I'm walking down the block
I'm in the cityscape
Chasing down a break
Out here to meet my fate
Every day is new
Every day is change
Have to ride the tidal wave
as all things rearrange
Stores they come and go
Stories write themselves
Neighbors lived in heaven
Now they're in a living hell
This city has a life
A life that's all it's own
That neighborhood was live
till it died dead and gone
This is the city life
This is the place I roam
This is the place where I reside
Now I just call my home
This is the city life
This is the place I roam
This is the place where I reside
Now I just call my home
I'm still paying rent
for this apartment house
In the past five years
the neighbors priced me out
Landlord raised my rent
He's grabbing every cent
I'm out here grabbing straws
Looking for a place to rest
Now the rent is rising
Every place I look
And every landlord that I meet
is looking like a crook
They just want my money
Don't care if I can eat
They don't care if I sleep
out here in the naked street
This is the city life
This is the place I roam
This is the place where I reside
Now I just call my home
This is the city life
This is the place I roam
This is the place where I reside
Now I just call my home
Some dudes in neighborhoods
They're out here packing heat
They're shooting little kids
by accident out in the street
They're shooting grown adults
They'll say it's not my fault
Cops push em in the car
Lock em in the vault
Then march off to court
Get charges for their sins
The lives they took you know
They're never coming back again
Now some will feel remorse
Others just shrug it off
But either way the game they
played it was a total loss
This is the city life
This is the place I roam
This is the place where I reside
Now I just call my home
This is the city life
This is the place I roam
This is the place where I reside
Now I just call my home