we all turn silver/a sacred mixology off the paper/a staple/of time-consuming super-scrolling culture sister/we all turn silver/another double trouble/hoola-hooping twister/I see you scribing, tribe-ing[you] pill-perscribing mister/we all turn silver /after we grey, grey, grey, faded away/y'all keep your color/black-and-white painting, painless, fretless, fret less, baller/don't need to sugarcoat inflate the Code of Honor you separate your whites/I'll keep all the lights on Her/go see an optometrist, racist, fascist goner/can't keep my balance/I tolerate your ignorance you tip me over/take all my gold you systematically deliver/slivers of silver/through screens & filters/until we grey, grey, grey faded away
How dare you ask me why I'm mad/Go walk 10 miles in my new shoes/Try to not fall on cobbled streets/Watch your feet bleed/As you fake your height, butt and the truth/I figure figure drawing is an appalling sign of stalling/Capturing moments in vain hopes they'll drop the crude name-calling/Walk 10 miles in someone else's heels stumble into whats their deal/It's all so utterly unreal/How dare you ask me why I'm sad/I don't know buddy ask my brain/My body's a machine/The greatest one you've ever seen/It makes the both of us insane/Hardbringer, you're an omen/Hardbringer, of what a woman/Hardbringer, should and shouldn't/Hardbringer, expect from all men/It's not my place to place myself in someone else's mouth/We talk of others/while we don't know what the fuck we're talking 'bout/Put a coat on made of shiny armored steel/pretend to know just how they feel/It's all so utterly unreal/I'm scared I'm pregnant all the time/Responsibility that's mine/I'd never ask you for a dime/I'm in my prime/I can't screw up a life this fine/By screwing/Hardbringer, you're an omen/Hardbringer, of what a woman/Hardbringer, should and shouldn't/Hardbringer, expect from all men, yeah
I broke out inacold sweat/Shaky, shaky feelings/I must've caught a glimpse of something not worth seeing/Was my brain attempting to show me what's worth revealing/Or should I keep on dreaming, sleeping, freaking?/It's 6am and I'm not sure just where I am/I can't remember my own God-given name/goddamn these quiverin' tremors shaking the dark/The memory inked on my mind like a watermark/I see a shadow of a figure in the corner/Is my conscience alive or should I mourn her?/Excuse me did I step outside or am I here/I cannot recollect anything but fear/I must be disconnected from the apparatus/This is an unfortunate change of status/I think my body and mind need a hiatus/I need a break from everything about us/I think an eagle came and stole my soul/My eyes are bloodshot I'm losing control/This motherfucking record's taking its fucking toll/I banked on the fact/that it would effectively affect /my bankroll
Breathe when you're going through my skin/Breathe when you feel it coming in/Breathe when the water turns to gin/Breathe when you're drowning down your sins/Breathe when the going's going on/Breathe when your enemies are wrong/Breathe when the bluesy-blues is strong/Breathe if you knew it all along/Breathe when you're winning/Breathe when your blood is turning gold/Breathe when the living gets too old/ Breathe when you're 'bout ready to fold/Breathe everything you're told/Breathe when you're going through my skin/Breathe when you feel it coming in/Breathe when the water turns to gin/ I said breathe/Breathe for your winning/Breathe when you're winning winnin winnin winnin/I said breathe
Down by the riverbanks/Where the water flows/I kneel down to give my thanks/For shielding me through sticks and stones/Down by the riverbanks/Where the water's bright and cold/I throw my rubles throw my francs/And in the chants I turn to gold/I've been going down to the riverbanks/Take a silver dollar from your shoe /yellow gold and purple blue/Silly boy now do you feel/that River banks make men of steel/Cause I sit down by the riverbanks /Down by the riverbanks/I kneel down and give my thanks
It's dark it's dark/And the room is feeling black and white/It's dark it's dark and the room is feeling black and white/it's dark it's dark, can anybody gimme light?/It's dark it's dark/I'm running from my own two feet/It's dark it's dark I'm my own murderer on the street/It's dark it's dark/Can anybody make it right?/It's dark it's dark/My shadow's dying on the ground/It's dark it's dark/I feel the pressure all around/It's dark it's dark/Can anybody gimme light?/It's dark it's darkPIt's nothing if not intimate/ It's dark it's dark/ I'm feeling quiteinadequate/ chocolate/ surrogate/ 18 hundred cigarettes/ It's dark it's dark/ I haveno sense of up or down/ It's dark it's dark/ I hear no music hear no sound/ It's dark it's dark/ can anybody gimme light/ 600 fahrenheit/ dynamite/ dynamite erudite/ a woman in her own earned right/ It's dark it's dark/ my shadows dying on the ground/ It's dark it's dark/ I feel the pressure all around/ It's dark it's dark/ can anybody gimme light?/ Can anybody gimme light?
It's my solemn understanding/That in this day and age/You are forbidden to make a joke/You are forbidden to attempt to belong to where you were not from/We build walls/to protect what we have/And by this act we have made the conscious decision/To let it die in our arms/We no longer feel the need to evolve/We no longer feel the need to merge, colllide and globalize/When will we realize?/There is no future in separation/there is no future in condemnation/what the hand dare seize the fire/I never felt like I had much choice/have you?/Tiger tiger, I'm so damn tired/Worn and weary and torn and torrid/ scorned and faulty/and trite and sordid/Sorted my emotions on parts of paper/I'm feelin' unstable I'm feelin' unable/The angel of the sun won't let me sit at the table/I wanna dine so fine but I ain't part of the fable/To all present I present a master/But white has different shades of servants/And now I can't wear braids just cause I look like my parents?/But damn me/my hypocrisy/how dare I speak and let reign my supremacy/White woman white woman/even our feminism wrong/Let's judge the weight we bear not by the strength of our arms/Don't judge me a robber/cause my hands look like they steal/Judge me by the heart and by the way that I feel/I dare never seize your fire/I vow to only take us higher
This love is a strange love/Doesn’t play the game quite right/Didn’t quite consult the seamstress/It kind of seems to fit too tight/This love is *#{#}@@%/strange, strange, strange/This love has strange conditions/Rules and regulations too/No one seems to notice darling/That I’m not loving you/This love is strange/strange strange love/#*{@@}%/&${@{@/how did we get this far/@@@@@@****/##{@}}}/#}#{~/`@@#$@/@#$~^&~$&$$
Why don't we talk about it/I'm sick of throwing my fists around/Throwin' them fits on the ground/This is an aftershock, no doubt about it/no doubt about it//I can't throw my heart around no more/Time is a waste/spent on bad taste/If I'm kicking your ass to the door/This is an aftershock, no doubt about it/No doubt about it/livin' on borrowed time/I lent it from my youth/High up on interest rates/You are what separates Me from truth/Numb from my neck up/Dumb from my waist down/High on the downers/in my nervious breakdown/I've done all that I can to hurt you/except to call/You're like a voodoo doll/on a shelf/but that doll is me/and I'll only hurt myself /this is an aftershock/and aftershock/yeah/I cannot lie about it/I cannot cry about it/I cannot live without it/I cannot breathe without it/I cannot text about it/I cannot talk about it/i cannot be without it/icannot be without it/This is an aftershock/ain't got no doubt/ain't got no doubt about it
ITS LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE/I'LL GLADLY EXPLAIN/I SPUN AROUND YOU/FOR SO LONG/I RATTLED YOUR BRAIN/AND YOUR HEART'S AN/OBSIDIAN STONE/I CAN HARDLY GET AROUND/BUT I'LL ORBIT 'ROUND/TIL THE WALLS GO DOWN/AND WHEN WE MEET/THE RAIN BEATS FAST/WE'RE IN THE EYE OF THE STORM/WE'RE FRAGILE SOULS/BUT BUILT TO LAST/STAYING TRUE TO FORM/WE BEND LIKE WIRE/IN THE FIRE OF OUR WORDS/I CAN'T STAY TIRED/WHEN YOU GO FROM FOURS TO THIRDS/YOU BEAT ME STICKS AND STONES/I CAN'T CONFORM TO WHAT YOURE PLAYIN'/IM ON THE GROUND/COMPLETELY DROWNED/IN THE RAIN/AND WHEN WE MEET/THE RAIN BEATS FAST/ WE'RE IN THE EYE OF THE STORM/WE'RE FRAGILE SOULS/BUT BUILT TO LAST/STAYIN' TRUE TO FORM
three little monkeys/ sitting in the corner/ tryin'a grin their face at me/ mouth a-bolted/ ears cant hear us/ someone blind them so their crooked eyes cant see/ funny literal words/ coming from the real world/ speaking metaphorically/ am I alluding/ silently concluding/ that this might be our democracy?/ we blinded/ dumbfounded/ trained to not hear the sound/ of money/ three little monkeys/ sitting in the corner/ of an office making plans/ they got their silly paper/ breathing power vapor/ they got their little monkey fans/ We see their crooked fingers/ the scandals that still linger/ but we can't cuff their dirty hands/ voter registration/ the joke of our own nation/ making laws for businessmen/ we all blinded/ so dumbfounded/ trained to not hear the sound/ of money/ march on little soldiers/ the war is not quite over/ the government is but a zoo/ you're distracting us with scripture/ while they paint a picture/ on which they'll put the face of you/ wear down your little feet/ there is no cure to treat/ the dirt thats covering whats true/ you'll pick the same three monkeys/ they'll seem super funky/ cause you'll think they're kangaroos/ cause you'll think they're mighty cute/ cause you'll think they'll punch for you/ but they'll only fuck with you/ cause you blinded/ so dumbfounded/ trained to not hear the sound/ of money/ you're all blinded/ all dumbfounded/ you're trained to not hear the sound/ of money
The sugar is sour and the grass is blue/Don't know where I am/but I'm not with you/Confused in a daze/I'm a crazy fool/Not sure but I'm sure/that I had a few/Of the silly pills/From the ammo box/ got 89 shells in the ammo box/I'm missin but twelve/how unorthodox/one up in my brain/I don't give a fuck/got 89 left in the ammo box/The rest for you/Twenty nine people here/all are dead/Is all this real?/or just in my head/I'd rather be splitting some hairs instead/With you over her/and all that unsaid/But I got 88 shells in the ammo box/I'm missing but twelve/how unorthodox/One up in my brain/I don't give a fuck/One flew through her chest/she was out of luck/Ten for you/The ending got tough/but the party was fun/Out of the twenty nine/lived on but one/Who knew that a tale/could be told by a gun/Had a hundred and one friends/but now I got none/got 89 shells in the ammo box/I'm missin but twelve/how unorthodox/one up in my brain/I don't give a fuck/89 left in the ammo box/The rest for you
Got some Sticky tar/Flowin' through my throat/Like an antidote/To the evening/It's the Sticky tar/In a sticky jar/Keeping me afloat/from sleeping/And when I feel the beat/I take my body with my feet/To have some sticky tar/In the corner bar/This evening/Got some sticky tar/On this afternoon/In a dusty room/Lost feeling/She a superstar/On her sticky tar/She a crazy loon/She fleeting/But in this daze she feel/A crazy kicking in her heel/On this sticky tar/With a thick guitar/She speeding/And Im a hypochondriac/To the sick sickness of a track/Hiding in cold cars/Shooting up black tars/Till nothing/Give me sticky tar/That sticky caviar/On a silver spoon/To feed me/Shot the sticky tar/Took me very far/Right up to the moon/So greedy/And when she wraps her legs around/I lose control of sight and sound/I taste sticky tar/And it's so bizarre/I love it/But in this daze she feel/a crazy kicking in her heel/on the sticky tar/with a thick guitar/she speeding
Yaaas/yes/I rock bubblegum pants/bubblegum pants/bubblegum pants/I rock lollipop shoes/lollipop shoes/lollipop shoes/I rock chocolate belts/chocolate belts/they're chocolate swell!/I rock marshmallow rings/marshmallow rings/they taste damn well/I wear my bubblegum pants/bubblegum pants right to the bank/Sure my lollipop shoes/lollipop shoes/make me feel swank/Hermès chocolate belts/chocolate belts/so vegan raw/Check my marshmallow rings/50 carats so burgeois/But I can't wear no candyland/no candyland on my body/I can't wear no candyland/sugar candy oh lawdy!/When I go to sleep at night/I feel sticky in my bed/That's why I stick to candyland/candyland just in my head!/I got bubblegum pants/bublegum pants cause im on drugs/I got lollipop shoes/lollipop shoes cause im on drugs/I got chocolate belts/chocolate belts so sexy vain/Cause I got a whole bunch of shit/strictly coarsing through my veins/I got bubblegum pants/bubblegum pants/bubblegum pants/I got lollipop shoes/lollipop shoes/lollipop shoes/I got chocolate belts/chocolate belts/they're chocolate swell!/I got marshmallow rings/marshmallow rings/I feel damn well/It's my bubblegum pants/I like to wear them/put 'em on me
