The Neighborhood

[Chorus]

The internet done killed the neighborhood, it's over

I feel the weight of all the ashes on my shoulder

The fight inside my chest is less as I get older

The night is chilly, pray the day don't get no colder

I don't always feel I say what I'm supposed to

The truth is in the back, I'm the chauffeur

But I never learned to drive, a New Yorker

Who can teach me when the neighborhood is over?

[Verse 1]

The rеnt is unbearable

The firе in our minds is unscalable

Everything accessible, truth is unavailable

Helplessness designed to fit exactly who it's tailored to

And every city of dreams become a city of memes

Dictated by a shitty regime

Fixated on insidious scenes of others livin' their dreams

Pretend it is what it seems, shit is a hideous scheme

Human load screens, no dreams

Load management with no team, no damages

Hope vanishes as I manage to grow

Even though missions I proclaimed back when I was so green

Feel so far from ripened, shit is trifling

But shine your light, young man, that shit is lightning

I'm in the eye of the tornado takin' sights in

My life is lucky and I wonder what the price is

Probably that I spend my days in fight or flight, shit

Probably that my nervous system be in crisis

Probably that I'm feelin' dizzy as I type this, write this

To you all in hopes that it might live, might give to you, woah, woah

[Chorus]

The internet done killed the neighborhood, it's over

I feel the weight of all the ashes on my shoulder

The fight inside my chest is less as I get older

The night is chilly, pray the day don't get no colder

I don't always feel I say what I'm supposed to

The truth is in the back, I'm the chauffeur

But I never learned to drive, a New Yorker

Who can teach me when the neighborhood is over?

[Interlude]

It was 'bout the money back when the Wu wrote "C.R.E.A.M."

Now I fear somethin' else and wealth is just a smokescreen

[Verse 2]

Entertainment or conversations 'bout values?

Men explainin' shit they shouldn't even be allowed to

Penetration of votin' bodies, real bodies, bodies of folk

But what the culture care is who got bodied the most

That's as old as the neighborhood

Can't deify every goal of the neighborhood

Came here to reify the soul of the neighbor, toll of the neighbor

But the gentrifier look just like me, so what's my role in the neighborhood?

Can't get chose in the neighborhood

Had to prove, had to show as I hold up my phone, is the angle good?

The internet took the home from the neighborhood, yeah

[Chorus]

The internet done killed the neighborhood, it's over

I feel the weight of all the ashes on my shoulder

The fight inside my chest is less as I get older

The night is chilly, pray the day don't get no colder

I don't always feel I say what I'm supposed to

The truth is in the back, I'm the chauffeur

But I never learned to drive, a New Yorker

Who can teach me when the neighborhood is—