Birdsong - Billy Woods

Came in Birdsong’s dice game early, thinkin'

And grabbed the motherfuckin' hand like Kunstler v Dershowitz

Ejected from the vehicle

Spit a sixteen or two in mid-air, Satanic Verses

That’ll rattle in your head like small caliber lead

Once she dead, rush her to the grave

Say «cut», cut it to the lathe

Said «what?», then him in the face

Said it’s a flood on the way, dried blood on the bullpen cage

Daddy loved his slaves, curl of the lip, heavy eyes just the same

First time you saw the word nigga in a book, how it danced on the page

Back in the day, it’s what the family didn’t say, how you knew it was AIDS

Came to the back gate late, I’ma need that back pay

Contra spread gun held by the waist

I didn’t come by just to say hey (don't flatter yourself)

Busta Rhymes on the A-train, countin' down our last days

Oh, and do you have any spare change?

Do you have any spare change?

Do you have any spare change?

Do you have any spare change?

Do you have any spare change?

He told 'em they could be God

He told 'em they could be God

He told 'em they could be God

He told 'em they could be God

HE told 'em they could be God

Just that age for heartbreak

Just that age for heartbreak

Just that age for heartbreak

Just that age for heartbreak

Yeah but, but it, but the relationship

If you don’t have a dream, fake it

But the relationship you can’t fake it really

You got to fake it.

Because we don’t have dreams these days.

How the hell can

you have a dream, for what?

So, so everybody’s jiving.

Well lets jive on that

level

If I love you, I can’t lie to you

Course you can lie to me;

and you will.

If you love me and you goin' off with

Maddie someplace, you’re lying to me.

'Cause what the hell do I care about the

truth.

I care if you’re there, like Billie Holiday say «hush now, don’t explain.

Alright, I accept that.

Alright, I accept that

Of course, of course you’ll lie to me, 'cause I don’t even wanna, of what,

what does the truth matter?

And why you gon' be truthful with me when you lie

to everybody else.

You lied when you smiled at that cracker down the job, right?

Lie to me, smile.

Treat me the same way you would treat him

I can’t treat you the way I treat him

You must, you must, because I’ve caught the, I’ve caught the frowns and the

anger.

He’s happy with you.

Of course he doesn’t know you’re unhappy.

You grin at him all day long.

You come home and I catch hell, because I love

you.

I get least of you.

I get, I get the very minimum.

And I’m sayin',

you know, fake it with me

Just that age for heartbreak

Just that age for heartbreak

Just that age for heartbreak

Just that age for heartbreak