The Noose - Tech N9ne, Tech N9ne Collabos feat. Mayday

I’ve tried writing this letter now several times before

When the party is over and the liquor is no more

I’ll tell you now that living has become somewhat a chore

And following their rules is such a god forsaken bore

Now I say «God» because I’m programmed, but I believe in none

I see no interventions, and I see no holy sons

And if I’m wrong, then strike me down and break these breathing lungs

Just take the words, reverse 'em back upon my evil tongue

I’ve seen children harm each other like it’s second nature, some

Just wanna watch the world burn and bang upon the drums

And that is why the music and the rhythm will live on

'Cause chaos has a melody and death is like a song

I sing, sing out to the rafters, I sing

Close this little chapter and I think

This life is a disaster and it stings

I’m trying to find a way to just sing

Sing out to the rafters, I sing

Close this little chapter and I think

This life is a disaster and it stings

You see I’m trying to find a way out

What a world, what a world

I’m hanging up the noose now

Waiting for the end

What a world, what a world

I’m hanging up the noose now

Waiting for the end

I went to visit wounded soldiers out on Camp Pendleton

And the cause of the missing limbs it mean that it’s no love like Wimbledon

When they sat before me young as hell and gave me accolades like gentlemen

I’m thinking that the enemy took away their ability to walk and to touch

No way of rekindling— what it’s now gone

Unless they got money like Forrest and Lieutenant Dan

The war, if you in it, damn, they have no remorse at any minute, Bam!

That’s fucked off, while we chillin' on tour on the bus getting sucked off

Know our families grieving, 'cause wars receding their peeps and they crying

their butts off

That’s why I give so much when I flow bust, why we got it so good

'Cause it’s so rough, for the young soldiers who

Do exactly what they’re told to do… damn

Do exactly what they told to do

Defend the country and uphold the crew

But give my one and only soul for U (S.A.)?

That’s a hell of a job description, I don’t know if my God’s with this one

But I guess it’s the laws of sick men

Send out youngins and they fall the victim

Of an evil clan’s plan, that’s why I be saying «Dwamn»

'Cause on 9/11, I realized our fate is in another man’s hands

What a world, what a world

I’m hanging up the noose now

Waiting for the end

What a world, what a world

I’m hanging up the noose now

Waiting for the end

When I see how my loved ones have left

I wonder how long I would fight

I wonder if I would give in and let the reaper lead me into night?

See I got too much pride left, like my grandma that died too early

Reaching for moments more but instead the cancer in her lungs took her from me

We drift, naturally, like two ships in the roughest of seas

That’s why this moment is precious, yet I’m too distant to feel it complete

See these days I feel so disconnected, it gets harder to drop to my knees

I guess that’s a side-effect of living in generation X-Y-Z

Obsessed with pain and greed, man I wish we were kids again

Things were simple then

90's incidents got me losing friends to the hands of violent men

Fast, faster than speeding bullets whizzing down alleyways

Abruptly I’m waking up from this haze

But only to realize the world hasn’t changed

Some of y’all not even fazed, y’all think it’s the way we’ve been raised?

Fuck it, I’ll sinking right back in this haze

'Cause these could turn out to be my last of days

With a hope and a prayer put a rope in the air, but I’m just too scared

Choking from the pressure when I rock this chair

Swing back and forth and tempt death with a blank stare

What a world, what a world

I’m hanging up the noose now

Waiting for the end

What a world, what a world

I’m hanging up the noose now

Waiting for the end