Chasing Winter

Verse

Frost on the windowpane like it never thawed

Blocks still shaking from the last wave's drop

Tenement rooftops painted red and gold

Corner boys counting every coin they owed

I was chasing winter before I found my name

Came up through the dark where the streetlights bend in flames

Every scar I carry is a debt that I repaid

Now the whole neighborhood answers to my trade

Pre-Chorus

So tell me how the legend started

Tell me who the first one was to call this block the barrens

Tell me why they chose this name

Was it the fire or was it cold?

Chorus

We running through the barrens like we're chasing winter

Sneakers on the frozen roof, never asking for a warning

Every block got its own war drums and my blood's the conductor

We the frostbite kings with hands in every border

Verse

Snowflake tattoo on my knuckle, symbol of the code

Every hand that shook was one less mouth to feed at home

I don't pray for mercy, I write my name in the snow

Forty below but we running like we own this block already

Raven perched on the water tower watching everything fall

Said it's winter when a man chooses to take the wall

I'm not scared of the cold, I'm scared of losing the ground

So we stack our numbers up like it's building a mountain instead of sound

Pre-Chorus

So tell me how the legend started

Tell me who the first one was to call this block the barrens

Tell me why they chose this name

Was it the fire or was it cold?

Chorus

We running through the barrens like we're chasing winter

Sneakers on the frozen roof, never asking for a warning

Every block got its own war drums and my blood's the conductor

We the frostbite kings with hands in every border

Bridge

Maybe it started as a myth to keep us moving when the streets was cold

Maybe I'm just the wind that finally broke the door

But they say the legends live forever if you never let them go

So I'll keep my coat zipped up like it's armor, not for the frost but for the ghosts we owe

Outro

Still running through the barrens like we're chasing winter

Never getting warm, that's just how the legend goes