The Last Song (feat. Everlast)

[Verse 1 - Slaine]

If this the last song I ever wrote

If it were to be the night that these motherfuckers murdered me

If it were to be a car crash swerving into a Mercury

Burgundy splash through the glass when sirens circle me

I will be viewed as violent certainly

Drug-addled so maybe I’ve only written the worst of me

Maybe by me even writing these words I’m tempting the fates

They come from the heart sent from a place

I couldn’t find in my mind, I was blind, I was lost

In a time warp when a mind walked from a sick scene on a sidewalk

Full of suicide thoughts, full of false dreams and hopes that you and I bought

Like dope so we had to find things to cope

Ended up covered in dirt not washed with soap

We ended up learning all about the cost of coke

By the rope and seen some good folks lost from dope

I can’t begin to begin, I’m just horrified

You’re ? me ? this thing, you think it’s glorified

I just hear the pendulum swing again and again

The same song, broken dreams and dead friends

I been where I been now I stand where I am

As a man with a mic in his hand now goddamn

Back holding the crack planet that’s covered with monkeys (?)

As I walk through the halls of recovering junkies

[Chorus - Everlast]

If this was that last song I ever wrote

I’d tell you to grab it by the throat

If this is the last song I ever write

I’ll tell you to stand back up and fight

Live your life, give your life

Stand up and fight, you’re mad

Live your life, give your life

Stand up and fight, you’re mad

[Verse 2 - Slaine]

If these the last words I ever spoke

Would you listen closer?

Would you close your eyes, envision what I’m supposed to be?

Just a ghost of my boys that overdosed

On crushed-up poison, crushed with the noise of the ocean

Way before Affleck or Coka Nostra

Before I had a cashed cheque or a poster

Rode sofa to sofa clutching on the old toaster

Writing on spray paper, grey days of cold culture

Devil got an ulcer with a habit to match it

In a bad temper so I’m grabbing a ratchet

Just to go along with it my stakes are high

To the people this is the way that I say goodbye

To my baby boy Terrance, parents so opposite

Just as smart as momma is, fiery as poppa gets

Just one thing little man you cannot forget

If your will is real nobody else can stop the shit

Shit I’m living proof, take a look and figure it

I grew up in a paradox and rather not forgive the shit

But I had to box out this box and I live with it

Boxed out of detox, they said I’m on some wigger shit

Hated, they were racist so I was facing bigger shit

Seen too many homies die just trying to dig a ditch

I philosophize all my life burning cigarettes

I became smarter but y’all returned to ignorant

[Chorus - Everlast]

If this was that last song I ever wrote

I’d tell you to grab it by the throat

If this is the last song I ever write

I’ll tell you to stand back up and fight

Live your life, give your life

Stand up and fight, you’re mad

Live your life, give your life

Stand up and fight, you’re mad