DR. HORN & MR. PITTSBURGH

Dr. Horn…

Mr. Pittsburgh…

Forget what you heard.

This ain’t a rumor.

It’s a diagnosis.

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

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

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

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

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

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