[Intro] (They don't know what they're poking...) (It’s a hive mentality.) [Verse 1] In the hornet's nest, my soul's free from this hopeless flesh Bulletproof the car door and the vest, let the Lord test. Love hurts and it's torturous, all this pain, I'm absorbing it Now my head's throbbing, mind's spinning, I’m ignoring it. Gotta call the doctor for the Percs and the oxys At the pharmacy, I’m cold-blooded, murk the proxy. You'd think I was Kobe or Dirk how the birds would jock me But the nest is stirred, I ran out of mercy, don't search to stop me. Try to change me? That’s perjury. I stay me, certainly. Operating on the game like it’s open-heart surgery. Bitch, I'm in the Matrix, I don't say shit, I just wait All of a sudden, it's "Mister, please save us" at the gate. But I come back with an apron, stained and jagged My palms itching for the paper, yeah, I’m impatient and ragged. [Verse 2] A clear visual for haters to get a visual of a tragedy Their face on a shirt or two, part of the anatomy. My mind on a birch with screws, eyes searching for the blues I’m a ticking time bomb with nothing left to lose. I'm just tryna stay in my lane, but they’re drifting and swerving I’m the nightmare in the rearview that you’re deserving. They talkin' 'bout gettin' me canned, put a lid on the fire But you can’t silence the swarm when the stakes get higher. You gotta wait your turn, though, the sting is a slow burn Lesson of the nest is the one you’re never gonna learn. [Bridge] One sting. Two stings. Now you’re paralyzed. Looking at the world through a thousand different eyes. You poked the hole. You broke the seal. Now you gotta face everything that’s real. (Don't breathe... just listen...) [Chorus] That's what happens when you play with a hornet's nest The poison in your veins while you’re trying to find rest. That's what happens when you play with a hornet's nest No mercy for the weak, put the hollow to your chest. That's what happens when you play with a hornet's nest (You should've stayed away...) That's what happens when you play with a hornet's nest. [Verse 3] I’m the king of the swarm, the architect of the sting I don't need a choir to hear the bells ring. The apron is on, the tools are all sharpened Leaving every heart in the vicinity darkened. You wanted a savior? I’m the plague in the sky Watching all the fake-ass "Misters" just wither and die. My lane is a highway to a place you can't go High-velocity venom, watch it flow, watch it grow. The nest is wide open, the horizon is black Once the swarm is unleashed, there is no turning back. [Outro] You played yourself. Now stay in that lane... forever. That's what happens. (Hornet's nest...)
