Neighborhood Protection Spell (Lana Del Biden Nem) - Open Mike Eagle

Look at me

I’m winnin' the Invisible Olympics

Old head speakin' through a would-be apprentice

I hold my pen like a would-be appendage

They say pain is the way to redemption

Yeah, you want somethin' safe?

Be a dentist

I know goddamn well what we attempted

But when I learn somethin' new I forget shit

«Rent it,» I’m trying, but I’m saying it’s expensive

They said sleep was a lot like death

But I looked and I just can’t see the resemblance

I’m hidden in at least three dimensions

And I repeat it for release of the tension

Yeah, I’m there like it’s perfect attendance (Yeah)

I’m stuck 'cause my license suspended (Yeah)

I should have never tried to defend it

Independence, I’m trying, I’m just saying it’s expensive

Ghetto in the way I talk

You can never read my thoughts

Ghetto in the way I slide

Back to the wall, all pain I hide (I hide)

Ghetto in the way I’m dumb

South side, south side, where you from?

(I ain’t dumb)

Ghetto in the way I move

Bang that beat with a knife and a spoon (Just come here)

Be quiet, hear the sound of the utmost

Pay attention, bring it in like a tugboat

Pay attention in the biz 'cause it’s cutthroat

You be thinking y’all friends but it’s donezo

Front row, chillin', we pretend like we gung-ho

And see the addict got his miss on the jumbo

'Cause he a fiend like Windham Rotundo

We civilized, got friends in the jungle

Maybe gang heart weigh a ton though

We know the unseen spark where the plug go

But when the room go dark, where the love go?

Chillin' like a shark in the mud though

Blood flow heavy like the drama on the soaps, Telemundo

They all out of rubber gloves at the drug store

But where the sun go

We ain’t afraid, got guts full of gusto

We cut it short like the glove with the thumb hole

But where he go?

Why I’m even on the run though?

I’m tucked low, I’m in my shells like a gun show

But I done come so far though

My therapist said I came so far, yeah

Ghetto in the way I talk

You can never read my thoughts

Ghetto in the way I slide

Back to the wall, all pain I hide (I hide)

Ghetto in the way I’m dumb

South side, south side, where you from?

(We ain’t dumb)

Ghetto in the way I move

Bang that beat with a knife and a spoon