Call Me Francois-Sage Francis

[ti:Call Me Francois] [ar:Sage Francis] [al:Human The Death Dance] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.18]"Today my mother killed me" [00:02.80] [00:13.48]If I'm alive by the time you find this it's a miracle [00:16.25]What else can be said a vision quest with infrared [00:18.09]I'm at a dead end I bled slow [00:19.89]From my chest held my breath and did my mess and never let go [00:23.09]I lived a good life I never had half-compromise a thing [00:25.40]And if I couldn't write I'd think of other ways to optimize my living [00:29.14]No wife no kids no anchors [00:30.84]Hand over fist to withhold this info from the bankers [00:33.42]Don't know my neighbors didn't take a village to raise me [00:36.48]Small-town mentality types thinkin I'm crazy [00:38.74]I ain't as weird as they paint me [00:41.15]Off color I'm more gutter punk and ritzy [00:43.19]More glitz and glamour than others [00:44.77]Motherf**kers left me lonely in this designated corner [00:46.87]Had a couple walls that build upon they made me a performer [00:49.72]Now shade me from the warmer weather [00:51.31]Save me from the slaughterhouse [00:52.77]That creeps between the pages where I try to hide my awful mouth [00:55.32]Speak discretely to the sheets that seem to be hollow [00:57.85]Punched a ladder full of holes just for my swollen feet to follow [01:00.43]Support me all you want don't let me drop a field of land [01:03.17]I'm not going to stop until God is my ceilin fan [01:05.56]Spare the lamb save me from my former-self [01:08.04]That creeps between the pages as the line across and locks my self [01:10.87]Now this is my box these are my walls [01:13.46]This is when time stops and I'm all that there ever was [01:16.03]And I'm all there ever is and I'm all that there ever will be [01:19.46]A freeze frame pine box soliloquy Call me FRANCOIS [01:22.11] [01:25.50]Call Me Francois (call call call me francois) [01:29.71](Call call call me francois) [01:31.26] [01:32.85]Take what you can; leave what you must [01:35.00]Because y'all comin with us (motherf**ker you comin with us) [01:37.71]Fill your bags with the rags that you wear and their necessities [01:39.91]Along with the dog-tags and family recipes [01:42.09] [01:43.60]Rest in peace if you arrest the pace movin haste [01:45.50]God-speed you black empress get dressed we're late [01:47.62]She painted my head orange carved my face with her tongue [01:50.85]Emptied out my insides and lit the candle behind my eyes [01:53.05]Had the strike of twelve to midnight winter queen [01:55.61]Left with my life rival in a white limousine [01:57.81]When he made her dress twirl it looked like a mushroom cloud [02:01.05]Everybody ducked down except for me that's my destiny [02:03.35]He used a broken condom as a corsage [02:06.03]I watched him push the rusty pin through her prom dress into her heart [02:09.39]Kill me already; fill me with confetti [02:10.58]Crush me up and sprinkle me over their wedding and her pregnant belly [02:14.12]I wasn't ready to suppress these memories undress the mammaries [02:18.20]Forget the family streamline the enemy design the penalty [02:21.48] [02:22.24]Cruel and unusual commit the felony unfit for prison duty [02:26.18]No man's an Island except for Island man; he's a ROCK STAR [02:30.86]No man's an Island except for Island man; he's a ROCK [02:35.66]Call Me Francois (call call call me francois) [02:39.73] [02:40.65](Call call call me francois)