“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.
