[Intro: brass swell, timpani roll] Five years Compounded [Hook] I came back for what you owe me, with interest Five years compounded, every fuckin' week you didn't visit Tell 'em it's personal, tell 'em it's business I came back for what you owe me, with interest [Verse 1] Five years in a cell for a bag that wasn't mine Kept my mouth shut, did the time, toed the line First month, letters, second month, a card Third month, silence, that's when shit got hard Commissary empty while you poppin' bottles on a screen Cuttin' ribbon on a club with the money from the scheme Your name up in lights and my name in the mud You was toastin' with my silence, I was payin' it in blood Prison library, I ain't readin' for the plot Learned debt like a language, learned who really owns the block Learned every lease you sign got a note behind it Every note got a buyer, if you patient you can find it Yard full of killers, I was quiet with a pen Countin' compound interest while they countin' up to ten [Hook] I came back for what you owe me, with interest Five years compounded, every fuckin' week you didn't visit Tell 'em it's personal, tell 'em it's business I came back for what you owe me, with interest [Verse 2] Came home with forty dollars, a bus pass and a grudge Halfway house curfew, nine o'clock, I didn't budge Warehouse by the day, accountin' class at night Found a lender with a record, so he did me right Three years quiet, now I'm the one who holds the note On the building with your club and the liquor and the smoke You still think your landlord is a company out of state That's me, dog, LLC with a different name on the plate You emailed my assistant 'bout the rent bein' insane She forwarded it to me, I just laughed and saved the chain Every check you ever cut, it's been landin' in my hands You been payin' me for years and you don't even understand [Beat Switch: tempo surge, brass blares, drums double] Friday night I walk in, VIP, with the paper Bouncer used to run with us, he nod like see you later You see me at the bar and the color leave your face Five years of no visits, now I'm standin' in your space You said bro, you home, like you been countin' down I said I been countin' too, every dollar, every round Lease up in thirty and I ain't renewin', no Lights off, music off, everybody go home You said we was brothers, I said brothers would've wrote Now I own the life you built on every word I never spoke [Verse 3] Didn't need a gun, didn't need a crew Just a library card, a grudge and a view Every dollar that you made was sittin' on what I didn't say Now the bill came due, and baby, I don't do layaway Keep the chain, keep the car, keep the pictures in the frame I just want the building with my silence in its name [Final Hook] I came back for what you owe me, with interest Five years compounded, every fuckin' week you didn't visit Tell 'em it's personal, tell 'em it's business I came back for what you owe me, with interest [Outro: brass fades, keys drop on a counter] Keys on the counter Lights off With interest
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