The High Line

Yeah, what Kinetics in ya headphones, 1, 2, 1, 2 Fading back to normal Uh, yeah fading back to normal I'm stressed out but I'm fading back to normal I'm stressed out but I'm fading (fading) [Verse 1: Kinetics] Close your eyes, picture the island of Manhattan And imagine that a worldwide cataclysm has happened Something like the evilest of military tyrants Have devised a lethal Homo sapiens-specific virus The plants and animals survive but the humans vanish The cities are abandoned with the buildings still standin' And the vines start expandin' up the walls And eventually the green crawls all the way up to the top floors Now every city block would be covered in green It would be the greatest jungle New Yorkers have ever seen Forgive me for sounding pessimistic, hateful, and vicious But if we really left, do you think Mother Nature miss us? Cause Helios was wearin' the crown It’s no coincidence an earthquake came by, tearin' him down (down, down) Yeah, it's deservin' a dedication The dirt and the vegetation of Earth and its reclamation The perfect investigation would begin with a sample So bring the kids to the mantle and I will give an example For when you go to New York City to the Lower West Side Down on 34th Street is an abandoned train line When it went out of service it was a matter of time Before the tracks were all covered by the grass and the vines They call it the High Line, like an elevated garden A celebrated harvest painted by the greatest artist And even if the frame's in a state of despair Yo I don't care, think of the oxygen it gave to the air So in the West Village you could take a deep breath Cause like Lady Liberty yo it's the only green left So when I feel stressed and I need to buy time Yo I write my lines high and hop on the High Line And take it into to the future, think of it as a portal Or a window of the Planet Earth fading back to normal [Hook: Kinetics & One Love] I'm stressed out and I really need the green Cause when I'm stressed out yo I really need the green So please give me the green, I really need the green I really need the green, so please pass the green And every night I dream, yo I'm dreamin' of the trees Cause in that green breeze, we'd be breathin' easily So please give me the green, I really need the green I really need the green, so please pass the green [Verse 2: Kinetics] Global warming, I remember the first time I heard the warning Like every other American I thought that shit was boring But they would have to listen to a rapper spittin' If a rapper spit an admonition attackin' the gas emissions I half to admit it, man I was laughin' durin' The Happening But half of this self-inflicted massacre's really happenin' Cause we're suicidal and this shit is absurd In thirty years ya drinkin' water diminishes by a third Word, talk about a little cotton in ya mouth But I bet you got a faucet drip-droppin' in ya house Bitch floppin' on the couch, dinner in the microwave While the devil rides away to Asia on top of a tidal wave Right away, we would pillage bleedin' Arabians For cadmium radiation and depleted uranium While in South America, we're attackin' the poorest nations Factory forced invasion, the source of deforestation Hopin' that it all stops Cause civilization is an indication that Mother Nature is getting bald spots Can't you see? The woman is stressed out Cause there ain't enough trees to open her chest out The doctor is in, finally findin' the best route He told her to cut the lights and puff on the cess now Cause when I ache and I grieve, or I fall into trouble I'm headin' straight for the trees like I was George of the Jungle Because it's helping out with all the stress we go through So we light blunts and we blow O's in the air Factory smokestacks blowing CO2 Need to be like us and blow more O in the air, yeah [Hook]