[Intro] [orchestral string motif, atmospheric synth drone] (Uh) Started in the trenches (Heh) Started in the trenches Started in the trenches Started in the trenches [heavy kick drum and snare enter] Yeah [Verse 1] [aggressive male rap vocals] Started in the trenches, just a soldier with a shiv Now I'm deciding who the fuck gets to live From the gutter to the throne, yeah, I climbed over shells Every block I touch looking like seven hells I'm a virus in the system, a glitch in the light Reason why the sirens scream through the middle of the fuckin' night A prison is a circus, I can't take 'em as threats Ringmaster out of death, now I'm placing my bets I'm the phantom in your scene, never seen, never found Yeah, I drift through the cracks while I'm running your town Street-bred demon, out-tailored what I execute Pull a heist, vanish quick, yeah, I'm heavy with the loot They chasing the legend, they hunting the ghost While I'm ghost in the coast, give his sirens a roast A violent disturbance, a master of the crime I'm doing the work but I'm never doing time Yeah, (Uh), I'm the boss, the myth, the phantom of this city On your man alive, the law can't be Badge on my chest but my conscience stay ghost I walk both sides with a line decomposed They pay me hero, I'm the villain they toast Pouring dirty money in the precinct blindfold Sirens cry out but I mute every note Turn evidence pages to the truth, lose his coat You flip the map, I erase every road We rewrite the code that the system once wrote They build iron walls, I just melt 'em with gold Draw chalk on the ground, watch the outline unfold If they hunt your shadow, I become the eclipse One whisper from me and the whole case gets a glitch, man Preach the law like it's holy and pure But I bet every verse that the scripture got blurred Pressure mount like a noose 'round the truth I loosen the knot, let the prophet break loose Sirens get loud but we laugh in the static I turn 'em the other way, make the chase look tragic They think they got us but we running the racket Badge in my pocket, ski mask in the casket They watch how I move with the scopes and the cams But I broke every code that they swore couldn't cram [Chorus] [orchestral brass swells, heavy sub-bass] The phantom knows the ring, not metal twisting like scan I don't just walk out, I let the chaos begin Stir it 'til it spills, now the whole scene bleeds Planting pressure in the ground, watch it grow from seeds Blue lights in the mirror, that's neon to me I'll drive a car off a cliff and emerge in the sea I'm a phantom, I'm a monster, a high-ranking play My identity's hidden, my history's vague Static on the wire, they decode nothing from me No prints, no police, no trace, just the wreck that you see Fuck your handcuffs, fuck your cage, it's legendary I'm the hype they can't gauge, the phantom they can't catch I got the power, I vanish in seconds then I'm back in an hour [Verse 2] Pull up in a cruiser with the lights off low Pockets full of cash, take the evidence, room don't know You hit the vault, I redirect the radio, tell the whole unit Stand down, let the phantom go I sign overtime slips with a smile on my face While I'm stacking both our shares in a separate place Keep asking questions, I just dead that case Say we all know Z-E-D-E-M then erase that trace Every moment I kill before it even prints Every camera I blind with a couple of hints And the one they fear when the city go dark I'm the one they trust with the keys to the squad car Which side of the city? Fifty-fifty, no bad You take the streets, I'll take the precinct in the back Just because they got law, but the law is just us Two kings in this jungle, one badge, one mask [Outro] [drums drop out, strings fade] Cop, cop, sin robbers, we run the whole game One in the mask, one with the badge and the flame Time's ticking in the background noise to our name We rewrite the rules, now the system's a blame Cop, sin robbers, two sides with a blade A ghost in the street, a ghost in the shade They hunted forever but we never got slayed We own the night, game over, law decayed [final string stab]
