Phantoms

[Intro: Sample] "Phantoms! Eerie tales of suspense—" [Verse 1: MF DOOM] Yeah, just a phantom anthem Traveled in a trio, or maybe just abandoned It's random, found one, take your grandson for ransom Got 'im with his hands all in the cookie jar Playin' hooky, gettin' drunk, later on, took your car Soul of Mischief, "Til infinity," got a bone to pick And the phantom will forever remain on your shit list The other one give good advice, well dressed, real nice Knows your worth, sets the price, keep you out the hood for life Think that would suffice, but really, it's just the beginnin' Third one got you drunk and high, runnin' round here chasin' women Wife wonder how you diss fam and disgrace your children Dudes is wired like that, it's still an all-case buildin' Drats and double-drats, shorties with the bubble fats Ay caramba, trouble jack, phantom steal another track Bet your life, double that, think you havin' fun in fact Slip her one too many times, may not be no coming back (Coming back, coming back) Never let it happen Lose your phone, tell side-chick, "Get to packin'" Other phantom write it all down and get to rappin' [Verse 2: Open Mike Eagle] I fought a ghost in my apartment, he had too many hitpoints He bested me and told me I should've invested in Bitcoin And then he lit joints and offered me a Fanta can He drove a Phantom then he started singing Phantogram Well damn, I'm like, "Isn't this convenient?" It didn't take a genius to sniff it as somethin' fiendish He introduced himself and said, "What's your name?" For the next four days, we played the exquisite corpse game I sold my soul to him for some new hightops Told the Phantom guide my hand and I drew Cyclops Best wrestlers get possessed to do high spots Hey, I stay toasty at Smoke and Noob Saibot, yeah My man was kinda the best ghost He gifted me a new rap book that's prob'ly a Death Note He was the homie though, we shared the same virtues He showed me his soul once; now, I only wear church shoes Turned out he wasn't dead, just very fatigued My apologies, I buried the lede I'm real bad at tellin' stories y'all Prob'ly shoulda told y'all from the beginning that he wasn't, he wasn't really dead [Chorus: Kendra Morris & Inspectah Deck] Why do these phantoms always wind up haunting me? Yeah Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why do these phantoms always wind up haunting me? Yeah (Czar) Phantoms, phantoms, phantoms, phantoms Phantoms, phantoms, me, yeah (the phantoms) Why do these phantoms always wind up haunting me? Yeah Phantoms, phantoms, phantoms, phantoms Phantoms, phantoms, haunt-haunt-haunt-haunt [Verse 3: Inspectah Deck] Yo, I used to hop the 3 train, always out for more wax Smoke blunts with danger, trouble at my doorstep Stared death in the face, left him with a sore neck The Devil himself can't resist the raw dialect Clashed with the titans, robbed stores with Lucifer Seduced a temptress, threesome with Medusa The phantoms, they surround me like Dolby sound Like they seen a live nigga in a ghost town Never was afraid of the dark, I was goodie man I learned early, the boogeyman is fam They say I'm evil, and my mind is twisted I say I'm godly, my lines is wicked Haley Joel Osment, I see fake niggas Gravediggers, goons, trolls, shapeshifters I always feel like somebody watchin' me Slayin' demons on the reg, shotgun with Constantine [Verse 4: Esoteric] Fuck a phantom, I'm fed up with phony fantasies Fake fugazi fantasies fam, we far from family Foes feelin' free to forge with fetti and fame They fabricated, fascinating like a Frank Frazetta frame Fools falsify facts, friends figure it's fine They fail to, fix the fraudulent and formulate a Frankenstein For real, your focus fuzzy like footage of The Flash Or the first pharoah fossil found, fetch a flask Force it (force it, force it) down fast, cause flood's in the forecast You don't know a fraction, forget the half Follow, your financial future's finished Phantom's got you free-fallin' for females and fish for the fictitious [Chorus: Kendra Morris & Inspectah Deck] Why do these phantoms always wind up haunting me? Yeah Phantoms, phantoms, phantoms, phantoms Phantoms, phantoms, me, yeah Why do these phantoms always wind up haunting me? Yeah Phantoms, phantoms, phantoms, phantoms (bad company, bad karma) Phantoms, phantoms, haunt-haunt-haunt-haunt (bad luck) Phantoms, phantoms, phantoms, phantoms Phantoms, phantoms, haunt-haunt-haunt-haunt-haunt-haunt-haunt-haunt