Blackbirds

Black Birds

Drop that / get up

Take to the streets / better lock that kid up

Face full of teeth when he hock that spit up

Pacing the beat like a beast

Rocking the block on repeat

Speak from the cut like a rush of blood

Paint red on the sleeves of the ones you love

Lay the sick ones down and the bells will ring

Put pennies on the eyes let the dead men sing

I shiver and shake the warm air cold

I’m alone on my own

In every mistake I dig this hole

Through my skin and bones

It’s harder starting over

Than never to have changed

With Blackbirds following me

I’m digging out my grave

They close in, swallowing me

The pain, it comes in waves

I’m getting back what I gave

I sweat through the sheet as daylight fades

As I waste away

It traps me inside mistakes I’ve made

That’s the price I pay

It’s harder starting over

Than never to have changed

With Blackbirds following me

I’m digging out my grave

They close in, swallowing me

The pain, it comes in waves(YEAH)

I’m getting back what I gave

I drop to the floor like I did before

Stop watching / I’m coughing / I can’t be more

What I want and what I need are at constant war

Like a well full of poison / a rotten core

The blood goes thin / the fever stings

And I shake from the hell that the habits bring

Let the sick ones down / the bells will ring

Put pennies on the eyes / let the dead men sing

With Blackbirds following me

I’m digging out my grave

They close in, swallowing me

The pain, it comes in waves

I’m getting back what I gave

I’m getting back what I gave

I’m getting back what I gave