Nas, Megaski - The Get Down: Episode 3 - Darkness Is Your Candle lyrics

Now on July 13th, 1977 the blackout
Streets is lookin' like Armageddon
Swelterin' heat
Suffocate in this Hell within' the 5 boroughs
It's like the Sun roastin' the Earth
The hood was called turf
My girl was thrown out of her church
Out of her home, and by her family
She's disowned

She's the love of my life, up to us to go on
And everything's burnin'
Buildings illuminated by the fire
And the city was lost, we tryna save it
The cross the Star of David we lost
We started prayin' to governor, he a gangster
In cahoots with the mayor
The roof startin' to cave in
No, it's not a game
All is dark except the flame
Now nothin' will be the same
Now the whole world's changed
Music is soundin' different
Radio stations don't pump us up
In their mix yet
Disco still gettin' that air
Time for big checks

Yo, somethin' gotta give
And somethin' gotta die so
Somethin' new can live