For Carol – Lyrics

Since Carol passed away
And a few planets in my universe collapsed in flames
I kept my gravity
She’d want it that way
Y’see when Chase passed, I went and hit the wall with it
Along with a few bottles and a list of morals with it
It’s a horrible feelin’, treadin’ where sorrows swimmin’
But can’t waste a promised day, hell knows tomorrow isn’t

If you can’t appease your lost ground and past defeats
Know that time is paint, and death is our masterpiece
If you ain’t satisfied with your picture, that’s on you
Not every time frame is the same, so what you gon’ do?
From where I stand, you can’t have your cake and have your piece
Unless you have a piece, and that’s at least a means
To takin’ cake, colony, and currency and the burden of serpentines,
Is it worth it dirty or clean without purpose or courtesy

Murder, murder within the eyes of the lines the law believes
My color don’t run, but our blood’s been spillin’ in the streets
Runnin’ faster than a baton handed to Maniac McGee
From Barry Allen on the same relay in a Jamaican Track meet
Not too calm to undo the awful
And ugly truth: Some hard times never come to pass
Leave your case in your arm chair. This ain’t a debate.
Facts don’t argue. The heat is on. Tell’em I’m back.

Goin’ out in a blaze of glory
Hell or purgatory
You know it’ll be the former when I show up
I’m back
However many moments it costs
A lifetime or seconds lost
I’ma pay the tab in full and then some
Tell’em I’m back

Niki Lauda said happiness is the enemy
And I done cross so many finish lines while in the lead
Satisfaction, I’d never let her hit.
She calls sometimes, but I just let it ring.
My life is ’92 Del Sol, takin’ a backseat could be fatal
But I’ve been one for testin’ my threshold
Perhaps too frequent, what you were thinkin’
But wouldn’t post with a username, I was onstage speakin’

Turned the weekend into outpatient treatment
The feelin’s still reelin’ every concert that we freak with
I’m stealin’ moments most can’t afford to deal with
To cash in my stories to give my people
Two sleeves full of hope, a liter full of faith
Somethin’ to let’em know Carol and Doc still remain
On this planet. Got a legacy in my hands, man.
Fire in my eyes, tell’em I’m back.

Goin’ out in a blaze of glory
Hell or purgatory
You know it’ll be the former when I show up
I’m back
However many moments it costs
A lifetime or seconds lost
I’ma pay the tab in full and then some
Tell’em I’m back

Oh lord, hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Heartbeat
Don’t fail me now
No, don’t fail me now
Don’t fail me now

If the truth don’t hide or run
And it’s in my heart
And it’s in my heart
Then I know I’ll see you in the next one
In the next one
See you in the next one

Goin’ out in a blaze of glory
Hell or purgatory
You know it’ll be the former when I show up
I’m back
However many moments it costs
A lifetime or seconds lost
I’ma pay the tab in full and then some
Tell’em I’m back