Topsoil - Kill the Vultures

Clawed my way back up to the topsoil

Got coiled up to the point it made the pot boil

Not loyal to the- not committed to those

Unfaithful, unstable hitting new lows

A few blows below the belt

One right between the night-goggles

I could give a hot piss to fill an empty Sprite bottle

If they even notice the bottom of the boat is

Corroded with holes and the captain’s fully loaded

Hold it so close that it cannot breathe right

Seems like the Devil only dances under street lights

From these heights the city looks like constellations

But the stars are falling faster than the camera man can make ‘em

Kiss the pavement, carve a couple names in

Stomp out your cigarette and notice the arrangement

Tell the complacent blank pages we should trade places

Now will they make changes or remain nameless?

We stain the glass, the clothes, the curb, the paint

We don’t deserve to turn the page, earn your weight

And if you don’t, you can’t carry it

But who’s gon' be the one to pull your casket in the chariot

Tying up some loose ends, high strung and too thin

The rope that I’m climbing starts looking like a noose, friend

Who’s them always whispering and pointing fingers

Avoid the paranoid, fill the void, let the voices linger

Now what they singing, what they singing from the other side?

Sounds like they warning me, the beast gon' bring a rougher ride

Shackles ‘round the wrists, dogs and a cage waiting

Stay patient, demons disappear when the day’s breakin'

Now this crime ain’t feeling right, boss

Looked better with the lights off

Seeing blurry and my mind’s lost

White cross burning in the sky on the night watch

You play the darkness, I’m gonna play the light

Never met a constellation that was so afraid of heights

Name your price, everything is up for grabs

They used to wanna touch the cross

Now they wanna touch the cash

Forgive me father, I just take in what the city offers

Many authors died once they tried to touch your pretty coffers

Is that really copper?

I scoff at penny droppers

But if it lands heads-up I’m feelin' pretty proper

Ain’t no telling what I’ll do to make those ends meet

And if I’m short, ain’t no telling what you’ll lend me

At your weakest moment what would you compromise?

I’d tell you take a minute think it over if I wanted lies

On the rise, what could possibly go wrong?

The emperor’s a cover up and he ain’t got no clothes on

If I gotta go I wanna go to a slow song, just to keep it prolonged

So on and so on

Now what they singing, what they singing from the other side

Sounds like they warning me, the beast gon' bring a rougher ride

Shackles ‘round the wrists, dogs and a cage waiting

Stay patient, demons disappear when the day’s breakin

Now this crime ain’t feeling right, boss

Looked better with the lights off

Seeing blurry and my mind’s lost

White cross burning in the sky on the night watch