Flute Ghost

[Intro]

Flute ghost

Three notes float, then vanish

Cold air in the hallway

Whole block feel famished

[Verse 1]

Came up where the heat jam

Still made the rock dance

Mama had a shoebox

I turned it to finance

Dark days, Park Days

Henny with the Sprite can

Now it's lawyers on call

Names on a flight plan

E train, late night

Counted every mile

Now the car seat tan

Seats still smell like grind

Shorty think it's overnight

She don't know the file

They ain't see the winters

Sleeping in my coat, tight

Old heads on the stoop said "trust none"

So I move alone (move alone)

Chrome by the stove where the dust from

Still on the phone (still on go)

If it ain't a wire, then it's wire transfer

Shift from survival to designer planner

[Chorus]

Flute ghost in my ear, say "go, go"

Every note like "don't move slow, slow"

Brooklyn in my blood, that's all I know

Turn a late rent check to a condo

Flute ghost in my ear, say "push that"

Every L that I took, had to flip back

City on my neck, yeah I lift that

Ambition in my veins, can't fix that (nah)

[Verse 2]

Eleventh floor view now

Skyline on the wrist

Used to watch the news now

Praying they ain't hit

Brodie doing Fed time

Talking through the glass

Told him when he land

We gon' triple what we had

Labels on my line talk partnership

But they never took the R train, heart for this

Never seen the yellow tape, chalk for this

Never put they last on a start like this

I was upstate, bus pass, one bag

Came back, one tag

Now it's runway, one drag

From the block where they hum sad

But I hum different (mmm)

Gravel in my tone, still the drum hitting (hey!)

[Chorus]

Flute ghost in my ear, say "go, go"

Every note like "don't move slow, slow"

Brooklyn in my blood, that's all I know

Turn a late rent check to a condo

Flute ghost in my ear, say "push that"

Every L that I took, had to flip back

City on my neck, yeah I lift that

Ambition in my veins, can't fix that (can't fix)

[Bridge]

I don't pray for an easy road

I just pray that my people old

When we toast in a house we own

When my name on a hundred stones

From the store with the cat on the bread rack

To the board where they can't get the math back

Still that kid with the bus pass, backpack

Just upgraded the hustle and the cash stack

[Chorus]

Flute ghost in my ear, say "go, go"

Every note like "don't move slow, slow"

Brooklyn in my blood, that's all I know

Turn a late rent check to a condo

Flute ghost in my ear, say "push that"

Every L that I took, had to flip back

City on my neck, yeah I lift that

Ambition in my veins, can't fix that (ooh)