This Is War

(album: Waves - 2022)

[Atlus:]
This is war
Pick your sides know your stance
This is war
No telling how the story ends
This is a fallout everybody get down
Stay out of our way
This ain't a nice song no telling where we might go
We've heightened the stakes

[GAWNE:]
You wishing death upon us?
Better get ready with a vest and invest in enough protection
To lessen nuclear fallout go cry for mama
You wanted war 'til you on the floor trying to hide from bombing
Kamikazes fly supersonic right through the Eiffel Tower
President Donny killed Soleimani so now Iran's a problem
Going Nagasaki atomics dropping on Abu Dhabi
Twenty million bodies and five tsunamis arrive in Holland
Few survived alive now the radiation is sure to follow
All the bombing is now underway
How you gonna save yourself y'all better pray
Y'all gotta stay down in the basement or hallway closet otherwise die in the flames
A lot of atomic waste concentrated in metropolis
Watch as the hospital rates sky rockets to thousands of patients
Nuke radiation becoming too dangerous
No this ain't Tinder but I swipe left at you with a knife in fact
Striking your back with a whole viking axe tell Tech that it's time for the fire
Let me get a funnel attachment run up
And siphon the gas douse it around then we go light the match
Igniting that like Iraq where Isis was fighting at
Whole world 'bout to end so soon
Kim Jong-un getting pissed at you
Send a big fucking nuke to America to hit your roof in instant blew like flipping a fuse
Incinerating kids in school principal said it was miserable
Missiles are dropping in Israel, Germany, London and Istanbul
Not Godzilla but an ominous monster's still upon us
Planet was hit with a comet, economy crashing, poverty, wobbly plate tectonics shifting a lot
How could it not be the apocalypse probably got to be causing a lot of the death
That we see when we turn on our screens every night
And we're watching the news up on our TV's
Forcibly
Torture these
Enemies give 'em deformities waterboard 'em
'Til they orally tell us a story sick and stick 'em up in quarantine
There's not a hint of remorse in me cold to my core feels like only in war do I ever find normalcy
Like on the beaches of Normandy live by the sword I'ma die when I'm forty three
Together with Tech and I we met up and electrify the record every time that we etch a rhyme
I reckon they recognize they're never gonna rise to my level
I'm five times better with the pen when spraying venom
'Bout to end 'em when I get 'em in the center of the scope "DOOT" "DOOT"
Let a round off broken through open a wound there ain't no hope for you
Yeah I think I'm 'bout to kill a mother fucker with a gun
You better get to running like you were a sprinter
I'ma hit 'em in the ligament and ankle bullet ricocheting
I'm thinking I may intimidate a witness
Never give into the pressure when they interview 'em
Bet they won't admit or I'll run up shoot a bullet from the hip
Pull up on the strip
Hit 'em with the lead and put a body in the ditch
Other words GAWNE and Tech just murdered this shit

[Tech N9ne:]
I can smell the smoke from hell, it's right in the middle of us
Everybody wanna fight and they giving no fucks
When they do it on sight wit' a gun or wit' a knife
Ain't even a bit of light, when you're living in dusk
In the mind, why they gotta be stuck? The crime when you wanna go busting the 9
Never have no trust in your kind, and you're really unjust
How do they storm the capitol? It's a war in the back of your forum, the horns attacking mo'
Torn the radicals, never happen to mourn the scorned and born wit' a lack of dough
Just like them, when I think about it all it's quite dim
Everything is really raw like a fright film, if you ready for the brawl come and try grim
At a level where the people wanna load up what they got and get it popping
If he thinking 'bout the hood he better never come a knocking
They don't ever wanna take it to the B. or the C. zone, we home nigga we got the heat on
All the energy is separation, togetherness never was the motivation
Evil has really been sweeping the nation, because it was never no communication
In a war the believers of Jesus, wanna make you bleed, it's egregious
Shoulda had their fetus deleted, but the parents skeet is completed
So now we stuck wit' the crazy, pushing a lotta negative up in the babies
What the fuck they doing snuffing the ladies? Killing globally it's bucking in Haiti
This is (War) what are the fake well wishes (For?)
Even the saint sell sickness, rank fell vicious, bank swell quick as (Whores)
Can't nobody be calm in the midst of hell, so I lit this bomb wit' the quickness
Yell wit' the lip, it's 'nam and it's on, you don't wanna go to war with Tech N9na and Gawne!

[Atlus:]
This is war
Pick your sides know your stance
This is war
No telling how the story ends
This is a fallout everybody get down
Stay out of our way
This ain't a nice song no telling where we might go
We've heightened the stakes