Niggardly (Blocked Call)

[Verse 1: E L U C I D]

Whatever happened to not caring?

Just not caring

Thirty missed calls

Sixty minute sprawl

Line stepper holding long shadow

Duck and parry

Shouldn't be this hard

We're not splitting atoms

String sounds can make people turn another way, today

Laid a feather on a scale and ripped my heart out

Weigh it up

LED numeric trigger, sucking air out of my lungs quicker

Blocked call, voicemail still hit ya

Like building walls

And throwing dead pigeons over

I need a bigger ladder and a blowgun for the floaters

[Interlude]

This Tuesday: Hank Mobley to Bill Hardman

Village Vanguard, Monday

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From Tuesday, Sonny Rollins

[Chorus: billy woods]

Admittedly niggardly

I won't even givе these niggas bad enеrgy

I peep then commit it to memory

I sleep knowing these niggas is dead to me

I eat knowing I'm starving my enemies

The aperitif bittersweet, no pleasure

My heart pump ketamine

My heart pump ketamine

[Verse 2: billy woods]

When you have it, it's not about fast or slow

It's the flow of traffic

Talk 'til you blue in the face, bro

It's like UPS, they still gon' fuck up the package

I'd rather bring it myself

All I had was an address in Maspeth

But I know that's not really the address

Knelt to worship, sis hiked up her habit

Think in cursive, spit jagged fragments

Every word out my mouth drag my people backwards

Big tooly I deal with

Niggas green around the gills, niggas sick

Niggas can say what they like but if we ever did the deal

Everybody got they split (Er'ybody)

Down to the last red cent

Down to the last

I don't steal, cheat, nuh see it?

No matter what the weak heart say

[Chorus: billy woods]

Admittedly niggardly

I won't even give these niggas bad energy

I peep then commit it to memory

I sleep knowing these niggas is dead to me

I eat knowing I'm starving my enemies

The aperitif bittersweet, no pleasure

My heart pump ketamine

My heart pump ketamine

[Verse 3: billy woods]

I write when my baby's asleep

I sit in the room in the dark

I listen to him breathe

I walk 'em to school, then the park

Hold they little hands when we cross the street

I think about my brothers that's long gone and this was all they ever dreamed (All they ever dreamed)

People I lost to COVID-19 but it ain't do a thing to the fiends

I have to admit I enjoy watching you wander the wilderness

You betrayed your brother, burnt every bridge

When your end come, you'll be alone

When the end come I'll actually answer the phone just to drink your pain (Yup)

God marked Cain so nobody could hurt him

Stained by that first murder

Hard rain, face upturned

A sun-blackened goat herder

7.62 in the bandolier, the Sahara stretch

Fear follow you home, a cuckoo in the nest

Voodoo the cause of death, I got that new-new fresh

I got no use for light deps

I shine a light in the depths

It sound dark but I'm Easy

Devil in a Blue Dress

[Chorus: billy woods]

Admittedly niggardly

I won't even give these niggas bad energy

I peep then commit it to memory

I sleep knowing these niggas is dead to me

I eat knowing I'm starving my enemies

The aperitif bittersweet, no pleasure

My heart pump ketamine

My heart pump ketamine

[Outro]

I have to change my phone card, though

Okay?

I'll holla at you in about, maybe a couple months