Hammond Court Kids

Lyrics

[Intro: J. R. R. Tolkien's "Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold"] "While hammers fell like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep In hollow halls beneath the fells Goblets they carved there for themselves And harps of gold, where no man delves There lay they long, and many a song Was sung unheard by men or elves." [Verse 1: Apathy] Never forget who wears the crown, who versus all sound Like if they don't show respect, I'ma burn it all down I'm the poltergeist maker, violent death bringer You can hear the pain in my voice like old soul singers And I'm Sam Cooke, dismantle the sample in seconds Mixture of Son of Sam with the wisdom of Sam Clemens Got the hammers and weapons, but throwin' hands was the preference Manifest the success, trample the peasants On my way out the hood, first generation entrepreneur Had to get the single mattress up from off of the floor Wouldn't sign the dotted line until they offered some more Then I was shoutin' for war 'til my esophagus sore Call me William Wallace, not Christopher The shit that I've experienced is far more sinister Jason Bourne blackouts, wakin' up with headaches Fist fightin' my nightmares, makin' the whole bed shake Post traumatic, soda added for Coke Classic No wonder why my mama and my aunts are so dramatic The 80s baby, I cried when Mr. Hooper died Thought that Bob did it, but made it look like a suicide Tales from the Dark Side, condensed Got a therapist, my error, was far too intense It's all just startin' to make sense I never sold my soul was just trynna pay my rent [Chorus: Apathy and Naya J] 'Cause where we came from, they make they brains numb The police pull up on us and we play dumb And where we come from, you never run from It's like the dream that some would never wake up from But I escaped from [Sampled Hook] "It's like I went to sleep broke, but I woke up rich!" "I went to sleep broke, but I woke up rich!" "I went to sleep broke, but I woke up rich!" "I went to sleep broke, but I..." [Verse 2: Apathy ("Pharoahe Monch")] Back in the 80's before the Polo and Tommy apparel When my neighbors was Dooney, Reecie and Tommy and Cheryl I was studyin' Joe Simmons and Jason and Darryl While my homies was using the saw to shorten the barrel Fast forward to '94 before I was Pharaoh I would study every single verse recorded by Pharoahe People talked about me like, "Yo, you should sort of be carefu!" "Ap is savage, sociopathic, and horribly feral!" Fucked with mystical bitches that read my fortune with tarot Birds hid my dirty burners and would sort my dinero It was Me, Dwayne, LJ, Charmaine and Monet Tamisha kept us in check, nothin' could beat the old days The broke days, had no money, but we was okay Real government cheese and lookin' forward to snow days My block was economically destitute We had to move out of Hammond Court to get this loot Signin' with a major was a slippery slope Like being in jail showers with some slippery soap But now I'm out here, literally slittin' these throats Killin' it with alliteration 'til they literally ghosts Was stickin' a thick chicken like rotisserie roasts Consistently dope, bitches be quotin' shit that we wrote And I take nothin' for granted, my whole life is enchanted Became the hammer of God as soon as the seed was planted [Chorus: Apathy and Naya J] 'Cause where we came from, they make they brains numb The police pull up on us, and we play dumb And where we come from, you never run from It's like the dream that some would never wake up from But I escaped from [Sampled Hook] "It's like I went to sleep broke, but I woke up rich!" "I went to sleep broke, but I woke up rich!" "I went to sleep broke, but I woke up rich!" "I went to sleep broke, but I..." [Outro: Naya J] 'Cause where we came from, they make they brains numb The police pull up on us, and we play dumb And where we come from, you never run from It's like the dream that some would never wake up from But I escaped