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The Pauper & The Patriot Lyrics by Mykele Deville

Each One, Teach One

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Mykele's Verse:
Two cogent truths separated at birth
The first one was a condition
Second one was a curse
Their mother sang and she screamed
With her womb full of dreams
They gave her drugs for the cuts
And then they sewed her back up
They stole them
And when I say that I really mean us
Theiving kids of yesterday's prophets dollars looking like Jesus
Please us or risk looking sacrilegious
Don't insult my indigenous tinge, I think you're starting to sound treasonous even
Fistfighting heathenous demons locking eyes with my freedom
Sychronize the time to free them
Pay them pennies it's still currently currency in my book
Think I'm bout to go full crook
Just take a bit of what I need and pack my pockets with what I want
That's what this country's bout don't gotta front
Claiming the wilds of dead America
Shiny bones be scaring ya
Whiffing the funk of your own musk
Them watery eyes don't know who to trust
This mighty sorrow packs a punch
Staking out to find free lunch
It might be you so best to think it through
That same dream that made you wealthy made me human stew
Yelling "indictment!" from the gallows as the pigeons flew
A noose was formed with the umbilical, this country knew, to strangle you & you & me too, ya dig?
Chrous:
In the scheme we're all just kids leaning slightly towards the light of where the punctuation ends
You take a knife for your beliefs
I take a bite to fill my ribs
We're just a pauper & a patriot
Wondering where the safety's at
(Malci repeats chorus)
Malci Verse:
I got the diesel with me like I'm d wade in 05/
I'm so fried
Plus the liquor keeps my tongue tied/
I wonder why
I make the time to make my mind stutter/
Faded in the morning, trading spliffs with my brothers/
And they all drilling like we playing dig dug/
Red rum to the fox anchors painting us as thugs/
Pass drugs to the whole block and come back with hand cuffs/
Then shoot when our hands up/
Now if that ain't fucked up/
Keep the cycle spinning like its ghost rider/
I said I'd stifle the venom-- I pulled the rope tighter/
I seen the homies caught up-- all the feds' is spiders/
If Peter Parker lit a spliff, bet he'd get a write up/
Stuck in dots and loops like a prisoner of Mars/
Crooked 12 ain't scared to shoot so it's in earth or bars/
And the judge saying life like we ain't fucking people/
Same reason I'm blowing on this diesel/ evil
Credits
Mykele Deville

Mykele Deville

About “The Pauper & The Patriot” by Mykele Deville

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"The Pauper & The Patriot" appears on "Each One, Teach One".

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