Tourists stumble down Broadway 
 Cumberland keeps claiming bodies 
 All our best memories were bought 
 And then turned into apartments 
 The club with all the hardcore shows 
 Now just a grayscale Domino's 
 The churches overflow each Sunday 
 Greedy Sunday morning 
    (Ooh) gift shop in the lobby 
 (Ooh) act like God ain't watching 
 (Mmm) kill the soul, turn a profit 
 (Mmm) what lives on? Southern Gotham   
 I'm the one who still loves your ghost 
 I reanimate your bones with my belief 
 I'm the one who still loves your ghost 
 I reanimate your bones, 'cause I'm a true believer   
 They put up chain-link fences underneath the biggest bridges 
 They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children 
 They say that Jesus is the way, but then they gave Him a white face 
 So they don't have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them   
 (Ooh) the South will not rise again 
 (Ooh) till it's paid for every sin 
 (Mmm) strange fruit, hard bargain 
 (Mmm) till the roots, Southern Gotham   
 I'm the one who still loves your ghost 
 I reanimate your bones with my belief 
 I'm the one who still loves your ghost 
 I reanimate your bones, 'cause I'm a true believer   
 I'm the one who still loves your ghost 
 I reanimate your bones with my belief (ah-ah-ah) 
 I'm the one who still loves your ghost (ah-ah-ah) 
 I reanimate your bones, 'cause I'm a true believer (ah-ah-ah)