What’s The Difference

By Double Negative

On Death To Snakes

Released on February 18, 2007

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[Tabs]

I remember when I was just an infant, before the days of school

I used to watch my father play the blues and puff his Winston's

But I was fucked the instant I had to choose future fallacy of past truth now I ask you what's the difference

From the day we're born, it's to the grave we're sworn

Until the sound the sacred horn the day that Satan takes his form

Nuclear holocaust and hate, I will embrace this storm

Cuz my broken dreams I always see at the break of dawn

Been knocking on wood for years so I got use to the splinters

I still ain't used to the cold from this nuclear winter

So call me the craziest but baby it's numb

Now I'm climbing the steepest gradient to the radiant sun

And I ain't been home since the wind blown me otherwise

I was seeking fame, couldn't see the pain in my mother's eyes

And I wondered why she worried, "look ma, I'm all grown, I'm just a million miles from that smile that I call home"

I'm stuck in this rap game's fast lane

Tryna educate the clones while the weight of the globe gives me back pains

Eventually I'll have my enemies sending me plenty thanks

Only a half spoon of gas fumes is past due this empty tank

Now I roam the streets questioning my own beliefs

Burning an el I turn on my Del and zone to beats

Walking like a fallen angel with his wings clipped

Burning holes in my journal til this eternal inferno's extinguished

I need my head clear, so this beer let's me buzz

And forget the tears, sweat and blood, fear, sex and drugs

You hear the cheers when the song reappears next to us

I just really hope I'm here for next year's exodus

Won't stop the song, I've gone and dropped the bomb

I'll make it right in awhile, but for now you got me wrong

I hated what you stated, left me out in the cold delirious

Now I'm thoroughly frustrated, jaded from the whole experience

He's gone insane, so give him room y'all

Before he decide to use his brain to paint the living room wall

But don't stress brethren, we're going to heaven next year

I just spoke to God, I'll send you a postcard when I get there

But as for now I gotta make my mark in this life, through all the mics that I spark

Change the darkness to light

Formulating is fornication so you can fuck with this

It's destiny successfully, suffocating a succubus

Sparking these large spliffs to deal with these hardships

My heart skips, cuz these words and scars burn to a char crisp

Tryna catch some rest in a bed full of haters

I take a pull to my head and chase it with some Red Bull and Jäger

Blinded by the flash bulbs, I cherish this ash as my last ?? til my perception of the glass is half full

All is fair in warfare, balance of love and hate

I'm willing to go the distance, but how much difference does it make


[Coal Cash]

Fuck the game of life, that bitch has never played fair

Send me to where I'm going, believe me I'm on my way there

Pain is all I know with my parents showing gray hair

Gets me in the zone and at the moment try to stay there

Love to see the day where Jesus returns

I'll be smiling at non-believers when he leaves ya to burn

Cuz I bleed for my turn to yearn in everlasting life

While you feeding the worm cuz you never grasped the light

I'm past the height, the prototype for Christ's apostles

So gospels that show me light so I don't need to write as hostile

But Coal's colossal, I topple temples while I'm gentle

My pencil's potential's only limited by your mental

Essentials resemble the infinite on instrumentals

Insignificant credentials fuel this dissident to vengeful

It was influential, now my life's less eventful

I tremble in the night where the demons I fight assemble

Smash the stencil, the central mold of what's controlled

They can't hold the monumental when my mental overloads

Watch my temple explode as I reload the smoking barrel

The second coat through walls with drips of blood and bits of marrow

As I split my arrow to show my brother's aims the same

Our brains covered each other, discovered when we're slain

And even when the strain of pain is too much to presume

I'm chugging this cup of mercury til perfectly immune

Purposely light the fume to ignite the room's inferno

What burns low to the tunes as fire consumes the verbal

Or turn purple from the loop in the noose circle

To gurgle words of truth with a proof that's too hurtful

Universal verse, verse the garbage of earth commercial

Starving about to burst from the turbulence served disperse

Revert you to church rehearsal, deter you from birth to ??

Emerged to your life's work with the thirst of a full reversal

Burst the circle, the fertile crescent's omni present

As peasants look upon me for the origami essence

But I will never fold, forever told hold your tongue

So I swung free from control and broke the mold to come

Teach the old and young until we're hung with bricks in pockets

Cuz we ain't out for chips so Satan can't split the profits

Spit obnoxious with locked picks for Triple Optix

To pry your eyes open, that is spoken to Agnostics

My pop's pissed cuz you missed the bliss of godliness

Regardless of ever claiming, while Satan probably is

And oddly this can be the turning point in an instance

That imprints on your journey, it turns me into distance

Burns be the persistence or resistance of your learning

Returning just as intent, the sixth sense confirming

To the burning of incense, suspense disconcerting

To these turning events, too immense to fit my warning