Be Safe

Lyrics

[Verse 1: billy woods] There is no me The mask stifling but it's eye holes so I can see how to set you at ease You at the job interview, you moving raw in the streets Either way I be the nigga you need me to be Fit like a glove Polyurethane inner sleeve I won't lie though, everything a bit muffled, hard to taste Every breath smuggled, shoulders ache from the weight Still in all, it's a small price to be safe (be safe, be safe) To be safe Childhood photos kept as keepsakes I won't lie, I barely recognize the face Be careful lest it break Beware it slip while you in the wrong place Mine rubber cement and gorilla glue, yours held together with duct tape Water filter brackish Esophagus brim with acid, nothing said Approval tacit Lead rub off when you grasp it Inside, sour sweat, cheap plastic Used to be a relief to come home, take it off, roll a cone But putting it back on a problem all it's own, so now no I think it's grown Burrowed, grafted to bone, who knows? Face like Play Doh, even alone Laugh like Styrofoam when I realize I don't cross the street no more They staring at they phones [Verse 2: E L U C I D] (Can't be You can't be You can't be You can't be You can't) My wandering may come with a price My nerves bad, forever ominous So goth I was born Black, ever vigilant Antenna extremity, lights out Feeling through the most ordinary of times Scanning eyes, from yea high To absorb abuse considered normalized Coated in this core design, fortified Stay out of stores without the red [?] Raising black children in the pedagogy of surrender for their betterment Fuck that old world rhetoric World gon' burn, bring the accelerant A measured risk at every turn When you say it it's cool, when I speak it you need evidence? Deader things, never just so, it's never just so Felt all federal levels to every ghetto And I can't say that, even when I feel that Even if I can't find the words to articulate fact that doesn't make it less true, when I take refuge Ever evolved for sophisticated stressors At the tip, sip the nectar Tell me how you know so much about systems that don't affect you Trauma talk Rae and law[?], barrel of [?] Karma lie Some get over, some get by Can't be mediocre, can't overachieve Don't just stand there, why are you even breathing? Who told you to fear they're not being facetious? Peep it You can't be You can't be