Spacetime

I don't know if home is in a place or in a time Or in a combination that lives somewhere in our mind Maybe we don't know it until we leave it behind Or maybe it's a moment, the moments that always shine I walk through my city like an old ghost Whole neighborhoods and memories I hold close They've been erased, buffed, repaved, and bulldozed But I carry in me everything that made it before Still standing like the hope that comes after a war Traumatized like, what was all that fighting for? We lost lives, I didn't have time to mourn I didn't know that these moments they would be so short My home is with the people I've been writing this for Without a place on the map to say it's ours anymore From rented homes to suburban tombstones I roam It's just echoes of my folks in the stories that's shown I know the essence and the soul that they trying to clone For every neighborhood block that we see get sold These moments that made it, that we hold so sacred Have always been about the people more than the places I don't know if home is in a place or in a time Or in a combination that lives somewhere in our mind Maybe we don't know it until we leave it behind Or maybe it's a moment, the moments that always shine I don't know if home is in a place or in a time Or in a combination that lives somewhere in our mind Maybe we don't know it until we leave it behind Or maybe it's a moment, the moments that always shine My city is new, so I try to be too Comb through the avenues like a tourist would do It's still hard on my heart, I'm trying to soften some parts Smile when I cross a familiar face at the park I think life is in moments, we only get so few I can't carry your weight, and still be able to move So who am I to tell you you should share in my blues? You never took a single day to try to walk in my shoes And if you did it would break you, so just stay thankful This is for the people that can claim what I've been through I slept on a bus, when I couldn't make rent due And came home to plates of injera and lentils I was never alone, that was all in my mental Lies that my pride said, I try to stay gentle With me, and with you, all I know that is true The best things in life always end too soon I don't know if home is in a place or in a time Or in a combination that lives somewhere in our mind Maybe we don't know it until we leave it behind Or maybe it's a moment, the moments that always shine I don't know if home is in a place or in a time Or in a combination that lives somewhere in our mind Maybe we don't know it until we leave it behind Or maybe it's a moment, the moments that always shine