Code Red Songtext
von Jean Grae

See, every life brings a moment of intense hatred

Body inseminated with foul thoughts and drained of patience

Most likely wait it out, paced with your dome

Facing the ground, chasing a cloud

Before you start thinking of lacing a crowd of people

With a round of bullets flying free

Visioning bodies dying in threes

Temperature dropping quickly from ninety-eight-six degrees
And their souls leaving their bodily shells
Well, you′d probably do well to flee the scene

Before the cops arrive and shoot you up until you rotting in Hell

I'm saying, I know that most of y′all relating
Either hatred flashbacks or subsequently losing it

Niggas without guns or those who used to using it

With index fingers locked in trigger-pulling positions

No matter which category you fit in, listen
It's a dark day, cluttered thoughts like crowds on Eastern Parkway

Trying to calm your heart for speeding, succeeding hardly
Your girl cheated on you with your cousin


Or she tells you that she's eating for two
And then you find out that she really wasn′t
Your man hit on your mom, your dad dislocated your arm

For fighting with him when he knew he was wrong
Your boss fired you the week before the rent is due
Your wife lied to you, your husband caught him with a guy or two
You′re trying to just not invoke the spirit of Satan into your hands
Do something you might regret 'cause something has gotta let
This demon is creeping up to the surface of your brain
Working overtime to plan escapes and running from your murder route
It′s nervous, I've heard it before ′cause I've been there

Balanced on a thin line, ready to topple at any time or anywhere
Anytime, anywhere

Anytime, anywhere

′Cause love
So difficult, so live it up, just give it up
Let's switch it up to hate, let's bitch and fuss
You see, ′cause love is based on trust
And I′ve been hurt too much to take that leap of faith
I'd rather keep it safe and save face
So say your grace ′cause we just don't give a fuck


I hear the voices screaming of angels, the Devil′s scheming
To crawl up my shoulders and just duke it out

Throw it up, puke it out, the pit of my stomach is bleeding
The shit that I'm thinking is turning me green and I′m losing it quick

Confusing random people walking with niggas that I want to get back
The slack in my stride is heart-bopping
My feet knocking on pavement like I'm cracking it in fours
My mental map is way off course, Columbus style
My dental work is fake-out smiles
Hating myself for fading into the pit of the blackness
No anger management course can even switch the track
I'm thinking I′m sinking in deeper, me and the reaper chilling
Sipping shots of tequila while he′s kicking it to women
Where's the ether?

Breathe the sulfur, the brimstone, fear of suffering alone
Not cheap, seeking company like Jim Jones
Recruiting clones in cliques and clans, the pick of the litter
The follow the leader that′s sinking in quicksand
With no particular plan, I'm just slick with a sinister scam
Politicking, promising to deliver the land
′Til they're kissing the ring on the hand of the king, the gospel

Spreading like a venomous sting ′til my name in the tenements ring
Generous with nothing, greedy with the riches
For all the times I got beat in this business
Cheating on bitches, feeding the sickness

Like a cancer eating at your skin, leaving you tit-less, witless
Only Jehovah will witness, Satan is grinning
'Cause he's winning, loving the hatred
In this age where nothing is sacred
We covet thy neighbor′s wives under the covers
They mothers lie naked with their daughters′ babies' fathers
In the wake of modern-day horror, cities burn like Sodom and Gomorrah
Reoccurring nightmares might occur again at anytime or anywhere
Anytime, anywhere

′Cause love
So difficult, so live it up, just give it up
Let's switch it up to hate, let′s bitch and fuss
You see, 'cause love is based on trust
And I′ve been hurt too much to take that leap of faith
I'd rather keep it safe and save face
So say your grace 'cause we just don′t give a fuck

And when the change bring gases that you breathing and die
In the heat of the night, the streets are bright with heat seekers
In flight and Patriot missiles that
Whistle and streak through the skies
People fight for the rights and kiss their freedom goodbye
I don′t love her, but I keep it inside and never speak of the times
I cheated, I just beat her and leave her believing the lies

I try to stop the leak in my eye, I cry for the weak who have pride
But won't see a piece of the pie
Who fall victim to the system and let it eat ′em alive

Listen, my mission is to sufficiently try
Not to lose a piece of my mind
And change to a deranged piece of a guy
And take aim at the ones that chain us by the feet and leave us to die
And told us the evilest lie
To the people, then fed 'em drugs and needles to get high
Conspiracy theory is clear to me
But when I speak, my people don′t hear me
I'm getting followed by M.I.B
Constantly fearing retaliation for my revelation

I find myself panicking in a train station

My nation is racist, I hate this, I′m anxious
To take this Nickel Plate shit and blast my way out the Matrix

This world of fakeness is faceless

Face it, every life has its moment of intense hatred

'Cause love

So difficult, so live it up, just give it up
Let's switch it up to hate, let′s bitch and fuss
You see, ′cause love is based on trust
And I've been hurt too much to take that leap of faith
I′d rather keep it safe and save face
So say your grace 'cause we just don′t give a fuck

So difficult, so live it up, just give it up
Let's switch it up to hate, let′s bitch and fuss
You see, 'cause love is based on trust
And I've been hurt too much to take that leap of faith
I′d rather keep it safe and save face
So say your grace ′cause we just don't give a fuck