Trial By Fire

[Skit]

Yew, what the fuck is up?

Made it

You see that fuckin' dude try to cut me off?

Go up in here and get a beer

Another shot

Blues party

Uh, yeah. Woo woo! What up Gill?

What up mane?

Hey y'all

I see my boy Yelawolf comin' up in the house, mane

What! Look like -got his boys with him too, mane

Hey, can you grab me a beer?

Is that brother Bones out there?

Ah, it look like DJ Klever, too, mane

Hey, Yela! Man, come up here and give these folks somethin'

I need to go get me a drink, mane

Let him come on, ladies and gentlemen

Yela, Bones, DJ Klever

Yo, let's freestyle some shit

That's right

[Intro]

Check, check, check

Let's go Klever

(*skretches*)

This is Bones Owens to my right, right here

To my left DJ Klever

My name is Yelawolf

This is Trial By Fire

[Verse 1]

Uh

Back in 1979 it was a cold day in December

Mamma peeled the paint off the wall, screamin'

Babie's on the way

They rushed her to the hospital in that old Chevy truck

Running 90 miles an hour down them back roads

Blowing past the sheriff,  hid in the woods, smoke bellowing off the engine

Running hot, must have been a sign

They rushed her to the emergency room

And barely made it to the bed

A few minutes later I was screaming for my first breath

"A little devil," the doctor said

He's got that look in his eye, ya know?

Reminds me of mischief

Yeah this ones gonna be trouble I can tell it

And then the lights went

Then mamma said doctor something's burning, I can smell it

[Hook]

And it was trial by fire

I'm just under a plane singing to burn it down

You better watch your step

When I come around

[Verse 2]

Damn right, uh

You could hear lightning for miles around

And oak trees hitting the ground

The wind tore holes on that old Dixie flag on the capitol steps

Change is coming, my great grand mamma said

Quietly clutching her Bible, sitting in a rocking chair, smoking a cigarette

And the wood creaked beneath the porch and the old dog moaned and cried

As the sirens passing by

And Mr. Williams brought a mean batch of that moonshine to the wake

You know one comes and one goes as they say

And they laid a flower on the grave

Buried on December 29th for robbing a bank

And killed by the police, see you in the next life old friend

Little did he know, his old friend was back again

As the son of Sheila Diane

[Hook]

And it was trial by fire

I'm just under a plane singing to burn it down

You better watch your step

When I come around

[Verse 3]

You know how the story goes, c'mon

See me, I'm a curious soul

A stray bullet to some a chatter and whisper at night and the head of a following storm, a rebel at heart, a devilish grin

A leader of men, a preacher at ten

I was already in to spiritual sin

Back in the saddle again

12s in the back of the trunk, making it rattle again

Giving them nothing but punk

Living, the baby, the babie's got powers, the baby is haunted

Fuck a church, I'm a confession

Professional, public anointed

Came from the wrong side of the tracks

Bring the wrong crowds out the back

Keeping these gutter dogs raised

With these alley way cats

Seen what these others can't see

My poetry is a reflection of life looking up from the bottom

And climbing that fucking tree, but I brought a chainsaw

I come to build a house up out of it, chopping

Limbs off this culture, and putting soliders up inside of it

Nails, brick, mortar, board up the windows

For the tornado, I'm a fatal blow to these honorable foes

Bag up the hot potato

[Hook]

And it was trial by fire

I'm just under a plane singing to burn it down

You better watch your step

When I come around