[Verse 1]
Steel vines climbing up the sky
Garden roofs on every high-rise
Kids race bikes down solar streets
Painted lanes
Humming under their feet
[Pre-Chorus]
Breathing in clean air
Used to be a rare thing
Now the skyline shares
Every leaf that we’re living in
[Chorus]
Welcome to the future greenstic city
Glass and flowers tangled
Wild and pretty
Concrete heart with a chlorophyll glow
We made a home where the wild things grow
Future greenstic city
Future greenstic city
[Verse 2]
Trains slide quiet through the morning haze
Walls grow food in the subway maze
Rain falls
Fills the rooftop streams
Powering the night and the people’s dreams
[Pre-Chorus]
We were running out
Now we’re learning how to give back
Every window sprouts
Every alley found its way back
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Turn the lights down
Feel the sun stored in the stones
Hear the wind spin circles through the turbines and the phones
All the old smoke fading in the rearview of our minds
We chose roots
We chose time
[Chorus]