black boots buffed with a blunt little brush and a bad reputation for keeping them clean pressed seams precise while the price-tag princes keep preaching the purchase instead of the dream your label speaks first mine waits till i'm through slick little syllables slip through the scissors i tailor the talk till it sits on the beat cut out the counterfeit confidence clutter then cuff every sentence and give it a crease you wear what they tell you i wear what i've been trendsetters trembling checking the temperature changing their character twice before ten rented rebellion returned with the receipt when the room rearranges its rules once again i came with a backbone you came with a pin my cut my cloth my word my walk made to measure built to fit put a ring on this my cut my cloth my word my walk made to measure built to fit put a ring on this diction with discipline consonants clicking i'm clipping the corners off second-hand threats everyone fluent in fashionable fury then suddenly silent when asked for specifics you talk in all capitals still nothing is said manners ain't meekness i'm keeping my temper while counterfeit kings keep on kicking the staff big with the waiter then small with the owner your whole little throne is a chair cut in half i look them both level i pay what i owe proper behaviour ain't purchased with paper or polished by posing beside something rare custom-made courage comes down to the moment you stand by your word when there's nobody there the suit isn't speaking i'm making it swear my cut my cloth my word my walk made to measure built to fit put a ring on this my cut my cloth my word my walk made to measure built to fit put a ring on this step with a standard and stamp it in leather let every last letter land flat on the floor clap for the craft and the cracks in the pattern i kept what was mine when they asked me for more take off the jacket the cut's still there strip off the silk and the silver and stitching the spine and the speech and the stance still stick put me in plain black cotton on payday i'll make that bargain-bin basic look fit style is the promise you keep when it costs my cut my cloth my word my walk made to measure built to fit put a ring on this my cut my cloth my word my walk made to measure built to fit put a ring on this put a ring on this
