It’s just another storm he couldn’t face/ It’s just another high he couldn’t chase/ So what’s another night he couldn’t fix?/ Couldn’t even stutter to convince/ Couldn’t put his brother in the six/ Shouldn’t push your mother to her limit/ Apeiron til he see a brick/ Same song pouring from his lips/ Face off, lure em’ off the bridge/ Chainsaws roar in the bliss/ Chafe top floor, feel the wind/ Rain drops pour in the trench/ Love is a four letter ditch/ Drug is a force from within/ Substance scorched me in sin/ Hugging the floor to my chest/ Covered in blood and dread/ Hovered the morgue for the flesh/ Stuck to the war in my head/ Fucked up, soar in my bed/ Plucking the pores in my skin/ Struck on all fours, be a man/ Brush it off, forcing a grin/ Stomach all remorse for a friend/ Cover my corpse in the sand/ Somewhere in the loss is a win/ Summer breeze lost in a flinch/ A bitter freeze, toss me a spliff/ Company cost me a quid/ The sum of these parts colored red/ Bludgeoned, keep calling for dead/ Mustard seeds rot in a glimpse/ Buckled knees marching to live/ Memory clogged from the gin/ The best of me’s not who I am/ I never dream talking so dense/ 17 shots to the breath/ Heavenly shock to the head/ I’ll never leave, call it a threat/ An enemy’s all that I am. No one’s gonna break the fall/ You can’t stand tall, it’s a sea of all your flaws/ Make your mind and make the call/ Run into that wall, everything dissolves.

Arcane angel, stumble through a dark maze mangled/ Scuffle in the hallway strangled/ Something in the crawlspace tangled/ Unidentified at all angles/ Unscathed, undone, hateful/ Mundane guns aimed at Jesus/ That’s one way to earn Judas’ graces/ My dumb face shunned in peaceful places/ Blood stained drugs still in cases/ A bird in the hand to fill the cages/ 100 ways to kill a man with razors/ Another day to steal a man’s wages/ A fucking waste and still in hidden places/ Asleep is how these tally mark days spent/ I speak if I have a part to play in/ A hatchet job so of course it’s thankless/ Old dog tricks, the pony brainless/ No prophets, they’re all mistaken/ You know God shifts his occupation/ An old hog lynched in celebration/ A good man can oversell a nation/ At night I confuse hell with patience/ A life that’s been reflected well with hatred/ Another broken soul to sell to satan/ Walk alone on the road I’m paving/ Talk of hope and don’t know what I’m saying. You sell yourself short, only your soul knows what it’s worth/ Unseen, roaming the earth/ We let things grow in the dirt/ The caged bird glows til it burns/ The agony I’ve earned (2x) Swap blood via handshake/ Every slit man made cave man days/ Life’s a curse and a damn brave mandate/ Man down, watching him decay where the land lays/ Sinking ships go down regardless if the band plays/ Might as well go a capella with a bland face/ Can’t save em’ all but can’t say I didn’t try/ And you know I didn’t lie, just couldn’t hold you for my hand’s sake/ An open wound treated with a bandaid/ Slave to it’s pleasures like a handmaid/ Married to the misery I took the ring back like a hand grenade/ And everything explodes while I stand in place/ The last of a stranded race/ Blast from a gamma ray/ Failed intervention; You got another plan to waste?/ Time ends with a bang, but tell me what’s the span of grace/ Will full of canned heat, wicked greed, I can’t explain/ Stricken grief and couldn’t am-scray, what a sham I stayed/ Drank the poison, no time left, and I swam for days/ Searching for a way out with a dim candle flame/ I try to write it off, a destiny I can’t explain You sell yourself short, only your soul knows what it’s worth/ Unseen, roaming the earth/ We let things grow in the dirt/ The caged bird glows til it burns/ The agony I’ve earned (2x)

Ghillie suit and canteen, law of the forest/ Waking up ready to spar at any spark of the moment/ I forged my own prophecy to see if I put the stars in motion/ I’m telling you it’s not hard to get old scars to open/ A grudge lead me here, guess I wasn’t smart to hold it/ The fat lady singing but at least I caught the opus/ Very superstitious, the writing on the wall was the chorus/ Trade the cow for beans but your mother’s trust cost a fortune/ Go to bed hungry like waking up is hot porridge/ The garbage full of old food raccoons keep watch while it’s pouring/ Some days I physically can’t rhyme like purple orange/ Stay out the living room til Grandpa fix the door hinge/ Parents sleep with one eye open snoring/ It’s memories that keep you warm at night when it’s snowing/ It’s ways to get over and ways of knowing/ The weight of the world, the dirt off his shoulders/ If you not careful it’s Irish goodbyes from soldiers/ It’s a sign of the time, but the kid’s moving forward/ Surprise, but the biz full of torture/ Time flies, and the mystery continues like Opal/ I feel normal, no semblance of a noble/ A mute but that shoulder devil vocal/ Magical negro but that white guilt got a choke hold. Change don’t come in God’s country/ Your name is a number in God’s country/ It’s days full of thunder in God’s country/ It’s places you can’t wander in God’s country (2x) You can take back your words but you can’t retract actions/ Five fingers cracking, time to active/ Bills around the corner so it’s time to blame Krampus/ Kids will go to church if it excuses bad manners/ Excuses done damage, no promise land or mana/ It’s lies in his teeth, war crimes caught on camera/Smile on his face where he standing/ A ring in his mouth, that’s why they couldn’t understand him/ Shooting at his feet while he dances praise the Mau Mau/ He thought he found himself in this forgotten razor town/ Like “When he gon’ found out”, he never will so how the fuck that sound now?/ It’s just some voices that you can’t drown out/ It’s moments when you know you gotta bow down/ Babylon towers when he had to throw the towel down/ The cash cow is still another brown cow/ Pow pow! Foul moves with a howl from a closed lip/ New slaves on an old ship, old slaves in the ocean/ Hoping I can save them all from croaking/ Leviathan sleeps, but that don’t mean he’s not approaching/ Post nasal drip hitting roach clips, poking holes in the sofa rips and hitting poses/ I left after I pissed on the roses/ Kissed him in the mouth, didn’t know if I could hold it/ Bible thumpers humping downstairs when I was roped in/ He looked me in the eyes, didn’t know that he was joking/ I played it off cool but behind my eyes I’m choking/ Walking home sulking/ I shed a tear and left before he could notice.

I made the best of a worst case scenario/ First taste of air I ascended from the burials/ I can see Babylon coasting in the aerials/ Visions keep escaping me, I don't know where it goes/ Misquoted parables, sifting through the shit so unbearable/ Something wicked sniffing out the pheromones/ Precious necklaces made from Pharoah bones/ Music to my ears but it scares the hoes/ I let out a feral groan/ Can't save the children, they can't grow if they're all gone/ They can hear me talk, but can't see me like Cyrano/ So what's the fucking point of an open ended miracle?/ The base of my Pyramid was built the same year as Rome/ Crumbled in the same day, manifests the fear of hope/ Interfere the scope, enter here do you hear the folks?/ Money talks louder than actions, it appears you're broke/ Poverty will steal the show, but probably won't heal your wounds/ Comedy will fill the woe, talking 'bout some "Feel me flow"/ Other people's purgatory, try'na run can't feel the floor/ I paint a perfect picture just to peel the coat/ Spent a year hearing nos here and there, adhere and cope. Make yourself known in the light/ Fake your death knowing how to fight/ Your mind out of sight/ Baby, will you die for what's right? Life on the line, confront all the signs when it's time/ I live another ex life every time I die/ I live and I lie/ I'll come through, give it some time/ I run through finishing lines/ I shrug at diminishing time Peace was made, and peace of mind was still not given/ Rot in sickness, pot boils plot thickens/ A smile cold as the dickens/ Brief moment grief stricken/ Biological clock keep ticking/ I don't need forgiveness, I won't seek the witness/ Listing names will leave me listless/ It's not like my own heart listens/ The animal in me died, it's what Noah's arc pictured/ Stark in nature, hard figure/ Better play your part, nigga/ Im'ma slain the farce who lays into his art as sparks and glitter/ Cuz homie when you're broke, Heaven won't shimmer/ The deadly seven sinner/ Heavy is the head, the breath thinner/ Bless this mess and send it to the river/ My second ego death could step quicker/ Mí primero was a fizzle that dragged out like six weeks of Winter/ Eat yourself a decent dinner, keep your head up in front of your children/ Before they read the TV inscription/ Sheryl says "Oh, what conniption/ Seven shots at the nigger sprinting/ At least that's what the babysitter mentioned"/ Baby, what a shame he was shitted/ Maybe it's the waste he laid in friction/ Save me a place in your confliction/ Up to my waste in fake redemption/ The fly's been erased from existence (from existence) A PLACE A PLACE CALLED HELL

Devil in a red heat, undisclosed address/ Rhetorical questions like “Why do I always acquiesce?”/ Stumbled through a hallway half dressed/ Rotting corpse wrapped up like Tutenkammen at rest/ Quite uncommon at best/ The reason’s not a question it’s a quest/ The scar’s not a blemish, it’s a blessing/ Count them all and put em’ to the test/ I’ve settled for much worse than less/ I muffled curse words in my head/ I tucked a bloody sword that I found under my lover’s bed/ I left no cheek uncaressed/ She sunk her teeth into my neck/ I plucked the seeds, that garden dead/ She let me leave with both my legs/ Her wedding ring fell in the trash/ She knew she’d live to never see me again/ Some niggas live forever to avoid what they can/ The difference dwindles between boys and men/ I promise you life with poisonous hand/ Needle and thread for every frayed fabric in time I can mend/ I project what I can pretend/ I protect what I can’t lend/ I’m bad as every color I can blend/ I broke every bridge I couldn’t bend. Time is frozen as the pond (2x) I broke laws to fix relationships/ I smoke all day to forget I was faking them/ I woke up to three more yellow leaf trees than yesterday while the groundskeeper raking them/ He should be enjoying this view, too, but they can’t cuz they paying him/ It ain’t poverty but still the opposite of making it/ I survived every simulation glitch/ I brush it off so I can make my shift/ This day won’t dread itself, hope the karens make it quick/ Motivational signs I can’t relate too but, hey, it sticks/ “Do what’s right even you’re the only one doing it” Can’t praise a snitch/ My family’s sheltered, we prayed for this/ Wolves break through straw and sticks, we paved the bricks/ We built a new to save the kids/ Broken homes we race to fix/ Cherish every bit of blackness when them races mix/ Survival tactic if Mama say it is/ Alcatraz protection when God gives us his greatest gifts/ The room’s a war zone we lay in the pit/ We catching our breath just to save our skin/ We live how we can, we embrace the sins/ Landlords playing games, we play to win/ We all ticked assimilate to grin/ Don’t throw trash where you afraid to spit/ You just asking for a way to get hit/ Gasping at the day you finally grasp that sinking ship/ God troubled them waters a cannibal wouldn’t eat the rich it came with/ If that’s the point I’ll shave it/ Our savior’s safe at home, we’re not even worth slaving

All that ass in her jeans/ Took so much acid my off spring feel it in their genes/ I text her an eggplant, the French maid still calls me Aubergine/ My fall from vanity, I stepped in them Autumn leaves/ Her family thought me a thief/ I sought to be redeemed/ I played the good guy, they playing marbles for keeps/ Fake smile, “Have a marvelous week”/ My birthmark of the beast/ Broken glass march into the deep/ I can break a promise in my sleep/ Told her I was tired with a pocket full of weed/ Flipping the bird at the cops down the street/ I knew it wasn’t meant to be just from how she looked at me/ That thin blue line stretched for weeks/ Argued until she almost sped into a tree/ Took her back home, massaged her legs and feet/ God dammit, I’m weak/ I shouldn’t wanna fuck just let it be/ Affirmative didn’t mean shit under them sheets/ Leaving motel rooms not so discrete/ Left the towels by the sink, drove home, said nothing I stink/ I know the mood could change in a week/ So I shut my eyes waited for to speak/ Sometimes questions come in riddles three/ The bigger picture’s too belittling/ Four years straight some honky flirted with her, always him over me/ I begged her to stay, she crawling right back but that never solved anything/ And if it did we wouldv’e fulfilled that promise ring/ Guess I’ll never find peace/ No one knows what they can’t see/ No one knows what they can’t see Halfway through fucking she asked “How long do I have to fake it before I break this?”/ Somehow she was only halfway to the waste naked, I spanked it/ Super anxious. She too preoccupied to say shit when I ate it/ I’m halfway hard like why the fuck is you playing?/ I’m breaking a sweat when I’m just halfway in/ She has a makeshift, she use it, the cat spraying/ There’s yelling in the kitchen, I hear her dad praying/ It’s amazing what you do with a half dead Mason/ If I had to guess, she could break her neck from head shaking/ Bandaids from leg shaving/ Fake moans with thin spread patience/ That half ounce gon’ feel breathtaking/ She don’t need me to start mess making/ A blessing we even made out, I thought I could save us/ Halfway through the month I felt the changes/ Had half a thought I had it reigned in/ Haphazardous arrangements/ Cheap motel rooms banging/ That little spark we had wasted/ She saw me as a hack and couldn’t face me/ She scratched my back, prepared it for the shanking/ That ass fat, heart mad thankless/ It’s only a hatchet job if I could say it/ Blank mask to cover up all the anguish/ The thoughts I’ve had, my guardian angel deserves raises/ Open book with burned pages/ Erased from her love my heart’s racing/ Could’ve met her halfway but them cons be outweighing.

It’s the seed of hate, let me seize the pain/ The cease of brighter days, it’s a sea of waste/ I can see your face, I concede and break/ Concrete in my brain/ Copy, bleed, and paste But am I wrong for wanting something good?/ Been waiting too long to simply knock on wood I’ve been so out of touch, I’ll make another crutch/ The more that I fuck up I’ll never have enough/ Call me like a bluff/ Cause me to erupt. Caught up in a rut/ Nothing to clutch But am I wrong for wanting something good?/ Been waiting too long to simply knock on wood (2x) A PLACE CALLED HELL MOTHER FUCKER I can’t stay awake I can’t stay awake

No melanin, no opinion/ I know it’s your diminishing dominion/ A bad man’s causes cost millions/ Lots of authority lost feelings/ There’s freedom in flying from tops of buildings/ No shimmering heaven for God’s children/ Never fueled the flame just forgot to kill it/ Chilling like roaches in the pots and skillets/ Guardian angel like “I am not your villain/ And you are not the easiest mortal I’ve had to deal with”/ Ain’t no peace in your morals, rain spilling/ Cellophane symphony, I am top billing/ Rotting in your own throne, God’s got civilians/ Got caught residing inside of my own resilience/ Black magic brilliance/ Blasphemous baphomet, debilitating foolish gold like Rumpeltstiltskin/ Double duty gloves so he can sooth the peeled skin/ Appealing as a pill, it was a crutch and it still is/ A soul so shattered there's no spiritual healing/ There’s no way out is there? No hope, I fear it. A place called hell and I know it so well (4x) A victim in pain, and my wisdom in chains/ I’ll lead you astray if you give me the reigns/ The kiss was a kick to the face/ I wince at the praise so send it back from whence it came/ Can’t save a wench, put a wrench in it’s place/ It’s one thing to be loved, another to be made/ All I know is just another mess I’m gonna make/ Another hit I’m gonna have to take/ It’s gon’ be two dead souls at the wake/ One in the box the other one without a name/ His eyes never open wish mine could do the same/ Lies I couldn’t tell so I kept them in my brain/ My reparations I sell em’ to the maid/ “There gon’ be a brighter day even for a slave”/ Now who said that to who? Sentiments go either way/ Time never stops just abide by the change/ There’s a time to be still but that time never came/ But the tide that it brang, I was tied by the waste/ And I was tired by the time all my tries went to waste/ But we can’t get yesterday’s price on the prey A place called hell and I know it so well (4x)

Monzy The Terrible: There’s no deal breaker like secrecy/ I let the leech latch it consumed every piece of me/ All I have are haunted memories, they won’t leave me be/ Blood splatter patterns on T.V screens/ It’s just another demon you need to free/ You step and fetch you sleep and eat/ You reap, you sew, you breath, and bleed/ A dead god will fuel the heathen’s needs/ Enough acid rain to sew the seeds/ Garden of Gethsemane growing weeds/ A sacrifice is how he cope with greed/ Atrocious deeds/ A true slave knows how to lead/ Knows when to leave when it knows how to read/ Carnival county freaks/ A carnivore with 20 broken teeth/ Still betray Jesus for a feast/ Every day wasted I’m 40 deep/ Around the fucking bush how we chose his speech/ For each thorn on the crown 36 roses each/ I listen to a world full of cowards underneath/ Tower as they cower on they knees/ Found there was power getting clean/ Lost it all in the smoke screens/ I was trying to get it back at 14. KILLVONGARD: "pitter patter towards me" said the little master imprisoning all the dope fiends of all kinds dopamine receptors more like poor things skeletons in my pockets and the bone collector won't leave so i guess i'll come to jesus on my doorstep the best it's gonna be the feeling when there ain't no more left the doctor said my mood could be affected by the forecast tried to level up ended up just feelin more dead was that a chorus or subtle art of imploding i can spot loose cannons outta bruce banners and false threats sorted through a sordid view the sorest loser sorta still a sorcerer had sourced a spell to form a new consortium (dead parents) not yet mascara all smeared mask off oh dear that's awful all year once it starts don't end the bungee chords aren't short enough the ones that were had all snapped was sad when i was bored as fuck and mad when i had more errands than love letters to sort and stuff into the void that they ain't warn us of til we were all in vulture shadows hovering the sum of nothing under it above it down in it now figment outnumbered by a thousand pound hindrance doubt stricken how humbling a bout of nonfiction bout did it now sunk in like the stomach plot thickened spit roast it mouth hung open the only god given any one thing that will go to it Monzy: Tongue tied tumultuous/ Blood inside the vulture spit/ Sweet moments between tragedy and a golden gift/ Cold as the bottle that I put between my sober lips/ That’s where the loss of hope begins/ I spared a lot to hold it in/ All excuses old as sin/ The product of a stolen kiss/ Two hands holding bricks for targets only I could miss/ Witness vicious alchemy, screaming with an awkward grin/ Now this is what you call chagrin/ Pissing caution to the wind/ Kick the coffin to a ditch and stand across like crucifix/ Third eye thousand mile staring at a eucharist/ Couldn’t feel the blood of Jesus, thought he ought to use his wrist/ Losing fight but couldn’t loose the noose, thought he was used to it KVG: binge eat the universe my kicked feet on Jupiter father stretch my hands and my pillow is a putrid earth could never offer solutions could only offer them stupid verses plentiful making mincemeat out of anything that's beautiful they played the king's speech through his funeral comical laughable commoner nominal there will be blood like his teeth and his cuticles guaranteed, there will be blood no lubriderm i just googled tutelage for what its worth it doesn't work that's nothing new i screw the pooch and present it like a pulitzer lynchian washed up on the shore with a blueish hue the birds pickin, playing with the organs like a Wurlitzer bulk of your code a blurry salt and flurried windshield surprised at the alter like he probably shouldn't be here i guess they missed the worst of him his book of sins was burstin at the seams picked the greatest hits then constructed this cursed hymn

Found love in the midst of round 2/ Brown love when I kiss the ground/ Shelter the dead, sacrifice the found few/ Sage blessings over brown stew/ King of the cowards til his crown flew/ It’s only a matter of time before Evaline disembowels you/ The pile of manure where he found truth/ The dirt off his soldier was sound truth/ Which sounds uncouth considering he lost his je ne se coix accoutrements around 2/ We rally troops/ The valley’s in comatose, the hills have eyes that are round, too/ The iris turns from brown to blue/ Now that’s what I call less bountiful/ No pity I hound the fool/ Prowl, howl, then poof, and pounce aloof/ Frantic confused just how I move/ Sound proof fountains of youth/ That’s just the point we leave the falcons to prove/ The malice shall behoove you/ Practice practical voodoo/ Color me bad ju ju/ Shew shew, fly, can’t you see that in a past life I was Xiu Xiu/ A chance for freedom what the noose drew/ Niggas in Paris for the coon zoo/ Niggas embarrassed to let loose like “Nigga, I knew you/ The spark died in your eyes at 22/ And I prayed for nights on end because I didn’t wanna lose you”/ Collins met Angel with a bruised tooth/ But I didn’t know myself so I questioned who was exposing who’s truth/ The tight ship he ran had a loose screw/ Joints Lewis and Clark canoes through/ Sacagawea probably had her hands and feet tied while they cruised, too/ Become not a victim of old new/ Because there are more saved lives inside of a phone booth/ Retreat to his throne doomed/ He without sin throw the first shoe/ The other one will drop in due time, let the curse brew. And now I know who I am from the start/ I am the end all be all even before it starts/ Some kind of monster the sum of all it’s parts/ I turn this whole city red, turn this murder into art Let that nigga know let that nigga know (4x)

The ghost of three slaves said it all looks the same/ And remixing negro spirituals will not ease your pain/ So dry your eyes and keep singing in the rain/ You won’t leave Babylon if you leave it up to fate/ The hand of God’s a closed fist so eat it off his plate/ You wanna keep your name? Well, son, peace is not the way/ Run, nigga, run but it won’t keep off the weight/ The new cost of reparations not worth the wait/ Cuz fake love is worse than hate/ Don’t give your life to be treated like a person for a day/ Curse me to my face/ At least I know my place/ At least I hold my race/ You know the one you let get stolen as prey/ Black jokes slide when this month’s rent gotta pay/ Black folks die like they chose a nameless grave/ Shameless to the ways/ Shapeless and afraid/ You rely on white wage for a pagan holiday/ You are not the only one, I’m just restoring stolen pages/ Poking at a frayed stitch, you know how to lane switch/ You know how to cheat them all, claiming that you made it/ But I see your anguish/ I can see you’re hurt but can’t save you/ It’s no brakes when you’re searching for a break through/ Do what you can and pray they sing your praises/ You’re in more danger than your whole race is/ Your guilt stacks up like bodies on a slave ship. It looks, it feels like hell (4x) “Police sirens just mean justified violence”/ Said the ghost of a black teen looking me in the iris/ Try’na keep open my eyelids stood in silence/ My window’s been stuck, how the fuck did this guy climb in?/ He keeps cold in the climbing climate/ Red eyes I keep sweating on my eyelids/ He said “What I say is not surprising/ They’ll pass you a noose til you’re three feet high and rising/ So lash out to keep from crying/ Keep your blackness down to keep from dying/ Wanna convince the people, keep trying/ I quits searching from freedom, I was denied it/ Now I’m lifeless cuz a nigga stole diamonds and I look just like him/ I’m teakwood brown, that motherfucker was light skinned/ The club to my back was like two strikes of lightning/ Taser to the ribs cuz they all thought I was lying/ My fucking heart exploded in a pool of blood I’m lying/ The future ain’t bright enough to see how you’ll be dying/ It’s all bad apples you get poisoned by the ripest/ Hoisted by some white men”/ The force feels sorta poltergeist-ish/ “They’ll kill us all for sport and won’t remember your name in the slightest/ It’s a game of cat and mices/ Each corner is a trap in disguises/ At least in prison cells times flying/ The bottom of the well is a great place for hiding/ I wish I knew that when I heard police sirens.” The spirit of myself said nothing/ Shivering and thrashing looking like he was crumping/ A million thoughts running had to keep them all muffled/ Lips cracked, bald head, corner of his eyes crusted/ Rips in his clothes and his tight shoes busted/ Shaky voice said “Is this the god you trusted?”/ Barely a voice left and his voice sound dusted/ “Answer the fucking question.” Both of my knees buckled/ I was speechless he broke the silence with a chuckle/ “You leave Babylon, you get stuck in the honeysuckle/ 5pm in the shadows you fall in love in the stubble/ The suicide net breaks when you start to stumble/ It’s faces to forget, illusions you gotta humble/ The hatchets you bury excavated in the rubble/ You live in fear and die trying to keep it all subtle/ Digging up the past get hit with hit with the same shovel/ Cuz you’ll betray your mother and poison your own brethren/ Bullet wound where it used to say 37/ All roads are low roads where you are headed/ Cuz you’ll curs God and scared that you meant it/ All them cheap thrills so God damn expensive/ All of these hill are still guided by dead men/ One bad apple leaves the garden for a second/ Didn’t know the cost til it caught me in the trenches/ The name that you’ll die for still worth defending?/ You thought you could hide when you put up all the fences/ The air cannot save you, you’ll still die breathless/ I give you a message; I fought enough demons to know there ain’t no shimmering heaven.”

There’s peace in finding nothing at the end of a double rainbow/ Mind closed on an open road/ Misguided as a pastor’s oath/ Every name has a soul but a soul can’t call it home/ Void in the aura as he go where alcoholics roam/ Dead spirits when in roam/ My will bends at the bone, depends on how far solidarity goes/ BLM in the bio and it’s barely negros/ I rarely seek from the view of a peep hole/ Everyone passing by is stuck in a deep hole/ I felt God’s hate from the church to the steeple/ I creep through a deliverance of evil/ The 9th circle is a labyrinth, keep close/ Ate my weight in words but at least I keep my drink cold/ Forbidden land is where the stream flows/ It’s only some revelations only your dreams know/ Like “How did I ween myself from what I need most?”/ Fiddlesticks if I speak low/ River Styx swimming til I see home What Is there to say/ Find a place to hide away/ Hell is here to stay There was a chill in the air, I heard a voice/ I felt the blade she said “You left me no choice”/ It was a thief in the night, it was God/ It was a thief in the night, it was God. It was never that simple just easier to ignore/ She put her faith in me, I had my foot out the door/ Waking up is waging war/ Glass all over the floor/ I paid for the excuse so poor/ No lesson in the folklore/ I get what I deserve, why am I trying to go for more?/ “I can see the end” said the flood to an open door/ Reciprocity is not revenge it just settles the score/ Like when you fuck up at shool, on the Lord’s day you doing chores/ The light died when I was born/ Time is such an eyesore/ Can’t face what I saw. There is no light, no hope in sight/ I’ve fallen down from a great height/ Watch it all burn, fill me up/ I take and I take but it’s never enough/ I don’t know what this is but I know the pieces fit And I know I’m always alone/ In a place I know so well/ Welcome to hell No Northern star, no freedom in your confessions/ No grace of God/ No shimmering heaven (2x)