Lyric

No collar

No master

No borrowed name

I walk where the streetlights

Forget the rain

Stray crown

Low sound

Night on my paws

I live by my rhythm

I live by my claws

I was born where the rooftops lean

Where the windows glow like broken dreams

Cold brick bed and a neon moon

Old song leaking from a shuttered room

I don't need a golden gate

I don't wait by a silver plate

Fishbone luck in a paper bag

Tail held high like a midnight flag

They ask, "Little stray, where do you stay?"

I say, "Anywhere the night makes way"

Dust on my coat, rain on my feet

Still every backstreet belongs to me

No soft hands, no pretty cage

No name tag writing down my age

I got one life burning right now

And the whole dark city is my playground

I'm a free cat

Walking with a stray crown

Low beat, soft feet

Never gonna stay down

I'm a lone cat

Living where the lights drown

No leash, no law

King of my own town

I don't run

I roam

I don't beg

I own

Every shadow

Every sound

I walk alone

With a stray crown

Rain writes stories on the alley wall

I read every drop, yeah, I know them all

Old dog bark, train track hum

I keep my cool when the trouble comes

One eye open in a cardboard throne

Halfway hungry, but my heart is stone

Not cold, just carved by the winter air

I learned real fast that the world won't care

But I still purr when the moon hangs low

Still dance where the blue lights glow

Still find warmth in a broken vent

Still know every coin I never spent

I don't hate the house cats sleeping inside

But their soft little world was never mine

I need wind in my fur, dirt on my feet

And a bassline crawling down an empty street

I'm a free cat

Walking with a stray crown

Low beat, soft feet

Never gonna stay down

I'm a lone cat

Living where the lights drown

No leash, no law

King of my own town

I don't run

I roam

I don't beg

I own

Every shadow

Every sound

I walk alone

With a stray crown

Some nights get heavy, some roofs get slick

Some hearts go quiet, some clocks don't tick

But I keep moving with a lazy grace

Moonlight dripping down my whiskered face

I know the taste of a closed door

Know the chill of a wet floor

Know the sound of a bottle when it rolls too near

Know when to vanish, know when to appear

Don't call me lonely just because I'm alone

I built my kingdom out of brick and bone

Every scar is a street I survived somehow

Every pawprint writes my legend now

I don't need pity, I don't need saving

I need one more night and the bass behaving

Let the city breathe, let the sirens fade

I'm a shadow prince in a torn-up parade

No collar on my neck

No chain on my soul

No window owns the sky

No hand makes me whole

I sleep under thunder

I wake under gold

I keep all my secrets

Where the gutters roll

If you see my eyes

In the dark downtown

Don't reach too fast

For the stray crown

I'm a free cat

Walking with a stray crown

Low beat, soft feet

Never gonna stay down

I'm a lone cat

Living where the lights drown

No leash, no law

King of my own town

I don't run

I roam

I don't beg

I own

Every shadow

Every sound

I walk alone

With a stray crown

Stray crown

Lights down

Moon on my paws

I live by my rhythm

I live by my claws