Lyrics L City - Specifics, Coates

L City

Verse 1: Golden Boy
You know I could jump from the buildings
Balcony to fire escape, laundry line swinging high as apes from a
Jungle vine
Still it’s concrete we chill in small pieces, chug smuggled wine
From a kind of grape I’ve never seen alive
Drunk sitting in the skunk tinted summit of a high rise dump junk
Just to see it plummet
And spat to the streetside flat with a slight decline in where
The street slide back to the sealine
Provide feed for the rats like cigarette butts, beer caps and mere
Scraps
And shit all gets stuck, muck up in the iron grate get it plugged
So the sun will only touch twice a day
Underside beady eyes red, slime and feces combine where the needy
Die
Sleeping in a quiet dream
Sirens in the night keep a kid awake screaming echo out of the drapes
Closed admit artificial light
Yellow shine peep it from the sky planes and it’s a grid
Cause we made our lives into little shapes even
Get the shakes, cold steps on linoleum late
All alone again, schweppes and a oz of Puerto Rican
Petroleum stains that glow green leaking through the snow flakes
This is no place for a living being
I live and breathe what the city is breeding and let it bleed into
The beat when I’m spitting
Hook: Coates
It’s about time that i get at em
The idle mind is a playground for the devil
You tell them I’ma dishevel em
The first words of a newfound rebellion
Operation lights out slothetarians
No word from the Marian
Nothing is sweet when paychecks from the penthouse
Mental house
Operation cop chariot or you’re moving back to parental’s house
Verse 2: Golden Boy
Come wally season, smog and sunbeams dry the heat mirage seems
To sweep off in the horizon
Reach and swat flies with your hand up in the hammock
Twice he comes strapped with the straw hat, sand from the beaches
Bra strap bikini contact dance peaches
Steaming whips jam up the traffic
Scan for speed traps, cats with the cannabis weed passin a sack
Hand to hand, the police absent
East to west teens sit on the steps asking hey could you buy a case
For me and my friend stranger
Aging quickly they chill in the park, take swigs from the mickey and cough
Liquor erase dreams
In the moon bathed late at night satellites move across deep blue space
As the planet lies dormant
Once more I chase sheep through a warm wave keep
The fan blades orbit for a faint breeze
And the AC absorb it
Skyscraper landscape in the same place it used to be a forest
You learn swift ain’t nobody earn this existence and might as well piss it away
Swimmin in a lake of bourbon and citrus mixed up in the surf
With some bitches, searchin for the endless spring break
Burn this, how can you return to the city and leave this lake
Yo to live it is mercy
Hook: Coates
It’s about time that i get at em
The idle mind is a playground for the devil
You tell them I’ma dishevel em
The first words of a newfound rebellion
Operation lights out slothetarians
No word from the Marian
Nothing is sweet when paychecks from the penthouse
Mental house
Operation cop chariot or you’re moving back to parental’s house