Murder Kroger: The Ghost on Ponce

Lyrics

[Intro]
Ponce de Leon, 2003, the asphalt still remembers.

[Verse 1]
You were just a store on Ponce de Leon Avenue,
fluorescent lights buzzing over canned peaches and milk cartons.
Early 2000s, two murders in your parking lot,
a shooting that echoed through the checkout lanes.
They called you Murder Kroger then,
and the name stuck like gum under shopping cart wheels.

[Chorus]
Oh, Murder Kroger, ghost on Ponce,
you're demolished now, but the legend won't fade.
725 Ponce rises shiny and new,
but we still whisper your name in the aisles.
Even after the wrecking ball in 2017,
your story haunts the produce section,
urban lore that refuses to be silenced.

[Verse 2]
I remember the anonymous Atlantans,
coining your name over coffee and headlines.
The rumble of machinery shaking the ground,
dust and concrete as they tore you down.
But your shadow lingers on the new facade,
shopping carts rattling over invisible cracks.

[Chorus]
Oh, Murder Kroger, ghost on Ponce,
you're demolished now, but the legend won't fade.
725 Ponce rises shiny and new,
but we still whisper your name in the aisles.
Even after the wrecking ball in 2017,
your story haunts the produce section,
urban lore that refuses to be silenced.

[Bridge]
What about the victims, their names lost in reports?
The employees who scanned items through the fear?
Corporate never acknowledged you,
but Atlanta's memory is stronger than steel.

[Verse 3]
Now it's mixed-use, offices above the dairy case,
but the nickname persists, a stubborn echo.
Ponce de Leon Avenue, your thoroughfare,
carries the tale from Marthasville to Terminus.

[Outro]
Murder Kroger, ghost on Ponce,
haunting melody, forever in our carts.