A day, in a week, in a year
Where e'rything exactly as you feared
Lightning could strike me right here
Right here, holdin' a phone to my ear
The rest of my life, I'ma be like: Yo, I was standin' right there
Boxes under the stairs
Found some old Nike Airs, still tight

Lit the lamp bulb before the sunrise
Before sparrow cry from thistle
The kettle boil before it whistle
The sky bleed purple
The night fight before it die
Squatting in the soil with a fistful
But my hands been dirty since before I could grasp time
Before we had new nam

Marciano on a snow day, cold play
Math rock, soda, no cocaine
I'm always surprised by the co-pay, sick!
Once they broke open the safe
A newspaper dated March 15, '88
Few CD-Rs, couple pictures where I ain't cover my face
Megagraphitti on a VHS tape
A guap of Haze, jus

It's certain things you can only learn from a fistfight
I used to use a toothbrush to keep my kicks white
It mattered that much
In hindsight, it seemed like someone else's life
Flush my system with sativas
Knock off the rust and fuck standing up
White phosphorus burning t

Everybody cooking, I'm just cleaning up my kitchen
Emptying the fridge, bleaching counters, sweeping corners
I be in my drawers, I line my silverware in order
Couple hours, I'll be waiting at the gate
Under influence, 10k and rising
In the valley of the Sun, I'm a force witho

I think Mengistu Haile Mariam is my neighbor
Whoever it is moved in and put an automated gate up
Repainted brick walls atop which now cameras rotated
By eight, the place dark, one light burn later

Razor wire like a slinky
Rumor is parcel bomb took the secretary right eye an

Kansas City, Missouri to Lincoln, Nebraska
Ten hour layover in Chicago?
I don't know, man, your call
I'm not gonna be able to do it

I actually took a $300 Uber to a show
Asleep in the back like Future, might as well be a Maybach
Showed up with nothing but a computer, le

Babylon by bus, no tagalongs
It's a marathon, tryna run it up
Lake Michigan, a frozen pond
Black Swan with the bubble butt
Opera glasses clutched front my ugly mug
I administer the food and drugs
Monsoon love, oxytocin flood
Red mud ran out the hills like blood
Gl

Jet-lag, I can't quite grab the new me
Old self dozing in an aisle seat
Emirates, where I left him, daydreams treacherous ephemera
Brain exposed to the elements
Lift my skull top off delicate
Bone china chafing dish
Absent-minded, break time like bricks, thoughts is cinde

One night e'ry woman came up out her grave
Or wherever she was put, murdered, some cleverly hidden place
Niggas was hidin' behind drapes (arguing)
Tryna load a. 38
Went to shoot, I'm like: What that gonna do?
That bullet's for you, trust, you don't want to see her face
Th

You mean today?

No n-words, no irish
Shopkeeper pointed to the signage
Work sets you free on the gate, to the gate
Everything in there stretched, measured, weighed
Paid for a plate, window 'round the side
Nodded when the brother ladled extra into mines
Squatted and

Over time, symbols eclipse the things they symbolize
I sympathize, but read the contract before you sign, son
We not even in contact, but still have to hear all this motherfucker's lies, dun
Shouldn't be surprised, don't let me catch you unsupervised
Pushing every button, just re

If I haven't heard a word in ten years, assume you're dead
Or guest of the Feds
Or cultivated a better class of friends
Not mad, tip the hat, fingers don't touch the brim
Lid don't touch my naps
Andy Capp, go 'head, pencil him in
Last one standin', what he scream in the w

Black car on a backstreet, little me asleep on the back seat
Lulled by street lamps and the blackness in between
My parents' argument picking up speed
In and out of bad dreams
That's what they said when she saw him dead in the road
Now I know it was the shadow of them black w

Yo, yo
Whenever snow falls, I think about the first time I saw it
Was my jaw, dog tooth and nailed to the floor?
Unable to recall it
Llink shorty for frags of my past scattered
Simpler, blissfully foolish times
Before rhymes had a reason to get written
Before expressi

Disaster tourists wandering, Chernobyl's wildlife flourish
She said it herself: You gotta hold something back
That's insurance
That sarcophagus crack, the purest radiation flow out my phone Jack like a Keurig
A snap of her collarbone, black bra strap, never nothing lurid
For

Uh, yeah, this beat sound like 257 black kids
Hoppin' off the B14 bus like a UniverSoul Circus clown car
Fresh braids, cuts, and kicks
Truant pass burning woods, exposed wrist
Gray smoke drift, stones and sticks
Shorty talk shit like he's paid to do it
Major
Raised wi

Swimmin' in palm oil out here
King of all blacks, I eat human hearts
I let things fall apart, motorcars rustin' in the garage
Granadillas wild in the yard, vines climbin', burglar barred
The roof fell in, on gods it's full of stars
I swam in the dark, Sun fled, the Moon large

Black astronaut, cop a space suit and jet off my steps
Challenger launch burnin' bright, burn to death
Burn in the firmament, charbroiled, catch the hair
Black boy burned crisp, pursed black lips
Black marionettes dance limp, over the pit
The kindly ones distant as the winter

One thing at a time
One thing at a time
One thing at a time

Life gave me lemonade, I pour in my spirit of choice
The trees weapons grade, it's not that I'm 'noid
UN inspectors upstairs, I'm tryin' not to make a noise
Wave one hand like: All that gotta get destroyed