We Love You

My city, my city, my city/We love you (we love you)...,/Hey you, yeah you, my city/We love you (ohh)...,/Emerald City..., we love you...

The evergreens, the blows of the freshest air/Busy highways, the parts of our time shared/Community, the building strength in numbers/The highest heights (highest) wrapped in so much wonder/Rain on the window/Coffee in hand/First light on the water/I know where I stand/From the hill by the markets/Voices rise with the gulls/Stories under the awnings/Old bricks, young hearts, they’re full/Echoes under the marquee/Crowds drift through that door/Every song in that basement/Feels like it’s been here before

We love you, Emerald City/Every cloud, every spark on the bay/From that silver tower in the distance/To the late-night laughs on a weekday/You’re the hum in our chest, you’re the rhythm we breathe/We love you, Emerald City/You’re the home that we never wanna leave (oh, we love you)

Toast to all of the dreamers/In small rooms, second shows/Old jokes over the skyline/That only this city knows/Talking through our reflections/On glass turned violet and gold/Names written into your sidewalks/In ink that never gets old

This is for the ones who stayed/For every soul that came and changed/For every scene that found its stage/In the rain, in the rain (yeah)/This is for the nights that healed/For every open-hearted field/For every “cheers” that made it real/Again and again

We love you, Emerald City/Every cloud, every spark on the bay/From that silver tower in the distance/To the late-night laughs on a weekday/You’re the hum in our chest, you’re the rhythm we breathe/We love you, Emerald City/

You’re the home that we never wanna leave

So here’s our letter/Signed in blue and green/You gave us each other/You gave us a dream/We love you, Emerald City/More than we can ever sing