keep it realer than silicone for real is never home we bottle our melatonin to barter for better phone kick fodder with the thing you call god for a better home now piety makes him deaf so we gotta use megaphones now quiet as kept for our souls we forever own im skipping some steps on this highway to martyrdom i m leaving a mark upon heart made of many stone maybe ya life would seem right if ya love was stronger they keep us in line stand tall straight spine never mind what you wanna see grind for the papier mch stow ya paper away for the day when money no longer matters see this is what we buy when we sell us pipe dreams pipe bombs what they buy with the cream from our dreams make schemes of the dead with the heads of the state make fiends for the money take means from the hungry shake teens for the funny now we all just sparrows in a snowstorm lost in ourselves and our wealth maybe evil be the true form torn between fear for the newborn who skins darker than shoe horn no shoe in we can make it on our own two with alley oops from malcolm martin and some voodoo from wakanda and still they call my people tribes savage or not alive like we died in chattel bondage you ain t kill us yet nigga said our rights turned jaundice our skin black as onyx our freedom took hostage while free men paid homage our freedom took hostage our freedom took hostage our freedom took hostage our freedom took hostage said our rights turned jaundice our skin black as onyx our freedom took hostage while free men paid homage while free men paid homage while free men paid homage while free men paid homage while free men paid homage triple digit deaths every where i step i can hear shallow breath a dying man from a hallowed set hollow points burst from auto tech beneath a bed of hearses is where we lay our nation s curses