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Took the Roof Off

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[Hook: Defiant crunk male MC, booming 808 kick, marching snare cracks] Let the wind come knocking on the gymnasium door We got four hundred fists and a beat on the floor If the sky want to holler, let it holler some more We gon' take the roof off, that's what a roof is for [Verse 1: Defiant crunk male MC, barked crunk bars, hard claps, heavy sub bass] Category four with a name like a cousin Central High gym and the cots go dozens Old ladies in lawn chairs, dogs in a basket Somebody's gumbo in a cooler with a gasket Two in the morning and the generator choke Lights go black and the whole room broke Wind on the walls like a train in a yard Little girl crying with her face in a card I'm up top on the bleachers in the dark by myself Aluminum cold like a can on a shelf So I hit it with my fist, let it ring like a drum Then I hit it again and the bottom row come [Hook: Defiant crunk male MC, booming 808 kick, marching snare cracks] Let the wind come knocking on the gymnasium door We got four hundred fists and a beat on the floor If the sky want to holler, let it holler some more We gon' take the roof off, that's what a roof is for [Verse 2: Defiant crunk male MC, bleacher thunder comes in as a second drum line under every bar, harder] Coach on the whistle, a nurse on a pot Auntie with a ladle on a pan that she got Every row on the bleachers a row in the band Every fist on the metal, every foot, every hand Wind tried to talk and we talked over him Whole storm waiting for a word to get in Little girl stood up on the cot with a spoon Banging on the rail like she owned the room Four in the morning, it got loud up there Couldn't hear a thing but us in the air Somebody's grandpa doing laps in a robe Whole gym yelling like we won the whole globe [Bridge: Defiant crunk male MC, booming 808 kick, call to the whole gym] Morning come gray and the door come wide Walked out the gym into open sky Looked up for the roof and the roof was gone Peeled off at four while we beat that song Not one of us heard it, not one of us knew That's how loud we was, I'm telling the truth [Final Hook: Defiant crunk male MC, the whole gym on the bleachers, raw full voice] Let the wind come knocking on the gymnasium door We got four hundred fists and a beat on the floor If the sky want to holler, let it holler some more We gon' take the roof off, that's what a roof is for [End]