02 / Societal Collapse
Promise Meets Pavement
It starts with a shot. Pop. With a Closer Reply. Pop pop. Air locks up. Feet move before thoughts do. click click boom Glass snaps. Breath turns short. pop tat pop click BOOM. Glass snaps. Breath turns short. Holy shit, what the fuck. Rat tat tat, TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT Promise cracks rat-tat-tat pavement answers tat-tat-tat. Marble mouth keeps talking clean, streets reply in magazine. Rat-tat breath tat-tat run, night goes loud before the sun. Hands shake, jaws lock, futures flat, sirens stutter rat-tat-tat. White stone lies, blacktop learns, every lesson paid in burns. Policy pauses tat-tat dead, pavement keeps the count instead. Rat-tat-tat no chorus here, just metal words and measured fear. Promise fades, the cracks go loud tat-tat-tat into the crowd. Marble speeches echo while the blocks stay loud, flags wave clean but the gutters bleed now. Monuments watching, unmoving, unmanned, while shell casings bloom where the promises land. Capitol dome shining like nothing's wrong, meanwhile corners memorize the sound of a song that ends in a sprint, ends in a fall, ends in a phone call nobody wants to call. Suits talk justice in measured debate, streets talk survival at the speed of fate. You learn real quick how hope gets bent when the future costs more than the rent. Idealism printed on banners and stone, realism etched in the way sirens moan. Every night's calm till it fucking isn't, every block one argument from ignition. TAT CLICK TAT tat boom click click run Converse moves fast to the sound of the gun Tat click tat click tat click boom Policy pauses tat-tat dead, pavement keeps the count instead. Promise fades, the cracks go loud tat-tat-tat into the crowd. POP POP CLICK CLICK BOOM POP POP POP CLICK BOOM TAT TAT TAT POP CLICK CLICK CLICK BOOM BOOM TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT DUDUDU DUDUDU BOOM TAT TAT TATBack to Homeless and Hopeless