[Verse]
City crawls in shadows drugs in the veins
Corruption breeds here like nightly rain
Hookers on Broadway selling love’s shame
Louisville my heart you're playing a cruel game
[Chorus]
Dying alive feel the crack in the street
Lost souls dancing to a hollow beat
Can't fix this place it's a broken heat
Dying alive where dark and light meet
[Verse 2]
The river whispers secrets soaked in sin
Smoke curls by the bourbon thick within
Back alleys cry with despairing kin
City of a thousand chances and a chance to begin
[Chorus]
Dying alive feel the crack in the street
Lost souls dancing to a hollow beat
Can't fix this place it's a broken heat
Dying alive where dark and light meet
[Bridge]
Neon signs scream fake promises and lies
Every face here carved with hopeless goodbyes
Mirrors reflect truths no love will disguise
This world sinks deeper while the city sighs
[Verse 3]
But there's beauty trapped in this burning decay
In the laughter of hookers at the end of the day
In the hum of a song when the blues man plays
Louisville you're broken but I can't stay away