Howlin' Wolf

Yo, the mark is indelible

Words ain’t just what I’m selling you for revenue

If it ain’t joy and pain it ain't eligible

I'm a professional but this is not a spectacle

I specialize in what I memorize

It's never sanitized no pesticides

The maintainer of a cultural container

For me spitting a flame is a no-brainer

It's from the heart right

What i write sparks light in a dark night

And hook it like Cartwright

I ask the audience y'all alright?

If I catch a second wind it's gonna be a long night

Of ho sayin and hands waving

And fans proclaiming their love for what that man’s saying

If you cry when you're listening

You should know it's a reflеction of mine when I scribbled thеm

I never hid them and bottled them inside myself

I rock and moan like the howlin' wolf

Rock and moan like the howlin' wolf

All my narratives my comparisons

Got me questioning the mirror that I’m staring in

My self deprecation is just arrogance

My self deprecation is just arrogance

Feel that

The suicide of a false martyr

Fail better fall smarter

To be truly sincere is a tall order

I'm disappointed in my enemies

How you gonna abandon me in contending with me?

To see is the one and only job of the seer

But it can't see itself without a mirror

So cry me a river or find me a village

Where the blind leading blind ain't about pointing fingers

They left no stone unturned

When they canceled ancestors for something they just learned

Can't keep it bottled inside myself

I rock and moan like the howlin wolf

Rock and moan like the howlin wolf

All my narratives my comparisons

Got me questioning the mirror that I’m staring in

My self deprecation is just arrogance