if you're ruffling my people's leaves
i guarantee that i'ma stab yo ass
i say it once so you can leave
then we're both gonna have to choose
we both'll wake up on the news
i'm always on my post til they release me
to do the least or the most
can't decrease me or db even briefly
stand as a chief until we breathe free
they either honor me or shower me with cruelty
neither one has anything to do with me
to the reality that this is me while being tortured
i often think of myself as lost
only thing for certain is a curtain and a coffin
learned my first song from my mama then i watched 'em
zip her face up in the bag and drag her off and
i'm just playing back the highlights
things i remember more vivid than my eyesight
give me just a minute get my mind right
don't expect me spit 'em in a straight line
done seen the worst of the worst
gonna have to kill me first
when you move away it don't mean i forgot