Anywhere But Here

[Intro: Killer Mike]

I gotta get out of here, this city’s gonna kill me

Could be anywhere

Anywhere but here

I wonder how long before this shit gone take me under

[Verse 1: Killer Mike]

Moving through New York City in a black seven fifty

Like Batman movin' through Gotham

Dodging pot holes as I gently move

Through Harlem with my wheels on slalom

Pain in my eyes as I'm passing the place

Where they found Sean Bell and they shot him (Queens)

Forty one times, he committed no crime

But I guess life ain't Times Square

But in the city that’s gritty where the bottom lives shitty

And the mayor’s a billionaire

You learn Manhattan keep on making it and Brooklyn, keep on taking it

Cause life just ain't that fair

For the kids in the park, watching out for the Narcs

Blowing Sour Diesel in the air

Tryin' to flip them a pack, stack up a couple racks

And make it the hell outta here… (New York)

[Chorus: Emily Panic]

Let the city peel away right from under you

There are too many ghosts in this town

I can hear them calling out to me (Out to me, out to me)

I can hear them calling out

Let the city peel away right from under you

There are too many ghosts in this town

I can hear them calling out to me (Out to me, out to me)

I can hear them calling out

[Bridge: Killer Mike]

Let the city peel away

There were too many ghosts in this town

I can hear them calling out to me, out to me!

[Verse 2: Killer Mike]

I maneuver through the ATL in a black SL

With the goddess of a black female

This is black male Heaven with the ballers are professing

But to me home feels like Hell

Even though it’s black top from the mayors to the cops

Black blood still gets spilled

They raided a house, no drugs were ever found

But a black grandmother laid killed

Like the dream of the King when the sniper took his life

On the balcony of Lorraine's Motel

From now forthward, these young black boys

Seem to self-sabotage theyselves

Or maybe they're just smart, and they choose to go hard

Cause they know the good guy will fail

So you ask what happens to a dream deferred

Langston, well it kills itself... (Atlanta)

[Chorus: Emily Panic & Killer Mike]

Let the city peel away right from under you

There are too many ghosts in this town

I can hear them calling out to me (Out to me, out to me)

I can hear them calling out (I can hear them calling out)

Let the city peel away right from under you

There are too many ghosts in this town

I can hear them calling out to me (Out to me, out to me)

I can hear them calling out (I can hear them calling out)

[Post-Chorus: Emily Panic & Killer Mike]

Anywhere but here

Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere

Anywhere but here

Anywhere but here

(I can hear them calling out)