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Heavy Lifting

Release date: 18th October 2024

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"Heavy Lifting" is a track by MC5, from the album Heavy Lifting, released 18th October 2024. Full lyrics are available below.

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MC5

MC5

Lyrics

Heavy Lifting

I'm a man with a massive plan, good drugs at my hand

And I don't give a goddamn

Nihilistic, animalistic, just a bad statistic

Said I didn't matter any way

Live like I lost it all, punch a hole in the wall

Gonna kick 'em in the balls

Soul bangin', hot tang-a-langin'

I'm a man who's a diggin' a dangerous hole

Crime's gonna pay for all that I'm gifted

How we gonna do it?

Heavy lifting

Take what I want, though the world's resisting

How we gonna do it?

Heavy lifting

Cash on the barrel head, no double fistin'

How we gonna do it?

Heavy lifting

Get what I want 'cause I'm raw and gifted

Crime is gonna pay

Heavy lifting

Hear a brutal sound, head, hit it on the ground

'Cause an evil was a done to me

I'ma bring it to you, you're gonna feel it too

Some folks call it liberty

In the land a the free, cops coppin' a plea

You'll be looking at me, and I'll be loaded

Hell broke it all loose below

Heaven had no place to go

Crime is gonna pay for all that I'm gifted

How we gonna do it?

Heavy lifting

Take what I want, though the world's resisting

How we gonna do it?

Heavy lifting

No repent, God get fatalistic

How we gonna do it?

Heavy lifting

Steal from the rich, all the sons of bitches

Crime is gonna pay me

Heavy lifting

Gonna pay me

Gonna pay

Gonna pay

Crime is gonna pay for all my sins

Crime is gonna pay for all

With no resistance now

How we gonna do it?

Heavy lifting

What we gonna call it?

Heavy lifting

All eyes balling

Heavy lifting

Crime is gonna pay

Heavy lifting

How we gonna do it?

Heavy lifting

What we gonna call it?

Heavy lifting

Rome is falling

Heavy lifting

Crime is gonna pay me

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