Static Home

[Intro] Streets don't feel the same no more Pixels eating up the soul of my block Every refresh, another memory drops [Verse 1] Remember when we used to post up at Mehmet's spot? Now it's just another coffee chain, serving bullshit hot Nina switched up like these streets, went digital cold Got me scrolling through memories that's already old My hood's turning ghost, can't recognize these walls Where Turkish beats used to bump, now there's empty calls F*ck these apps trying to tell me where I belong When my real connections keep getting deleted, gone wrong [Chorus] Home ain't home when the screen tells you where to be Trapped in this matrix while my block bleeds Home ain't home when the wifi's all you breathe Lost in translation while my culture recedes [Verse 2] Used to know every face down on Kottbusser Dam Now I'm just another avatar in the Instagram scam They sanitized our corners, gentrified our dreams While we're all locked up, watching life through live streams My people dispersed like data in the cloud Memory bandwidth full, but feeling empty now These algorithms can't compute what we lost When community gets reduced to keyboard thoughts, f*ck the cost [Outro] Signal's breaking up, but the message is clear Can't find my reflection in this digital mirror Streets don't feel the same no more 'Cause home ain't what it was before