Lead Paint Test

[Intro: Gravediggaz sample] Thoughts was possesed since the first day of birth [Verse 1: Cavalier] I hold my breath if I walk past on a visit They replastered the last crooked paths of the lizards My uncle is the ghost of Thanksgiving past First floor, front room, Mom's was the last To get the message Now it's just tenants Y'all wasn't here when the bandos was brick skeletons, moss gathered like migrational change Miguel pigeon coop feathers kept breaking the drains These ain't pains, these the regular aches My mom slaved cause she said ownership was breaking the chains Me and my father's main bond was that day we cursed out pigs at our gate Every Black life a thriller Even an infant if the Enfamil don't kill her Pages turn Ezra Jack Keats to iller fates, Arthur Miller Home was base to beatin' the chase from toes tagged in the chiller Now walk past my own door, no welcome homes from the shivers Forgiveness like the cold wind, old men remember [Interlude: Cannibal Ox & Beloved sample] Life's ill Let the children come Let your mother hear you laugh Life might kill Life's ill [Verse 2: billy woods] Half-crushed by the car, dragged herself back and caterwauled Father put her out her misery on the kitchen floor Mom said, "Be proud of her, she made it home" If these walls could talk, they might not, after all, we don't One door been locked since when, why is never said, but we know, we know I left that house for two rooms, but it got a peephole I ain't been back since then, but kids still see ghosts I'm not my ancestors' dreams They in the room wishing they could smoke and eat Lean shadows, dust swirling in sunbeams Shadows reach for my son in dreams Some shadows that deep, shadowing me Crossing that threshold again, they gon' part like the sea Silently pointed to that room, but I swear to the Lord I never had the key Somehow, it's in my hand now, that brass turned green Grass dead in the yard, Philistines chop down the avocado tree I put my ear to the door, but all I could hear was my heartbeat [Refrain] God bless this sweet home, my beloved haunt 124 Bluestone crouched on thin haunch God bless this sweet home, my beloved haunt 124 Bluestone crouched on thin haunch [Verse 3: Moor Mother] We all got our home on the rock here Won't be long Sisters hold on Grandma still singing that freedom song When I close my eyes I can hear Amon We made our own language Black woman blues technology Improvise with the lessons Participate in our own resurrection You can't kill us We built like ghosts coming out of dust Always returning Built like the star of the morning Sharpening swords to strike through the heart of the mourning Star go through hell like a morning run Blues blood like the Love Supreme I'm the dream of my sisters Oh happy day When Jesus washed the blood away On the concrete that day the devil had to pay him Crazy to write this Am I crazy? They trust like me And I'm here from around the way Avengers and innovations Watching the park projects We engineer Black woman with reparations And all y'all gon pay For all the years we had to wait on hands and knees Washing blood off the display Shoveling all the death and decay My people screaming 'stay in my corner' I'm like, let the referee say fight It's fight night bitch My mama used to play The Dells See you in, see you in hell