Trust Don't Live Here

Intro

Yeah…

Trust is currency out here

Watch who you lend it to

Verse

Blood brother last week

Now he talking to the law

Same corner where we broke bread

Now he chose the other side of war

Chorus

Everybody got a price tag

Dangling heavy over they head

Loyalty’s a fossil

Something ancient, something dead

Verse

Watched my day one fold

Over three bands and some pressure

Said he loved me in December

By spring he changed the weather

Verse

Neighborhood full of actors

Playing roles for a percentage

Every handshake got a timer

Every smile just a sentence

Chorus

Nobody riding when it’s real

Everybody switch positions

Swear they down until the heat come

Then they vanish with no permission

Bridge

Trust don’t live here anymore

Just survival and suspicion

Keep your circle microscopic

Move in silence, no witnesses

Verse

Used to roll a dozen deep

Now I’m counting on one hand

Learned the hard way your people

Turn to strangers over contraband

Verse

Saw my brother wear a wire

Underneath his favorite chain

Same chain I bought him last July

Guess loyalty became a game

Outro

Every move calculated

Paranoia my companion

Can’t even sleep at night

Without wondering who’s planning my abandon

Streets don’t breed soldiers no more

Just informants and defectors

Everybody saving themselves

While the real ones face the pressure

Trust died where I’m from

Buried under broken promises

All we got is right now

And even that… anonymous