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Black Sap
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Black Sap was released on September 2, 2026 by NullFuzz Records as a part of the album Black Sap - Single
September 2, 2026
LabelNullFuzz Records
LanguageEnglish
BPM92
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

Black sap runs in the family
But it stops with me
I know the story by the way doors close
By a plate held level and a swallowed no
Grandmother called it weather
Give the storm some room
Father learned to thunder
Without leaving a bruise
The men kept anger in the walls and the wood
The women made it quiet, made the table look good
Nobody called it poison if everybody drank
Nobody called it terror with some money in the bank
Family photographs said we were okay
You can hide a lot of screaming
In the breath before say cheese
We inherited jawlines, keys and recipes
And the art of standing still
When something dangerous speaks
Under the floorboards
Under the tongue
Same dark sugar
Passed to the young
Every root says repeat it
Every branch says obey
Blood can bring it to my door
It cannot make me let it stay
Black sap
Runs in the family
Sweet on the tongue
Then it blackens the teeth
Black sap
I feel it move in me
What ran through them
Doesn't get to run through me
Cut the root
Let the old tree bleed
Black sap runs in the family
But it stops with me
Black sap
Pull it up
Name the root
Don't let the bitter
Bear new fruit
Stops with me
Now I hear his cadence climbing out my throat
When I'm tired, when I'm cornered
When I need control
Pain has perfect manners
When it wants to be repeated
It says I'm only keeping you safe
And waits to be believed
I have used the same cold silence
I have made the same room small
I have watched somebody disappear
And called it nothing wrong
Then I saw your face go distant
And recognized the room
That's when I knew the old house
Had followed me to you
I won't call it healing
Just because I know its name
The oldest family trick
Is dressing damage up as fate
So when it pulls my jaw tight
When it tells me make them fear
I say the thing nobody taught us
It ends here
Every root says repeat it
Every branch says obey
You had it worse
That isn't the point
You turned out fine
Listen to my voice
Black sap
Runs in the family
Sweet on the tongue
Then it blackens the teeth
Black sap
I feel it move in me
What ran through them
Doesn't get to run through me
Cut the root
Let the old tree bleed
Black sap runs in the family
But it stops with me
Black sap
I love some of the hands
That passed this down
That doesn't make the poison holy
I can grieve the tree
Without eating what it grows
I can keep the names
And still refuse the roles
I can understand
Why they became that way
Understanding isn't permission
To become the same
Then who are you without it
The first open door
The first unbroken plate
The first quiet room
That is actually safe
I can love where I came from
Without making somebody else
Survive me
It doesn't leave this body
It came through them
From them
It came into me
Into me
But it doesn't leave here
It stops with me
No small ears
At the top of the stairs
Counting every footstep
And calling it prayer
No held breath
No watching the door
No learning what love is
From a fist through the wall
The blood can remember
Remember
The body can choose
Can choose
I can carry the history
Without passing the wound
Black
Sap
Stops
Here
With me
Black sap runs in the family
But it stops with me
Black sap
Runs in the family
Sweet on the tongue
Then it blackens the teeth
Black sap
I feel it move in me
But feeling it move
Doesn't mean it speaks for me
Cut the root
Let the old tree bleed
Black sap runs in the family
But it stops with me
Stops with me
Stops with me
I don't need clean blood
I need cleaner hands
I can love where I came from
Without becoming what it planned
What ran through them
Doesn't get to run through me
Black sap runs in the family
But it stops
With
Me
It still rises
I still stop it
Written by: Null Fuzz
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