winning the invisible olympics
Old hand speaking to a would be apprentice
Holding pens like a would be appendage
they say Pain is the way to redemption yeah
Want something safe be a dentist
I know goddamned what well we attempted
but When i learn something new i forget shit
Rent it
You can try but I’m saying its expensive
They saying sleeping is a lot like death but
I just cant just cant see the resemblance
hidden in at least 3 dimensions
Repeated for release of the tension yeah
There like its perfect attendance yeah
Stuck like my License suspended
Fall apart when I try to defend it
rent it try it but im saying its expensive
Ghetto in the way i talk
You can never read my thoughts
Ghetto in the way i slide
Back to the wall
All pain i hide
Ghetto in the way i run
Ghetto in the way I’m dumb
South side south side where you from
Where you from
Ghetto in the way i move
Bang that beat with a knife and spoon
Be quiet hear the sound of the utmost
Pay attention bring it in like a Tug boat
Pay attention in the biz cause its Cut throat
You be thinking y’all friends but it’s dunzo
Front row sitting
We pretend like we gung ho
See the addict get his mits on a jumbo
He a fiend like Wyndham rotundo
We civilized got friends in the jungles
Maybe gang bang art weigh a ton tho
We know the unseen spark where the plug go
When the room goes dark where’d the love go
Chilling like a shark in mud tho
Blood flow heavy like the drama in the soaps
Telemundo
they all out of rubber gloves at the
Drug store
Where the sun go?
We ain’t afraid got guts full of gusto
Cut it short like the gloves with the thumb holes
where he go. why im even on the run tho
im tucked low. in m'shells like a gun show
i done come so far tho
my therapist said ive come so far
about
When I wrote this song the world was not on fire yet. I had felt subtle attacks on blackness from joe biden and other public figures. Notions that were harmful about authenticity. Notions that called our behavioral and consumption choices into question without any reference to the historical context that they are couched in. I made this song as a spell to ward off subtle social attacks at blackness. I put a lot in it to make sure it works.