Cleveland Rising: Lyrics & Instrumental

Cleveland Rising: This City is Our Home

Lyrics: Alexsandra Sukhoy, Music: Vanessa Daffron

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Intro

From our steel mills

To our baseball

I’ve seen it rise

And I’ve seen it fall…

Verse 1

The factories closed down

Like a sunset in a fog

In this steel-belt Midwest town

We even burnt the Cuyahog

Verse 2

We were winners once ago

We just forgot how it felt to win

Myopic martership our Achilles

Insecurity, our sin

Chorus

In the churches we all pray

In this town I’ll always stay

Cleveland is my home

Verse 3

We have youth and sight and Splendor

Like a phoenix we will rise

No ashes blown into our river

No ashes blow, no ashes blow

No ashes blow, like they’ve blown before

Into our river

Chorus

In the churches we all pray

In this town I’ll always stay

Cleveland is my home

Verse 4

Now I confess to you, my dear

My precious city by the lake

I’ll treat you better now

For you are no mistake

Chorus

In the churches we all pray

In this town

I’ll always stay

Cleveland is my home

This City is My Home