​billy woods - Remorseless lyrics

Burnt offering in the desert
Shining city up on the hill
I burned it like Nebuchadnezzar
This world, hard to even take it's 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 of 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 twenty
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 it's 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 rear-view 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 zipline 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 decreethat this
Decree hereby abrogates
Decree number forty-seven, decree number
One hundred and one
Decrees numbers two hundred and eighty three
To three hundred and sixteen inclusive
(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
Subversionneocolonialism termites, locusts
Pests and poisonous rodents)
(It is therefore decreed
That as a warning to all
Other enemies of state)
(these recent saboteurs shall
Be publicly hanged)
Cut it, cut it off has no one here cut it
Kabiyesi come back here, you!
(Which, taken together with decree number
Two hundred and nine
Three hundred and thirty three
And decree number)