Last Man

Текст песни Leslie Odom, Jr. - Last Man

As the day grows cold in an instant
And the clouds menace in grim persistence
I am alone in my own resistance, uninvited, unfound, heart not making a sound
One time, fool me and its shame on you
Two times, fool me and its shame on me
Three times, there's never three times because I'm never foolish and you're never fooling me
Damned if I'll live this life waiting on the sidelines been plotting watching for my moment, this was my time
Stuck in my crosshairs, he was almost lost and my finger on the trigger would have blown my brother sky high
I wasn't lying, this city should have been mine but my brother stepped in front and led the people blind – why? Why follow his foolishness? Inflated hope, my dead mother's tutelage
I'll show who the ruler is, the first born it's ludicrous, on my head the crown should be, first-born in truthfulness
And with God and my mother as my witness, I'mma get what's mine by travelling the distance.
One time, fool me and its shame on you
Two times, fool me and its shame on me
Three times, there's never three times because I'm never foolish and you're never fooling me
I'll be the last man standing when the world collapses
I done walked a harder road, got them thinking my heart is gold, I'll never show what I'll do to take a last stand
And now my brother will marry Mary, half-brother, motherfucker, man, we were laid barely
Barely even noticed in his shadow, when you're the oldest, man, it shouldn't be a battle
And then this girl that he proposes he will wed, a bygone icon of a city that is dead,
She's an illusion he's choosing to stake his movement on, a deluded solution, a fucking unproven union, I'm disillusioned perhaps, but my mother already proved that peaceful revolution is always bound to be polluted
Guess I'm the last man standing who knows this, but watch me stay focused, forever unnoticed
One time, fool me and its shame on you
Two times, fool me and its shame on me
Three times, there's never three times because I'm never foolish and you're never fooling me
I'll be the last man standing when the world collapses
I done walked a harder road, got them thinking my heart is gold, I'll never show
What I'll do to take a last stand