Music city pavements

“Music City Pavement”

Yeah…

This for the ones you don’t see on Broadway lights

While the guitars cry pretty, we survivin’ real nights

I seen angels sleepin’ under bridges downtown

Cardboard crowns, hope barely holdin’ them down

Music City got a shine, but it hide so much pain

Tour buses roll past while we prayin’ in the rain

Nashville… where dreams sing loud but hunger sings louder

We share one blanket, heart warm, body gettin’ colder

They say “just get a job” like it’s that simple fam

Try showerin’ in a sink while the world judge who you am

I met vets with medals, moms with kids in their arms

Lost souls runnin’ from trauma, not lookin’ for harm

Addiction ain’t the start, nah—it’s the scar

From a system that forgets you once you fall too far

We got street choirs hummin’ through the midnight cold

Broken voices, still gold, every story untold

I seen kindness traded like currency out here

Half a cigarette split, “you good?” real sincere

I’m talkin’ tent cities, love stitched with duct tape

Family ain’t blood, it’s who stayed when you break

Street moms, street sons, we protect what we can

Holdin’ hands in the dark sayin’ “tomorrow got a plan”

Broadway drunk on neon, tips spill on the floor

But a dollar could save someone sleepin’ by the door

Don’t call us lazy, don’t call us lost

We just payin’ survival at the highest cost

Nashville nights taught me how to love hard

How to give your last bite even when life scarred

How hope don’t live in houses, it live in the heart

And we been rich in that way from the very start

So when you hear that music floatin’ through the air

Know some of us sing just to prove we still here

We ain’t invisible—we’re flesh, faith, and pain

Homeless in Nashville, but we still remain

Yeah…

We still remain.