[Verse 1: ELUCID]

Save yourself, my first commandment

Overhanded, feeling mannish, sure

Yeah

Feeling perceived

Thought gather speech

Out the mouth speak

I'm in the house, I'm out in the street

I'm bout it, I weep

If I'm shouting or howling I need a week

I need a month, it's never enough

A certain urgency

Words fail to keep the candle lit

I run with who I ran it with

The clash birthed planets

Manic panic pulled people past peace

Give me ease, giving thanks

Reaching back, blessed be

For my seed, for your seed, for our seed, uh

Spill if it you wanna

Say it cause I got it

I said it when I did it

You wrote a lie and put it in your wallet

Gangsta I knew would hold himself like Monster Kody

Swallow my tongue, I wouldn't try it

Betray my heart, there's something missing without

Tell it true or shut my mouth

There's something missing without

Tell it true or shut my mouth

[Hook: ELUCID]

Give thanks

We was there, we know what it was

Give thanks

To my mother, my peoples and the plug

Give thanks

That they wasn't around when I was

Give thanks

When I'm gone, blow me a dub

Give thanks

We was there, we know what it was

Give thanks

To my mother, my peoples and the plug

Give thanks

They wasn't around when I was

Give thanks

When I'm gone, blow me a dub

[Verse 2: billy woods]

Two times is two too many

Deftly stooped to pick up a penny

In the land of plenty

Kids still shoot hoops in empty milk crates, wasted youth

You young, you move like Robert Kennedy

Line cook tucked the deuce deuce

I read the news cause it's know thy enemy

The war was lost by '72 but it was '75 'fore choppers abandoned the embassy

Middle rounds I fight not to lose, conserve my energy

Kinshasa nights, Tripoli by sunrise

You don't know nothin bout the 70s

We really thought we was gonna win

They really thought that he was him

She swore it'd be us until the end

I was lucky to escape with the skin on my back

Margins thin, but nigga, I'm fittin' to make a stack

Tales grim, but the kids just laugh

It's a grimy ring e'ry time I get out the bath

It's a tiny thing, but I'll still pluck a dime out the grass

Her smile sunshine but when the music stop, she still gotta squat to pick up the cash

[Hook: billy woods]

Give thanks

We was there, we know what it was

Give thanks

To my mother, my peoples and the plug

Give thanks

That they wasn't around when I was

Give thanks

When I'm gone, blow me a dub

Give thanks

We was there, we know what it was

Give thanks

To my mother, my peoples and the plug

Give thanks

That they wasn't around when I was

Give thanks

When I'm gone, blow me a dub