Soul Khan - Rusted Ghosts Lyrics
I remember my mother pleadingtelling me that this meeting with a needle wasn't neededit would leave me "a diseaseif they didn't just sterilize itthe hiv or the hepatitis"your generation is biasedyou'll see it when it's completedshe's saying she didn't have toi'm saying it's just a tattooon my skin, but she made the kid that the skin's attached to"but what if they won't have you in a jewish grave?"well you can take them foolish ways and bury me beneath a buddha statuei was surprised to find some friends were opposed"like what about when you get wrinkled into stretches and folds?"but if i never take a step i could regret when i'm oldthen my regrets'll be the only thing that i'll ever holdso i slid in the chair, palms clutching the arms of itmy whole body was probably limp as a sock puppetused to fear the pain, now it's one of my favorite parts of it'cause there ain't nothing more beautiful than the scar from ithook:some hear the voicesinside of their headbut i had mineinscribed in my fleshthey realign me when i am depressedat least i know what they'll read when i'm deadopen and close,let it flow through your nose,or your little lungs might forget how to breathethose rusted ghostsmade a home on your shouldersand you can trust that they'll never leave2:"and the just man ragesin the wilds where lions roam"the first tat on my right rib, from the flyest poemof william blake, when i was still afraid i'd die aloneand i was getting wasted every day like styrofoamleft arm's john henry, hammer in handa tribute to the indisputable impact of a manand that the united states is a graveyard of slavesbut only some of us are eating off the fat of the landmy right arm's the grasshopperfrom the fable of aesopthat sang songs while the ants labored and saved stockof food for the winter, too cool to considerhe steadily succumbed to starvation as they watchedthat colony of ants was responsible, right?but they ain't ever sang a mother*****ing song in their lifeand those are just a couple of the tats that i gotI'll holler at you when I"m back from the shophook
