Boots on the asphalt Long block, no talk, all the small talk lost in the fog Cost of the crossing is often a loss, so I'm off and I'm gone Sawed off the caution, I'm stalking, the sidewalk get soft when I stomp Watch how the lot go quiet when Plaster walks out with the drop Lights out Wire in sight got me wired and I'm quiet as night Slide by the diner where the finest of the liars reside Nine lives, I'm the type that a rifle would recognize Idle in the twilight, till the sun come up and it's done Hundred in the front and not one of 'em run, Young with a drum in a gun and a hum like a lung Something in the summer got me stunted and numb Under my tongue I don't sleep much City don't either, so we even Every corner hold a body I can't unsee and I still gotta breathe in it Same bodega, same old man at the register nodding, he don't ask a reason He seen it Squad car crawl by so slow that it's insulting. I keep walking Weight on my hip like a second heart in my jacket and it beat when I'm talking Nobody promised a morning out here I just make sure the one they take ain't mine Steel in the sleeve, I'm a fiend for the feeling of even Reaching for the region in between what I need and believe Freaks in the street think a season of peace what they need Speak on me easy or leave, 'cause I ease off the leash Now the crowd out the house and they surround and it's loud Doubt in the mouth of a coward when the powder go out Pound for a pound I been down where the drowning get found Round in the chamber sound out like a crown coming down Weight of the day when it break, I ain't waiting to aim Take what they gave me and made it a case they can't make Praying they safe, but the trade was never made for a saint Later they say that they knew me and they say we gang
