[00:00.18]"Today  my mother killed me"
[00:13.48]If I'm alive by the time you find this  it's a miracle
[00:16.25]What else can be said  a vision quest with infrared
[00:18.09]I'm at a dead end  I bled slow
[00:19.89]From my chest  held my breath and did my mess and never let go
[00:23.09]I lived a good life  I never had half-compromise a thing
[00:25.40]And if I couldn't write  I'd think of other ways to optimize my living
[00:29.14]No wife  no kids  no anchors
[00:30.84]Hand over fist to withhold this info from the bankers
[00:33.42]Don't know my neighbors  didn't take a village to raise me
[00:36.48]Small-town mentality types thinkin I'm crazy
[00:38.74]I ain't as weird as they paint me
[00:41.15]Off color  I'm more gutter  punk  and ritzy
[00:43.19]More glitz and glamour than others
[00:44.77]Motherf**kers left me lonely in this designated corner
[00:46.87]Had a couple walls that build upon  they made me a performer
[00:49.72]Now shade me from the warmer weather
[00:51.31]Save me from the slaughterhouse
[00:52.77]That creeps between the pages where I try to hide my awful mouth
[00:55.32]Speak discretely to the sheets that seem to be hollow
[00:57.85]Punched a ladder full of holes  just for my swollen feet to follow
[01:00.43]Support me all you want  don't let me drop a field of land
[01:03.17]I'm not going to stop until God is my ceilin fan
[01:05.56]Spare the lamb  save me from my former-self
[01:08.04]That creeps between the pages as the line across and locks my self
[01:10.87]Now this is my box  these are my walls
[01:13.46]This is when time stops and I'm all that there ever was
[01:16.03]And I'm all there ever is and I'm all that there ever will be
[01:19.46]A freeze frame pine box soliloquy  Call me FRANCOIS
[01:25.50]Call Me Francois (call call call me francois)
[01:29.71](Call call call me francois)
[01:32.85]Take what you can; leave what you must
[01:35.00]Because y'all comin with us  (motherf**ker you comin with us)
[01:37.71]Fill your bags with the rags that you wear and their necessities
[01:39.91]Along with the dog-tags and family recipes
[01:43.60]Rest in peace  if you arrest the pace  movin haste
[01:45.50]God-speed you black empress  get dressed  we're late
[01:47.62]She painted my head orange  carved my face with her tongue
[01:50.85]Emptied out my insides and lit the candle behind my eyes
[01:53.05]Had the strike of twelve to midnight  winter queen
[01:55.61]Left with my life rival in a white limousine
[01:57.81]When he made her dress twirl  it looked like a mushroom cloud
[02:01.05]Everybody ducked down except for me  that's my destiny
[02:03.35]He used a broken condom as a corsage
[02:06.03]I watched him push the rusty pin through her prom dress into her heart
[02:09.39]Kill me already; fill me with confetti
[02:10.58]Crush me up and sprinkle me over their wedding and her pregnant belly
[02:14.12]I wasn't ready to suppress these memories  undress the mammaries
[02:18.20]Forget the family  streamline the enemy  design the penalty
[02:22.24]Cruel and unusual  commit the felony  unfit for prison duty
[02:26.18]No man's an Island  except for Island man; he's a ROCK STAR
[02:30.86]No man's an Island  except for Island man; he's a ROCK
[02:35.66]Call Me Francois (call call call me francois)
[02:40.65](Call call call me francois)