City of Pain

I'm on the night train looking at the city of pain

I'm seeing living puzzles searching for missing pieces to frame

A picture they call life or the perception of one

Where pursuit of happiness is live and die by the gun

By any means to attain the green

sell crack and fiends

come back for more

street corners the store

I'm seeing queens camouflaged as whores

Echoes of 44s

resonate through closed doors

it's all sort of hard to imagine even as I'm rapping

Two dudes fighting over ice now they start capping

Heads on the side scared play it off by laughing

Mothers up at the windowpanes praying and fasting

A symphony of sirens awakes the night

As souls yearn to sleep at daylight aight

I'm daydreaming it's my stop let me hop off and head to this bus stop

In the city of pain it rains tears

In hopes that sunshine will break through clear

so that souls can see the one

turning the city of pain to the city that needs no sun

Hopping on the bus sliding in my token gliding in my chair

I glanced to see more drama in the rear

tears scattered her man backslapped her face

knocking all the love out leaving only the hate

She cries he continues with the verbal debate

People looking out the window for a mental escape

I did the same and saw this gang beating down this homeless person

spitting kicking, hitting, cursing

Young thugs just wilding

it's almost like you could see the demons on their backs smiling

And down the block

the spot's hot

with two cops ain't doing nothing

they're in their own dirt trying to make an extra something

Undercovers in the car getting illegal loving

weed smokers on the roof passing and puffing away

the past away

the present away

the future away

to heaven is so far cause they can't see God

the prince of air got the city blazed up in a fog

Aw man I'm daydreamin' again

Yo bus driver this is my stop right here

In the city of pain it rains tears

In hopes that sunshine will break through clear

so that souls can see the one

turning the city of pain to the city that needs no sun

Finally at my crib in my bed

trying to close my eyelids

trying to shed all the things thoughts that my mind was fed

But I can't cause my burden is deep

I'm not holier than thou but my heart it weeps

Lord help me in my calling because I know I must reach

a city lost in sin and no one's willing to preach

I can't even keep my concepts no more

by the end of my songs my spirit starts to pour

I soar like a raven to see with God's eyes

if not for him it would have been just another ride

Cities are cloaked in kerosene

satan's got the matches

the breath of life will blow it out the fastest

I am a city on the hill

in the city of pain

showing the city that needs no sun

for Christ name.

In the city of pain it rains tears

In hopes that sunshine will break through clear

so that souls can see the one

turning the city of pain to the city that needs no sun