They say
If you can make it here
You can make it anywhere
But first you gotta find a way inside
I got a shot at my crash spot
And these sharp elbows
So here we go
Ripping up the turnpike
Holland Tunnel’s a flood zone
So the Verrazano I climb
But the BQE crumbles ‘neath the Esplanade
And I bail for the surface roads
Axel cracks in a five-foot pothole
I bug out and there are the cops
Smirking at my illegal stop
They snatch up the hoopty for the impound lot
Pounding the pavement
Shadowed by a hollow high-rise
Into the subway, ducking the payment
Tryna catch the train in time
Three stops into the ride
Some fuckface hits the emergency brake
Screeching steel and curses bellowed
I’m losing my shit so I break for the tunnels
Splashing through raw sewage
Past the rats and the hobos
Sayin’ fuck, man
I just wanna go home
In the greatest city on Earth