Sage Francis - Call Me Francois lyrics

"Today, my mother k**ed me" If I'm alive by the time you find this, it's a miracle What else can be said, a vision quest with infrared I'm at a dead end, I bled slow From my chest, held my breath and did my mess and never let go I lived a good life, I never had half-compromise a thing And if I couldn't write, I'd think of other ways to optimize my living No wife, no kids, no anchors Hand over fist to withhold this info from the bankers Don't know my neighbors, didn't take a village to raise me Small-town mentality types thinkin I'm crazy I ain't as weird as they paint me Off color, I'm more gutter, punk, and ritzy More glitz and glamour than others Motherf**ers left me lonely in this designated corner Had a couple walls that build upon, they made me a performer Now shade me from the warmer weather Save me from the slaughterhouse That creeps between the pages where I try to hide my awful mouth Speak discretely to the sheets that seem to be hollow Punched a ladder full of holes, just for my swollen feet to follow Support me all you want, don't let me drop a field of land I'm not going to stop until God is my ceilin fan Spare the lamb, save me from my former-self That creeps between the pages as the line across and locks my self Now this is my box, these are my walls This is when time stops and I'm all that there ever was And I'm all there ever is and I'm all that there ever will be A freeze frame pine box soliloquy… Call me FRANCOIS [Hook:] Call Me Francois (call call call me francois) (Call call call me francois) Take what you can; leave what you must Because y'all comin with us, (motherf**er you comin with us) Fill your bags with the rags that you wear and their necessities Along with the dog-tags and family recipes Rest in peace, if you arrest the pace, movin haste God-speed you black empress, get dressed, we're late She painted my head orange, carved my face with her tongue Emptied out my insides and lit the candle behind my eyes Had the strike of twelve to midnight, winter queen Left with my life rival in a white limousine When he made her dress twirl, it looked like a mushroom cloud Everybody ducked down except for me, that's my destiny He used a broken condom as a corsage I watched him push the rusty pin through her prom dress into her heart k** me already; fill me with confetti Crush me up and sprinkle me over their wedding and her pregnant belly I wasn't ready to suppress these memories, undress the mammaries Forget the family, streamline the enemy, design the penalty Cruel and unusual, commit the felony, unfit for prison duty No man's an Island, except for Island man; he's a ROCK STAR! No man's an Island, except for Island man; he's a ROCK! [Hook]