Finish The Game / Closer

(You remember John Tunstall? You remember the stories he'd to tell us about the the three Chinamen playing Fantan? Someone runs up to them and says, "Hey, the world's coming to an end!" and the first one says, "Well, I best go to the mission and pray," and the second one says, "Well, hell, I'm gonna go and buy me a case of Mezcal and six whores," and the third one says "Well, I shall finish the game.")

[Tabs in normal caps / COAL CASH IN BIG CAPS]

This is our last stand, we united freedom fighters
NOW IT'S BACK TO HELL WE GO LIKE STELIOS and Leonidas
TEACH WITH VIOLENCE, BEAT THESE TYRANTS OR DIE TRYING
Looking death in the eyes WITH THE PRIDE OF A WHITE LION
A Titan like Iron Mike fighting, biting off ears
OR SHAKA ZULU WIELDING A SHIELD and a short spear
BROUGHT HERE FOR WARFARE, JUST KNOW WE CRUSH FOES
Go and grab my black flag AND BACK STAB A CUT THROAT
Let the blood flow like Tristan Ludlow verse a real bear
A SHOOTER LIKE WILLIAM COOPER versus troopers in a wheelchair
I PEEL HAIR ALONG WITH YOUR SCALPS SHOUTING A WAR CRY
Whipping tomahawks like Chingachgook AND HAWKEYE
Solidified my keep like the kingdom of heaven
FIGHTING WITH ARROWS THROUGH MY NECK if it's defending my brethren
ON SOME SEVEN SAMURAI BATTLE CRY LIKE A BANSHEE
We advance with war chants, A BAND OF WILD COMANCHES
And we take a final stand LIKE APACHE RENEGADES FIGHTING THE WHITE MAN for his rightful land
DESPITE YOUR PLANS I STILL CONTAIN THAT PRIMAL STRAND
So I'll gun butt you to death EVEN IF THE RIFLE JAMS
These vipers' scared, but we're not about to run
PILE THE DEAD SO HIGH it would blot out the sun
STOMP OUT THE SCUM AND HUNT 'EM AT NIGHT
I have to see the last of your seed UNDER MY KNIFE
Run to the light, it's apocalypse now
SURFACE TO AIR MISSILES, take your rocket ship down
TIL I ROT IN THE GROUND OR GO TO MY GRAVE OF HELLIONS
Screaming freedom like Spartacus LEADING THE SLAVE REBELLION
Yelling Valhalla, the collar on my leash snapped
GIVING CHANCE A PIECE, so fuck it where's the beast at
NEVER RETRACT MY CLAWS like Wolverine AND SABERTOOTH
Too courageous like true natives VERSE INVADING TROOPS
And I can give a fuck if you feel me or not
SURPASS THE LIMITS OF PAIN to finish the game like Billy and DOC
FILLING A GLOCK, carry gauges, LICKING A SHOT
Possessed by Larry Davis WHEN I'M KILLING A COP
I'm not willing to stop so I burned all the life rafts
AND DREW A SKULL AND CROSS BONES on each one of my white flags
WATCH LIFE PAST IN A BRIGHT FLASH LIKE NAGASAKI
We handle drama oddly LIKE A KAMIKAZE
I got the shotty, it'll go right through your head
WE ARE DEATH TIMES TWO, the new Ryu AND KEN (shoryuken)
WE RIDE TIL THE END, APOCALYPTIC HORSEMEN
You'll get chopped, by vicious swordsmen, THAT'S WHAT GOT YOU IN A COFFIN
Optimistic fortune surviving off of pure luck
THE LORD WILL GET ME OUT THIS MESS, but he's pretty sure that you're fucked
WE'RE ALL NUTS, FULL OF FOOLISH DREAMS AND HEADSTRONG
You'll never rule my team, SCREAM WOLVERINES AT RED DAWN
Let's get it on, we're rebels that never yield
THE EDGE OF DEATH REVEALED, we'll never settle for the devil's deal
THE WAY MY BRETHREN FEEL THEY WANT TO KNOW IF HEAVEN'S REAL
So we tore down the seventh seal LIKE IT'S EBBETS FIELD
Forget your shield, we mashing cobras till their casket lowered
SMASHING YOUR PLASTIC SOLDIERS with massive boulders
WRATH OF JEHOVAH IN A FLASH IT'S OVER
You know we been destruction LIKE TWIN ERUPTIONS AT KRAKATOA
You better move we'll never lose, afraid not
ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE GETTING LOOSE like a frayed knot
WORD TO MY BROTHER, WE TOE TAG YOUR LAME PROPS
If you hurt one you hurt the other, WE ARE TOMAX and Xamot
Welcome to your grave plot, you can't stop fate
WE'RE THE LAST TWO SPARTANS charging through the hot gates
WE'RE FEROCIOUS GET YOUR BLOCK ATE
A deadly combination, BOOBY-TRAPPED EXPLOSIVES ON A LOCKED SAFE
We drop fakes when we spot haten wicked plots
TRIGGERS COCKED TO START LICKING SHOTS at these bigot cops
READY FOR ANYTHING THAT YOU BITCHES GOT
Plus he's my older brother SO I COVER HIS SIX O'CLOCK
Split your knot, your face is gone from the mallet's force
BORN WITH THE IDENTITY OF JASON BOURNE and Aaron Cross
MY BRAIN FORMED A RAGING STORM OF THE FOULEST THOUGHTS
To pile drive your corpse WITH A THOUSAND POUNDS OF FORCE
We sounding off, recount the cost of the righteous works
TO PROVE WHAT OUR LIFE IS WORTH before we lie in silent Earth
ALL I GOT TO SAY IS NOT TODAY, I FIRE FIRST
To give you clones tombstones like Holliday AND WYATT EARP
Bodybags for all, don't worry we got your squad covered
CAN'T STAND BITERS, killing vampires like the Frog brothers
IT'S THE LOVE OF GOD THAT THEY'RE TRYNA ROB FROM US
We cut through cocksuckers LIKE BOX-CUTTERS THROUGH HOT BUTTER
We do not slumber, we rise from the coma
WAKING TO THE FINAL CRIES of a dying soldier
EXPIRING LIVES, FIRE IN THE EYES OF JEHOVAH
When he's smiting the cobra FOR THE LIES THAT HE TOLD YA
We'll ride til it's over, bulldozers of righteous rage
DIVING RIGHT INSIDE THE GRAVE, the final days of the light brigade
AS FIRE BLAZED, I FOLLOW FAM THROUGH PITS OF LAVA
Never flying solo WE'RE MIYAMOTO'S TWIN KATANAS
It's an honor, valor in the face of death
AGAINST ALL ODDS, and Gods no longer taking bets
ANCIENT VETS SLAYING TROOPS SINCE THE DAYS OF YOUTH
Defenders of Heaven's gate, WE WILL NEVER BREAK THE SACRED HOOP
The way of truth, making the root evolve proper
SO WE CAN NOW REDEEM like Saladin at Al Aqsa
DISPLAY THE SAVIOR'S FAITH, EMBRACING FATE AT GOLGOTHA
Til Valkyries carry me THROUGH THE GATES OF VALHALLA

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[Hidden track "Closer" starts at 8:00]

[Coal Cash]
Seems like the
Closer I get, the further it goes. My soul
Rose from that merger like a murder of crows
All the words have been froze in the throes of a cold oblivion
Meridians that I flow grow into a bold obsidian
I host the symbiont like a city in Dystopia
The horn I’m making noise with was a poison Cornucopia
Paint Utopia with hemoglobin, coat it twice
Like the needle that you’re loading, eroding your soul for spite
I’m cold as ice, I’ve told the light as flights delayed
But it never stayed the night, its plight was the bright of day
It paid the price of gravitational singularity
Thought it could make or break, couldn’t escape from hate’s polarity
Ironic parody that I’ve seen in moments of clarity
I gave myself away, had to pay you to take the charity
Use vulgarity to guarantee you hear me clearly
‘Cause I really feel abandoned even when you’re standing near me
I’m more like Leary, “question authority” of majorities
That quarantine the truth while they execute minorities
There must be more to me than the degrees of my depravity
Don’t wonder what Muk would do, he would fuck you with the savagery
And he imagined me, I’m actually cast from a tragedy
The gravity of my past just smashed from a glass menagerie
That fucker has some teeth, he’s a raging beast inside
You sure you ain’t afraid? Which side of the cage do you reside?
So save the lies. I ain’t surprised you love the gutter
No expanding the understanding ‘cause we talk at one another
Not to each other, so, brother, don’t cover up your lampstand
The rulers are the cheaters, real leaders came to advance man
But rants land on deaf ears and tears marked the weaklings
Is that thinking absurd? Who defines the words that I’m speaking?
It’s all in the teaching. Who’s the master that makes the grass green?
Flash to the disaster, ask, “Who was after the cash cream?”
The mass seems pungent while you sat in the pew
If your view stays redundant, then your abundance is few
Mine grew in circumference ‘til the substance was solid, but it will
Never have a chance if the branch won’t grow olives
So what is that knowledge if it demolished your validity?
With liberty chained to wallets, you could call it stupidity
It’s all in delivery off the slippery lips of trickery
Your victory been eclipsed by the sinking ships in your history
You could be pissed at me if you miss the gist of what I insist to free
A light house in the mist, signaling ships that are adrift at sea
Persistently, I’m prone to sin, I zone into the symphony
Of distant smoke on oceans, my emotions show no sympathy
Lifting me with the wind blown, I’ve been known to hurricane
Refrain when change occurs, became a blur when I stirred the pain
Heard my name in mockery, no shock on how they watching me
I could possibly kill you when I drill you with philosophy
Velocity of my thought sets a course with a force of Mercury
I’m a Metatron’s cube, a multitude in my diversity
Adversity to myself, got a wealth of conflicting habits
Hard to manage inside a shell of this self-inflicting damage
I’m savage as hell, rather rebel against my own thoughts
I talk to myself, tell him I’m better off on my own course
I’m tortured as well, hard to tell by the way I’m smirking
It’s that certain shade of gray that makes me pray vs. my perversion
Still hurting inside, feels like I’m tied to the loss
Forced to rely on all the lies, that’s why my mind is distraught
I burst from the eyes, search for the cries of true repentance
To find the presence of God, but it’s hard to define the sentence
Or even say a word—I know you heard it in my composure
The day’s getting darker from nights growing colder
Look over my shoulder, show a sober regret ‘cause every
Step of my bolster brings me closer to death

[Tabs]
I can’t stop, I feel like I’ve lost something
I feel the raindrops, it lets me know the storm’s coming. I would
Seek shelter, but there’s holes in the canopy
And this weather takes a toll on my soul and my sanity
I lost my way, but I’m sure to say that it’s way worse
Falling victim to a fake smirk is all in a day’s work
Granite paves the way, but it’s shaped from clay like this gray Earth
Banging my head against the wall to see which one’ll break first
On the verge of a disturbed sickness, you heard right, it’s
The flame that burns brightest which burns quickest
Every thought certainly absurd and every word vicious
When I asked, “How far are you willing to search?” and I heard crickets
So line up for that great, existential mind-fuck
It’s paradoxical, I’m down for the moment, but time’s up
I’m nuts, what the fuck am I supposed to do?
Last time I gave my heart to something, it got broke in two
Broken heart? Shit, it’s been blown apart with C4
Now I walk a lonesome road as my soul erodes like the seashore
Feel like I’ve been abused like some cheap whore from Ebor
When she said, “I care about you. I just care about me more”
Out-of-body experience, I’m beside myself
So I really can’t say that I’m by myself, yeah
My life’s hell, she sped through my life and killed me
I guess this is how Biggie’s drive-by felt. You see?
Love hurts, but what’s worse is what it does first
It’s prime directive, it’s to try and quench its bloodthirst
And what we’ve unearthed is a hundred conundrums in one verse
I’ma go insane or blow out my brain, whichever comes first. It would
Take all the power I possess in my mental faculty to
Reinstitute that youthful sense of alacrity
Misery my old friend, I’m fond of the comradery
‘Cause optimism can’t travel beyond the despondency
My happiness is impaired, replaced with a grim stare
This evaporates into thin air like it’s never been there
My patience wear thin as I search the obsidian with a lit flare
Riding a rollercoaster of life, screaming like Rick Flair (Whoo!)
And deep down, the pain is hurting me still (It can’t)
(Get worse) Yes, it can, and it certainly will. You see?
The past is flashing back after the fact. Feeling
Like my heart’s about to have a massive attack. I have some
Blood, sweat and tears that I can give away
Unfazed when the pain hits, same shit, different day
The show stalls, then I’ve seen how it snowballs
When you breached some so-called stone walls with a simple phone call, so
Which should we cater to? Give me a day or two
I don’t have the faintest clue of what the fuck I’m supposed to say to you
Gotta change my views, staring out a different window
I know the storm is near ‘cause I can still hear the wind blow. I’m
Lost in the moment, zoning off of my joint
You know you got problems when rock bottom’s your high point
Feel like roadkill ‘cause our run is over
The end is near, I can feel it coming closer
Avoid me like the plague before I bring you Black Death. My love
Infest upon ingestion, an infection bound to abscess
Mad stress, last breath ‘cause my permanent address
Is the abject reality of a rope around Tabs’ neck, but
Fear not, there’s nothing to cry about
There’s no use, them teardrops’ll never put the fire out
Everyone in earshot sat there, surprised in doubt
But the cheers stopped the moment you opened your lying mouth
I was born in a dungeon, been underground since day one
Blazing L’s to keep my brain numb for when the pain comes
Rain or sun, it’s all the same through a cracked window
What a tangled web we weave when we believe the black widow