Willie Green - Family Ties lyrics

You tell me man, you tell me
Cause I don't fuckin know

They say bad news travels fast
But the reality is
Time just catches up with your ass
Nobody gets away with anything
Once, we were kings
Now n watch for the name when phones ring
Smoke about it at the gates of Vienna
The Ottomans were routed
Defeat from the jaws of
Victory knows his history
How better to repeat it
When they cried to Jesus
Your boy stayed seated
Had it all and still felt cheated
Won the game but walked home defeated
Woke in the night and stepped into woods
Still with mist the wonder of a small child
Distilled into bitter fifths
No stars in the city I look at
Planes when I make a wish

In this world where gunshots
Briefly illuminate the dark
A wise man hardens his heart
When I say something, she says
"Don’t start please
For oncelie for a n til I look like a dunce"
God found me in a cloud of sour reefer
All I said was, "Am I my Brother’s keeper?"
At the service, "Pleased to meet ya"
End of the day
All I could offer was a guest feature
Five-hundred bones laid on top of speaker
Fifty pieces of silver
And I took it like a preacher
Three years from being twins
And when I get calls from family and friends
Ain’t much I can say, goddamn shame
Only blood I got and we’re estranged
Meanwhile, my peoples is Through
The Looking Glass
After White Rabbit's, Abel and Cain
Reach in the stash, twist the new strain
The Ties That Bind, digging in a n brain