[Verse] Sixteen was the pivot, the slide, the slip into the void Started with the brown sugar, thinking the vein was employed But the chemistry shifted, the recipe cooked in a basement A silent replacement, a switch in the script, a sudden displacement I thought it was poppy, the earth-grown, the old school sleep But the high felt different, the plummet was sudden and steep Fentanyl crept in like a thief in the night with no footprint Left the whole city numb, left the whole block with a blueprint Of a different kind of death, a different kind of slow-motion slide Where the rush is a whisper and the soul just decides to hide No cap, we were buying the brand but the brand was a mask A synthetic masquerade, a chemical task, a dangerous task I remember the baggies, the glass, the heat of the flame But the product was lying, it wasn't the same, it wasn't the same It was a ghost-write version of the drug that we used to know A digital edit, a synthetic seed that started to grow And we just kept nodding, thinking the shift was a glitch in the batch But the match was lit and the bridge was burned, a permanent scratch On the record of our lives, a skip in the beat of the heart The fentanyl era, the moment the purity fell apart We were chasing a feeling that didn't even exist in the plant A laboratory lie, a corporate chant, a chemical slant Lowkey we were cooked before we even knew what the name was Just a small white grain, a tiny seed, a lethal kind of cause And the rizz of the rush was a lie, it was just a cold numb A hollowed out feeling, a rhythmic beat of a funeral drum We thought we were playing with fire but we were swimming in gas Watching the years and the memories and the sanity pass In a blur of a needle, a blur of a mirror, a blur of a dream Where nothing is ever as simple as it seems in the stream And the dealers were guessing, the junkies were testing the luck In a game of roulette where the wheel is stuck and the dealer is stuck With a product he didn't even make, a blend he couldn't explain Just a cocktail of chemicals designed to numb out the pain But the pain is the only thing that tells you you're still in the room Now we're just floating in a vacuum, a synthetic kind of bloom. [Chorus] (Melodic, heavy reverb, floating cadence) It stopped being the leaf, it stopped being the soil The chemistry boiled, the blood started to coil From the brown to the white, from the white to the ghost We were guests at a party where the poison was the host Sixteen was the switch, twenty-twenty was the deep end Where the fentanyl faded and the carfentanyl would descend (Yeah, we were using things we didn't even know) (Just a shadow in the vein, just a low-frequency glow) [Verse] Fast forward the clock, the calendar flips to the twenty-twenty haze When the world shut down and we lived in a chemical maze The fent wasn't hitting, the tolerance climbed like a mountain peak The dosages doubled, the pupils dilated, the spirit grew weak Then came the whisper, the word on the street, the new kind of hit Carfentanyl entered the chat and the whole circuit lit A concentrated venom, a potency that made the fent look mid A molecular monster that hid in the powder, a secret, a lid On a coffin we built out of foil and cotton and desperate hope Trying to find a way back to the feeling, trying to find a way to cope But you can't cope with a ghost, you can't fight a phantom in the vein When the drug is a stranger, a nameless stranger, a chemical rain We were using things that didn't have a name in the street-level talk Just a "stronger batch," a "pure hit," a different kind of walk Into the dark where the oxygen fails and the heart forgets to beat A synthetic symphony played on a broken, cold city street It was a leap of faith into a void that was deeper than deep A promise of peace that only the dead are allowed to keep No cap,
