"GRACE" - Sage Francis [official video]

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
  • The "COPPER GONE" album and all other Sage Francis merchandise is available at: sfrstore.mysho...
    Strange Famous Record tour dates: sfrstore.com/e...
    Record Label (worldwide): StrangeFamousRe...
    Also on Speech Development in the UK: bit.ly/CopperGo...
    GRACE was produced by ALXNDR BRWN.
    Video directed by Jay Brown, treatment written by Sage Francis,
    Gaffer: David Meiklejohn, FX: Paul Mihailoff, Casting: Krystal Kenville, PA: Brendan Flynn.
    Actors in order of Appearance: Sage Francis, Pamela Chabora, Eileen Hanley, Isaiah Brown, Mike Aberle, Tatum Strunk.
    Special thanks: Irena Mihalinec, Karen True, Allen Baldwin, Susan Robbins.
    FB: / sagefrancis
    Twitter: / sagefrancis
    IG: / sagefrancissfr
    Blog: SageFrancis.net

Комментарии • 246

  • @illneumatik
    @illneumatik 2 года назад +3

    Our favorite rappers are the under dogs they talk about goats the under dog is better then the goat ......we keep our underdogs safe from the mainstream haters mainstream is all haters.....and critics we already know our underdogs artist are dope we understand there craft we value it. Let's keep it that way......I have 1000 fans spand over the internet I'm coo with that they under stand my craft. Anytime I drop a new song it gets some love from my true fans .....haters come out the wood works lol

  • @Dudeinaz420
    @Dudeinaz420 2 года назад +9

    one of the best songs ever made

  • @Kenghiskhan
    @Kenghiskhan 10 лет назад +27

    ...is a music box that haunts me from the top shelf of the bedroom closet, I don't touch it, it just cuddles with my conscience...

  • @WeirdyKatz
    @WeirdyKatz 4 года назад +22

    I'm really bummed that it's almost the end of 2020, and this master piece (entire album) still hasn't blown up.
    I hope one day it will..

    • @sbg_sxe
      @sbg_sxe Год назад +1

      hey bro can’t believe it’s been 3 years

    • @TheRaganator
      @TheRaganator Год назад

      ​@@sbg_sxeany day now, pretty sure

    • @elisepentz1063
      @elisepentz1063 5 месяцев назад

      Probably my favorite album

    • @davidrosensin7985
      @davidrosensin7985 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheRaganator Sage has always flown under the radar and I'm not really sure why. He's got good beats for the club types and great bars for the lyricist types.

    • @TheRaganator
      @TheRaganator 4 месяца назад

      ​@@davidrosensin7985 probably because he doesn't sell out, which I respect.

  • @kyleratia2570
    @kyleratia2570 Год назад +1

    Thaught sage Francis horror core then he's all grace is virtue

  • @angrygoldfish
    @angrygoldfish 10 лет назад +97

    It is so fantastic to have Sage back. I have been listening to the pre-release stream on Spin and it's completely different. It's a full turnaround from Li(f)e and is phenomenal. It's darker, more electronic and obviously written from a very different place. Li(f)e was a folk ballad, a retrospective departure note. Copper Gone is a bitter, resentful, necessary return.

    • @naterod1719
      @naterod1719 10 лет назад +7

      nailed it.

    • @SchiThug2CE
      @SchiThug2CE 10 лет назад +5

      Dude awesome analysis. That's just exactly what I've been thinking when listening to this.

    • @PwnazorusRexx
      @PwnazorusRexx 10 лет назад +2

      Its been an amazing journey to watch Sage progress to the point he's at now. The Best of Times was a very fitting lead in to this album. This album though is something else entirely. Absolutely love it. Great analysis though, you hit the nail of the head.

    • @krisfrederick5001
      @krisfrederick5001 5 лет назад +2

      The last album I bought yes, from a store and communicating with other people, was a healthy distrust. But I still love him, he has his tendencies and style that makes it feel familiar while he explores the great inner mental doors

  • @numbah12time
    @numbah12time 10 лет назад +5

    Now You and Aesop Rock both have a song called "Grace". And I love each one!

  • @nickhodges5293
    @nickhodges5293 9 лет назад +31

    I wish there was a way more people knew about this guy. He's amazing.

    • @nickhodges5293
      @nickhodges5293 9 лет назад +5

      +anon ymous most of the people that don't listen to him probably wouldn't understand the musci and words😂

    • @jaydenmessner5647
      @jaydenmessner5647 6 лет назад +2

      Savage lol

    • @sageone909
      @sageone909 5 лет назад +2

      Truth

  • @Jack_all
    @Jack_all 7 лет назад +6

    I just discovered Sage now i'm binging like Thanksgiving dinner.

  • @kungfucat
    @kungfucat 10 лет назад +26

    Amazing song and badass video. Sage is an incredibly unique wordsmith. His contribution to the music industry is so under-appreciated, it's a crime.

  • @mcdg77
    @mcdg77 7 лет назад +5

    for someone going through the he'll of rehab, sage is and has always been the most honest and lyrically talented (also, unrecognized) Mc that's ever been in the biz. hats off sage. you're my go to when times are tough.

  • @mountainharpie
    @mountainharpie 2 года назад +2

    Virtue is relative at best, nothing worse than a sunset when you're driving due west.... -AD
    Thank you Sage

  • @arthuresparza2617
    @arthuresparza2617 3 года назад +1

    Been listening since 2002's Makeshift Patriot. Scribble Jam Legend.

  • @stuckatthecrossroads
    @stuckatthecrossroads 3 года назад +1

    If I'd had a daughter in this lifetime she would have been named Grace👊🏼💜

  • @AbbottSupreme
    @AbbottSupreme 10 лет назад +8

    Brilliant!!!
    Maximum Respect WordUp!
    BlessUp!

  • @andrew3912
    @andrew3912 6 лет назад +1

    And SAGE one thing that sage does is rid bad spirits !

  • @inkeater
    @inkeater 10 лет назад +6

    SO GREAT! Love what you did with the video.

  • @EmpatheticCatastrophe
    @EmpatheticCatastrophe 2 года назад +2

    Always my favorite by him

  • @blankcapsulerecords6590
    @blankcapsulerecords6590 7 лет назад +2

    big loves to Sage

  • @chrismaw5117
    @chrismaw5117 4 года назад +1

    One of the ogs

  • @Paintlacquer
    @Paintlacquer 10 лет назад +2

    COPPPPPPER GONNNNNNNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @jeppyyale2709
    @jeppyyale2709 2 года назад +2

    This guy is wicked good. Lyrically unreal

  • @nikolaybonapartov7379
    @nikolaybonapartov7379 10 лет назад +11

    I have had a chance to see him few years back when he gave a concert in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Copper Gone is the best album of this year so far. I thought Atmosphere would be hard to beat but Sage made it all at a different level. Although English isn't my native language I enjoy listening to Sage's music. Great artist, dope album. Brilliant!

    • @MichelleBatesANON14
      @MichelleBatesANON14 10 лет назад +1

      Atmosphere has a great new album out also, its called Southsiders.. Its just too bad that Sage Francis, and Atmosphere doesn't get recognition like they deserve..

    • @frdyYo
      @frdyYo 9 лет назад +1

      Michelle Hood Atmoshphere has millions of views on all his videos! but both are great artists

    • @jmothafingp
      @jmothafingp 9 лет назад

      +Michelle Hood
      that's cause its good music not shit being shoved down the media dick choose to live on

    • @ryangraber7929
      @ryangraber7929 5 месяцев назад

      Copper gone is a masterpiece!!! One of the best albums I've ever hear when it comes to spoken word

  • @nwojczak
    @nwojczak 10 лет назад +3

    keeping life real as usual

  • @Southpaw80baby
    @Southpaw80baby 10 лет назад +2

    Big or small we walk with grace and dignity threw the shadows...no more copper gone I can see lights from the dungeon Rawrrr Rawrrr

  • @Riya-of6wj
    @Riya-of6wj 3 года назад +4

    I have been listening to this one for years. Sage is amazing. I wish more people knew about this fire

  • @jbenson1984
    @jbenson1984 10 лет назад +3

    Stand out song on first few listens to album. The build of the music is eerily powerful. Sage shows he's untouchable on Copper Gone.

  • @quintonhaddock78
    @quintonhaddock78 3 года назад +2

    Thank you Sage. You inspire introspection, and provide a grandiose view of the inner turmoil writhing in the souls of humanity.
    You are needed, you are amazing, you are you, and the world is a better place for it. So once again, thank you Sage.

  • @PrimeNovusofficial
    @PrimeNovusofficial 9 лет назад +4

    beautifully composed

  • @AWO7_BigToph
    @AWO7_BigToph 4 года назад +1

    sage is the truth, metaphors with no filter!

  • @bobkenneth1236
    @bobkenneth1236 5 лет назад

    This is the heart beat of the sage
    Locked up in a waist of time
    And unavoidable rage
    Staring into dirty coffee cup
    Make It up lies to surprise all of us
    With his wisdom that’s in him
    Just to earn a simple dime so that he can spend more time ... with his cats
    Imagine that...

  • @1SattaSWE
    @1SattaSWE 10 лет назад +4

    Can never get enough of this genius

  • @ElijahInTheWilderness
    @ElijahInTheWilderness 9 лет назад +5

    One of my faves by Sage.

  • @slumericansk8rat727
    @slumericansk8rat727 9 лет назад +2

    This is where is all began holy crap!

  • @christophensauve5899
    @christophensauve5899 4 года назад +1

    So much wisdom.

  • @lewisebdon2292
    @lewisebdon2292 8 лет назад +4

    love sage francis
    love that his music is a kick in the nut to depression, abuse/bullying and the like

  • @NancyNegative0808
    @NancyNegative0808 8 лет назад +4

    I'm in love with a song.

  • @212inspire
    @212inspire 9 лет назад +2

    I would LOVE to see him live

    • @ashtonsoeder
      @ashtonsoeder 9 лет назад +1

      +SkippyTay Takers top 5 shows i have ever been to! and ive been to many many concerts! he is amazing! and i def recommend any chance you get to, yea

    • @joebloggs7421
      @joebloggs7421 8 лет назад +1

      +SkippyTay Takers I saw him live nine years ago, before the show he lay down for a 10 min sleep beside us and I said to my brother "thats not sage is it? I dunno, just let him sleep" what a show he put on. It was up there with the Roots concert.

  • @salarymankintaro1
    @salarymankintaro1 10 лет назад +7

    Why would anyone give this golden nugget a thumbs down
    pure gold sage :)

  • @ipunkl
    @ipunkl 10 лет назад +3

    Woohoo, great choice for a 2nd video!!! Can't wait for June 20th!!

  • @BobLambeth
    @BobLambeth 4 года назад +1

    No MC, poet, anyone, can attack your emotions like Sage can. Damn. I can listen tot his album a million times and will elicit the same emotions from me every time. Keep it up barbudo.

  • @TheCrederer
    @TheCrederer 7 лет назад +2

    glad to see sage doing so well. I remember watching videos of him on RUclips that had like 20-40 thousand views and now most of them are half a million+. I don't like hip hop for the most part but sage Francis is one of the artists I listen to the most. His lyrics give me goosebumps even after hearing the same song for the hundredth time.

  • @MrE30ftw
    @MrE30ftw 10 лет назад +4

    awesome song, awesome video.

  • @specifictubes
    @specifictubes 10 лет назад +2

    This was my favourite track on the album on first listen. Great video too.

  • @ismailakkus3534
    @ismailakkus3534 9 лет назад +1

    greetings from Turkey

  • @loorlegend
    @loorlegend 10 лет назад +1

    WOW!! That was great.

  • @stevenigo5950
    @stevenigo5950 8 лет назад +3

    these lyrics ARE ALL THE WAY HOME MATE BRILLIANTLY DONE 1LUV

  • @ripk123
    @ripk123 10 лет назад +16

    3 of my fav mc's all dropped fantastic albums this year
    canibus
    atmosphere
    sage francais

  • @220IrishBoss
    @220IrishBoss 10 лет назад +10

    I opened up for him and a good chat with him. Pure legend and brilliant performer !!!

  • @nikkymonroe2853
    @nikkymonroe2853 9 лет назад +2

    my new favorite Sage Francis song

  • @danieloar072
    @danieloar072 6 лет назад +2

    Going through a break up and its so hard to let go of the past. This song is helping me so much. Much love

  • @noahm3009
    @noahm3009 8 лет назад +2

    I love sage Francis, every song he writes seems to just find its way into my life somehow, keep writing these masterpieces man.

  • @aubreyjones7492
    @aubreyjones7492 10 лет назад +3

    never fails to impress

  • @ahamp121
    @ahamp121 7 лет назад +3

    I've loved this song (whole album really) since it came out, but this was my first time seeing the video. Almost pissed myself at the end lol!

  • @matkaiser8288
    @matkaiser8288 8 лет назад +3

    Such a great album. This whole release was put together so well. I knew the album would be good, but it just blew me away.

  • @Finn69420
    @Finn69420 10 лет назад +3

    Such a great video. Can't wait to see this live in Missoula Wednesday evening! Very excited!

  • @beeetleborg
    @beeetleborg 10 лет назад +2

    Sage is back on form, loving the new album!

  • @memstyle
    @memstyle 10 лет назад +2

    Nice song, glad you're still putting out real music

  • @urbanbassslayers
    @urbanbassslayers 6 лет назад +1

    Music to Slay fish to .. Love this Track..

  • @moniquebegay5800
    @moniquebegay5800 9 лет назад +2

    I love this song

  • @umasrevenge
    @umasrevenge 10 лет назад

    "Never Pray Again" great book...

  • @lisamonet7967
    @lisamonet7967 7 лет назад +1

    This song is amazing. Lithium - it's almost synchronistic. The words in this song and the things going on in my life. I wouldn't be surprised if a black limosuine pulled up in the driveway now lol.

  • @aesop2020
    @aesop2020 10 лет назад +12

    I'm part Irish Goodbye, other part Harry Houdini.
    One of my fav lines on this fucking awesome album...

    • @chaosinorderrr
      @chaosinorderrr 10 лет назад +1

      according to Rapgenius it's "pot Irish goodbye"... "Part" makes most sense though.

    • @strangefamousrecords
      @strangefamousrecords  8 лет назад +17

      That site isn't as genius as it purports.

  • @lukej369
    @lukej369 10 лет назад +4

    Woah. Genuine chills, that was incredible. Beautiful filmography and concept execution to all artists, both musical and otherwise.

  • @wonerable
    @wonerable 10 лет назад +2

    Very nice....Just when I was gonna ask about him. I see this...

  • @alexandertrain2036
    @alexandertrain2036 10 лет назад +1

    awesome !!

  • @shyko95
    @shyko95 10 лет назад +10

    So damn good.

  • @Bmp1113
    @Bmp1113 10 лет назад +2

    damn sage, this is album is on one the best Ive ever heard. The music is great and complex. The lyrics are deep and clever. The whole album is just on a different level.

  • @robair9911
    @robair9911 10 лет назад +2

    I feel it

  • @francisdarling3544
    @francisdarling3544 4 года назад +1

    This💜😍💯 always followed your work. I feel you. Stay true and you, Sage!

  • @nil4309
    @nil4309 10 лет назад +2

    Good to Hear Sage again i was worried l[i]fe was the Final album!
    been a fan since Waiting Tables and Copper Gone definitely some of Sages best material....

  • @bicstic8
    @bicstic8 4 года назад +1

    Thanks man. Putting my feelings into word. Respect

  • @AlexandraTLeigh
    @AlexandraTLeigh 7 лет назад +2

    one of my favorite songs. thank you for keeping it 100 sage francis. you get me through some of those moments i fear ill end up a documentary on investigation discovery

  • @hip-hp__beynd5511
    @hip-hp__beynd5511 10 лет назад +6

    perfect!

  • @RobLevel
    @RobLevel 10 лет назад +6

    Nice work man

  • @Shiki-TMNS
    @Shiki-TMNS 10 лет назад +1

    This is great. Awesome track and message

  • @Rezin603
    @Rezin603 10 лет назад +2

    The end of this gives me chills. FUCK YEA !!!!

  • @vickygomes6365
    @vickygomes6365 9 лет назад +2

    I

  • @MalcolmXIII
    @MalcolmXIII 10 лет назад +2

    Gongrats mate! I am very impressed with your new work. Looking forward to see you in the Manchester live performance. Hopefully you will play songs from the Non Prophets project as well! Keep it real

  • @theprodigy4585
    @theprodigy4585 9 лет назад +2

    Thumbs up if a girl called Grace broke your heart!

  • @justinmoore3653
    @justinmoore3653 10 лет назад +4

    This speaks to me in so many ways... I love your music its like a window into me.!

  • @fuierago1
    @fuierago1 4 года назад +1

    wow

  • @Bakutakamine
    @Bakutakamine 10 лет назад

    Never heard him before. His flow reminds me of Brother Ali while his rhyme style reminds me of Slug. Good shit.

  • @seandenzelrhymer760
    @seandenzelrhymer760 6 месяцев назад +1

    Ox for an ox

  • @kevfile8992
    @kevfile8992 10 лет назад +1

    Maaan, Sage, you've been busy in my absence. I've missed so much material since your Sea Lion and Escape Artist days. What an amazing set of stories to come back to. No, I won't be torrenting your new album. This is one I actually don't mind buying. Keep doing your thing man, much respect.

  • @seamaf
    @seamaf 10 лет назад +3

    I can't stop listening to this song. This album is everything I expected and more, Sage. The beat of this song is among my favorite of all your songs.

  • @lisamonet7967
    @lisamonet7967 7 лет назад

    You and Mom are both graceless cannibal types. Hide behind false facades. point fingers at others but never stop to examine your own deeds or lack of in the mirror. Only admire yourselves for stepping over others or tearing them to shreds to get where you are. Bravo! How does it feel sleeping with one eye open every night?

  • @waywardwitch6958
    @waywardwitch6958 2 года назад +3

    ★LYRICS★
    Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace
    Grace is a little girl who wouldn't wash her face
    Grace is a virtue, virtue is a mean
    Between two extremes, one of excess, one of deficiencies
    Patience is a virtue, virtue is a dirty stain
    Cleanliness is next to godliness and isn't worth the pain
    Grace is a virtue, virtue of the pageant
    And this is not a love ballad
    You suggested Lithium to get me better again
    That is unless if we, uhm, get together again
    But that ain't gonna happen, never again
    Send my well wishes to your nutritionist
    Your dietician, your pharmacist
    Your personal trainer and your accomplices
    Your partners in thought crime
    Your criminal group thinking doctors online
    There is a difference between what is and isn't
    Business and friendship
    Parental assistance and an assistant
    A permanent solution and a quick-fix
    A fit body and sound mind
    A hundred hour weeks, and dangerous amounts of downtime
    You got a lot to offer, but you're not an author
    If I kill your persecution complex that don't make you a martyr
    Drop the styrofoam cross, you can't walk on water
    You could use it for floatation, not a flying saucer
    You suggested professional help like I wasn't mentally well
    What I was feeling wasn't mentally felt
    Duly noted, you'll be quoted in the eulogy
    It'll be passed off as poetry between you and me
    I know you know the difference between confession and conjecture
    Prosity and needing to be lectured to a meet up
    The student becomes the teacher, the son becomes a parent
    From a scab to teamster, the sun becomes apparent
    From a chemical imbalance to a litany of habits
    And this is not a love ballad
    You should drown me in that womanhood and teach me how to swim
    Beat me with my own hands and tie down my limbs
    Suffer for my sins or let me suffer from within
    But in the end this is not a love ballad
    We can battle with tattoos to cover up the bruises
    The first to show any sign of discomfort loses
    For the first time in a long time you're not who my muse is
    And this is not a love ballad
    I'm not thirsty, I just got hungry eyes, you look appetizing
    And from a distant stare broken eye contact in disrepair
    Sometimes I disappear, but now you see me
    A part Irish goodbye, other part Harry Houdini
    Put my feet to the fire, I got Satan on my heels
    If it's all about prestige, just wait for the reveal
    I got a new bag of tricks to turn, a new black magic woman bitch to burn
    So much for live and learn
    Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace
    Grace is a little girl who wouldn't wash her face
    Grace is a virtue, virtue is a mean
    Between two extremes, one of excess, one of deficiencies
    Patience is a virtue, virtue is a dirty stain
    Cleanliness is next to godliness and isn't worth the pain
    Grace is a virtue, virtue of the pageant
    And this is not a love ballad
    Is a music box that haunts me from the top-shelf of the bedroom closet
    I don't touch it, it just cuddles with my conscience
    I'm on constant guard, jittery the whole night
    Clinging the sheets because it sings to me slow like
    And that's her song running through an hourglass
    Built with two wine bottles that I found in a flower patch
    Planting it in quicksand, refusing to sink fast
    Abusing me slow, I hear the music and I think back
    Before the fall, before the set up
    Before the interest in sex even developed
    I fell in love with distance as an ex's best friend
    There used to be revenge, but i couldn't see no end
    So I had to switch the lens in and focus on some flesh
    No more clinging to old threads

  • @AllOneVoice
    @AllOneVoice 10 лет назад +4

    This is a phenomenal album from my favorite artist. Glad he's come back to prove what's real an that he's doing it. This song is one of the big ones on Copper Gone to me, and this video gave me chills several times! Love you guys!

  • @jorgomafa
    @jorgomafa 8 лет назад +3

    Greetings from Finland! See you at Hoodfest 2016!

  • @MrMarcren
    @MrMarcren 6 лет назад +1

    People like him is who really inspired me make shift patriots is a classic and the mermaids too

  • @illneumatik
    @illneumatik 2 года назад

    This what a immortal techniques are made of...

  • @elliotsheller7442
    @elliotsheller7442 10 лет назад +2

    damn good

  • @Necrotharsifix
    @Necrotharsifix 10 лет назад +2

    Sage Francis droppin' that Aristotle tho!

  • @lexusinfante2942
    @lexusinfante2942 10 лет назад

    sage is my inspiration I can't go a day without listening to him because the music today is just a bunch of people saying nigga in almost all of their lyrics

  • @sherpaderpdingo3405
    @sherpaderpdingo3405 5 лет назад +2

    Ah yes the maraschino cherries with canned pineapple on the fake ham. Classic Easter meal right there.

  • @headcold7250
    @headcold7250 3 года назад

    Be supreme in the art of learning until your mind is righteous and Good is the only state you are until you die. Until exploration of the heavens, walk your righteous path for its laden with fruits to nourish your soul. as for your brothers and sisters of our world, your path binds you to them inherently. Let no soul perish alone, lay your life down for any stranger, give everything you have left once your own body is fed. To influence and inspire is not righteous for each of our will must remain free in full, to choose learning and righteous practices or to carve a different path into time and space . It will come, the choice to share the flora and fauna and firmament of your path with the grace of another. In knowing righteousness do not question or pause in sharing it. Give all, the deepest complexities and sensations. The directions are not yours. Not even merely to keep within unless it does lack impactful meaning. One righteous and wholly honest days work bares the soul I describe, a day of labors taxing both internally and externally, using precise skills refined by endless study, movements or exercise each step rewarding to the point of immeasurable understanding of what enlightenment is or may be. To achieve enlightenment is to follow a path with footprints on which you are not near the soul’s home, but wandering in hopes of meeting criteria for a preconceived idea to which you have contributed no more than a desire, which is by definition selfishness.
    Thanks. Hc7777

  • @ScrublordCody
    @ScrublordCody 10 лет назад +3

    Waaaaaaait one minute here! This isn't the full song! The ending is the best part D:

  • @JohnWayne2122
    @JohnWayne2122 9 лет назад +7

    Lyrics:
    [Hook:]
    Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace
    Grace is a little girl who wouldn’t wash her face
    Grace is a virtue, virtue is a mean
    Between two extremes, one of excess, one of deficiencies
    Patience is a virtue, virtue is a dirty stain
    Cleanliness is next to godliness and isn’t worth the pain
    Grace is a virtue, virtue of the pageant
    And this is not a love ballad
    [Verse 1:]
    You suggested Lithium to get me better again
    That is unless if we, uhm, get together again
    But that ain’t gonna happen, never again
    Send my well wishes to your nutritionist
    Your dietician, your pharmacist
    Your personal trainer and your accomplices
    Your partners in thought crime
    Your criminal group thinking doctors online
    There is a difference between what is and isn’t
    Business and friendship
    Parental assistance and an assistant
    A permanent solution and a quick-fix
    A fit body and sound mind
    A hundred hour weeks, and dangerous amounts of downtime
    You got a lot to offer, but you’re not an author
    If I kill your persecution complex that don’t make you a martyr
    Drop the styrofoam cross, you can’t walk on water
    You could use it for floatation, not a flying saucer
    You suggested professional help like I wasn’t mentally well
    What I was feeling wasn’t meant to be felt
    Duly noted, you’ll be quoted in the eulogy
    It’ll be passed off as poetry between you and me
    I know you know the difference between confession and conjecture
    Prosity and needing to be lectured to a meet up
    The student becomes the teacher, the son becomes a parent
    From a scab to teamster, the sun becomes apparent
    From a chemical imbalance to a litany of habits
    And this is not a love ballad
    [Verse 2:]
    You should drown me in that womanhood and teach me how to swim
    Beat me with my own hands and tie down my limbs
    Suffer for my sins or let me suffer from within
    But in the end this is not a love ballad
    We can battle with tattoos to cover up the bruises
    The first to show any sign of discomfort loses
    For the first time in a long time you’re not who my muse is
    And this is not a love ballad
    I’m not thirsty, I just got hungry eyes, you look appetizing
    And from a distant stare broken eye contact in disrepair
    Sometimes I disappear, but now you see me
    A part Irish goodbye, other part Harry Houdini
    Put my feet to the fire, I got Satan on my heels
    If it’s all about prestige, just wait for the reveal
    I got a new bag of tricks to turn, a new black magic woman bitch to burn
    So much for live and learn
    [Hook]
    [Outro:]
    Is a music box that haunts me from the top-shelf of the bedroom closet
    I don’t touch it, it just cuddles with my conscience
    I’m on constant guard, jittery the whole night
    Clinging the sheets because it sings to me slow like
    And that’s her song running through an hourglass
    Built with two wine bottles that I found in a flower patch
    Planting it in quicksand, refusing to sink fast
    Abusing me slow, I hear the music and I think back
    Before the fall, before the set up
    Before the interest in sex even developed
    I fell in love with distance as an ex’s best friend
    There used to be revenge, but i couldn’t see no end
    So I had to switch the lens in and focus on some flesh
    No more clinging to old threads