Skyline Ceremony

Intro

Good morning to the city lights—

Hands up, we alive tonight!

Yeah… yeah…

Verse 1

Backpack dreams in a dropout world,

Gold chain swing while the flags unfurl,

Mama said “baby aim past the stars,”

Now the whole crowd singin’ from the boulevard.

I used to ride that train with the cracked CD,

Now the billboards lookin’ back at me,

Everybody love you when the checks increase,

But they ain’t see the nights with the stress and grief.

I made hope sound cinematic,

Turned broke days into somethin’ classic,

Now my name bounce ‘round like an anthem,

Young kids scream it through the campus.

Hook

We don’t come down, we levitate,

City full of dreams and a better fate,

Throw your hands high if you never fit in,

Tonight we turn the pressure into medicine.

Shine bright, let the skyline glow,

Whole world tryna tell us “no,”

But we still sing like we already won—

Graduation under a neon sun.

Verse 2

Stepped in the game with a chipped-up soul,

Now I moonwalk smooth through the overload,

Everybody got advice when you on TV,

But nobody know what it cost to be free.

I got heartbreak packed in the suitcase,

Late nights starin’ at the moon’s face,

Tryna make art that could outlive me,

Even if the spotlight start to dim, see—

Success feel strange when you dream too fast,

One hand future, one hand past,

Still I toast for the ones backstage,

We all tryna outrun minimum wage.

Bridge

La-la-la, the sky don’t close,

La-la-la, we still gon’ glow,

Even if the world move cold and slow,

We gon’ dance like nobody know…

Hook

We don’t come down, we levitate,

City full of dreams and a better fate,

Throw your hands high if you never fit in,

Tonight we turn the pressure into medicine.

Shine bright, let the skyline glow,

Whole world tryna tell us “no,”

But we still sing like we already won—

Graduation under a neon sun.

Outro

Good night to the old me…

Good morning to forever…