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Penance Lyrics by Them Chains

2023

[Verse 1: ClockworC]
Why shit got to be so complicated? (Complicated)
Everyone trying to say "Look ma' I made it" (Look ma' I made it)
Head high when the chips is down, know it's something found in the field of play
If you're gonna leave it all please leave me now cause I ain't gon' change
Taking them cuffs of poverty off of me
Picking and locking it off of me
A whole new set of problems in a grip of probablies
We too lit, walking up out of the kitchen ashes in the wake we cooling
Never been fearing thе friction or the pushing of them tulips
Your bruised lips can't see this battlе ship
Yeah, we flowed on at high speeds, y'all looking like mannequins
So we stack it wise, ain't no benefits in this biz
Sever ties if they ain't really trying to see you win

[Chorus: ClockworC]
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still gon' fishing
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still skinny dipping
So, here I go, hold my keys
Hold my phone, hold my leash
I don't need that shit no more, no, no, no
Here I go, hold my keys
Hold my phone, hold my leash
I don't need that shit no more, no, no, no

[Verse 2: ClockworC]
Section eight, little rhyming old dick
Pops working class then he broke his back
Caught my case but the case don't rest
I seal my fate when I get up in my head
And it's a little late to blame anyone but me
And there ain't no way she can buy me what I need
I've been fundamentally damaged
But I just keep lacing up my Chucks and wading through that sea of flames like I don't feel numb
But ever do I conceal some
Reeling it into my pain to pay the penance for the deeds I done
Dirty as can be but I've been working to deplete it all before the better places come
My whole curriculum been learning how to feel the love
When the heat is up I'm on the brink of some
I sweat and bleed to plant my feet up underneath the sun

[Chorus: ClockworC]
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still gon' fishing
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still skinny dipping
So, here I go, hold my keys
Hold my phone, hold my leash
I don't need that shit no more, no, no, no
Here I go, hold my keys
Hold my phone, hold my leash
I don't need that shit no more, no, no, no

[Instrumental]

[Chorus: ClockworC]
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still gon' fishing
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still skinny dipping
So, here I go, hold my keys
Hold my phone, hold my leash
I don't need that shit no more, no, no, no
Here I go, hold my keys
Hold my phone, hold my leash
I don't need that shit no more, no, no, no

[Outro: ClockworC]
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still gon' fishing
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still skinny dipping
So, bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still gon' fishing
Bad moon risen, bad news given
Bad ties in the fire but I'm still skinny dipping

About “Penance” by Them Chains

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