Remorseless

Burnt offering in the desert Shining city up on the hill I burned it like Nebuchadnezzar This world, hard to even take its measure Three rooms filled with Incan treasure Still strangled the king 'cause it's now or never It's a freedom in admitting it's not gonna get better Washing your hands off people you known forever I'd be a liar if I feign surprise, a goat eats where it's tethered Treat African proverbs like Vegas flyers, I float above the peasants Too clever by half, halftime down 20 I'm not that good at math, but common sense, I got plenty (It's fuckin' over) In person, these rappers watches look temptin' The chain say envy, but PTSD keep me countin', never spendin' My accountant is a head full of bad memories and sad endings It's all payment pending I'm not concerned with generational wealth, that's its own curse Anything you want on this cursed Earth Probably better off gettin' it yourself, see what it's worth The photograph of young Tutankhamun Spaghetti links tangled like ramen Everything behind the mask rotten I tell people I keep it so you not forgotten, but that's cap I thought pillars of salt, but she too smart for lookin' back Mid-eighties in the rearview of a gold Mercedes Midday sun make the crocodiles lazy Money phone pocket dial, run come save me Sweet old ladies poisoning pigeons in the park For a lark, make mine strychnine, life is a zip line in the dark Spare me the Hallmark Karl Marx I was in the Dollar Tree break-room playin' cards with quarters Stop loss posters on the wall, brick and mortar I watched the planet from orbit, remorseless In pursuance of which, I hereby decree All these decrees are herewith abrogated and in their place The following decrees shall come into immediate effect For it is our duty to extirpate such traitors and agents of subversion Neocolonialism. Termites, locusts, pests and poisonous rodents (it is therefore decreed) These recent saboteurs shall be publicly hanged Which, taken together with decree number two-hundred-and-nine Three-hundred-and-thirty-three and decree number-