Collateral Damage - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Tony the Scribe]

We live in safe houses

Never speaking out loud

All our plans are laid on paper

And the makers disavowed

They call us traitors

Fatal if we’re figured out

Strangled by the nation

We make bombs in our house

And fight Bradburyian firemen

With a fire inside us

And the cinders rise lighter

Than environments tired

To retire is sipping cyanide

Tapped through the wires

Rather fucking explode

Than perspire desires

We’ve got acquired taste for fertilizer

Serving our ire

Murders are turbulence

We use to burn silence

There’s truth behind violence

They don’t want you to find it

If you sell your soul for rubles

We’ll get brutal in defiance

We sip molotovs

In the bars that confine us

They put drinks in our hands

Dro used to keep us quiet

Made one mistake

Booze blows when ignited

So we took our little pilot lights

Incited bigger riots

No ski masks

We some fitted cap militants

Criminals indifferent

To civilians living ignorant

They stuff themselves with novacaine

To cope with pain and slow their brains

They cuff themselves with polled charades

To pose parades

Too broke to save

We’re not afraid to pull blades

To break states, you gotta break a few eggs

So we stay with AKs

Spray tracers at heads

Pardon the mess

But we can’t just lay in our deathbeds

[Hook: Guante]

And I just want to go home

But my home is haunted

My heart is weak

Feel a little spill out every time that I speak (speak on it)

I just want to go home

But my home is haunted

It’s like 21 and a Wake Up

Waking up to the inside of a coffin

I can’t call it (I can’t call it)

I can’t call it (No, I can’t call it)

I just want to go home

But the ghosts ain’t talkin

Nobody’s talkin

Feel like I’m fallin

[Bridge: Tony the Scribe]

But bloodstains linger in my fingertips

And lips don’t forget the taste of innocence

The scent of pure fear is unforgettable

I’ve seen every schoolyard can be a killing field

And you hear the cries of dying children

Knowing you put the bomb in the building

But I swear to god I’m not the villain here

I just can’t live my life sitting still in fear

Even moses told slaves kill sheep

So I murder infants who still asleep

I can’t care if I’m slaughtering their dreams

Wounds cauterize, end’s worth the means

Sometimes to kill disease you gotta scheme

And amputate the dead limbs with gangrene

I refuse to worship at any idol’s feet

So we preach in IEDs and gasoline

[Verse 2: Tony the Scribe]

Collateral damage is a vow to insanity

A phantom that they champion

To damn us more radically

But I will canvas the mansions

Abandon humanity

Before I let these kings

Hold me ransom and vanish me

Where there’s fire there’s smoke

Hold a candle to vanities

Quote the smoke signals

To the proles with profanity

Kill people, burn shit, fuck schools

And all the tools they use to keep you from truth

Cut your heart out in the booth

If you keep it in your chest its no use

Stop counting sheep and slit throats

Plebeians screaming for the kings to get ghost

Abandon reality, we don’t fucking watch thrones

We will rebuild the factories with bones

So fuck it, if you really think the cause is worth headstones

Quit making music, wear bombs ‘stead of headphones

[Hook: Guante]

And I just want to go home

But my home is haunted

My heart is weak

Feel a little spill out every time that I speak (speak on it)

I just want to go home

But my home is haunted

It’s like 21 and a Wake Up

Waking up to the inside of a coffin

I can’t call it (I can’t call it)

I can’t call it (No, I can’t call it)

I just want to go home

But the ghosts ain’t talkin

Nobody’s talkin

Feel like I’m fallin

[Outro: Tony the Scribe]

So fuck it, if you really think the cause is worth headstones

Quit making music, wear bombs stead of headphones