Brick Body Complex - Open Mike Eagle.mp3

[00:20.60]Don't call me b***h or rapper
[00:22.80]My mother****ing name is Michael Eagle, I'm sovereign
[00:26.30]I'm from a line of ghetto superheroes, I holla
[00:29.80]I got something to bring to your attention, attention, attention, attention, attention
[00:35.33]I promise you I will never fit in your descriptions, I'm giant
[00:40.54]Don't let nobody tell you nothing different, they lyin'
[00:43.90]A giant and my body is a building, a building, a building, a building
[00:49.67]No services underground
[00:51.06]No sound, when I'm calling home
[00:52.96]City broken my brothers down
[00:54.66]Now I'm standing here all alone
[00:56.49]Sun weathered my monochrome
[00:58.14]My hollow bones David Bowie told me I'm not alone
[01:00.60]I'm overgrown, but these model homes
[01:02.74]Still here, if it's hot or cold
[01:04.50]Still here, if my body move
[01:06.12]Still standing on Cottage Grove
[01:07.88]Still do what I gotta do
[01:09.61]Stone tablet on stone tablet
[01:11.62]I'm old granite, I'm not a tomb
[01:13.07]Y'all can move this whole planet
[01:14.89]I'll hold fast and I follow through
[01:16.74]I promise you
[01:17.55]They took us to the shelters, basement, hallways
[01:20.97]Early morning Sunday, midnight, all day
[01:23.78]Do what the adults say, don't engage in horseplay
[01:27.40]People speak in tongues
[01:31.14]Don't call me b***h or rapper
[01:33.38]My mother****ing name is Michael Eagle, I'm sovereign
[01:36.87]I'm from a line of ghetto superheroes, I holla
[01:40.36]I got something to bring to your attention, attention, attention, attention, attention
[01:45.86]I promise you I will never fit in your descriptions, I'm giant
[01:51.06]Don't let nobody tell you nothing different, they lyin'
[01:54.49]A giant and my body is a building, a building, a building, a building
[02:00.40]My other name is 3-9-2-5
[02:01.71]Make sure that my story's told
[02:03.48]Sixteen or so stories high
[02:05.20]Constructed fifty five years ago
[02:07.03]Winter weather yeah here we go
[02:08.78]Chi Town in my building code
[02:10.54]Stood here for ten million snows
[02:12.25]Wind chilled is all in my bones
[02:14.19]Indivisible in divisible kids and criminals young and old
[02:17.62]No radiator my dungeon cold
[02:19.22]Thunder humming you something slow
[02:21.13]Twenty down and just one to go
[02:22.87]City say they gonna knock me down
[02:24.69]Still wearing my iron hood
[02:26.40]Told y'all you won't stop me now
[02:28.34]Don't call me b***h or rapper
[02:29.86]My mother****ing name is Michael Eagle, I'm sovereign
[02:33.33]I'm from a line of ghetto superheroes, I holla
[02:36.84]I got something to bring to your attention, attention, attention, attention, attention
[02:42.48]I promise you I will never fit in your descriptions, I'm giant
[02:47.49]Don't let nobody tell you nothing different, they lyin'
[02:50.99]A giant and my body is a building, a building, a building, a building
[02:56.35]They took us to the shelters, basement, hallways
[02:59.26]Early morning Sunday, midnight, all day
[03:02.63]Do what the adults say, don't engage in horseplay
[03:06.35]People speak in tongues
[03:09.92]Momma's in the basement smokin' something
[03:13.19]We grew up in hazes, ride checks, dungeons
[03:16.70]Graduation lunches, tried to make us something
[03:20.60]See what we'd become
[03:24.07]Don't call me b***h or rapper
[03:26.23]My mother****ing name is Michael Eagle, I'm sovereign
[03:29.80]I'm from a line of ghetto superheroes, I holla
[03:33.32]I got something to bring to your attention, attention, attention, attention, attention
[03:38.76]I promise you I will never fit in your descriptions, I'm giant
[03:43.97]Don't let nobody tell you nothing different, they lyin'
[03:47.47]A giant and my body is a building, a building, a building, a building
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