Tonedeff - Loyal lyrics

Do you really know your friends? Ha
I used to think the same thing
I love you in a place
Where there's no space and time (come on)
I love you for my life
Cause you're a friend of mine
I love you in a place
Where there's no space and time
(when you're up against the wall
Will they get you?) i love you for my life
Cause you're a friend of mine

Have you ever been betrayed? That shit's
The worst hit of pain
When somebody you loved can't look
You in your face
And have you ever had your heart torn out
By somebody you thought was your friend
And now your trust is worn down
Or bought to an end no pardons can mend it
When you're darkened within
Fuck cause & effect, it's a
Hard fate to take
And your reasons don't soften the sin
Your dogs can bark for you
But, you gotta watch when you argue
Cause dogs will bite and snarl at you
Just to remind you that they're harmful
I feel awful, I'm a mental case
Shattered to pieces and I've got a palm full
Past law school and beyond consul
Cause you've crossed the bar with me
Farther than I've ever thought possible
My choice is now mandatory and not optional
Don't ever speak another sentence to me
Ever mention me I don't exist
Convince yourself you invented me
You've committed the crime of the century
And just cause loyalty ain't
A trait you possess
Don't think that I'll lessen the penalty

What's your name again
I know I knew it 2 seconds ago
But, I don't recognize this second face
Though to the first it's identical
You were the type that I put on a pedestal
Your acts were commendable
But the bond of friendship isn't impenetrable
And inevitably the blunt force
Of ego proved lethal
To a good person forced to wallow
In the shit of evil people
Fundamentally filled with avarice
A cheat from the soul
Spending their lives to make sure that
You ain't achieving your goals
Unreasonable kings that want to see you
Jump through rings of fire
For their own amusement, holding nooses
Hoping trees are higher
So abusive towards you that truce
Just doesn't seem required
Cause why play the game when you
Can make the other team retire?
Strings are tirelessly pulled in your favour
As you play the rumor creator
Twisting words 'til they sound like
Statements you made up
With a big grin you soak it all in
As former friends go face to face
With contradicting convictions
Plots are thickening, cause you pitched in
You feel important now?
Must've been high as a
Kite from snorting clouds
Sorta proud of yourself
And the way you hold your ground
Distastefully wore the shroud
How's it feel to have
Puppets to order 'round?
But, I saw through you, even before I found
How you would say 'no beef', give me a dap
And hit me with a quarter-pound
Your loyalty's watered down
Bottled with a squirt cap
But when the drama popped off
Where the fuck are you to plug the cork back

Men are as harsh as women are vindictive
Picking apart minutiae on some bitch shit
Kids all in your business forget honesty
Nowadays you'll be lucky to find that quality
In a drama odyssey where
Cats never react responsibly
And I'm jostling with haters
Hypocrites and hypochondriacs
Abolishing their dated ignorance
And fighting copycats
And if I don't give my patience a rest
I'll probably take my anger to death
Complaining about some pain in my chest
Aged and distressed
Thinking 'bout who just fucked me
Over 20 years ago
Amazing how pricks can miss your skin
Yet pierce your soul
But where's the line at? Like where
Does loyalty appear to fold
And what do you owe someone and just
What do you feel you're owed?
But yo, you know when you've been done wrong
That numb calm a breach in the moral
Code's eternally portable
The moral of the story's old
Even if it's poorly told
Beware of cats that straddle fences
Like the chain-link rodeo