You were the best nights of my life You got the light that always shines I miss the way that you move and the way I get high When you take me to yours Like I'm standing in the sky I see yourself with cars and your old graffiti I breathe your air when I land in another city I'll be that one that's got you printed on my bone Yeah, you're all I know Everywhere I go, I ain't changed at all Always on my own, I'm still New York You're the only one I'll ever know My concrete walls, I'm still New York I'm still New York Oh, I'm still New York Oh, I'm still New York I wanna drive down Riverside See the birds flying on the high line All the sidewalks burning, we pray for rain in July I know the Yankees, 99 And the Knicks on a sold-out night When the curtains close and the Broadway streets are alive I need your heartbeat close, don't you ever leave me And I breathe your air when I land in another city And I'll be that one that's got you printed on my bones Yeah, you're all I know Everywhere I go, I ain't changed at all Always on my own, I'm still New York You're the only one I'll ever know My concrete walls, I'm still New York I'm still New York Oh, I'm still New York Oh, I'm still New York Oh, I'm still New York Yeah, B.K., born and raised, I was God sent I used to hit the court, shot and prospect Took them long walks, had my time spent As a kid with that Empire State in my set Kick flippin' off a blind deck, dippin' from a New York *, he's finished, yeah Said I been up on my New York * Walkin' down the block with my New York bitch I could never leave my city, ain't nothin' like it Even if I do, though, I could never hide it Top down on the west side when I'm drivin' East side be the only side that I'm ridin' And I'm still New York Yeah, yeah, yeah