Cold World, Keep My Gun

[Intro]
[low vocal register]
Cold world
Heart numb
Hand steady
Finger on the drum
[Verse 1]
Walkin' through the block like a graveyard
Every car creep
Every face hard
Short fuse
I don't talk long
Eyes on the exits
Mind on the draw
They test me
I ain't playin'
That's a rerun
Once I saw the flash in the neon
Now I'm sleepin' with the steel by the bed frame
Only thing that ever answer when I say a name
[Chorus]
Cold world
Keep my gun
I ain't runnin'
I don't run
Hesitate once
Life done
So I move slow
Hand on one
Cold world
Keep my gun
Pray I never gotta use none
Target practice in my mind
Yeah it stay on
Shoot outs in the daylight
Same song
[Verse 2]
[whispered vocals]
Mama say
"Baby
That's a hard life"
I just seen halos turn to chalk lines
Daytime
Still hear the loud shots
Kids dive down
Windows locked
So I ride with it tucked in the side door
Every red light feel like a warzone
Quick draw
If you flinch
I'ma see that
'Cause bein' soft where I'm from get you leaned back
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[soft
Shaky]
I don't wanna be the one that's first to squeeze
But I won't be the one they put up on a tee
Lord know
All this pressure in my chest weigh a ton
So I move like a shadow with the sun
[spoken]
Cold world
I just keep my gun
[Chorus]

Slow, ominous gangster ballad built on detuned piano, sub-heavy bass, and sparse trap percussion. Female vocals sit close and intimate, almost whispered in the verses; hook opens with wider harmonies and a distant choir pad. Occasional distorted guitar swells and reversed cymbals for tension, long reverbs to make the ad-libs feel ghostlike., world, slow, vocal