Memory Of Bombs - B. Dolan

Nightfall 5:00pm getting dark early time creeps in

Lines gets drawn to all them white kids

Blow up when the mind sees red

Trying to be the next one or call it quits

Soldier of fortune a war within

On yourself with a costly lib

But you are glad that you are dead

They also seem so fortunate like

Got the keys and the formula

Plus they got degrees and the fix is easy

You just grind your teeth and ball your fist

Recall talk that shit more time wasted is all it is

Wash your face until it force you to drip

You can’t leave no trace nothing special

Sleep all day when you under pressure

All these hallways run together

In all directions in all directions

In all direction all for ever

You don’t feel that lucky you don’t care that much

You don’t make new friends you don’t feel their love

You got two AR’s and a few hundred rounds

And you about to add that to the memory of bombs

Buried under this town

Save me can you tell me

A reason to be

Fearing the shadows

And layers a memory of peace

Sunrise 6: am still hang over rolling out of bed

Find your weapon hide your stash

Step outside wearing a vest and a badge

Step to the cat with an ugly question

Use that gat like a tongue depressant

The streets breathe thugs that are unrepenting

But you’re gonna teach these punks a lesson

Just came off three months suspension

For cracking some heads with a service weapon

You told your lieutenant that you felt threatened

Meanwhile the child wears no expression

He’s playing with the a rose he can hold forever

And a cross made of gold gave no protection

The walls of the home bear a lonely echo

A name to remember and a son to let go

You don’t feel that sorry you don’t care that much

You can’t make new friends you can’t feel their love

So they say goodbye and they sent you down

To be kept with the rest in the memory of bombs

Buried under this town

This is not a place of honor

These are our danger markers

Don’t mistake this grave for a monument

Stay clear don’t build no argument

Buried down there will remain harmful for 10 thousand years

Long after we are gone and the threat is active

Left a hazard to sleep with dragons as deep as we can fathom

Beneath the flooring a lake of poison

Beneath that lake lay the bones of warriors

Above that strata is today’s Tom Sawyer

Packing fully automatics in the middle school corridors

Cut Back when the true officer killed black boys in the heat of august

And then leave them in the streets like a piece of garbage

The Kids are not alright and they’re in the sights of targets

Our nights are haunted, their voices call us to recite the chorus

Light the torches, ignite the store fronts

As part of the earth, now the price of all this

The evil’s old the evil’s timeless the methods are known

The aggression and violence they trying contain

As best as they hide it, but it’s unstable and it goes viral

The smoke is rising and we’re melting down

So get into the basement or under the ground

Your life is a second in the memory of bombs

Buried under this town

Save me can you tell me

A reason to be

Fearing the shadows

And layers a memory of peace

Save me can you tell me

A reason to be

Fearing the shadows

And layers a memory of peace