[VERSE] Nomadic Head light as the ghosts habits Fro thrashing against the walls With the mice in the cold casket I’ve got eyes in every crevice I cried for a slow sabbath Who am I was not established At night when I’m nose diving in tide How the toe tag can tell time But knows little of why We were ever here to begin with In the guise of petty adulting Mouth wide trying to prise me cloud nine Prowling design in dead chaos Burning offеrings from your turret I’m more like a brick layеr Planting prayers in mortar Orchestrate me a wailing mural Then give my seed to the water Every poem from fight or flight I brought my slaughter for the cobra Torment under my corset Squeeze, pretty in all black Then they cut me in four quarters You play dress like the master But everything you are is just an echo I’m Jah Shaka Call me mongrel, hit the tan bed Forge a skin graft in my image You’re the prison I crammed inside every smile then bled a grimace You scaled the buildings, shot up the village, desperate for kingdom Purge your hindrance, dance with joy in the fringes, mouth full of embers We built dams that bore rivers in every nook, cranny and nimbus When you find this body riddled with flies just return to sender Someone hand me my flowers quick, my death is a start-up business Another gatekeeper trying to sell me my ambition A whole banquet of crumbs Gee thanks for slums, it hanker my tum And all of this for your love child of interest [Chorus] Cut the daylight the daylight I won’t make it past today I never felt at home The waist side and the late nights My words stew inside the page Stumble across a goldmine With your closed eyes After everything I stayed Catch me sleep by grapevine My graveside But worry about my Boy worry about my Boy worry about my name [VERSE] Show my enemies the pearly whites I got bruises from my early life Many nooses with my name on that I never filled I’ve been sanctified And my hubris smelling like camomile Shake like bangles in the dead of night This birthright I’ve been dead alive I’ve set alight like a sacrifice You ain’t no pack of wolves That’s pack of lies I’m the troglodyte in some nephrite Keep me dreams tight Get some ballet in my bleak mind From the thalamus to palace In a world where they treat us like b-side See squire, take that weak link leaking Re-wire, see in deep dyer we fire at peaks Break the fortress of the sire Free our desire to see higher and be Gia Yeah most days these are poems like crazy-talk Like he dropped me in the ocean and tried to make me walk I caved in and clung to shores Wave my ores in awe of those who made it through Monday mornings Here in the north with bloated corpses And the nostalgia talking until leafs are falling Free for all, free for all, and money’s awesome That’s all they play on this funny walkman No more extortion where’s my sunny portion They made my skin cognitive dissonance Counting pours on top of my pours Where rain is pouring With sweat debt and endorphins Cut me open my honeycomb And keep tugging on this gun for more then [Chorus] Cut the daylight the daylight I won’t make it past today I never felt at home The waist side and the late nights My words stew inside the page Stumble across a goldmine With your closed eyes After everything I stayed Catch me sleep by grapevine My graveside But worry about my Boy worry about my Boy worry about my name [OUTRO] We were supposed to let go but we didn’t though I clung cigarette smoke but you didn’t know Pick the hair in my comb Let the river flow We’re both scared of that ghost so we keep it close We were supposed to let go but we didn’t though I clung cigarette smoke but you didn’t know Pick the hair in my comb Let the river flow We’re both scared of that ghost so we keep it close Yes we keep it close, yes we keep it close, yes I keep it close
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