[00:00.000] 作词 : F. Porter for Happiest Africans (SESAC)[00:01.000] 作曲 : Billy Woods/Preservation[00:14.856]I think Mengistu Haile Mariam is my neighbor[00:17.615]Whoever it is moved in and put an automated gate up[00:20.876]Repainted brick walls atop which now cameras rotated[00:23.884]By eight, the place dark, one light burn later[00:27.645]Razor wire like a slinky[00:29.651]Rumor is parcel bomb took the secretary right eye and pinky[00:33.663]Evenings, he take a snifter of whisky on the veranda[00:37.171]I wonder what he's thinking[00:38.173]In the morning, the maid brings coffee from the kitchen[00:41.430]Some nights strange music plays, I lay in bed and listen[00:45.192]Downstairs I hear my mother breaking dishes, my father trippin'[00:48.951]It's been quite bad lately, high tension[00:51.958]Galvanized steel security fencin'[00:53.715]To get through the day, give myself a mission[00:56.473]Anything what get me out the house a blessin'[00:59.230]His bodyguard chews khat, spits black in the rhododendron[01:02.992]Blacked out Range rumble when he start the engine[01:06.501]Avocado tree hang over the property line[01:09.259]I watch from as high as I can climb[01:11.516]The dog looks up and whines, the hills are alive with land mines[01:15.279]I live in my mind[01:16.784]Not sure what I'm looking for, but I'll know when I find[01:19.291]My mother sent the gardener to look for me, but the sky is a great place to hide[01:23.804]Never told the truth in your life? Can't start now[01:29.569]Ever so slowly, slowly locked up in your own house[01:35.085]Never told the truth in your life? Can't start now[01:40.853]Ever so slowly, slowly locked up in your own house[01:45.625]The guests start having doubts, the host nowhere to be found[01:49.384]It's ghosts in the buildings bones, so many skeletons in the ground[01:53.396]When everything collapse, he just melt into the crowd[01:56.405]Suitcase packed, melted down the crown[01:58.411]But a haven's only safe as long as they want you around[02:02.171]Tomorrow it's no tellin'[02:04.678]Hollow when you done sellin'[02:08.190]You see how well they treat me?[02:09.693]My own courtyard for private strolls.[02:11.449]And in my chalet, every possible amenity, not to mention the occasional night visitor