Soul Takers (2012) - Rafael Casal/Daveed Diggs.mp3

[00:00.771][Chorus: Rafael Casal]
[00:16.332]They said you were going crazy
[00:20.853]Out here falling, failing
[00:23.861]Soul takers
[00:26.868]They gon' get you sooner or later
[00:32.386]They said you were going crazy
[00:36.906]Out here falling, failing
[00:39.912]Soul takers
[00:42.920]They gon' get you sooner or later
[00:43.916][00:44.728]
[00:46.423][Verse 1: Daveed Diggs]
[00:47.933]Look at it it’s obvious isn't it when the hues
[00:49.682]Steeped in blues bleed purple as if inhaling the
[00:51.942]Fumes of a city marooned, consumed with ensuing news of a new boy
[00:54.952]Howling at a lunar eclipse
[00:56.710]My lips are frozen so I blue steel
[00:58.207]Eyes a razor, the pain you feel
[01:00.469]Cut like anger, an orange peel
[01:02.724]Bells of danger make strangers kneel
[01:04.483]Knell, knoll, nelly
[01:05.983]Handling my grammar with the static of a cellie
[01:07.743]Till it resound potent, echo out Oakland
[01:09.999]Sniff it like I sniffed it full of Hennessy and coke
[01:11.999]And I'm broken English and old
[01:13.510]Burning like the earth’s center ready to explode
[01:15.519]See it feel it taste it hear it smell it like this
[01:17.268]The faintest scents of a minor 6th and a minor
[01:20.022]Gassed off this, the minor catastrophe
[01:21.787]Masochist, resides in the mastering, the mining of syntax for this
[01:24.292]Tax the lips, tap the ass, slap the bass, mash the gas
[01:27.805]Match the rhythm and wisdom of a city full of heavy hitters and spitters and ****** and ******* and killers
[01:31.819]And better believe in something
[01:32.818]Believe in belief till we leave like a leaf tryna breathe in these streets like
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[01:35.079][Verse 2: Rafael Casal]
[01:35.578]Better believe like go go
[01:37.082]Sweat out your weave type wet wet
[01:38.840]Something to see type
[01:40.089]Set from a sun on the edge of the world
[01:41.854]Wonderin if he should jump or just wreck wreck shop
[01:43.862]I'm a cigarette quickened to death what you expect
[01:47.874]Sounds like the town drownin in its own clowns
[01:49.887]And their rhymes arent even shot off yet
[01:51.648]What to believe when you see people doing Nintendo parking lot
[01:54.401]Right by your apartment complex
[01:55.412]Putting dents in the fence
[01:56.410]Holes in ligaments of residents
[01:57.424]Body count is a ******* contest. Yup
[01:59.922]I hear that hear that
[02:00.931]Snare, clap, bassline, pure crack, see thugs, no guns, near gats
[02:03.944]Take notes, hang low, play, smoke, pray for folks
[02:06.450]Make jokes, stay broke, chase ****, pen raps
[02:08.205]In a minute you can end up with the vintage on the corner
[02:10.708]When you were just headin taking arizonas
[02:11.969]Now your sip is a slip and they talk about give me your ****
[02:14.482]And you are not the type to let em press up on ya
[02:15.733]So why make a mona
[02:17.244]Least i'm layin on a bed wanna know if im gonna
[02:18.990]Let or listen to the song that i m playing for ya're just a dead reporter tryna write myself to light before the slaughtered thoughts of a goner
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[02:24.507][Chorus: Rafael Casal]
[02:25.254]They said you were going crazy
[02:28.774]Out here falling, failing
[02:31.780]Soul takers
[02:34.790]They gon' get you sooner or later
[02:39.555][02:40.624]
[02:40.556]They said you were going crazy
[02:44.810]Out here falling, failing
[02:47.833]Soul takers
[02:50.839]They gon' get you sooner or later
[02:53.849][02:55.419]
[02:54.099][Outro: Rafael Casal]
[02:56.096]Try to block this
[02:59.367]When its running down
[03:01.111]Reminisce
[03:03.120]Just the story of a town