Ashes

Row, row, row, how the ferryman goes Flow, flow, flow, as the blood of the innocent grows Hear the laughs of the reaper at the woes, woes, woes See the path filled with corpses, just a feast for the crows It's the feeling in your neck When you're walking down the alley with your folks Heading on home, from an evening show Til the next thing you know A man coming out the shadows whipping out the chrome The pearls, the rings, the watch, the wallet, give it up or Imma have to unload Coughed it all up, now Pops in the front saying That's everything we got, so please, please, please, just go Joe wasn't fronting, brought a chill to the bones Then a click, clack, blaow, heard a pop, then a grunt Got you looking all around Seeing Pops on his back With a hole in his chest, his light fading fast And his face feeling cold Momma holding back a scream, pleading on her knees Please, please, please, just leave us alone But the story wasn't finished, another click, clack, blaow, that was all she wrote Little 8 year old boy Looking at the pistol, then the man, with the eyes of stone Points the gun and says, Kid, don't you look at me like that, then hit the road Little 8 year old boy, tryna wake his old folks Screaming Please, please, please, quit the fooling, this isn't a joke Down to his knees now, Kaepernick Met with silence, no change in tone Desperate times taunt a desperado When the Devil's lasso got him at the end of the rope You know how it go In the city where it's split like a coin But the Lord never really taking pity anymore Hear the flip, see the choice Build a bridge, see it go Then you build it all again, and take a toll All for the sake of freedom, greatest nation in the world Only empty words like Jefferson's prose Over 9000 times, over 9000 tries Take a listen to the echos Over 9000 screams, over 9000 lies Like a late bud in the springtime Little 8 year old boy hasn't rose Over 9000 times, over 9000 tries Take a listen to the echos Over 9000 screams, over 9000 lies And the bodies on the rise Like the 'rona virus, we been waiting on the dose Screech in the night, little 8 year old boy on his toes Flap of the wings, little 8 year old boy taking off like the wind And with a click of the remote Got a mask for the pain Lying in wait in the rain Like a soldier sounding off, in the music of justice Just a cymbal of change Now you witnessing a knight's crusade Bringing every villain's end like it's midnight's stroke Told to break a leg, instead it breaks our hearts, Ashes All the world's a stage, we just play our parts, Ashes Shaking in fear, 'til the curtain call, Ashes Tragic like Shakespeare, hold the applause, Ashes Phoenix tears, you know the show must go on, Ashes The power inside you responds to a need, not a desire So u better dig deep, and use the pain of loss, Ashes