[Verse 1] I came up off the floor tiles Palm full of old scars Mama said, “Boy, keep your head up” I learned to keep both cards They sold dreams in a white suit I sold truth in a black cap Now they act like I owe them Like I ain't been through that I had a wolf in the window A saint with a silver grin A bully in a church coat Trying to pray me back in But I’m cut from the gutter seam Stitched with the raw thread I don’t bend for a cheap throne I don’t bow to a false head I seen love turn to leverage Heard praise sound like a shakedown So I bite through the chain links When they ask me to lay down [Pre-Chorus] Say less I know that game Hands on my chest Still I keep my name Try to strip mine Take what I own But I stand there bare Like a brick on stone [Chorus] Dispossess, dispossess Try it if you want Dispossess, dispossess I’m still what you’re not Dispossess, dispossess You can’t take my breath (dispossess) Dispossess, dispossess I break your chain for checks [Verse 2] Now the room got smoke on the edges And the bass got a rubbery swing I move like a knife in silk gloves Cut clean through the lion’s ring They want that tame little version That nods when the rich folk grin But I got a grin full of iron And a laugh that can split your skin I was raised where the rent hit hard Where the fridge had a holy echo Where you learn how to make bread rise Out of dust and a broken metro So when a snake talks brotherhood I hear fangs in the vowels When a clown wear a crown too long That crown starts eating the brows I don’t flirt with the poison cup I don’t kiss what’s built to cage me I just swing like a wrecking ball With my shadow trying to save me [Bridge] Oh, let them come with their pretty papers Let them come with their polished lies I got a fire in the ribcage And a storm behind my eyes Oh, let them come with their clipped-up pity Let them come with their borrowed shine I was born in the hard place Now the hard place sounds like mine [Chorus] Dispossess, dispossess Try it if you want Dispossess, dispossess I’m still what you’re not Dispossess, dispossess You can’t take my breath (dispossess) Dispossess, dispossess I break your chain for checks [Outro] Hands off I don’t fold I don’t sell my bones Dispossess Still gold Still here Still home
