City Smile

You got that city smile
Make the streetlights jealous
You got that city smile
Even hard days feel precious

I was counting small wins in a cracked phone screen
Trying to make big life out of small routine
No sleep, no cheat, no fake crowd love
Just a clean pair of shoes and the God above
Then you pulled up calm with the window down
Whole block turned when you came around

Tell them we are rising, rising
No more hiding, hiding
If the rain comes sideways
We still find Friday

You got that city smile
Make the streetlights jealous
You got that city smile
Even hard days feel precious

I came from dust with a dream in my chest
You came with light and you made it look blessed
You got that city smile
Smile for me one time

Fresh cut Friday and the sneakers clean
Gold light bouncing off a taxi's sheen
We greet the gogo selling sweets and snuff
City hard but the people soft enough
Rooftop evening with the skyline lit
You make broke days look designer fit

There was a bus ticket folded in my jacket that first week
One way back to the village but the day I couldn't eat
You laughed on that rooftop and I felt the paper move
Threw it off the ledge on Sunday, stayed for you

You got that city smile
Make the streetlights jealous
You got that city smile
Now the whole town's smiling with us

Smile for me one time