Grin of the Reaper

Red eyes

In the rearview

If you scared of the dark

It'll hear you (shh)

Every step, something follow, I can feel it in my spine

Shadow sitting in the passenger, laughing at my mind

Used to pray it away, now I’m walking with the grime

Teeth sharp, heart numb, watch it carve another line

Cold sweat when I sleep, see a face in the fan

Claws tapping on the window, say it’s time for a plan

Whisper in my ear, "they gon’ get you if you stand"

So I listen to the fear, keep a halo in my hand

Got demons in the hallway, banging on the door

Voices in my head saying, "give us a little more"

I’m running from the reaper, but he grinning even wider

Every time I fall, he just pulling me in tighter

Demons in the hallway, banging on the door

Telling me to spill, but I’m bleeding on the floor

I’m wrestling with shadows, tryna keep my soul alive

When they say it’s over, I just tell ’em, "I survive"

Black hoodie, long walk, late night, crooked road

Every car that roll by feel like eyes made of gold

My reflection in the glass got a crack down the side

It be moving when I’m still, like it’s ready for the ride

I been haunted by the anger that I never let go

Turned friends into strangers, turned a house into smoke

But I’m steering from the edge, I ain’t tryna be a ghost

I’mma bury all the urges, let the mercy do the most (yeah)

I seen what the dark can do

Turn a kid to a headline on the evening news

So I lock that rage in a heavy steel cage

Let the beat kill the pain, not a name on the page