Just Run

By A7PHA

On II

Released on November 11, 2022

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[Verse 1: Doseone]

Just Run

I'd been trying my tongue on building a whole wolf from absolute scratch when it's done

I'll build me a match, and use it to phoenix my past into ash

Surround my new hound with that important smoke

Feed it some of the coal that I grow in my throat

And we'll enjoy pain together

Fastest friends, deeply invested in how our togetherness ends

A bond of sad exacting magnitude

Proving I am what I have been told

Don't ever allow me to capture you, or worse

Build you gradually, ad hoc and directionless- actually

Just run

Grab sundries, something sharp, bread crumbs, you don't wanna become

An egg that cracks to hatch in a snake neck, you wanna nest

Cash in that hate check, then get typical

Buy soft things and die quizzical

In a rut that's formidable

Wearing half a mask, you brag about

Wave white flags over helpings of loss you've had

Scared sick inside, I'd forgot to ask if there's a die-right guide

At the human mechanic, where you go to get your manic calibrated and detailed

That panic attached to email, in which you wish your skeleton well again

In the seeds inside stones stand perfectly still

Like an animal in the sight of an animal it can't kill

Just run

Before the god placebo crowds you out, gets loud, cuts power to your sorrowful mouth

While you tout your artisanal crystallized doubts

Slowly stalagmited into a


[shiv of shout]

Told out about, and shook at the sun

Trust, just run


[Refrain: Doseone]

I had a flashback last night

And I am not alright

[Chorus: Mestizo & Doseone]

You know your chains are loose

Single dance of death proof[?]

Holds a name[?] up to your youth

One hundred proof truth

You know your chains are loose

Single dance of death proof[?]

Holds a name[?] up to your youth

One hundred proof


[Verse 2: Mestizo]

I can feel ancestors runnin' through my blood

I travel with the jungle on my tongue

Survival of the fittest, made of purpose, be my witness [?] quickly burnin' through the young

Tidal waves are peakin' through the sun, it's eatin' up

They're beatin' us to dumb, [?]

Takin' everything and run, they stealin' from my seeds and leavin'


[none]

Plant a tree, then lay the granite, kill the rashes, and they bleedin' us for crumbs

Shoulda seen it from the jump

Shoulda dug the coffins for the Dutch, ain't no meanin' in the love

Only demons to the touch, breathin' up the dust

Ain't gon' see it or repeat it, send the fetus-lovin mother

Planted our gigantic hands, our canny feet planted in the mud

Chewin' bark, modern man had a heavy ring

Huntin' animals, and then we use everything

Ancestors walk with me, until we're free from this flesh

Tell me how you're hurting, show me how you love

(ayy ayy ayy)

So I don't stray too far from the path too much (no no no)

Maneuverin' through the fire, throwin' punches, shootin' bullets, givin' hugs

Shakin' hands, time's a motherfucker

Been[?] a bad father figure

Devils burnin' crossroads

I'd rather see ya in a cubicle, than ridin' in a box

And if you want peace, you better be peace

Use your head, separate the anchor from the feet and watch it fall


[Refrain: Mestizo]

I had a flashback last night

I just see the dreams


[Chorus: Mestizo & Doseone]

You know your chains are loose

Single dance of death proof[?]

Holds a name[?] up to your youth

One hundred proof truth

You know your chains are loose

Single dance of death proof[?]

Holds a name[?] up to your youth

One hundred proof

You know your chains are loose

Single dance of death proof[?]

Holds a name[?] up to your youth

One hundred proof truth

You know your chains are loose

Single dance of death proof[?]

Holds a name[?] up to your youth

One hundred proof