Out of chars and ashes like golden salamanders The old years The green years will leap Roses sweeten the air White hair turns black Wrinkles vanish All, everything flies back to sea Flee death Ghouls glued to the screen til they stop moving That's the thing about a chess piece, gotta peep how he movin' Gotta play stupid The King sleep in the doom ship Hubris outside Ruth Chris Every bird get his wings clip Munitions flyin' in an empty sky Saw a Lion at the Bronx zoo when I was nine It stuck in my mind Sometimes feelin' like the tiger on Shrines cover The fusillade cut them down in a line brother The fuselage shuddering as he playin' You know I prayed to every one of them motherfuckers Old man putterin', mutterin' to myself Money come slow like publishing House full of ghosts half wonder if I'm one of them When they come ask you, go 'head, tell 'em what you know Truth be told, never even knew my government Many years ago, my mother and I made a covenant I look in they eyes when they get what they coveted Fire in the sky, satellites plummeting G showed me the whistle and said he not gettin' cut again He got 213 months but he never got cut again Everything buffering Reality lagging Sometimes barely recognize the people I love It run hot and fast like arterial blood Splashy kicks The night slip-slippery Wrist, wrist, wrist Can't lie, some of these rappers do be glittering Embittered but still air kiss Kiss death, black lipstick on my neck In bed she's a dead fish, but it's more to life than sex Meaningful things I hear what they say in the light of day, but let's see what the night brings The flap of ragged wings Black Thanos finger snaps five gems on a four finger ring It's no going back no more We drew lots in a dark corridor to kill the king Our sweat stink Yeah doggie we need them things hand speed like bing, bing, bing I used to love her now I see it was just a fling Took two glasses out the cupboard and poured us a parting drink (She waited for me to take that first sip, though)