[HOOK - CHOIR OOHS LOUD]
Till the lights fade, knife-edge, life rage, I won't break,
White-knuckled, night shift, right here till my spine break,
Choir hummin' while I'm sufferin', but I fight through the heartache,
Swing till my heart stop, flatline, that's a wide awake!
[VERSE 1 - THE "REWIND" VERSE - SLOW BUT PSYCHO WORDPLAY]
I been boxed in, locked in, socks ripped, lost kin,
Thoughts twisted, Doc slipped, watch list, toxic,
Clock ticked, stock dipped, block hit, profit,
Hopeless? Nope, I boxed it, cropped it, chopped quick, dropped it,
Pain teacher, brain bleacher, main feature, strange creature,
Same ether, that made ether, flame seeker, pain eater,
Mama said I'm manic, panic, frantic, damage, atlas on my back and I
Carry states, carry weight, married hate, buried fate, but I'm married straight to the grind,
Every setback was a setup for a comeback, I'm a setback to a setback,
Pen tap, then the pen snap, then the men clap, then the venom back in my pen tap,
Time bomb with a choir behind me, hear the angels hummin' while I'm dyin' on the track,
But I rhyme past the flatline, climb past the last line, die laughin' with a mic in my collapsed lap,
If the roof caved, I would crawl from the rubble with a pen in my mouth and still scribble somethin' subtle,
If my heart stop, let the kick drum be the pulse, let the choir keep hummin' while I crumble!
[HOOK]
Till the lights fade, knife-edge, life rage, I won't break,
White-knuckled, night shift, right here till my spine break,
Choir hummin' while I'm sufferin', but I fight through the heartache,
Swing till my heart stop!
[VERSE 2 - THE "OH MY GOD" DOUBLE-TIME VERSE]
Okay, okay, think I'm done? Bitch I just begun, mental loaded like a gun drum,
Every syllable a missile, every little bit is homicidal, little bit little bit venom,
Flow switch, oh shit, no grip, so sick, throwed wrist, broke quick,
Code red, both legs, broke led, road dead, hope dead? No, I rose quick!
Rap crack, snap back, blacked out, Mac track, backtrack? Nah, attack!
Backpack rap with a strap attached, fact is, I adapt, I snap trap, I blackout rap,
Hunnid miles, hunnid whiles, hunnid styles, hunnid piles of hunnid miles that I done ran,
With a lung collapsed and a tongue collapsed and a son that need a humble man to be a superman,
So I can't collapse! Choir sing while I bleed on the keys,
Every key is a plea, every plea is a need, every need is to breathe, every breath is disease,
But I breathe through the freeze, teeth grit, knees weak, but I beat that beast,
Till the choir stop singin' and the strings stop stringin' and the drum stop beatin' - then I feast!
[OUTRO - WHISPERED OVER CHOIR + PIANO FADE]
Still swingin'... still hummin'... till my heart... stop...
