Fjortis - Astronautalis, P.O.S, Four Fists

I was 15 with my skater friends

Trying to act cool

Smoking cigs but I don’t inhale

Still don’t know how to

Nate had stole some bowling pins

He was so proud too

Like a cat left a morning mouse

«Look what I found you!»

Third Street was ours alone and then

The city was ours too

Rolled up on a gas station

Markers out to mark ground, dude

Someone had left a pump open and

I sprayed out fuel

You’d be fucking surprised

Just how far that’d shoot

Matches were scratched

I don’t know how to

Explain how it happened

But I remember the sound, dude

Like, paper ripping

But louder than you

Can possibly imagine

Way more beautiful too

We stood stunned by the heat

It seemed impossible

We felt like we were kings

We laughed like we were fools

The next day when we skated by

And that firefighter looked confused

Why the fuck there was a bowling pin

In the ashes and rubble?

Trying to find the words for

What I need to come to terms with

When all I think is, «burn more»

(Burn more)

All I think is, «burn more»

(Burn more)

Or try to come to terms with

What I need the words for?

When all I think is, «burn more»

(Burn more)

All I think is, «burn more»

(Burn more)

I talking that teenage loiter

Dessa told me there’s a Swedish word for that

But my mind is short

So I lost it but that

Behind the automat

SuperAmerica

With papers and a Reggie sack

Paper Tiger’s skating back

So kickin it’s the modo

Pickin locks

And scribing lots

Of decent windows till they

Looking more like New York photos

And smelling like I’m 15

Look more than a bit mean

But I’m just Black

The suburbs got a way of making

Kids feel trapped

And angry

And untamed

And so much of the blame is lame

On more than one occasion lit a flame

With school in mind

But who am I?

Johnny fuckin Blaze?

Been on my Logan

Showing everyone the blades

I’m alright

Not like the

Great I’m supposed to be

Just want mine

Not like I’m asking for the seas

Just peace