Herzogin vom Viertel - Static Home Lyrics

[Intro]
Streets don't feel the same no more
Pixels eating up the soul of my block
Every refresh, another memory drops

[Verse 1]
Remember when we used to post up at Mehmet's spot?
Now it's just another coffee chain, serving bullshit hot
Nina switched up like these streets, went digital cold
Got me scrolling through memories that's already old
My hood's turning ghost, can't recognize these walls
Where Turkish beats used to bump, now there's empty calls
F*ck these apps trying to tell me where I belong
When my real connections keep getting deleted, gone wrong

[Chorus]
Home ain't home when the screen tells you where to be
Trapped in this matrix while my block bleeds
Home ain't home when the wifi's all you breathe
Lost in translation while my culture recedes

[Verse 2]
Used to know every face down on Kottbusser Dam
Now I'm just another avatar in the Instagram scam
They sanitized our corners, gentrified our dreams
While we're all locked up, watching life through live streams
My people dispersed like data in the cloud
Memory bandwidth full, but feeling empty now
These algorithms can't compute what we lost
When community gets reduced to keyboard thoughts, f*ck the cost

[Outro]
Signal's breaking up, but the message is clear
Can't find my reflection in this digital mirror
Streets don't feel the same no more
'Cause home ain't what it was before