[Intro — warm Rhodes, distant Sydney traffic, birds, tape hiss] Same city... Funny. Nothing changed. Except me. [Beat enters] [Verse 1 — relaxed melodic rap] Woke up late Sun coming through the blinds Coffee on the balcony Got a little more time No message waiting No question on my mind Just another Tuesday And I'm feeling alright Train rolling past Harbour catching light People heading somewhere Everybody living life I used to think this place belonged to what we had Now I'm looking at the skyline thinking about what's next Got work on my laptop Music in my headphones Couple new ideas that I wanna bring home Money ain't perfect But I'm building something real And for the first time I like the way my future feels [Pre-Chorus — warm R&B lift] Same buildings Same weather Same streets Same pressure But something changed when I changed Now every morning feels a little different [Chorus — big earworm] Same city Different life Same skyline Different eyes Same streets New nights Everything feels different when you're finally alright Same city Different life I got my own plans I got my own time Same world New side I didn't leave the city I just left that life behind [Post-Chorus — hypnotic] Same city Different life Same city Different eyes New nights New days I'm alright. [Verse 2 — fuller groove] Friday night backyard lights couple friends music loud Someone brought a speaker someone brought another round Laughing about nothing talking shit until it's late And I look around and realise I don't miss another place Saturday morning markets by the water sun on the pavement coffee getting colder Somebody's busking kids running through the square Old man reading papers like he hasn't got a care And I love it. Not because it's changed. Because I finally started looking. [Pre-Chorus] Same buildings Same weather Same streets Same pressure But something changed when I changed Now every morning feels a little different [Chorus] Same city Different life Same skyline Different eyes Same streets New nights Everything feels different when you're finally alright Same city Different life I got my own plans I got my own time Same world New side I didn't leave the city I just left that life behind [Turn — beat drops] No suitcase. No disappearing act. No running somewhere just to feel different. I stayed. I changed. That's all. [Beat returns] [Verse 3 — confident melodic rap] Now I'm walking through places that used to feel like ours And they're just places again A café A corner A train A bar Nothing owns me. That's freedom. I've got things on my calendar that I actually wanna do People in my phone that actually follow through Ideas getting bigger while the rent keeps going up Still figuring it out But I'm waking up and that's enough Maybe a new life isn't somewhere you arrive Maybe it's the moment you start liking your own Maybe growing up isn't becoming somebody else Maybe it's finally being comfortable inside yourself [Bridge — stripped, soulful] I don't need a different city. I don't need a different name. I don't need to disappear. I just needed to change. Same harbour. Same streets. Same sky above me. But when I look around... This feels like mine. [Final Chorus — wider, uplifting] Same city Different life Same skyline Different eyes Same streets New nights Everything feels different when you're finally alright Same city Different life I got my own plans I got my own time Same world New side I didn't leave the city I just left that life behind [Final Post-Chorus — layered] Same city Different life Same city Different eyes New nights New days I'm alright Same city New life [Outro — Rhodes, guitar harmonic, distant traffic] Nothing changed. The city stayed. I just became someone who could live in it. Same city. Different life. Fade.
