Shadows and Victories

By Busdriver

On Thumbs

Released on November 6, 2016

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[Hook: Jeremiah Jae]

All I see is red, these lights around me

Hunger in her eyes, these nights she can't breathe

Blowin' back every night, tryin' to find her light

Tryin' to find her light

All I see is red, these lights around me

Hunger in her eyes, these nights she can't see


[Bridge: Jeremiah Jae]

All I see is red, these lights around me

All I see is red, these lights around me


[Verse 1: Jeremiah Jae]

Boy, she like to pour her soul in it

Like them girls out to party in the world

Sip Bacardi from another dude's top

Probably screw to prove a point, too

That he wasn't lyin', assumin' get you nowhere fast

Relationship need a deep fast

Or maybe just some off, you're convinced you're in the rough

Brought up super tough like his nickname was Rocky

Callin' dude's bluff, didn't know he had a shotty

This a new era, interview better

Eat the food that's connected to your conscious

She don't need a doctor, she really need a shaman

But they ain't there

In the hoods, we was brought up

Black coffins filled with black prophets

The history a cycle many of us just caught in

Just a spark, keep it movin' like the stock car

Yo, I'm tooken from the back of the yard

Maintainin' while they tryin' to lock jaws

Shut your voice up

But disconnect it to the same train, Hara and Kari'ing

Field nigga anthem, field nigga anthem


[Hook]

All I see is red, these lights around me

Hunger in her eyes, these nights she can't breathe

Blowin' back every night, tryin' to find her light

Tryin' to find her light

All I see is red, these lights around me

Hunger in her eyes, these nights she can't see


[Verse 2: Busdriver]

Can't, yeah

To me I ain't shit, but to them I'm an O.G

To me I ain't shit, but to them I'm an O.G

Smoke a whole O.C. in tiki huts, a freaky dunce

Who used to do-si-do with no three

Eating brunch from a TV's cunt

Now I throw jabs with a clutched blade and download no upgrades

Cause my niggas' lives homogenized to drug trade

You ain't cage-free, stop actin' like they waved the fee

Like drugs were the change that you were made to be

Niggas bleeding on the soggy paper plates meant they acryllic for

My idyllic rage face

The enslaved race from the 1800's are tasting Trump sticks

While they're administrating thumb pricks

Blac bloc, shamanous air

I spray the attack dog with phosphorous flares

But do I know how to kill anymore?

Should I defrost crosshairs?

And aim right at the ten stars then [k?]nights of the templar then turn up

Act like we revised the benchmarks, but we didn't reach limits

Wanna call your ego-baiting altruistic, alter Twit-pics of

Selfies to musicians, and bump piglets to redundant visits

And add salt, lemons, to look up at these real niggas when they walk the stage, but they'd

Shun them and they done them

And when the song's ending so

Sunny disp like it's pre-med

Even on batshit and at risk and I can only see red


[Hook: Jeremiah Jae]

All I see is red, these lights around me

Hunger in her eyes, these nights she can't breathe

Blowin' back every night, tryin' to find her light

Tryin' to find her light

All I see is red, these lights around me

Hunger in her eyes, these nights she can't see