CARRY THE FLAME

Slam my foot on the gas, rut my dog into the exhaust

Blood on the mirror, who's real gets lost

Came from the crawlspace, hand full of moss

Tongue like a serpent, breath like frost

Clocks don't tick where the sun don't rise

They buried the light in suburban lies

Hoodie up, rosary tight like wire

I don't preach peace, I preach fire

Raised in the mud, baptised in the static

Sleepwalk the city like a cult fanatic

Eyelids stitched with a prayer and panic

Every beat I spit feel necromantic

You ever see a preacher sweat in gold

Talk 'bout pain, but he never been cold

Never broke bread with a flamebearer soul

Who dance in the dark with their past on hold

Yeah, I met gods in the corners of bodegas

Demons in Timbs, and angels with razors

I don't take sides, I flip both tables

Speak in tongues over midnight fables

Carry the flame

Don't say my name

Marked in blood

Ain't shit changed

Hoods up, ride low

Speak truth in code

We was born in ash

Now we glow, now we glow

Crooked teeth smile with a curse in my throat

I ain't holy, but I ain't no ghost

Breath still steam in a war-torn coat

March through hell in a chain link moat

Every day's judgement, every word's trial

I was born with a torch and a crooked smile

The choir don't sing, just hum that bile

And the streets still bleed like a holy child

No rest for the marked, no sleep for the lost

I paid every price, still carry the cost

I gave up peace for the purpose I crossed

Told the devil he could keep what the church forgot

This ain't rap, it's a sermon in rot

Where the psalms are scrawled in parking lots

Where the saints got guns and the kids got shot

But the flame still spreads, like it or not

I spit for the ones who been quiet too long

For the tired, the twisted, the barely-hold-on

For the boy with a blade and a stolen song

For the girl with a voice but no place to belong

They tried to burn us down, but baby, we are the fire

Carry the flame

Don't say my name

Marked in blood

Ain't shit changed

Hoods up, ride low

Speak truth in code

We was born in ash

Now we glow, now we glow

Eyes roll back, I don't feel no fear

Been dead twice, still shifting gears

Choke on the smoke, baptised in tears

Flamebearer cult been cookin' for years

Tap in veins like lines on maps

Truth in pain, not books or apps

Woke from the dream with a spine of cracks

Now I speak in storms and collapse tracks

Put the match to the veil, watch gods combust

Apathy dead, don't speak, just trust

Every soul that danced in dust

Got a voice now, and it screams through us

Carry the flame

Don't say my name

Marked in blood

Ain't shit changed

Hoods up, ride low

Speak truth in code

We was born in ash

Now we glow, now we glow