The Floor-Buck 65

[ti:The Floor] [ar:Buck 65] [al:Secret House Against The World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Floor - Buck 65 [00:46.71]I can remember being seven years old [00:48.77]Having goldfish that circuled around in a bowl [00:51.52]I would watch the forest burn [00:53.45]And listen to the wind blow [00:54.76]I remember the table the drapes and the window [00:57.51]The dark brown everything: decoration styling [01:00.44]Most of all I can remember my mother smiling [01:03.12]Worn out and faded my hometown was scrappy [01:05.92]More than anything she wanted us to be happy [01:08.79]Little to eat and back and forth to the hospital [01:11.35]She was right it's better to be happy if possible [01:14.10]But the old man was under attack and was weak [01:16.84]And continued to beat us several times a week [01:19.65]He lived like a king even though we were piss poor [01:22.21]I tried to be strong and careful what I wished for [01:25.20]My outside ached my inside stung [01:27.70]The long leather belt had replaced his tongue [01:30.57]Not knowing how to run or how [01:32.50]To hit the brakes [01:33.38]A white picket fence was built [01:34.88]Around a pit of snakes [01:36.06]Both a wonder and frightening [01:37.62]The thunder and the lightning [01:38.81]These were the sounds and sights [01:40.49]Of a thousand fights [01:41.86]My mother the poor fish staging eternal [01:44.18]Charades and parades for the raging inferno [01:46.18] [01:46.82]Wanting to be happy beaten all the while [01:49.95]Asking me always: "Why don't you ever smile " [01:51.82] [01:52.41]And she'd show me how to do it [01:54.40]Mother and wife [01:55.34]It was the saddest smile I ever saw in my life [01:58.26]It hurt worse than death but for her sake I tried [02:00.88]And one day all of those goldfish died [02:03.75]Hurricane forest fire out of control [02:06.19]Eyes open floating on the water in the bowl [02:09.12]And when my father came home [02:10.49]He walked through the door [02:12.11]And threw those fish to the cat [02:13.55]On the kitchen floor [02:14.67]And the wind died too and I was still a child [02:17.47]And the three of us watched as my mother smiled [02:20.54]And the wind died too and I was still a child And the three of us watched as my mother smiled [02:25.79]And the wind died too and I was still a child And the three of us watched as my mother smiled [02:30.95]And the wind died too