[Intro: Franklin James Fisher]

Miles

They say we're miles away from the days they used to lie in wait

Snake around in the high grass

But, you know what I've found?

They say they moved out

But they still around and they move even stronger now

All in plain sight

Their Stone Mountains, false idols

And town halls are still standing

Implanted in your point of view

Wrapped around the words you use

[Hook: Franklin James Fisher]

When your [?] sands are running out

They tell you slow down

If you want cooperation

All they do is hold out

[Verse 1: billy woods]

One hand wash the other, they both wash the face

Cеntrifugal force and inertia keep evеrything in its place

Slowly, spinning in space, speeding, lead foot on the brakes

Metal face, cheating's just how you play

Strange ways

Monopoly, Candy Land, Life's just a game

Count your money at the end bro

On one hand count your friends

Ghosts float up out the morgue cold

Come get your meds

Babylon System is the vampire, once you let him in

Police at the door knocking again and again

Claws rattling, delicate as roaches' wings

Sweet saccharine, dopamine pour out the screens

Distant gunfire crackling, the whole thing cracking at the seams

Single action, casket, pressed and steamed

The machine is self cleaned

The nightmare is, you in somebody's dream

[Verse 2: Franklin James Fisher]

Funny thing about that, look at anybody laugh

In the past, ain't never been a right time

When the truth come down like the light

They gon' shine up in your face

You better clock it with your third eye

All these niggas want to get into the game

Just to bounce they heads and move they feet and

It's all good till the blue light flash

And they snatch your ass and stomp on beat and

As the white folk watch they holdin'

They told the folk they'll rise and fight back

But the rats and snakes about to hold our general control

The stakes are hijacked

[?] the music gonna come round

In other word I never done it from behind

Don't preach or teach or judge police

[?] your mind if you don't bite back

[Hook: Franklin James Fisher]

When your [?] sands are running out

They tell you slow down

If you want cooperation

All they do is hold out

If the whole world is drowning, man

They'd let us all drown

And they turned it on you

Hey

[Verse 3: Franklin James Fisher]

All in all, it's the same condition

Coming 'round that you can't erase

You're reaching out to the undead hand that you relied to police your place, yeah

Rather do what's wrong cause you know what's right

[?] that you had to face

But when the screen goes dark and the sound is cut

There's nothing left but your work and the sound of a clock stopping

[Bridge]

[?] shadows and the noise

It's closing in, it's closing in

Bite back the hand that feeds you if it's poison

Bite back the hand that feeds you if it's poison

[Verse 4: Backxwash]

I'm laying low, I'm Chrissy Dorner

Boarding up my apartment

I'm soldiering as a soda[?]

There's mortars up in the [?]

Coroners got the target

Marjorie needs a harvest

If home is where the heart is

I'm blowing it up regardless

Police got me surrounded

My truth is living proof

These pigs know how I live

The noose is in the booth

These fascists don’t mask their faces

They do just what they do

The news said I was looney

Till poof, happens to you

[Outro: Franklin James Fisher]

All in all, it's the same condition

Coming 'round that you can't erase

You're reaching out to the undead hand that you relied to police your place, yeah

Rather do what's wrong cause you know what's right

[?] that you had to face

But when the screen goes dark and the sound is cut

There's nothing left but your work and the sound of a clock stopping