The Last Song-Slaine

[00:26.21]If this the last song I ever wrote [00:28.09]If it were to be the night that these ************s murdered me [00:30.58]If it were to be a car crash swerving into a Mercury [00:33.50]Burgundy splash through the glass when sirens circle me [00:36.18]I will be viewed as violent certainly [00:38.10]Drug-addled so maybe I’ve only written the worst of me [00:41.32]Maybe by me even writing these words I’m tempting the fates [00:43.95]They come from the heart sent from a place [00:45.98]I couldn’t find in my mind, I was blind, I was lost [00:48.56]In a time warp when a mind walked from a sick scene on a sidewalk [00:51.54]Full of suicide thoughts, full of false dreams and hopes that you and I bought [00:55.74]Like **** so we had to find things to cope [00:58.06]Ended up covered in dirt not washed with soap [01:00.53]We ended up learning all about the cost of coke [01:03.08]By the rope and seen some good folks lost from **** [01:05.51]I can’t begin to begin, I’m just horrified [01:08.58]You’re ? me ? this thing, you think it’s glorified [01:11.39]I just hear the pendulum swing again and again [01:13.20]The same song, broken dreams and dead friends [01:15.51]I been where I been now I stand where I am [01:18.01]As a man with a mic in his hand now goddamn [01:20.45]Back holding the crack planet that’s covered with monkeys [01:23.01]As I walk through the halls of recovering junkies [01:25.33]If this was the last song I ever wrote [01:31.26]I’d tell you to grab it by the throat [01:36.52]If this is the last song I ever write [01:41.20]I’ll tell you to stand back up and fight [01:46.30]Live your life, give your life [01:51.31]Stand up and fight, young man [01:54.67]Live your life, give your life [02:01.45]Stand up and fight, young man [02:05.26]If these the last words I ever spoke [02:06.82]Would you listen closer? [02:07.69]Would you close your eyes, envision what I’m supposed to be? [02:10.61]Just a ghost of my boys that overdosed [02:12.29]On crushed-up poison, crushed with the noise of the ocean [02:15.67]Way before Affleck or Coka Nostra [02:17.48]Before I had a cashed cheque or a poster [02:19.98]Rode sofa to sofa clutching on the old toaster [02:22.61]Writing on spray paper, grey days of cold culture [02:24.99]Devil got an ulcer with a habit to match it [02:27.37]In a bad temper so I’m grabbing a ratchet [02:29.80]Just to go along with it my stakes are high [02:32.24]To the people this is the way that I say goodbye [02:34.31]To my baby boy Terrance, parents so opposite [02:37.37]Just as smart as momma is, fiery as poppa gets [02:39.99]Just one thing little man you cannot forget [02:42.40]If your will is real nobody else can stop the **** [02:45.35]**** I’m living proof, take a look and figure it [02:47.63]I grew up in a paradox and rather not forgive the **** [02:49.94]But I had to box out this box and I live with it [02:52.36]Boxed out of detox, they said I’m on some wigger **** [02:54.79]Hated, they were racist so I was facing bigger **** [02:57.11]Seen too many homies die just trying to dig a ditch [02:59.77]I philosophize all my life burning cigarettes [03:02.04]I became smarter but y’all returned to ignorant [03:04.44]If this was the last song I ever wrote [03:10.05]I’d tell you to grab it by the throat [03:15.03]If this is the last song I ever write [03:20.03]I’ll tell you to stand back up and fight [03:25.53]Live your life, give your life [03:30.28]Stand up and fight, young man [03:35.34]Live your life, give your life [03:40.47]Stand up and fight, young man