalty still weighs.
A keystone memory, through all these new sunlit days.