Hercules

[Hook] I know I'm just as strong as Hercules Because it's wired in my circuitry And if I'm just as strong as Hercules You'll see I'm just as strong as Hercules [Verse 1] In 1638 they came from Sweden Ship shape settlers late looking for Eden The Delaware tribe wasn't really keen on leaving So they "bought em out" or slaughtered them quick and got to breeding 1659 they built a fortress Stationed soldiers, and gave them horses But now their forces were losing their resources Moving in the living quick as moving out the corpses Started changing courses, when we got the Quakers And they been running town since Cromwell met his maker They didn't take pay cut, Quakers got their cake up The paper came triangulating, trading with Jamaica Now in the 1700s they took care of biz Built the families through some noble marriages Still in WiIlmington, doing what their parents did Living up on 7th street in Mansions they inherited 1800 and in step the du Ponts Irenee du Pont was fleeing the war in France He made the jaunt cause apparently murder rate Was higher for gentle people spitting on the third estate He started working late, he had grand design And when we cut a couple fingers off the hands of time The du Ponts were running under Delaware like panty lines They built a mill for small explosives on the Brandywine But gun powder's just as temperamental As the rich kids with CEO potential It's essential to compete for our emergencies Which brings me to a company called Hercules [Hook] I hope I'm just as strong as Hercules I hope I'm just as strong as Hercules But when it comes to stacking currencies I'd like to be as strong as Hercules [Verse 2] Hercules Gunpowder started kind of small DuPont had it all, were sparkling wall to wall They were ballin' in the fall of 1899 When T.C. du Pont crawled up the Brandywine Now Thomas Coleman, started as a coal man In the mines in Kentucky with his old man Joined whole fam, and flipping the strip tease Went from fig leaves all the way to big cheese Never got on his knees for the love it won him From couple of brothers, Lewis and Russell Dunham They were running shit with Coleman's muscle Lewis wasn't clueless But Russell's on his hustle Now brother Lou, was Coleman's true blue man T.C. would have an idea and Lou drew plans DuPont had seventy percent of GDP When it came to gun powder and TNT They bought even bought Hercules "Scandalous!" Said the government, so brought on anti-trust Litigation, and they split business up in three Into Atlas and DuPont, and Hercules But certainly they were busting heads Put in work at Hercules, then made Russell prez In 1912 up the road from Dover My great great grandfather Russ took over [Hook] I know I'm just just as strong as Hercules I know I'm just just as strong as Hercules Because It's written in my history I know I'm just as strong as Hercules [Verse 3] Russell Dunham, we said Daddy D Or sugar Daddy D to half the family Ran Hercules as an affable property Slap on the wrist from capitalist democracy And so between TC and Papa D A bit improperly they adopt a monopoly And instead of dotting the i's and often crossing the T's They take a walk in the trees, and talk and pocket the cheese And when Russell dropped to his knees, his heirs cashed out Every generation after the shares passed down (So where's that now?) Split between six ladies And my mother had the stocks till the 1980's If Stonewall pays my phone calls If San Juan fills my Scantron If every molten shower out in Okinawa fueled by smoking powder Pays my broken power send my folks the flowers If it's irrelevant to my intelligence Gimme a shotgun, I'm dropping these pink elephants I'll take a tranquilizer shot and sell the sedatives Out in Delaware I'm well aware the fella lives (And what if Iwo Jima) All the skeletons in my closet are dead relatives (And if the Fall of Saigon) And then I grow up to be another screw up (And if the Tet Offensive) But if I blow up It'll be cause they blew up [Hook] My mother loves me more than Hercules My parents work harder than Hercules But if I think of this as burglary I know I'm stronger cause of Hercules