[Verse 1] What's it hurt, lotto and liquor? Gin on the breath, the goddess whisper My yard littered with crack stems and scratch off tickets Money house blessings, Obama incense A clean sweep, remove your shoes before you enter For weeks my brain been in a blender Blew dust off the Kalimba If only I remember In the East, drafty windows, graphic innuendoes Blacker than black, but it's home Growing old, scattered bones on the doorstep Caution, I'm a native New Yorker It's all love, I still love her, but I feel like I lost one [?] and raw paper, spook chasers say he fell out the lord's favour Crewless nature, roll the dice where dead men walk down Cypress One for every unearned non-indictment Violence begets violence, make it hot Never water out the hydrant, the block stifling Triple checking locks Leaves on fire, coked out pimps write diner Yelp reviews in hotel parking lots Somewhere between Saturday night and Sunday morning
You want it all but it can't save you You want it all but it can't save you Same sun no matter who you pray to Babies wave guns out in plain view Why play to lose? Fools confuse the blues of paying dues I'm Black Herman in a fugue state The moon waits for my invitation Snake handler in the store front A natty suit with some gold fronts Meet him in the annex, fifteen hundred cash And a honey turkey sandwich banish all evil Speeding down the Jackie Rob, palm fronds and musky oils When walls go bump in the night Wild rice for the gods A hundred elders, four sides of the planet They chanted, increase the word was granite Abundance in the highest [?] people of the promise Conjured out the ether for salt eaters Dream weavers and palm readers Seekers of worlds [?] wanna destroy you Skin of the soil Somewhere between Saturday night and Sunday morning You want it all but it can't save you You want it all but it can't save you