Bamboo And Serpents Lyrics - Souls In Chains

[Esoterical][Intro] 

New York New York 

New York New York 

[Esoterical][Verse1] 

Even the sunniest days can have a little rain 

These words ring through my brain as I ride this train 

Sliding swift through the underbelly of this city 

Just listening and looking on 

Thinking how many people have been in this exact same spot 

With their thoughts gone 

Just lost in the sounds of the tracks 

Escaping just for a second any problem or regret they've ever had 

We hit a bump and my mind snaps back 

I look up to see a little boy with a crooked blue hat 

Sitting calm with confusion in his eyes 

Looking up to a broken mother trying not to cry 

Right across from them 

Two seats left from me 

Sit's a ghetto bred youth labeled in the color green 

Looking like an urban militant in his 3x tee and jeans 

He got off at the same spot as me 

But he kept going 

I stopped to watch a man sing so hard 

It seemed like his words were about to bleed 

With the memories he was verbally painting 

As his guitar screamed along with him 

So I dropped a five and went about my life 

Hitting the streets like a rhythm without a beat 

Looking up to the city above me 

Watching buildings scraping the sky so high 

I wonder if the heavens are keeping down the NY 

[Chorus] 

New York New York 

These New York streets these New York streets 

New York New York 

Are guiding me guiding me 

New York New York 

[jD][Verse2] 

White snow covers the cotton of my black gloves 

Taking in the faces and the changes of the people walking past us 

Look around 

Homeless in shelters, brokers and sellers, drifters and dwellers, stock 

market tellers 

Mindscapes neglected 

It's like we swallow the truth but cant seem to digest it 

So I push forward Maples hang over head 

Across the park the skies are dark decipher words in my breath 

I watch it all 

The jakes in blue, rich men in suits, Pols and Jews, the 14th loop 

Existent thoughts 

Read the signs and decide to head north some blocks 

Stuyvesant street lights 

The projects on East River seaside 

Peace signs graffiti murals, Tompkins Park the snow is knee high 

I've reached the point were streets collide 

Black beanie to the side a skull cap dressed 

Amongst the New York sketch 

I sit and stare in the snow upon the building steps 

[Chorus] 

New York New York 

These New York streets these New York streets 

New York New York 

Are guiding me guiding me 

New York New York 

[Esoterical][Verse3] 

I can feel the snow freezing the back of my head as I sit upon the steps 

of this project 

Watching time creep by 

I let my mind slide brewing static lines 

Until this guy who jus bought a dime asks me for a light 

But doesn't wait for a reply he just heads inside 

So I forget about him, get up and start walking down the street 

Staring up at these empty frozen trees 

In this little city above Avenue B 

Where if you look to your left 

You'll see a man getting jacked right before the Christmas weeks 

Because honest men aren't the only men with kids 

And it's easier to rob a man then to work for him 

Now past Stuyvesant, I'm heading down to the last letter this alphabet 

got 

But I stop to watch a cop drop nine shots in a ragtop 

Coming my way, hoping a stray don't come ruin my day 

I stay stuck praying for luck to ask death to wait 

And he listens as I go about my business 

Wondering what destination I'm feeling, where can I head now? 

Walking some blocks and a bridge out 

Five points stare down 

As I hear cans clack with a tips shout 

[Chorus] 

New York New York 

These New York streets these New York streets 

New York New York 

Are guiding me guiding me 

New York New York 

[jD][Verse4] 

Black clouds over the hood I'm on the corner with the thugs 

Silent foot steps under the moon as they assume I'm slanging drugs 

Empty whiskey bottles in the gutters fiends collected 

Under the tracks pregnant girl Camels smoke screen ingested 

Shake my head but move on count my steps a little further 

Jackson Ave 5 points pad walls sprayed up bamboo and serpents 

Queens blocks subtracting street signs backwards from 40 

Smoke moves from my burnt lips as the projects move towards me 

Under the bridge sunsets buses spew ash in thee air 

Climb up the steps and through the gates welcomed by passavive's 

stares 

Look to the stacks buildings icy snow fall with the brick swift 

Y's on the river front 23rd and Queens bridge 

[Chorus] 

New York New York 

These New York streets these New York streets 

New York New York 

Are guiding me guiding me 

New York New York 

[Esoterical/jD][Verse5] 

In the middle of Queens bridge my minds gone sick blinded by street 

lights 

Coupled with a cold night 

Brick buildings and a black sky 

Hard to fathom and imagine dons of this hood use to pass by 

I walk through this complex 

Drop my head and get lost in past verses 

Fall out of consciousness slip back fit my last words in 

Stand still mother fucker I'll empty my shit 

Trying to think quick why you got to do this 

Homie this the life we live, I got kids to feed and bills to pay 

Man I'm sorry bout your troubles 

But you think I got a dime to my name? 

Quit talking quit your bullshit empty your damn pockets 

Ill squeeze this trigger and body you motherfucker