Baltimore - Jazmine Sullivan

Beat-up little seagull on a marble stair

Tryin' to find the ocean, lookin' everywhere

Hard times in the city, in a hard town by the sea

Ain’t nowhere to run to, there ain’t nothin' here for free

Hooker on the corner, waiting for a train

Drunk lying on the sidewalk, sleeping in the rain

And the people hide their faces as they hide their eyes

Cause the city’s dyin' and they don’t know why

Oh, Baltimore, ain’t it hard just to live?

Oh, Baltimore, ain’t it hard just to live?

Just to live

Get my sister Sandy and my little brother Ray

Buy a big old wagon to haul us all away

Live out in the country where the mountain’s high

I’m never gonna come back here 'till the day I die

Oh, Baltimore, ain’t it hard just to live?

Oh, Baltimore, ain’t it hard just to live?

Just to live

But best believe

We’re gonna make it somehow

Hard living in the city