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Bolt Cutter

from No Kings by Doomtree

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STEF (Hook)
My girl gave me a bolt cutter / We love to break in / We claim all the spaces they forgot they had taken / and all this is ours it’s gonna be what we make it / If only the stars were close enough we would paint them

SIMS
They said we couldn’t have that / Square in the eye right back and said yeah, yeah / We gonna take it anyway that’s that / Anyway we don’t feed out your hand / Look what we built with a grain of sand / It’s the end of the golden era / We don’t buy terror / We define terror / Me and my girl we on the run / but we shoot back when the lawman comes / Hard to sleep when the darkness creeps / We won’t quit til the job is done / We were trying to be quiet / but you incited a riot / Conquer divide it / We learned and applied it / Arrogance, audacity / Your love is from a magazine / My love loads a magazine / and she be shooting all you motherfucks / Duck

DESSA
You know, I’ve seen a little glory / and your trinket isn’t it / Save your voice, I know the story / man abandons sinking ship / I heard you did your dissertation on the rise and fall of man / said the golden era’s over, but we’ll rise and fall again / We lost some ground, we lost some time / Man, look alive, we lost enough / yeah look around, we’re finders now / clean that shit up, you’re losing blood / this ain’t Kansas, show of hands / if you said your prayers / now put em down if you got answers / This place it takes the faith of a mantis

MIKE
She wants to spend the night in graveyards / loves fair, plays hard / but that’s for keeps / yeah that’s for keeps / She’ll break my skin with a needle / I’ll break my hand in the face / that ever questions her equal / Yeah that’s for creeps / There ain’t no ground where I’m looking / We climb up twisted stairs it’s funny / cuz I’m so high / I’m more twisted / than when I see her running / We’re going up to the top / She wants to see our city / dripping in electric pedals / It’s crazy but kinda pretty / She told me ”Watch your step, I’ll follow close / fuck it if we get caught” / The strongest links in a chain are the first to get cut / Together til we all fade / keep the blade in the gut / They kept us in a cage too long / to fake they care about us (Hook)

STEF
The sign said something easily forgotten clearly / and time is not my problem she reminds me nearly hourly / I notice til I don’t / All rules respected less with every step neglecting lessons about trespass / Passing old plans / Lost to the rent /Laugh til we sick, passing a twist / So savage we nag at your standards and spit / With a generally messed up view, says who? / That handle is safe / And we typically don’t give too much weight to a life with a worm’s eye view / We play like birds prey / Anyplace warm stay / Love it / We own our space / Roam home / Any place aimed go

credits

from No Kings, released November 22, 2011
Raps: P.O.S, Sims, Dessa, Mike Mictlan
Beat: Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, P.O.S

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Doomtree Minneapolis

Doomtree is a collective of seven friends who live in Minneapolis and make music together. They’ve earned acclaim for genre- defying recordings, explosive live performances, and their fierce loyalty to one another. Members include P.O.S, Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, Lazerbeak, and Paper Tiger. The DIY outfit has built an international fanbase one city, one show, and one song at a time. ... more

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