
Oxen Free
[Verse 1: Menacing phonk male MC, phonk shouted bars, booming distorted 808 kick] Lark Street, Halloween, I was nine years old Bags full of sugar and the wind gone cold After the houses, we would play in the dark Hide between the yards and the cars and the bark Danny Royce had a striped shirt, quick as a cat Said y'all never find me, and he meant it like that I covered my eyes on the lamppost and I yelled Ready or not, and the whole block held Found Tisha in the bushes, found Ray in a can Found everybody but the one little man Mama called me in, said the game is done Never thought to ask her where he'd run [Hook: Menacing phonk male MC, hard clap snare, rumbling 808 bass] Olly olly oxen free, come on out Twenty years of hedges and I hear you shout Said you'd never get found, said you'd win the game Olly olly oxen free, I know your name [Verse 2: Menacing phonk male MC, colder phonk shouted bars, dark detuned keyboard riff] Town searched a month, every creek, every lot Dogs in the woods and the cops in a knot Then they gave it up and the flyers went pale Taped to the poles till they peeled in the hail I grew up, moved back, got a place on the block And every Halloween the hedges talk Little voice, low, from the leaves by the fence You never came looking, it don't make sense Told my wife it's the wind and I turned up the game But the voice in the yard kept calling my name So tonight I took a flashlight out to the street Same lamppost, same cold, same thing to repeat [Hook: Menacing phonk male MC, hard clap snare, rumbling 808 bass] Olly olly oxen free, come on out Twenty years of hedges and I hear you shout Said you'd never get found, said you'd win the game Olly olly oxen free, I know your name [Bridge: Menacing phonk male MC, phonk shouted bars, booming distorted 808 kick, the beat goes heavy and close] Under the big hedge at the end of the row Two little sneakers that I used to know Striped shirt, nine years old, not a day gone He looks up grinning like the game's still on Says took you long enough, says now we can play Says now you're it, and he's gone away [Final Hook: Menacing phonk male MC, riff tears in, heavy overdriven guitar riff, raw full voice] Olly olly oxen free, come on out Twenty years of hedges and I hear you shout Said you'd never get found, said you'd win the game Olly olly oxen free, I know your name [End]

