Means To An End - JL, JL feat. Tech N9ne

In my testimony, never front

You can get a glimpse how my mind' work

Like I’m hopped up off a key bump at a Kanye West concert

High on the Devil’s lettuce

Sippin' a cup of the Devil’s nectar

Giving you a long-winded lecture

Smoke, dance through the dream catcher

Crossed my heart and kissed the rosary

While I’m looking for the fourth clover leaf

Wouldn’t say that I believe in luck

Or that I was superstitious so to speak, but

Got on my good luck charm

Got a ladybug on my arm

Luck ain’t got nothing to do with it

Saying that it wouldn’t do me no harm

I got aloe vera hanging from the ceiling

I got bamboo, bloodstone crystals

Rubbed the belly on the laughing Buddha

Then I cleaned the barrel of the chrome pistols

Dealing with my own issues

World stopped, but my dome spinnin'

Keeping it unlocked and bet they gon' feel 'em

'Cause the speaker knocking, makin' bone chillin'

Still in a war

Keeping us divided, try’na kill the allure

Terrifying thinking 'bout what still is in store

We haven’t decided what to feel anymore

But we kneel to the floor

Empty churches, empty streets

Boarded rims, empty swings

It’s the end of the world, we know

So no matter what, can’t go do your same ol' rigmarole

We can pretend like we ain’t been grieving

Feel defeated and descend

Like it isn’t nothing, any reason defend

We just needed something to believe in again

A means to an end

I’ll do anything for better luck

I know confidently it would not control this

Found a penny that was heads up

Picked it up and threw it in a pond of goldfish

Dig at the end of the rainbow

Maybe that’ll help me feel special

Sentimental shit I’ll never let go

Waving back at the Maneki Neko

The cat been beckonin'

I done let it out the bag, I probably should have kept it in

Nigga lookin' malevolent, I’m evidently spotted like leopard print

Got a lead-foot, never lied backpedalin'

A money magnet bet and win

Laws of attraction cause a reaction

Prayed first put it in a verse

Now it’s in the universe, I believe it’s gotta happen

Everybody passin', they made up an assassin

To hit us in a flesh when it clash with a pathogen

I’ma get to blassin' the Gat 'til I’m back at them

Put 'em in a bag and I fasten 'em

Wanna murder me with the virus

You can see the itis in the iris

Abide is nothing I’ma try, we’re gonna fight it

The riot is about to fly 'cause we divided

Slighted, you can hear the cries, I’ll never hide it

All of this puppetry, media repeatedly telling me what to be

Utterly fuckery

Yo, what’s up with these uppities

Rushing to stuff a G, gut us with cutlery

Wanna consume a nigga brain, yeah

Wanna resume when niggas hang, yeah

Never that coon that live in chains

Better yet, goon that bang that’ll be soon to reign, yeah

Itching to merk me

It don’t matter if a nigga wanna live in a clergy

I’ma sit in a surgi-center

But on a mission to merk these— criminals when I listen to Percy

They must want the king to begin

To bringing us in

Shotguns scream in the wind

I’m dreaming again

You gotta have a team and a kin

For helping you with a means to an end

We still in a war

Terrifying thinking 'bout what still is in store

But we kneel to the floor

Empty churches, empty streets

Boarded rims, empty swings

It’s the end of the world, we know

So no matter what, can’t go do your same ol' rigmarole

We can pretend like we ain’t been grieving

Feel defeated and descend

Like it isn’t nothing, any reason defend

We just needed something to believe in again

A means to an end