Pommelhorse

[Verse 1: E L U C I D] It started as a lesson of achieving dreams and reaching fantastical heights Ended with us watching the Challenger rocket smoldering on the black and white Flame licked flame, like lovers do Feelings bum rush logic, tend to tumble through, pardon who Open sky, click the box, they cut the lights in the room In the summer before 9/11, I slept with my boots on where I could This ain't no boo-hoo retelling, I was still killing my square, I was good I got where I needed to be a few days before we breathed different Hammering horseshoes, a pale horse is fitting Clean entrance, blood stamped, services rendered, paid in full Booming succession, I'm on the roof across the river Every nerve at attention, no reception, soul in suspension I'm grounded but sinked into African burial ground from here to Seneca village You can't dig a hole fast enough, deep enough, wide as fuck Built for comfort, not for speed Peak optimization of Earth, digest the meat Scream therapy Coaxing melodies from the noise You know, I never lost my song [Chorus: Curly Castro] When the moon and the planet and the stars collapse Collapse, collapse, collapse, collapse When the planet and the stars and the moon collapse Collapse, collapse, collapse, collapse When the stars and the moon and the planet collapse Collapse, collapse, collapse, collapse When the moon and the planet and the stars collapse Collapse, collapse, collapse, collapse [Verse 2: billy woods] With that mortgage, tornado insurance That house will be my old lady's coffin Ill winds, more often snatch negroes off porches Took the curtain down, Oz Corporation to corporation remorseless Bureaucrats cautious, calling corporate, calling corporate Wind rattle your shingle, gavel bang Now you human chattel, the king thought to mingle with the rabble Fell back leaking The people, with claws reaching, eyes like sequins While candles glow, play my mother's piano in a bando Dueling banjoes, get money (get money) But these pennies feel like they can cover manholes Shoot hick cops, Rambo, Mujahideen Stallone A simpler time, busting Mexican brick into dime Feeling like Pennywise, what a time to be alive Tackle over chicken thighs, Church's fried Boarded up, we still inside, goat's hide While you fuck jealous Might trip you on the stairs to the cellar Show you forever, together, numb, great Sichuan pepper sprayed awake The leper'll tell you straight Family and friends'll lie to your face Lie to the last day Lie after that while you molder in the grave [Chorus: Curly Castro] When the moon and the planet and the stars collapse Collapse, collapse, collapse, collapse When the planet and the stars and the moon collapse Collapse, collapse, collapse, collapse When the stars and the moon and the planet collapse Collapse, collapse, collapse, collapse When the moon and the planet and the stars collapse Collapse, collapse, collapse, collapse [Outro] My brother wanted to build a zoo, he wanted to build a utopia. Because when he looked around him, all he seen was destruction in our neighborhood, you know what I'm saying? How much, how much did it cost to feed a tiger, like for a week? Shit, man, yo, that cost families, man, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes you know, you got money coming in, sometimes you don't got money coming in, so the grind is crazy, you understand what I'm saying? Sometimes I had to go in the supermarket and take chicken So if it got hungry, did you get scared? If that shit got hungry, then I had to go take chicken