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i love baltimore - fabian davison collins lyrics

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[intro]
yeah
baltimore, i see you
not the postcard version
the real one
the bruised one
the beautiful one

[verse 1]
i love baltimore when the morning breaks
rowhouse windows, old paint flakes
corner store open with the coffee on
old heads talking where the block stayed strong

i love the children with the bookbags tight
walking past struggle with their dreams held high
i love the mothers who still pray at dawn
after long nights trying to keep lights on

i love the barbershop truth in the chair
where pain gets trimmed and hope gets shared
i love the church bells, love the street drums
love how the city still breathes when grief comes

they tried to paint you like a wound that stayed
but i see gold where the blue lights fade
i see a city with a soul still bright
still standing tall after every hard night
[hook]
i love baltimore
with the rain on the brick and the fire in the heart
i love baltimore
where the broken still build and the lost still start

i love baltimore
not because it’s easy, not because it’s clean
i love baltimore
because it still believes in what it has not seen

[verse 2]
i love the harbor when the sky turns red
love the names of the ones who bled
love the teachers buying pens from pay
so a young mind gets one more way

i love the fathers coming home worn down
still finding strength when the rent comes round
i love the aunties with the wisdom deep
who know which child ain’t had no sleep

but love ain’t blind, i see the cracks
see the closed doors, see the loaded traps
see the young ones tempted by the fast route
when the slow road looks like it passed out
but the real ones know this city ain’t done
we don’t need pity, we need tools and funds
books in the blocks, banks in the hands
land for the people, keys to the plans

[hook]
i love baltimore
with the rain on the brick and the fire in the heart
i love baltimore
where the broken still build and the lost still start

i love baltimore
not because it’s easy, not because it’s clean
i love baltimore
because it still believes in what it has not seen

[bridge]
i don’t love the pain
i love the people who survive it
i don’t love the scars
i love the hands that heal beside it

[verse 3]
i love baltimore like a promise kept
like a mother’s tear that never left
like a young king learning he is more
than the corner, the charge, the locked door
i love the girl with the quiet gift
drawing new worlds when the old ones shift
i love the boy who put the street life down
picked up a trade and bought his own crown

i love the blocks where the music lives
where the poor still find one more thing to give
i love the murals, the names, the prayers
the front porch talks, the folding chairs

so i plant my voice in the city stone
tell every child, you are not alone
baltimore, rise, let the whole world see
your fight was never your full identity

[final hook]
i love baltimore
with the rain on the brick and the fire in the heart
i love baltimore
where the broken still build and the lost still start

i love baltimore
not because it’s easy, not because it’s clean
i love baltimore
because it still believes in what it has not seen

[outro]
baltimore gave me the question
baltimore gave me the key
i love baltimore
and baltimore still lives in me
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- fabian davison collins lyrics

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