[Intro (spoken, eerie)]
Dr. Horn…
Mr. Pittsburgh…
Forget what you heard.
This ain’t a rumor.
It’s a diagnosis.
[Hook / Chorus]
Dr. Horn and Mr. Pittsburgh… forget what you heard
Jekyll and Hyde in the steel city, sharpenin’ words
You decide whose mind twisted, morbidly inside
One face in the daylight, one in the night ride
All aboard…
Train of the clinically insane
Coal ain’t necessary, nah…
I run this engine off pain
[Verse 1]
It’s a scene from Stevenson, but I crossed his name out
Rewrote the story, birthed a new personality, no doubt
Brain sickened into one duality, two wolves in one skin
Unsound mind, locked in, can’t escape, so don’t pretend
Stop tryin’ to push the hands of time
Like time gon’ save what time designed
Forgive him, his mind was deaf to reason
I hear the devil in the quiet, I hear God in the treason
Mr. Pittsburgh, rep the city like August Wilson
I got Hill District ghosts and they all come with me, listen
Homewood in my bloodstream, Braddock in my lungs
I’m the steel in the river where the broken spirit runs
[Hook / Chorus]
Dr. Horn and Mr. Pittsburgh… forget what you heard
Jekyll and Hyde in the steel city, sharpenin’ words
You decide whose mind twisted, morbidly inside
One face in the daylight, one in the night ride
All aboard…
Train of the clinically insane
Coal ain’t necessary, nah…
I run this engine off pain
[Verse 2]
Pain is my unleaded, my diesel, my flame
Not necessarily my own… but what I inflict is the same
On the people, the masses, six and a half billion hypocrites
Ashes in the mouth, prayin’ to gods they never sit with
Inevitable fate, you can’t escape
My wrath, my path, destruction, eruption, landscape
Combustion, but not spontaneous
I’m fully aware, no mistake, no alias
And to the end they won’t believe your iris
Not ’cause you afraid… it’s the audacity
I possess and you cowardly restrain
Deflower your constraint, stop livin’ vicariously in chains
Pseudo-serious, embarrassin’
Like a man so unsure he keep the lights off when it happenin’
Now breathe: inhale reality
Exhale the fallacies, let it die in me
[Bridge (half-sung, dark R&B)]
Contemplate your mistakes
Not as failures… but knowledge received
’Cause he had a careful, constipated persona
Disguise and deny… deny… deny…
That monster that wanna feed
And I feel it…
Yeah I feel it…
Scratching at the door
And I seal it…
But it’s patient…
It can wait for more
[Hook / Chorus]
Dr. Horn and Mr. Pittsburgh… forget what you heard
Jekyll and Hyde in the steel city, sharpenin’ words
You decide whose mind twisted, morbidly inside
One face in the daylight, one in the night ride
Ayo Tayo, you did it again
TayoHorn_TH920
