Kings & Queens - DJ Shadow, Run the Jewels

Greetings to all, aye

Greetings to all, uh

Greetings to all

Here from the edge of a wall

Up on a ledge where I fall

Might be the way to make sense of it all

Certainly worked for the dog

I’m talkin' pet of my mama’s mama

Grandma-momma

Jumped for his life, lost it instead

Didn’t like heights

I gotta guess, liked starving to death even less (Aye)

Living room was a badly-lit mess

On the inside of the room there’s no breath

Part of me care what if I get it wrong

We never met, this is only a song

I heard the story, just once with my mom

She said the bottles you held didn’t last very long

When you gave out, no one knew that you gone

Or knew that you couldn’t bring food to the dog

Damn, look at that beast

Lickin', gnawin' and that made her cheeks utter deceased

Little white noise comin' out the TV

Warmin' up, blowin' the heat

Door to the balcony, crack just enough to hear honkin' of horns in the street

Wonder how long little Fluffy just stood there and stared

No one would see that he jumpin' naive

Some families don’t rise, they drop from the sky

Four little paws and a bark to the gods

Born from the death of a queen in New York

Mama took that and fought with those odds

It’s in the blood

Fluffy just jumped

To me he’s always been a hero unsung

Mama jumped too like «Fuck it, I’m here»

And I’ma jump too like «Fuck it, let’s go»

'Cause I don’t really see no other clear road

It’s just get there to grow to get old

Really can’t rest, not takin' that risk

Fluffy done jumped, how am I gonna bitch?

Backflip the fuck off a cliff, lil bitch

And for the foundation make a quick wish

RTJ, no fall from grace

Have a great day, get the bag and away, aye

There’s never a test too major

No matter what time may bring

The world does the best to break us

Made us kings and queens

There’s never a test too major

No matter what time may bring

The world does the best to break us

Made us kings and queens

Kings and queens

Somethin' 'bout the feel of this beat

Makin' me think of Denise

That was my momma

Also to Lenny and Shonda

But we heard 'bout Betty and that story heavy, yeah

But right now the focus is Five-Finger Freddy

Who worked for Big Eddy

Who drove in a Chevy the color o' spaghetti

And he sold the medicine, later it’s actually weed, ah

I know you actually know, 'cause

You ain’t no actual hoe, uh

I had to be about nine at the time

This had to be '84

So Momma was pretty and Freddy was petty

So he played my mom like a lame

But he did not know that Denise was a beast

She flipped on his ass insane

A stick and a stab, a stick and a stab

He couldn’t get a hold of her hand

A stick and a stab, a stick and a stab

My momma was whoopin' her man

Fuckboy Freddy wasn’t ready

Playin' with Denis 'bout fetti

Got left bloody and messy

Learned my lesson

And my lesson was

Be impeccable with your word

Even dope boys on the curb

You a king, say what you mean, then mean your word

Or you might get fucked up, left out

Leakin' like Freddy on the side of a curb

With a blood-stained hand

Momma still fit my clothes

Told me stand like a man

And never fold for these hoes

There’s never a test too major

No matter what time may bring

The world does the best to break us

Made us kings and queens

There’s never a test too major

No matter what time may bring

The world does the best to break us

Made us kings and queens

Kings and queens

The world does the best to break us

Made us kings and queens

Kings and queens