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[Verse 1: Daveed Diggs] |
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Wa-lah! |
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Pullin' rabbit food out of parker |
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Carrots catch the light right, up the block from the farmer |
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He got that lettuce, that cabbage, that broccoli |
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Tryin' to catch a fire |
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Locks like Marley |
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That Chevy frame rattling like a Caribbean roof-top in the rain, and the window panes wiggle following suit |
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And the black suites sell bean pies, and the cream suites shout soap box |
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And the lime-green suites send angles to the streets with botox (Shh) |
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Don't talk |
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Cuz there's rollers in the corner (whoop!) |
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Football on the blacktop |
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Little C rush the quarter |
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Five alligator, six alligator, seven alligator, car! |
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Game on, till the street lights came on |
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Crowd out by the Save-On |
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Paper bags 'round tall cans, talkin' that old manishness like |
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"Man, when I was 22 I woulda coulda used to be the ****t!" |
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Or the high-waisted bikini model standee |
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Two eleven in penny candy |
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[Hook] |
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It's a storm comin' |
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Everybody inside |
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It's a war comin' |
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Stack your bread, get high |
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Gotta pour somethin' |
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Out for the homies |
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Turn that beat up |
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Get loaded |
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It's a murder on the outside, everybody inside |
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Murder on the outside, everybody inside |
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Murder on the outside, everybody inside |
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Inside out now, lock n' load, lets ride |
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[Verse 2] |
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Donald Duck, Sunny D, Tampico, Capri-Sun |
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Orange couch, plastic wrap, what's happening re-run |
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Oak frame hologram Jesus portrait |
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Brown **** carpet, broken screen door to the back porch |
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Tykes in the toilet gurgle every six minutes like clock-work |
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Grandfather's clock not working |
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Great grandmama's Crock Pot chocked full of stew meat |
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'Who, me?' said a speech bubble on a dog on a Sunday morning comic |
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Clipped and stuck up to the fridge with big chip bag magnet |
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Big chips stacked in the armoire |
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Behind glass, where the dominoes and the Bicycle cards are |
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And the thick, yellow and crystal tumblers |
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One sits on the table |
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With a single ice cube melting into a thimble full of Jack Daniels |
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The telephone receiver hangs |
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Swingin' by the cord |
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And the front door is swingin' |
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Wide open, accordingly |
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And that big block engine turnin' over in the Caprice |
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That's peelin' out of the driveway, lettin' the tires schreech |
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[Hook] |
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[Verse 3] |
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Orange cones and yellow tape |
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Palm trees swayin', passers by all look the other way |
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Nobody speak to police this or any other day |
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They comb the streets, knock door to door asking for mother's sake |
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Trying to catch another break |
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Body on the pavement 'bout 10 steps from the front porch |
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Photographer snappin' pics to go with the coroners report |
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Of the seven exit wounds, three in the skull four in the torso |
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Blood spread dry, red black red snapback even more so |
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Lays three paces to the south |
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The direction of the wind |
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New deputy pissed picking up shell casings again |
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Finds one in the browning grass by the sagging four foot high chain link fence |
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Drops it in a bag marked 'Evidence' |
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Here come that Caprice again |
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Rolling too slow up the street men sit four deep in |
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They seats and slow up by the scene, bandanas hide they faces |
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But all they heads are shakin' |
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They nod in unison and hit the coroner without breakin' |
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[Hook] |