Robespierre - Billy Woods, Barrie McLain

I am who I pretend to be

Here and now there’s no rememberin'

But you niggas gonna remember me

Even if it’s burnin' in effigy

I am who I pretend to be

Here and now there’s no rememberin'

But you niggas gonna remember me

Even if it’s burnin' in effigy

Pulled out the womb under blood moon

Everything to follow is assumed

Medicine measured in bitter spoons

Former presidents exhumed

New king built his own tomb

Certain doom

Bleeding out offscreen the villain’s goons

Dying alone in Death Star utility room

Humming a tune

It’s only one way out the saloon

Gather the baboons

Toweled door of midtown hotel cocooned

‘06 sex like incense purple her perfume

Called down pushed checkout to noon

Pepe Le Pew Skunk #1 stunk

Showered with the blunt You only live once

A thousand deaths beat em to the punch

She went in his phone, mostly off a hunch

I am who I pretend to be

Here and now there’s no rememberin'

But you niggas gonna remember me

Even if it’s burnin' in effigy

I am who I pretend to be

Here and now there’s no rememberin'

But you niggas gonna remember me

Even if it’s burnin' in effigy

Broke down side of Mutare Road

Sun sliding down slow

I assumed there was nothing dad didn’t know

Til the light got real low

Night fell/ You should see my light bill

Biggest house on the biggest hill

Bristling Brutalist atop a landfill

Part of him still in the hole at Fishkill

Crusaders come home on they shields

Redolent of sweet poppy fields

Popping pain pills

Watching that high school highlight reel

I am not who I pretend to be

Here and now no dissemblin'

You prolly won’t remember me

Not less I’m burnin' in effigy

I am not who I pretend to be

Here and now no dissemblin'

You prolly won’t remember me

Not less I’m burnin' in effigy

Memory

Memory

Memory

And I swear that I don’t have a gun

No I don’t have a gun

No I don’t have a gun

Memory

Memory

Memory

And I don’t have a gun