Where I Come From

Verse 1

Queens raised me on the corner of the dream

Concrete taught me everything I know

Brooklyn bridges in the rearview, flickering

Bronx beats still echo down the low road

Five boroughs running through my bloodstream

Every avenue a lesson I outgrow

Pre-Chorus

Manhattan lights be calling my name

But my heart stays tangled in the lane

Chorus

Queens to Brooklyn to the Bronx

Manhattan through the Harlem hum

Staten Island in the distance

Five cities in one drum

Yeah the whole world spins around us

But it starts where I come from

Hook

New York New York

Yeah we run it till the morning

Verse 2

Harlem nights got that fire in the air

Bronx blocks got the rhythm in their bones

Brooklyn's got a sound you can't compare

Queens taught me how to stand alone

Staten Island calm but never scared

Every stop a story of my own

Pre-Chorus

Manhattan lights still calling my name

Five boroughs all singing the same

Chorus

Queens to Brooklyn to the Bronx

Manhattan through the Harlem hum

Staten Island in the distance

Five cities in one drum

Yeah the whole world spins around us

But it starts where I come from

Hook

New York New York

Yeah we run it till the morning

Bridge

Same city different faces

Same dream different places

Turn the key and open all the gates

Chorus

Queens to Brooklyn to the Bronx

Manhattan through the Harlem hum

Staten Island in the distance

Five cities in one drum

Yeah the whole world spins around us

But it starts where I come from