Rocks and Toothpicks

By Kid Static

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[Hook]

Back away from conversation, you're too close to me

Heartbeat speeds up, blood rush so sweet

Vein across my temple, it pounds down deep

Deep down, where blood lust is unleashed

Some seek confrontation, but I don't go looking

Still knock your eye crooked if you keep on pushing

Cooking up granules, pass em out by the handful

New shit, grab a toothpick -- here's a sample


[Verse 1]

Pocket full of stones, arm stays cocked back

Hear the crash as I blast rocks at glass abodes

What a show -- you can't build a house of cards

Act hard, see me in your backyard and ask me not to throw

Got an arm like a cannon and pebbles the size of cars

Slingshot a rock so hard, I'm damaging metal bars

Flaming scattered shards, you're shocked and awed

When the dust clears, he surprised the rock shot so far

You'll never get a warning shot across the bow of the ship

I'm an addict for direct hits afflicted with a forgetfullness

I can't quit; every time the same shit

Aim wide but the last minute, I forget to miss

Shameless, look you in your eye and admit it was me

Standing red-handed; if I lied, it'd be hard to believe

Got dirt on my sleeves, added to a map of your street

I'll never deny you deserved it for messing with me

You better re-word every verb

Or deserve what you get in return

Whether I sever a nerve

Stepped on your head to the curb til you bled in the dirt

Anger, it burns

Struggle at every turn to

Choose the method preferred when the lesson's adjourned

Know you earned whatever occurred

Doesn't it hurt?

Begging and pleading for me to stop going to work

Screaming, I see tears streaming, the pain's only getting worse

Should have thought it first

Now you need a nurse's sympathy

Cursing me when you'd do the same thing in reverse


[Hook]