[Hook: Tess] City lights, city lights, city lights, we ain't slowing down City lights, city lights, ‘cause we live the fast life City lights, city lights, city lights, yeah we want it now City lights, city lights, city lights, we ain't slowing down City lights, city lights, ‘cause we live the fast life City lights, city lights, city lights, yeah we want it now [Verse One: Emilio Rojas] And they can see; the city has everything you can dream Ain't living to the limit, we living beyond our means Maintaining images, anything that you need Addicted to the spending, nobody gon' intervene Got to earn that dough then burn that dough then get them newest clothes In a city where everybody late on paying bills and student loans We looking fly but we struggling, who would know? We party every night ‘cause we comforted by the glow baby [Hook] [Verse Two: Emilio Rojas] We don't go to bed, spending every minute we awake Painting that coda red, landlord, everybody owe them bread But they rather go out and blow they checks We balling out but falling out on top of sofa beds, broke With a little bit of dough but they made it stretch just like a yoga bend We know perception is the key to our successes But people gonna judge our efforts by the streets and our addresses We be impressing, living where them rents is high Come get desensitized by all the crime and gentrify, yeah [Hook] [Verse Three: Emilio Rojas] I'mma shine bright in the limelight, get that crib with a sky light When I get my mind right, then my grind gonna make that my life And that high life, we chasing it, faking it till we making it I'mma go from living in the basement to making atheists have faith in it Women that were acting afraid of it will be begging me to let me put they face in it And I ain't ever giving credit when I pay for sh** ‘cause I'mma be rich I won't pay for sh**, yeah, I'mma move you when I'mma make that list of who's who Till I got a room with a pool view, I be in the lights as cool blue [Hook]