Dark Day, Long Night

[Verse 1: Bender & Patience]
Open book or not, everybody's life's a story
And the days seem so golden when we live through nights this stormy
And from my heart, if I never said goodbye I'm sorry
City of Saints I'm coming home, leave the light on for me
It's stressing to keep my bearings on the edge of my seat
Pressed for getting my speech to match the thoughts that make it hard attempting to sleep
Sweating beneath electric blankets getting a surge, lightning bolt
Head in the clouds dripping a crown of [?] shroud [?] into the dirt
My fam built the greenhouse, fuzz would swarm and knock our fort down
My clique had inhabited turf now, from [?] to Northtown
Remember above the gold exchange, saw my first [?]
It made me wanna paint up every single alleyway and street
I miss the beach in Port Dalhousie, polluted but it's beautiful
The sand and rotting fish are luminescent when the moon is full
I still got friends on smack and working cubicles
They're sending me, the free, invitations to they funerals
I've seen the [?], just seeking an even handful man
Sometimes we all forget our reasons to be thankful
Distance is only growing and I'm feeling like an asshole
I fucked up, and never planned on leading by example
Giving my all and making amends
Breaking the raw chain in the fence
Sometimes that's all it takes is just a call for saving a friend
So all I ask is notify me
Whenever you change address
It seems so tough to keep in touch without that much to say that ain't been said
Well this a new day, throw some threads into the suitcase
I'ma pull these roots up from the ground before it's too late
A new day, throw some threads into the suitcase
I'ma pull these roots up from the ground before it's too late

[Chorus: Bender & Patience]
Dark day long night, y'all give me a plan
And dark day long night y'all give me a hand
Dark day long night y'all give me my sight
And dark day long night y'all give me a light
And dark day long night y'all give me a stance
And dark day long night y'all give me a chance
Dark day long night y'all give me a mic
And dark day long night y'all get it in flight

[Verse 2: Patience]
Sitting at the kitchen table reminiscing with Mike
And it was like for one night I had a slight glimpse of ya' life
I recall Fisher Park, forest fires and Westboro
Our steezes interweaving indeed it was kept thorough
I just wanna live life unwind no violence
Having a look at ourselves, blown mind blown sinus
Spitting's been a remittance to Ottawa's mediocrity
[?] couch watching Parker and pondering his philosophy
Knock to the grill on Parliament hill
Shotguns pulled full party fled to Mechanicsville
He's getting the hammer still, we gotta be shaking legs
Dumping blunt guts on benches and begging the razor's edge
I apologize to my friends, not making 'em stay with me
Long-distance relationships and we live in the same city
Now this is fucked up, but you know what I'm like
Call me you're welcome with open arms at four in the night
Five in the morn', I'll be chilling with my mind on the flow
We all go our separate ways and we're trying to grow
So I'm doing this for y'all who, dig what I wrote
Since the get up I'm trying to tell you this is my soul
I got, nerves of steel and man I got ya' back
I got, nothing to lose and damn I want to laugh
I ain't abandoning my fam, we'll be tight as a wrought iron
A better look at ourselves, dope minds not sign-up

[Chorus: Bender & Patience]
Dark day long night, y'all give me a plan
And dark day long night y'all give me a hand
Dark day long night y'all give me my sight
And dark day long night y'all give me a light
And dark day long night y'all give me a stance
And dark day long night y'all give me a chance
Dark day long night y'all give me a mic
And dark day long night y'all get it in flight
Get it in flight