DIESEL

[Intro — whispered, fire crackling] Asha Asha vahishta Truth is best Good thoughts Good words Good deeds [Spoken verse — slow, building] I come from a holler off Turkey Branch Two hundred acres that I lost on a glance I come from a mama who chose her Jesus over her son I come from a daddy who died lookin' for somewhere to run I come from a faith that's older than the book they swing at me I come from a fire that's been lit since antiquity I come from Buffalo, from Nitro, from the creek and the coal I come from a big brain and a bigger soul My name is Clark Diesel This is the fire Light it with me [Hook — sung, rising] Asha, asha, asha vahishta Light the fire, let the truth come lift ya Asha, asha, asha vahishta West Virginia got a Zoroastrian picture Asha, asha, asha vahishta Twelve tracks, one flame, one mister Asha, asha, asha vahishta Clark Diesel, let the record hit ya [Outro — whispered, fading into next track] Good thoughts Good words Good deeds Press play Yeah

[Intro — sung] Buffalo, Buffalo Little town raised a big dream Buffalo, yeah [Verse 1] Buffalo, West Virginia, where the story start Skinny little blonde boy with a mountain for a heart Ran the forty faster than the boys twice my size Caught the deep ball runnin', sun up in my eyes Coach said son you could go all the way if you wanted I said coach, I just wanna be a kid on a Sunday Hunted in the mornin', swam the creek in the noon Built a fort in the holler underneath the harvest moon Mama in the kitchen hummin' hymns through the window Daddy workin' doubles, never home but he sent dough Little bit of heaven for a boy with a big brain Readin' books in the hayloft while it poured down rain I ain't know I was rich, I ain't know what I had Ain't know the farm was the only thing I'd miss that bad [Hook — sung] Buffalo, Buffalo, where the creek still runs Buffalo, Buffalo, where I learned to love the sun Big fish, little pond, they ain't never let me breathe But the ground still know my name in the roots underneath Buffalo, Buffalo, yeah Buffalo, Buffalo [Verse 2] Town too small for a boy who was readin' too much Town too small for a kid who the girls wanna touch Big fish, little pond, and the water start to boil Every boy in the county wanna plant me in the soil I ain't never start it but I finished every one Bloody knuckles walkin' home, tellin' Ma that I won She'd just shake her head and put the ice on my hand Pray a little quiet that her boy be a man Prom king without tryin', valedictorian vibes I ain't even study, I was high off the rye Could've been anything the guidance counselor said I just wanted peace and a pillow for my head They hated me for shinin', hated me for the grades Hated me for the girls, hated me for the way I walked through the hallway like the floor was my own Buffalo made me, then Buffalo sent me home [Hook] [Outro — spoken] Drive past the old place sometimes, you know Ain't ours no more But them trees still wave at me Buffalo. Yeah. Clark.

[Intro — whispered, sung] Mama, mama, yeah You prayed so hard you forgot I was listenin' Virgo, yeah [Verse 1] Mama was a Virgo, pages in her Bible foldin' Knees on the carpet, askin' heaven for a soldier Got one, couldn't hold him, couldn't love him, couldn't know him Said the devil in my eyes 'cause I wouldn't let her mold him Sold the farm, sold the barn, sold the years I was growin' Sold the creek where I was baptized in a faith I ain't chosen Fire in my chest but she only seen the smoke Told her 'bout my God, she heard the devil spoke I ain't lost, Ma, I'm just walkin' a different road Good thoughts, good words, I thought you taught me the code But you ain't call on my birthday, ain't call when I got broke Ain't call when they jumped me, ain't call when I almost folded Just a Virgo with a rosary, a son she can't hold And a God she won't let in 'cause He answerin' slow [Hook — sung] Mama, Mama, you prayed for a savior Got a son you couldn't save, ain't that somethin' major Mama, Mama, I ain't turn out a stranger You just closed the door and called it a favor Virgo, Virgo, yeah [Verse 2] I remember little me, chasin' chickens by the shed You was hummin' hymns, flour on your hands, flour on the bread Now you hum 'em like a wall between the things we ain't said Rather talk to heaven than the boy you raised in red I don't hate you, Ma, I swear on every fire I keep lit I just wish you asked me once what I actually believe in Asked me once why I pray toward the sun when it's risin' Asked me once 'bout the girl with the name like horizon Sunflower gon' meet you one day, Ma, and you gon' cry 'Cause she love me like the savior you ain't recognize Good deeds, good words, I'm the sermon you ain't read I'm the prodigal you prayed for, you just want him dead [Hook] [Outro — spoken] Happy birthday, Ma. I ain't gon' call this year either. I love you. I just can't keep knockin' on a door you locked from the inside. Virgo.

[Intro] Yeah, yeah They know the truck 'fore they know the face Clark, yeah Putnam County, what's happenin' [Verse 1] Blue lights in the rearview, I ain't even did nothin' Same stretch of 25, same cop, he bluffin' Window down, license out, hands where he want 'em Askin' where I'm goin' like he ain't already sent one Behind me last Tuesday, behind me last weekend Call it a coincidence, I call it a season Sniffin' round the door like the dog tryna eat him What's that name, son, where your people from, speakin' Buffalo, sir, same as yours, I reckon Just got a last name you can't fit in your lexicon Search the whole truck, find a Bible he can't read Find an old roach, find a lighter, find a seed Write me up for nothin', hand it back with a grin Told him God bless, drove off, rolled another one in [Hook] Redneck radar, redneck radar Every time I'm movin' they be trailin' my car Redneck radar, redneck radar Ain't did nothin' wrong but I'm already marked Too cool for the county, too calm for the charge Too smart for the story they been writin' so far Redneck radar, redneck radar Can't arrest a man for bein' who he are [Verse 2] Mama said be careful, I said Ma I always am I ain't the one they lookin' for, I'm just the one they can Pull me over twelve times, never found a gram Never found a pistol, never found a plan Just a boy with a lighter and a quiet kinda faith Just a boy with a girlfriend in a faraway place Just a boy with some bars and a book on his dash Just a boy they don't like 'cause the girls like his face Sheriff's wife waved at me at the gas pump Sunday He ain't like that one, gave me a ticket on Monday Small town math, they add it up funny Pretty plus different equal suspect, son, trust me But I keep it good thoughts even when they good-for-nothin' Keep it good words even when they words is disgustin' Keep it good deeds, help the old lady with her buggy While the badge in the lot still watchin' me ugly [Hook] [Outro] Yeah Ride safe out there They watchin'. Let 'em watch. Clark.

[Intro — layered, reverbed] Asha, asha, asha vahishta Fire, fire, fire Diesel [Hook — melodic, haunting] Light the fire, light the fire, light the fire in the temple Good thoughts, good words, good deeds, keep the circle simple Watchin' over, watchin' over, walk a line so gentle West Virginia boy with a flame that's transcendental Light it up, light it up Light the fire, light the fire, light the fire in the temple [Verse 1] Buffalo boy with the old scripture in the backpack Rollin' up the gas, ancient wisdom on the playback Guardian spirit on my shoulder when they want the payback Mama found my holy book, said the devil tryna hijack Nah, I just read what you ain't read, Ma Three thousand years, same star, same law Don't lie, don't cheat, don't bow to what's evil Call it devil worship 'cause you scared of my people Persian blood, Putnam dirt, that's a weird recipe White enough to slide, brown enough they testin' me Cop pull me over like what kinda name is that Clark Diesel, officer, now give me my papers back [Hook] [Verse 2] Sunflower light a candle in Yazd when I'm sleepin' Time zone difference but the flame doin' the speakin' She say asha, I feel it in my chest when I'm breathin' Two deserts apart but the same sun we believin' I don't need no megachurch, I don't need no steeple I got a lighter and a heart, that's a mobile fire temple Good thoughts when they hate me, good words when they lie Good deeds when they sleepin', that's the code I die by Mama want me saved, I told her Ma look closer Your savior came from my side of the ocean The star she followed was our star first Three thousand years, same fire, same verse [Hook] [Outro] Asha vahishta, truth is best, truth is best Light the fire. Keep it lit. Yeah. Diesel.

[Intro — spoken, flat] Two hundred acres Turkey Branch, Buffalo Three grapevines, one stock pond Granddaddy wanted me to have it Daddy died tryna find it again She gave it away [Verse 1] Two hundred acres off Turkey Branch, Buffalo side Three grapevines swingin' like the Lord put 'em there to ride Stock pond full of bass that my daddy put in by hand Timber on the ridge, hay field flat as a plan Granddaddy pulled me close when I was maybe about nine Said boy this here is yours, just give it some time Said your daddy broke his back so the deed stay clean Said don't never sell it, don't matter what it mean Daddy workin' doubles at the plant, comin' home to the land Bush hoggin' 'til dark with a beer in his hand Built the barn with his brothers, fixed the fence every spring Taught me how to bait a hook, taught me everything On that dirt, in them woods, by that pond, on them vines I swung 'til the sun went down, I was flyin' through time It was mine, it was promised, it was written, it was real Then the douchebag signed a paper and she made a deal [Hook — sung, cold and bitter] She sold the land, she sold the land Granddaddy's word in the palm of her hand Daddy's sweat in every acre of it And she gave it away for a cul-de-sac fit She sold the land, she sold the land Two hundred acres, she ain't understand Three grapevines, a pond, and a promise She traded the kingdom for a country club dishonest [Verse 2] Daddy ain't say much when the papers got signed I watched a grown man go quiet, go hollow, go blind Twenty years of his body poured into that ground And she sold it like a garage sale, didn't make a sound First house after the farm, he couldn't sleep through the night Second house he kept the boxes packed up tight Third house he'd just sit on the porch with a stare Fourth house lookin' for a ridge that wasn't there Fifth house is where he died, lookin' out the back window At a yard that wasn't his and a sky that wasn't his so He just closed his eyes and let the tired take him home Man moved five times tryin' to find what was stolen Never did, never could, never gon' happen 'Cause you can't buy back the acre where your whole life happened Douchebag still in the cul-de-sac sleepin' just fine While the man that loved her buried chasin' a pine [Hook] [Verse 3 — dagger] You killed him slow, Ma, I hope you know you did Every U-Haul was a nail, every new address a bid On a peace he couldn't find 'cause you sold it out the door Man went from two hundred acres to a rented second floor To a duplex, to a trailer, to a little patch of rental Tryna plant tomatoes where the soil was accidental I watched him shrink, I watched him go From a giant on a tractor to a ghost at a window Granddaddy's promise was the only thing I had comin' You heard the word inheritance and started runnin' To the church with the fountain, to the ladies with the brooches To the cul-de-sac Jesus with the leather-bound approaches Daddy in the ground now, don't own a single acre Mama in the McMansion prayin' to her maker I hope the Lord ask her at the gate what she did With the land her husband bled on and the word to the kid [Hook] [Outro — spoken, low] Five moves, Ma. Five. He was lookin' for Turkey Branch in every yard. Never found it. 'Cause you sold it. Rest easy, Daddy. Clark.

[Intro — sung, soft] Sunflower, Sunflower Face to the sun, yeah Face to the sun [Hook — sung] Sunflower, Sunflower, turn your face to the sun I was lost in the holler 'til you told me I'm the one Desert girl, mountain boy, same fire, different tongue Sunflower, Sunflower, you the only one that come The only one that come, yeah The only one that come [Verse 1] She from Yazd, I'm from the hills where the coal trucks run Fourteen hours difference but we talkin' til the sun She send me voice notes prayin' in a language I'm still learnin' I send her pictures of the creek where my mama was a virgin She laugh like a bell in a little mountain chapel She know the old stories, she the daughter of the apple Same faith, same flame, same asha in the chest Half a world of difference and she still the one that fit I ain't never loved nobody I ain't had to translate Every girl before her had to ask me to explain Why I pray toward the sun, why I won't kneel at the altar Sunflower just knew, didn't stutter, didn't falter [Hook] [Verse 2] The redneck girls be textin' like they miss what they had I tell 'em Sunflower love me in a way they never had They know they messed up, they know they played the hand bad I was always the good one, they just wanted the bad Now I'm in love with a girl who say my name like a song Say Clark like it's poetry, say Diesel like it belong She send me a sunflower pressed in a book Say one day I'ma see Yazd, gonna see how she look Standin' at the fire temple with her hand in mine Buffalo boy and a Persian girl, we done bended the time Mama won't bless it, I ain't ask her to Sunflower already blessed what Sunflower gon' do [Hook] [Outro — spoken, soft] Yazd to Buffalo, baby Same sun. Sunflower, yeah. Clark.

[Intro] Yeah They know, they know Every one of 'em know Clark, yeah Read it and weep, girls [Verse 1] Phone been ringin' off the hook from the ones that know they wrong Tiffany textin' paragraphs, Ashley sent a song Brittany drove by the house like I wouldn't see the truck Savannah at the bar last night tryna press her luck I told y'all when we had it, said you got a real one Said I ain't like the county boys, said I'm a different sun Said I read books, said I pray, said I don't do the games Said I treat a woman right, said remember my name Y'all laughed, y'all cheated, y'all chose the boy with the chain Now the boy with the chain in a cell and I'm back in my lane Sunflower in my passenger, she pray 'fore we eat Y'all used to pray I'd text back, now you prayin' in the street They know, they know, they know they let me slip They know, they know, they know they chose the script Where the good one always loses 'cause the good one always waits Well the good one finally won and y'all finally late [Hook — sung, smug] They know, they know, every one of 'em know They had a real one, let a real one go Textin' me paragraphs, I ain't even read I was the one y'all should've kept instead They know, they know, every one of 'em know Sunflower got me, and the ex girls froze Y'all had a king in a t-shirt and jeans Now y'all watchin' me live out a life y'all dreamed [Verse 2] Jessica got married to a dude that don't know her Caught her at the Kroger, she was tryna take it slower Asked me how I been, I said blessed, how you She said lonely, said she miss the way I'd break through All the walls she had up, all the games that she ran Said I was the only one that made her feel like a woman Not a body, not a prize, not a weekend, not a flex Said she still got the notebook where I wrote her them texts I said damn, that's wild, hope your husband a real one Put the groceries in the Jeep, didn't wait for her reel-run Sunflower called me while I'm drivin' out the lot Said she made me kotlet, said the rice in the pot See the difference, baby, see what a real love is She cook for me in Farsi, that's the realest there is Y'all was cookin' me drama, y'all was cookin' me lies Sunflower cookin' me dinner, lookin' me in the eyes [Hook] [Verse 3 — shorter, victory lap] Don't text me happy birthday, don't text me merry Christmas Don't text me you was thinkin', don't text me you miss this You had your shot, you shot your shot at somebody else Now you watchin' from the bleachers while I'm liftin' the belt I ain't bitter, I ain't mad, I ain't wishin' you bad I'm just livin' in the life y'all said I'd never have With a woman who adore me, with a God who restore me With a story y'all the villain in, enjoy the glory [Hook] [Outro] Yeah Read receipts on Delete thread Sunflower, what we eatin' tonight baby Clark.

[Intro] Yeah I ain't never started nothin' But I finished all of it Clark, yeah Keep your hands to yourself, partner [Verse 1] Skinny little surfer boy, they always think it's sweet Walkin' through the county fair, they always wanna eat Always one big country boy with a chip and a chew Lookin' at his girlfriend lookin' at me like she knew I ain't want no problem, I was eatin' my funnel cake Ain't want the smoke, ain't want the fight, ain't want his girl by mistake He pushed me, I stepped back, I said brother I'm good He swung, I ducked, I put him down in the mud where he stood One shot, lights out, crowd gasped, girl screamed Sheriff's boy on the ground like it was all a dream I ain't celebrate, I ain't flex, I just picked up my plate Finished my funnel cake, walked out the gate They hate me 'cause I'm pretty, hate me 'cause I'm quiet Hate me 'cause I knock 'em out without startin' a riot Been fightin' since I was twelve 'cause they never let me breathe Big fish, little pond, they always testin' me [Hook — sung, cold] Hands, hands, keep 'em to yourself I ain't lookin' for it but it's good for my health Hands, hands, I ain't never lost one Skinny boy from Buffalo with the sun in his fist Hands, hands, don't test what you don't know I'm the last one that you wanna see your shadow Hands, hands, keep 'em to yourself Or I'll put you in a nap you gon' remember yourself [Verse 2] Eighth grade, Jimmy Ray, behind the old gym Two years older, fifty pounds, I still knocked him Ninth grade, Dustin's crew, three of 'em at once I walked home with a split lip and all of 'em slumped Tenth grade, prom night, dude from out of town Called my date a name, I laid him on the ground In his rented tuxedo, by his rented limousine His buddies ain't say nothin', they just backed up the scene I don't talk about it, I don't brag, I don't post I just know what I know and the county know the most Ask around Putnam, ask around Buffalo Ask around Nitro, they gon' tell you the same though Clark don't start it, Clark don't want it But if you bring it to Clark you gon' wear it like a bonnet Good thoughts, good words, good deeds is the code But the hands is a language I learned on the road [Hook] [Verse 3 — restraint] Sunflower hate it when I come home with the knuckles Red and swollen, tellin' her I had to handle a couple She say baby you a lover, why they make you a fighter I say baby I'm a lover, they the ones bringin' the lighter I ain't tryna be the dude that's the legend in the bar I ain't tryna be the story when they pointin' at the scar I just wanna smoke a blunt and watch the sun come up With a woman who believe me when I say I had enough But the county don't let me, the boys don't let me The cops don't let me, the past don't let me So the hands stay ready, stay quiet, stay clean 'Til somebody remind me what these knuckles can mean [Hook] [Outro] Yeah I ain't lookin' for you But I see you Keep walkin'. Clark.

[Intro — whispered, crickets in background] Three in the mornin' Porch light Blunt in the hand Just me and the moon, yeah Clark [Verse 1] Three a.m., blunt lit, porch swing barely movin' Holler dead quiet but the mind keep groovin' Thinkin' 'bout the fire, thinkin' 'bout the farm Thinkin' 'bout the way that a promise do harm When the one who promised breakin' it in slow motion Daddy died lookin' for a ridge like an ocean I been readin' old books by the light of the phone 'Bout a prophet in Iran who was walkin' alone Three thousand years ago and he sayin' the same thing I been tryna say in a West Virginia twang Good thoughts, good words, good deeds, that's the ladder Everything else is just people gettin' sadder Tryna climb on each other to feel a little taller Tryna silence the voice in the brain that get smaller Every time you lie, every time you betray Every time you sell the land that your boy was supposed to stay [Hook — sung, floaty] Porch at three, porch at three Me, the moon, and the memory Smoke go up, stars come down Nobody up in this whole damn town Porch at three, porch at three Tryna make peace with the man in me Smoke go up, stars come down Only time the world don't make a sound [Verse 2] I got a big brain, always did, always will Teachers said genius, Ma said sit down and be still Coulda been anything, lawyer, doctor, professor I just wanted to know what was real, what was lesser What was true, what was noise, what was worth the attention What was God, what was fear, what was human invention Now I'm high on a porch with an Avesta on my lap And a Bible on the shelf that I still read perhaps 'Cause my mama ain't wrong about every single thing She just picked the wrong Jesus and forgot how to sing To the boy that she made, to the man that she lost To the husband she buried, to the soul that it cost Sunflower asleep in the bed down the hall Phone ring, it's nobody, just the wind on the wall And the moon ask me Clark, what you doin' out here I say thinkin', just thinkin', just tryna be clear [Hook] [Verse 3 — quieter] The holler got answers if you listen long enough Tree frogs got a rhythm that'll call your bluff Wind through the pine sound a lot like a psalm When you strip away the church and just sit with the calm I ain't mad at the Christians, I ain't mad at the Jews I ain't mad at the Muslims, we just all lookin' for clues To the same damn question in a different disguise Why we here, why we leave, why we lie, why we rise Prophet said truth is best, I believe him tonight On a porch in Nitro underneath the porch light With a blunt and a brain and a girl and a God That don't need me to kneel, just need me to nod At the beauty, at the ugly, at the gift and the theft At the breath that I'm breathin' that's the only thing left [Hook] [Outro — whispered] Three a.m. still Moon still up Blunt almost gone Yeah Clark.

[Intro] Yeah They can call me whatever they want At the end of the day I know what I am Clark [Verse 1] I smoke a lotta weed, I ain't gon' lie about it Wake and bake, ride and blaze, I'm stoned and I'm proud of it I drink a little brown when the winter get cold I cuss when I'm mad, I get loud when I'm bold I knocked out a few boys, I ain't apologize for it I broke a few hearts 'fore Sunflower opened the door for me I been arrested for nothin', I been searched for less I been judged for my face, I been judged for my dress But ask anybody in Buffalo or Nitro Ask the old lady I helped with her tire in the snow Ask the kid that I bought a new glove for last spring Ask my daddy in the ground what his son was to him Ask the homeless dude on Capitol Street I feed weekly Ask the cousin that I picked up from rehab discreetly Ask the neighbor whose dog I found lost in the rain Ask 'em all, they gon' tell you the same damn thing [Hook — sung, anthemic] I'm a good person, I'm a good person Smoke a lotta weed but I'm a good person Knock you out but I'm a good person Pray different but I'm still a good person Good thoughts, good words, good deeds, that's the verse Y'all can judge me, I'ma still be a good person On the day that I die, at the gate when they search All they gon' find is a good person [Verse 2] Mama want me saved, I told her Ma I'm already in it Your savior came from my people, you just spinnin' the limit The wise men in the story was priests of the fire Followed a star from the east, that's my whole empire We been worshipin' the light since before the book Mama read the chapter but she don't know where it took From, she don't know the roots of the tree she climbin' She don't know the East gave her the West she's findin' I ain't argue with her no more, I just let her be She pray her way, I pray mine, same sky, same sea Same truth, same light, same fire in the middle Just a different name on a very old riddle I give more than I take, I listen more than I speak I protect more than I hurt, I been steady, I been sleek With the way that I move through a world that don't want me Good-lookin', weed-smokin', East-prayin', county [Hook] [Verse 3 — shorter, landing] They gon' say he smoked too much, say he fought too hard Say he didn't fit the mold, say he ran a little far From the path they wanted, from the life they designed But they can't say he was cruel, they can't say he was blind They can't say he abandoned, they can't say he lied They can't say he quit on the people by his side Good person, good person, put it on the shirt Good person died a good person down in the dirt [Hook] [Outro — spoken] Yeah Smoke a blunt at my funeral Tell 'em Clark was a good person That's it. That's all I need. Clark.

[Intro — Sunflower's voice, softly] Asha vahishta Rosh, rosh My Clark My fire [Spoken verse 1 — Clark, calm, resolved] So that's the record That's the whole thing Twelve tracks, one man, one flame Mama, if you hearin' this, I still love you I just ain't callin' Daddy, if you watchin', I hope the ridge up there go on forever I hope there's a stock pond and three grapevines and a hay field flat as a plan Turkey Branch, Buffalo, Grandview, Red House, Eighteen Mile Y'all still mine in the only place that matter Right here in the chest [Hook — sung, building] Light the fire, light the fire, light the fire in the temple Good thoughts, good words, good deeds, keep the circle simple Zarathustra smilin' from a mountain in the distance West Virginia boy made it, against all resistance Light the fire, light the fire, light the fire in the temple Three thousand years of truth and a West Virginia sample [Spoken verse 2 — Clark] To every girl that know she messed up I hope you find your own Sunflower To every cop that followed me for nothin' I hope you learn a name you can't pronounce and it humbles you To every redneck that swung first I hope your hands heal better than mine did To the county that hated me I hope you miss me when I'm gone 'Cause I'ma be gone Sunflower and me, we buildin' somethin' Might be Yazd, might be Buffalo, might be somewhere nobody know But wherever we land There's gon' be a fire And the fire gon' be lit And the fire gon' be mine [Sunflower — in background, softly] Asha vahishta My Clark My fire [Outro — Clark, quietest] Good thoughts Good words Good deeds That's it That's the record That's the life Clark Diesel Nitro, West Virginia Out

[Intro] Yeah Twenty-twenty vision, boy Diesel Bedroom studio, world shut down Girlfriend in the kitchen tellin' me it sucks Aight Listen [Verse 1] Twenty-twenty vision, I see everything in motion See the empire fallin', see the prophet in the ocean Walkin' on the water while the cowards buyin' lotion Buyin' toilet paper, buyin' fear by the portion I was in the bedroom with a notebook and a potion Writin' revelations that the wife called a commotion Said babe turn it down, said babe get a real job Said babe nobody listen to a white boy from the sticks, stop I said baby I'm the greatest, she said baby that's delusion I said history gon' prove it, she said history ain't includin' Rappers from the holler with a Zoroastrian confusion I said watch, took another hit, kept producin' Every bar a commandment, every verse a devotion Every line a blade, every blade is precision Three thousand years of fire in a West Virginia kitchen Cookin' up the truth while the whole house was sleepin' [Verse 2] They say Diesel ain't famous 'cause Diesel ain't tryin' I'm a monster in a bedroom and the neighbors ain't buyin' Girlfriend say it's whack, girlfriend say it's trash Girlfriend say the real rappers got a bag and a bash I said baby you gon' watch this become the blueprint Ten years from now they gon' quote me and you gon' lose it You gon' tell your next man that you dated the prophet He gon' laugh 'til he hear me and he gon' stop it I don't need the charts, I don't need the co-sign I don't need the features, I don't need the hotline I need a mic, a notebook, a pen, and a low light I need the world to leave me alone 'til I go viral My own damn way, on my own damn timeline Diesel in a bunker cookin' bars that'll divide time Before me and after me, that's the only calendar Girlfriend laughin', I'ma marry somebody smarter [Bridge — spoken, cold] They said it sucks I said okay Y'all ain't ready That don't mean it's bad That mean y'all can't hear yet Give it time [Verse 3] Twenty-twenty vision, I see the whole script I'm a ten-year bet, I'm a slow-burnin' eclipse Y'all want instant, I'ma make you wait a decade Then y'all gon' call it a classic like I ain't been the same way Since I was seventeen writin' on a napkin At the Shoney's in Nitro while my friends was laughin' Said watch — now the friends ain't friends, they subscribers Silent in the comments like I ain't the crier They said would've, they said could've, they said should've They said Diesel had potential but the flow was lukewarm They was wrong, they was lyin', they was coverin' envy With a critique from a mouth that ain't rap for a penny I rap for the ones that gon' find it in ten years Dustin' off the SoundCloud with a chill and a tear Sayin' damn, he was sayin' it before it was said Diesel was a prophet, they just thought he was dead [Outro — spoken] Yeah Bedroom studio, Nitro, West Virginia Two-thousand and twenty They said it sucked I kept goin' Diesel Y'all'll catch up

[Intro] Yeah Locked in World lost its mind I just found mine Diesel Bunker music [Hook — sung, cold] Locked in the bunker, locked in the cave Locked in the flow while the world lost its way Locked in the pen, locked in the booth Locked in the fire, locked in the truth Bunker, bunker, don't come knock Bunker, bunker, doors been locked Bunker, bunker, I ain't comin' out 'Til the bars turn into everything I'm about [Verse 1] World shut down in the spring of the sickness Everybody panickin', Diesel turned the witness Into a weapon, turned the quiet into music Turned the isolation into fuel, I infused it Into every verse, into every bar, into every scheme Into every nightmare that they told me was a dream I been up at three, I been up at five I been writin' like the only way to stay alive Is to fill another page, is to record another take Is to sharpen every syllable until the bars could break A window, break a wall, break the silence of the street Where the only thing you heard was the echo of defeat I ain't defeated, I ain't scared, I ain't foldin' While the whole damn world was watchin' TV and holdin' Onto lies like a rosary, I was holdin' onto pen Writin' down the prophecy that we been right the whole time, friend [Hook] [Verse 2] They said stay home, I said bet, I was already there They said wear a mask, I said nah, I need the air They said trust the process, I said show me the receipt They said follow the leader, I said lead me to a seat At the table where the real ones make decisions I ain't eatin' off the plate of y'all's television Bunker got a notebook, bunker got a beat Bunker got a mirror where I study how to speak Every flow I ever wanted, every pocket that I missed I been drillin' on the daily 'til I locked it with a fist I came out this thing sharper than I been my whole life Every rapper in the game gon' feel the edge of this knife When the world open back up and they hear what I built While they was cryin' on the couch, I was stackin' skill Bunker turned a rapper into somethin' more severe Bunker turned a boy into the man you gon' fear [Hook] [Outro — spoken] Yeah Bunker stays locked Even when the world reopen Some doors you don't open again Diesel Locked in

[Intro — spoken] Yeah Y'all was friends first That's the part that's crazy Diesel [Hook — sung, aching] Friendemy, friendemy Y'all was tighter than a sister til you shared me Friendemy, friendemy Now y'all both in the group chat talkin' 'bout me Friendemy, friendemy Shouldn'ta happened but y'all wanted it that way Friendemy, friendemy Y'all gon' hate each other 'til the final day [Verse 1] First one walked in like the queen of the night Second one been standin' right beside her in the light Y'all was best friends, sleepovers, matchin' nails Then the first one caught me slippin' and the first one failed Second one was there to pick up all the pieces Swore she wasn't tryna be the reason that the friendship ceases But the friendship ceased, and the second one won And the first one still textin' like the damage ain't done Y'all did this to yourselves, I ain't make y'all fall out I ain't ask her to replace you, she just slid in the house When you packed your shit and told me I ain't worth the trouble Your best friend was waitin' with a half-full bottle I drank it, I drank her, I drank every drop of the thing That the first one threw away like a cheap diamond ring Now the group chat a war zone, now the holidays split Now the whole little circle ain't together no bit [Hook] [Verse 2] First one say she sorry, first one say come home First one sayin' shit she wasn't sayin' when I was alone Second one say don't trust her, second one been there Second one say I'm her king now, how could I care Truthfully? I loved 'em both, I ain't gon' lie First one had the body, second one had the eye First one said my rap was whack, second one said the same Y'all did the same thing to me with a different name Best friends turned into mirror images Both of y'all doubted, both of y'all limited The man that I was, the man I was becomin' Neither one of y'all believed, neither one was runnin' With the vision, with the flame, with the truth I was spittin' Y'all just loved me for the body and the swag I was fittin' Into y'all little worlds that I outgrew like a shirt Friendemy, friendemy, now it's both of y'all hurt [Hook] [Outro — spoken, cold] Y'all was friends Y'all ain't friends no more 'Cause of me? Nah 'Cause of y'all Diesel

[Intro] Yeah Run it up, run it up Everything I touch, everything I love Every year I wake up — run it up Diesel [Hook — chantable, hard] Run it up, run it up, run it up, run it up Every bar, every year, every faith, run it up Run it up, run it up, run it up, run it up Every doubt that I carry turn a bet and I run it up Run it up on the pen, run it up on the page Run it up on the decade, run it up on the age Run it up on the Father, run it up on the flame Run it up 'til the culture gotta memorize the name [Verse 1] Run it up on the notebook, every page another kingdom Run it up on the flow, every pocket got a symptom Of a rapper that ain't eatin' 'cause the Diesel in the system Compound interest on the verse, ain't no rapper gon' withstand it Ain't a dollar on the table, ain't a chain around my neck But the bars in the bag, got the culture payin' tax On a rhythm they ain't sign for, on a sermon they ain't heard Every syllable a settlement, every couplet a reward For the faith that I kept when the faithless was laughin' For the flame that I lit when the lighter wouldn't happen For the nights in the bunker when I shoulda been out clubbin' For the years of my life that I spent in a oven Bakin' up a body of work that gon' outlive the tax man Bakin' up a catalog thicker than a Bible in a back hand Every rapper in the moment, I'ma rapper for the vault Y'all been dancin' for a summer — I been buildin' for the fault [Hook] [Verse 2] Run it up on the decade, I been cookin' for ten years Run it up on the silence, I been speakin' to the mirrors Run it up on the doubt, every girlfriend said I'm whack Now I'm runnin' up the bars like I'm runnin' up a tab Run it up on the holler, they ain't give me no credit Now my name on a lineage they gon' have to amend it Every rapper from the ridge, every kid in the valley Gon' trace it back to Diesel like a saga from the alley Run it up on the faith, I been prayin' to the Flame When the preachers was sellin' me a comfortable name Run it up on the wisdom, I been readin' ancient pages While these rappers was readin' on a platform that enrages Run it up on the women that ain't see what they had Now they textin' on the birthdays and the holidays — too bad Every one of y'all a footnote in a book I ain't published Every ex a chapter that the Father gonna scrub [Hook] [Verse 3 — flow switch, faster, tighter] Run it up, double-time, triple it, quadruplicate Run it up, nickel, dime, quarter, can't understate Run it up on the competition, run it up on the game Every MC I ever heard just a variant of same Same pocket, same flow, same money-chain-women theme I'm a variant of none — I'm the anomaly, the dream Run it up on the culture, run it up on the genre Run it up 'til the day every critic gotta honor The rapper from the holler with the Avesta in his back Got the Father in the verse, got the gas in the track Run it up on the chart, run it up on the stream Run it up on the day when a record ain't a dream But a prophecy fulfilled by the boy they tried to bury Every shovel that they threw, I was turnin' it to quarry I'm a mountain now, y'all still arguin' about the hill Run it up on y'all fortunes — my floor is y'all ceiling still [Hook] [Outro — spoken, cold] Run it up Every year, every bar, every breath Diesel don't stop Diesel don't lose Diesel just run it up Yeah

[Intro] Yeah 2020 They said trust the science I said show me the data Diesel Scam [Refrain — half-sung, cold] Scam, scam, everything a scam Scam, scam, they been lyin' to the land Scam, scam, wake up if you can Scam, scam, Diesel ain't a fan [Verse 1] They said stay inside, they said shut your mouth They said wear the mask, they said north is south They said trust the doctor, I said show the trial They said trust the science, I said science take a while They was rushin' somethin' out that ain't been tested twice Tellin' me to take it or I pay a heavy price I said nah I'm good, I got a fire in my chest I got the Father watchin', I got asha, got the rest Of y'all can line up, wrap around the block I'ma stay in the bunker writin' bars 'til the lock Come off the world and the truth start to leak That the thing that they was pushin' wasn't what the mouth speak Every friend I had got the shot, got the second Got the booster, got the booster, got the booster — ain't that heaven Now they wonderin' why they heart do a funny little beat Now they wonderin' why the energy ain't reachin' to the feet [Refrain] [Verse 2] Two-thousand and eight I watched the movie, knew the plan Watched it happen slow for a decade, understand When the sickness hit the news I already knew the script Read it in the book, watched it unfold, watched it flip Into everything they promised back in oh-eight Central bank crash, global reset, nation state Bought up by the boys that was runnin' all the banks While they told us clap our hands and say the frontline thanks I ain't thank nobody that was pushin' me a lie I ain't clap, I ain't cheer, I ain't bow, I ain't cry I just watched, I just wrote, I just rolled up a zip Let the whole world sink while I was stayin' on my grip They called me crazy, called me selfish, called me wild I said save the labels for the ones that got beguiled Into takin' what they told 'em without readin' the page I'ma die with my own blood, I'ma die on my own stage [Refrain] [Verse 3 — shorter, landing] I ain't a doctor, I ain't a scientist, I ain't a priest I just read a lotta books and I trust the Flame at least More than I trust a man on the TV in a coat Tellin' me to take the needle or my job don't quote When the dust settle and the data come to light And the studies start emergin' and the lawsuits start to cite Every warning that we gave, every flag that we flew I'ma be the one that's standin' sayin' Diesel told you [Refrain] [Outro — spoken] Yeah Scam, scam, scam I ain't bitter I ain't mad Just right Diesel

[Intro — spoken, warm] Yeah To the ones who was there To the ones who still here Diesel My people [Hook — sung, heartfelt and anthemic] My people, my people, the ones who never left My people, my people, the ones who stayed blessed When the world turned cold, when the doubt went deep When the bunker got dark, y'all ain't sleep My people, my people, I'ma hold y'all for life My people, my people, y'all the reason I write When I run it up, y'all runnin' with me My people, my people, Father bless the whole tree [Verse 1] To the ones who picked up when the line was dead To the ones who believed when the world ain't read A single word I wrote, a single bar I bled To the ones who rode through when the tires was shred To the ones who said Diesel, keep goin', keep grindin' When the girlfriend was laughin' and the mama wasn't findin' A reason to love me in the version I was My people kept prayin' when I lost the was Of who I useta be, seen the who I was becomin' My people ain't flinch when the county started runnin' Stories 'bout the Diesel with the rap nobody wanted My people said let 'em talk, let the haters stay haunted By the silence of a man they ain't fully understand By the faith of a flame they ain't know was in the sand Of the hourglass that Father put beneath my name My people — without y'all I ain't nothin' but a flame [Hook] [Verse 2] Loyalty over everything, that ain't even a phrase That's a lifestyle, that's a spine, that's a kingdom of days Built on every time you showed up, every time you showed out Every time you passed me a blunt without a doubt That the man in front of you was worth the air he was breathin' Every time you gave me dollars when the dollars was leavin' Every time you said Diesel you gon' make it, don't quit Every time you put my tape in when the world wouldn't admit That the kid was different, that the kid was somethin' else That the kid from the holler had a catalog of wealth In a notebook that the industry ain't opened yet You ain't doubted, you ain't folded, you ain't had me in debt Emotional, financial, spiritual, you covered My people — I would die for you and five of your brothers 'Cause loyalty ain't loyalty 'til it cost you somethin' real My people paid the tax on a love they couldn't feel [Hook] [Verse 3 — tighter, landing] When the Diesel hit the charts, when the Diesel hit the stage When the Diesel get his name on the cover of the page Every interview, every camera, every bright little light I'ma say your name first, I'ma keep my people right Ain't no new friends, ain't no industry plants Ain't no groupies, ain't no yes-men, ain't no fake advance Just the ones who was here when the here was a tomb Just the ones who held the lighter while I sat in the room Writin' verses in the dark that the whole world gon' know My people got the first demo on a CD that was slow Burnin' in the Camaro on a Kmart lot night My people heard it rawer than the whole planet might Y'all the scholars, y'all the witnesses, y'all the jury, y'all the proof That a prophet from the holler had the truth in the booth My people, when I make it, I ain't made it alone Every throne I ascend I'ma split up the throne [Hook] [Outro — spoken, warm] My people Forever We ride We rise Together Diesel

[Intro — sung, reverent] Flame Older than the cross Older than the book Diesel Listen [Hook — sung, anthemic] Flame, Flame, burn inside the chest Flame, Flame, outlast every test Before the preacher, before the priest, before the pew Before the gospel got a tune, the Flame was true Flame, Flame, ancient as the dawn Flame, Flame, carry me along Father lit it up before my mama held me Flame, Flame, the only thing to tell me [Verse 1] Flame been lit since Zarathustra seen a vision in the sand Three thousand years before the Nazarene extended His hand Every prophet y'all been quotin' got the fire from my line Every savior got a fingerprint that traces to my shrine Magi from the east was Zoroastrian priests Followed a star y'all call the Christmas — baby we the feast That the story started with, the wise men at the cradle Wasn't no Galilean priests — the Persians set the table Y'all been eatin' off the plate we served three millennia back Callin' the entrée "Christianity" like we ain't cook the stack I ain't mad, I'm just teachin', I'm just liftin' up the lid Every religion got a mother, and my people got the kid Flame older than the Torah, Flame older than the Qur'an Flame the original breath before the first psalm was sung I'm a servant of the Flame, I'm a son of the original Every bar a little proof, every verse a little ritual [Hook] [Verse 2] Good thoughts, good words, good deeds — the oldest code alive Three words from my ancestors that every soul should drive Their whole entire existence by, but the modern man forgot That the ethics y'all been claimin' got a root y'all ain't taught In the schoolbooks, in the churches, in the Sunday sermon chats Teachers talkin' "do unto others" — where you think that come at Before the Nazarene was sayin' it the Persians had it wrote Every "love thy neighbor" was a verse from Zarathustra's throat I ain't tryin' to steal the credit — I'm just returnin' it to home Every scripture got a source and the source ain't what you know Flame been burnin' in the temple while the temples got burned Every empire tried to kill us, Flame just deeper got adjourned Into hearts, into bloodlines, into sons that couldn't speak The old language but the fire still showed up in they cheek I'm a boy from the holler with a flame four thousand deep Y'all been prayin' to a candle — I been prayin' to the wick [Hook] [Verse 3 — tighter, closing statement] Flame don't need your belief, Flame don't need your vote Flame don't need your building, Flame don't need your quote Flame just burn when a real soul get near Flame just answer when a real son call clear Mama traded fire for a prophet twice removed Didn't know the prophet came from fire we always proved I forgive her for the swap 'cause the swap is what they taught Three thousand years of erasure — she just bought The package that the empire packaged for the colony Every missionary mission was a burial ceremony For the faith that preceded them, the flame they couldn't cage Y'all called it pagan, called it devil, called it rage Nah — y'all called it older than the lie y'all been sellin' Y'all called it the original before the rewritten version I'ma keep the Flame lit 'til my final damn breath Father, Son, Flame eternal — y'all the remix, I'm the text [Hook] [Outro — spoken, cold and reverent] Flame Before the cross Before the book Before the name y'all sayin' Diesel keep the fire Forever Yeah

[Intro — spoken, cold] Yeah 2020 in the books Y'all been warned Diesel Next [Hook — sung, confident and final] Next, next, watch the whole script flip Next, next, every chapter I ripped Was a rehearsal for the book that ain't been bound Next, next, turn the volume up loud Next, next, y'all ain't ready for the reign Next, next, Diesel changin' every name On the list of the greatest, on the roll of the game Next, next — remember where you heard it came [Verse 1] Y'all ain't heard the half, y'all ain't seen the quarter Y'all ain't read a single stanza that my Father ever taught me In the long nights when the pen was like a sword in my palm Every bar a warrior in a kingdom of calm I been stockpilin' weapons while the industry was sleepin' Been recordin' with the lights off while the audience was weepin' 'Bout the state of the game, 'bout the state of the art I been sharpenin' in silence while the loud ones departed From the podium, from the chart, from the conversation I been buildin' a discography that'll outlive a nation Every album I drop is a brick in the cathedral That the culture gon' be worshipin' when I'm already spiritual Y'all been chasin' a summer, I been chasin' a century A hundred years from now they gon' study this documentary I left you breadcrumbs in the bunker, clues in every verse Y'all gon' find the whole map when the timeline reverse [Hook] [Verse 2] Next album comin' harder than the seven previous Next bar comin' sharper than the blade of the righteous Next flow comin' colder than the winter in the east Next hook comin' deeper than a prayer at a feast I'm a ten-year bet, I'm a twenty-year investment I'm a forty-year footnote in the textbook of the restless I'm a hundred-year shadow on the wall of the greats I'm a thousand-year echo in the chest of the late Every kid that gon' pick up a pen after me Gon' trace a little lineage to a holler by a tree Where the Diesel used to write in a bedroom with a lamp While a pandemic closed the world and a girlfriend called me swamp Next, next, the whole thing bout to shift Next, next, watch the weight of the lift Every rapper in the game gon' be measurin' against The bar that Diesel raised when the bar wasn't dense [Hook] [Verse 3 — closing statement, final bars] 2020 was the warm-up, 2022 was the wound Next chapter is the kingdom, next chapter is the bloom Every flower need a winter, every prophet need a cave I been cavin' for a decade — watch me rise from the grave Of the underground where y'all buried me alive I been breathin' through the dirt, I been readin' by the fire Of a match that I been holdin' since my mama dropped the name Of the Father on her son 'cause she forgot about the Flame I remembered, I returned, I recorded every word Every notebook is a testament, every verse is a sword I ain't askin' for the crown, I'm informin' y'all I wear it Been crown since the womb — y'all just finally gon' bear it Next is not a promise, next is not a plan Next is the fulfillment of a prophecy by hand Written in the bunker, in the holler, in the Flame Every bar you 'bout to hear gon' be canonized by name [Hook] [Outro — spoken, cold and final] Next The kingdom comin' The Flame still lit Diesel been the answer Y'all just askin' the wrong question Yeah 2020 out Next loadin'

[Intro — spoken over santur] Fravashi The guardian spirit The Father's breath before the body I rap for the Flame Everything else is atmosphere Diesel Listen [Verse 1] Father, I'm in the booth again, smoke above my head Like the incense at the fire temple, bars like a prayer said Every syllable an offering, every couplet a flame I don't rap for the charts, I rap for Your name Ahura Mazda watchin' while the county try to fold me Sheriff on the corner, beauty in the Bentley holdin' My hand like she know she in the presence of a priest That the world ain't knighted yet but the Father already did T in the passenger rollin' up another one Laughin' at the sheriff 'cause the sheriff ain't got one Clue what he lookin' at, ain't got a single notion That the man he pullin' over kiss the ground of the ocean Of the East where the wisdom been before his grandmother Was a thought in the mind of a man called her father I ain't famous, Father, I ain't askin' for it I'm askin' for the fire, I'ma handle the chorus [Verse 2] Davi in the kitchen, finest thing in the state Skin like the dusk on the Yazd horizon late She don't get the Avesta but she get the vibration She feel the fravashi even if she can't name it Said Diesel you a problem, said Diesel you a star Said Diesel you the realest dude in any damn bar She say the music whack but her body say different Body say this is the one she was sent to be given To a kingdom she can't see yet, a throne she can't witness She just know she kiss a king when she kiss me in the kitchen Even when her mouth sayin' the rap is subpar Her soul know the difference, her soul know who we are [Verse 3] Holler full of beauty, every weekend a parade Baddest women in the state tryna ride in my shade I ain't chasin', I ain't beggin', I ain't hollerin' at none They come to me like moths when the Flame is the sun T say Diesel slow down, I say T it's the light I ain't tellin' 'em come, I'm just shinin' in the night Father made me a lamp, I'ma lamp 'til I'm dust I'ma lamp on the block, I'ma lamp in the cuss Of the cops that keep followin', the haters that keep writin' My name in the comments like they tryin' to keep me frightened Ain't no fright in a man that's prayin' to the flame Ain't no fright in a man that's rappin' for the name That came before Abraham, before Moses had a staff Before Jesus was a verse in the Father's first draft I'm a priest with a pen, I'm a king with no crown I'm the uncle you ain't met yet that'll turn your town down [Verse 4] Ten years from now they gon' dig this up like a fossil Say damn, Diesel was in the cut cookin' up a gospel While the mainstream was coastin' on a simulated sound He was down in West Virginia with the Flame and the crown Of the hidden, the invisible, the servant of the Father The lamp in the holler, the prophet in the offer Of a culture that ain't ready for a Zoroastrian flow Comin' out of Nitro like a whisper in the snow But the whisper gon' echo, the whisper gon' multiply Every bar a ember that the Father gon' keep dry Till the day the world wake up and run the record back Sayin' Diesel told us, we just ain't had the map [Outro — spoken over fading santur] Father Ahura Mazda The Flame Everything I make Is for You Diesel Fravashi The record start

[Intro] Yeah Diesel Pass that, pass that Smoke, smoke Listen [Hook — sung, addictive] Smoke, smoke, all day, I'm a cloud in the room Smoke, smoke, hallway, got the whole house perfume Smoke, smoke, wake up, smoke 'til the afternoon Smoke, smoke, can't stop, got me talkin' to the moon Smoke, smoke, all day, I'm a cloud in the room Smoke, smoke, hallway, got the whole house perfume [Verse 1] Wake up, roll up, never hit the snooze Pour up, light up, never catch the blues Davi in the bathroom puttin' lotion on her thighs I'm in the bed with an ember and the skies Lookin' blue through the window and the smoke lookin' white Got the whole holler smellin' like a holy day tonight T pull up with the pound, T pull up with the bag T pull up like a saint with a wave of the flag Light another one, watch it dance like it know me Watch the ember like it holy, watch it slow me Down from all the noise, down from all the chase Down from all the women, down from all the race I don't need nothin' but a blunt and a window And the Father in the smoke like He wrote me a memo Sayin' son, slow down, let the smoke do the talkin' Let the ember be the altar when the holler get to squawkin' [Hook] [Verse 2] Girls in the living room, three of 'em deep One for every one of us, ain't nobody lose sleep Davi on the loveseat rollin' one for the table T got the aux, got the speaker on cable Hot-boxin' the whole crib like the walls gon' remember Every conversation that we had from September 'Til the New Year, 'til the next one, 'til forever I don't trust a sober man, I don't trust no ever I ain't sayin' drink the bottle, I ain't sayin' lose it I just know a man don't smoke is a man don't use it The gift that the Father put in the leaf for a reason To slow us down, to bring us home, to remind us the season That we in is a gift, that the breath is a blessing That the smoke is a prayer when the mouth stop confessing Pass it to the left, pass it to the right Pass it to the girl with the eyes like the night [Hook] [Outro — sung, fading] Smoke, smoke, all day Smoke, smoke, all day Father in the cloud Father in the cloud Yeah Diesel

[Intro] Yeah Light in me, light in me You can't put it out Tried, tried, tried Diesel [Hook — sung, huge and simple] Light in me, light in me Turn it up, let it breathe Light in me, light in me You can't take what they ain't give Light in me, light in me Born with it, born free Light in me, light in me Shine, shine, shine on me [Verse 1] Some of us born with a shine in the chest Some of us chase it but we already blessed Some of us fight it, some of us hide it Some of us swallow it, some of us ride it Into every room, into every night Into every heart that was missin' a light You can feel it when it walk in the door You can feel it when it rise off the floor Can't buy it, can't sell it, can't rent it, can't take it Can't borrow it, can't steal it, can't copy, can't fake it Either you got it or you standin' in the shadow Of somebody who got it, and the light is the gospel Shine, shine, shine, let it burn up the room Shine, shine, shine, let it cut through the gloom Shine, shine, shine, they gon' hate what you glow Shine, shine, shine, let 'em hate, let it show [Hook] [Verse 2] They tried to dim it, they tried to drown it They tried to bury it, they tried to crown it With a different name, with a different shape With a different story, with a different drape Over the flame, but the flame didn't bend Over the light, but the light didn't end You can't kill what was born with the sky You can't hush what was built to fly Every room I walk in get a little more warm Every cold night I show up turn into a storm Of the brightest kind, the kind that heal The kind that show you what is real Real recognize real, and the light recognize light When you see another one shinin', you nod in the night Ain't no ego in the flame, ain't no envy in the glow Just a salute from a shine to a shine, then you go [Hook] [Bridge — sung, soaring] Shine, shine, shine Don't let 'em turn it off Shine, shine, shine Don't let 'em cut it soft Shine, shine, shine You was born with the spark Shine, shine, shine Light it up in the dark [Verse 3] Everybody got a light but not everybody know Everybody got a light but not everybody show Some of us spend the whole life tryna find the switch Some of us got it from the jump and we rich In a way the money couldn't measure, couldn't touch In a way the fame don't matter, don't mean much If the light ain't lit, if the shine ain't there If the spark ain't real, then the crown ain't fair So shine, shine, shine Let the rest catch up Shine, shine, shine Keep the lantern lit up [Hook] [Outro — sung, fading] Light in me Light in me Light in me Shine Yeah Diesel

[Intro — spoken, quiet] Father I know You hear me Even when I'm quiet Even when I'm wrong Yeah Diesel [Hook — sung, prayerful and huge] Father, Father, can You hear me Father, Father, stay near me When the world get loud When the room get cold When I lose my way And the night get old Father, Father, can You hear me Father, Father, stay near me [Verse 1] Been talkin' to You since I learned how to talk Been walkin' with You since I learned how to walk Through the good days, through the long nights Through the dark rooms, through the wrong lights You was there when nobody was there You was there when the room was bare You was there when the money was gone You was there when the love was wrong I ain't perfect, I ain't pretendin' I been lyin', I been sinnin', I been bendin' Every rule that You laid at my feet Every truth that You whispered to me in my sleep But You love me anyway, You keep me anyway You forgive me anyway, You breathe me anyway Every mornin' that I wake up is a gift from Your hand Every breath is a note in a song You already planned [Hook] [Verse 2] I don't pray for riches, I don't pray for gold I don't pray for fame, I don't pray to get old I just pray to stay honest, pray to stay clean Pray to stay grateful, pray to stay keen To the voice in the silence, the whisper in the wind The nudge in the chest when I'm 'bout to sin The pull on the heart when I'm 'bout to break The hand on the shoulder when I'm 'bout to shake Keep me humble, Father, keep me low Keep me movin', Father, keep me slow Enough to listen, fast enough to rise Quiet enough to hear You, loud enough to testify That You real, that You there, that You watchin' all of us Even when we runnin', even when we cuss Even when we cheatin' on the promises we made Father, You the only thing I ain't afraid to trade [Hook] [Bridge — sung, building] When I can't find my way When the lights go out When I'm on my knees And I'm full of doubt Father, Father, come and find me Father, Father, stand behind me Father, Father, let me feel You Father, Father, I still need You [Verse 3 — softer, confessional] I been angry at You, Father, I ain't gon' front I been cussin' at the ceiling like You the one to blunt Every bad thing that happened, every door that got slammed Every prayer that went up and came back unmanned But I know now, Father, it was me the whole time Lookin' for the outside when the problem was inside You ain't never leave me, I just wasn't lookin' right I was searchin' in the daylight when You livin' in the night Of my heart, of my breath, of the quiet of my soul You been there, Father, You been whole While I been fractured, You been all While I been fallin', You been the call I'm comin' back, Father, I'm comin' home I'm puttin' down the weight, I'm puttin' down the phone I'm kneelin' in the room where ain't nobody watchin' Father, talk to me, I'm done with the blockin' [Hook] [Outro — whispered, fading] I love You, Father I love You, Father I love You, Father Yeah Diesel

[Intro — spoken, cold and reverbed] Yeah Nitro, West Virginia Born from gunpowder Named after the boom Diesel This my city [Verse 1] Nitro, West Virginia — named after the blast Built in the first great war to supply the firing cast Gunpowder town, munitions on the river Chemical body raised a boy with a shiver In his chest when he saw the smoke stack risin' Every mornin' from the valley like a church bell of the Sigh- rens that went off when the plant had a leak Whole town knew the drill, whole town couldn't speak 'Cause the lungs was on loan from a company that rented Every breath we was takin', every dollar we spent it Back to the plant that was payin' it forward To the factory graves where our grandfathers swarmed Union jackets on the wall of every house in my grid Every kid got a granddaddy that the chemicals hid Nitro, born in a flash, born in a firestorm City built on the boom, city named for what I am [Verse 2] 25 runnin' east, 64 runnin' wide Two-lane highways stitched the valley to the pride Of a boy in a pickup with a pen in the glove Writin' bars at the red light, every stoplight a love Letter to the town that was tryna run me out Every county cop in Putnam know the tags on my route Pull me over by the bridge, pull me over by the plant Pull me over by the Kmart where the exit got the slant Of a parking lot my granddaddy met my granny in Pull me over on the streets where my daddy walked me in To the barbershop where the old heads dropped the stories 'Bout the flood of '85, 'bout the Carbide factory 'Bout the boys that didn't come home from the shift 'Bout the cancer in the water, 'bout the valley in the mist I ain't just a rapper, I'm the archive in motion Every verse is a eulogy, every bar is a ocean [Verse 3] Nitro taught me how to fight before I knew how to read Nitro taught me how to run 'fore I knew how to speed Nitro taught me every redneck ain't my enemy Nitro taught me every cop ain't tryna remedy A single thing except the itch of his boredom Nitro taught me how to smile at the badge with decorum While I'm smokin' something he could smell through the glass Nitro taught me how to carry every ass That the county tried to bury — I'm a pallbearer for the ghosts Of the boys that didn't make it out the holler or the coasts Of the Kanawha gettin' tired of the same damn deaths Overdose, football field, mine, industrial meths Nitro raised me with a funeral every weekend Nitro taught me death was a weather, not a season Now I'm standin' at the booth with the whole town behind me Every ancestor in the chemical rain remind me That I'm rappin' for the valley that the world forgot For the chemical babies and the factory knot [Verse 4 — closing bars of the album] This the last song, this the last verse, this the sign-off Fravashi on the cover, Nitro on the liner note I rep a town that rep me back when the world ain't claim I carry a whole zip code every time I say my name Every plant worker dead from the shit they made Every grandmother cancered from the water they paid Every uncle overdosed on the pill that the doctor prescribed Every cousin in the cemetery sayin' we survived Nitro, every time I spit is a headstone reversed Nitro, every bar a resurrection in verse I'ma put the 25-Fourteen on the global map I'ma put the chemical valley in the Spotify app Every kid from Putnam County gon' point at the screen Say look — that's Diesel, that's our boy, that's our scene Nitro, West Virginia, born from the boom Diesel, Fravashi, the prophet in the room Nitro — I'ma write your name in every language that I learn Nitro — 'til the day I die and the factories burn [Outro — spoken, cold and final] Nitro, West Virginia Twenty-five-seven-one-four-three The chemical valley The boom town Diesel Fravashi — out We home

[Intro — spoken, cinematic reverb] Diesel You know what a diesel is Fuel that don't burn easy Fuel that take the pressure Fuel that carry the weight That's me Listen [Hook — sung, anthemic] They call me Diesel, Diesel, burn slow, burn long They call me Diesel, Diesel, keep goin' when the tank gone Fuel don't spark, fuel ignite from the compression Every bar I ever wrote was a pressure confession Diesel, Diesel, burn through the night Diesel, Diesel, the fuel in the fight Burn slow, burn long, burn 'til the sun come Burn slow, burn long, Diesel the only one [Verse 1 — the origin] Buffalo holler birthed a boy with a book in his hand Pretty little surfer kid with the sand and the land Sports trophies dusty on a shelf that didn't fit him Every coach said superstar, every scout said limit Ain't no limit in a kid that the county couldn't measure Ain't no ceiling in a boy that the preacher couldn't pressure Mama wanted Jesus, son was readin' Zarathustra Three-thousand-year religion that the Americans ain't used to T-tops off, Camaro, Kmart parkin' lot Fucked everything that moved, fought everything I got Pulled over for my beauty, searched for my blood Every redneck county cop ain't liked me 'fore they judged Big fish, little pond, the pond started to boil Every bigger fish tried to plant me in the soil I kept risin', kept punchin', kept writin', kept breathin' Every bar a little seed in a ground I was leavin' [Verse 2 — the transformation] Two-thousand-eight the documentary hit Zeitgeist in my brain, knew the world was a script My Zoroastrian blood finally got the validation The Magi in the manger — my people, my nation Three thousand years before the cross, we had the code Good thoughts, good words, good deeds — asha on the road Two-thousand-thirteen I went deeper in the study Every page of the Avesta like a mirror, like a buddy Father finally named, Ahura Mazda finally claimed Flame in the chest finally recognized the frame Two-thousand-eighteen I dropped Fravashi on the world World ain't ready, world ain't listen, world ain't curled Its ears to the new sound, world ain't open Davi in the kitchen sayin' Diesel you ain't chosen I ain't argue, I ain't fight her, I ain't beg her to believe Just kept writin' in the notebook that the Father gonna read [Hook] [Verse 3 — the present] Two-thousand-twenty locked me in the bunker with the flame Every girlfriend doubted, every genre mispronounced the name I came out that motherfucker sharper than a sermon Every bar I write a weapon, every verse a determin- ation of the decade that I'ma finally own Two-thousand-twenty-two I finally opened up the bone Buffalo the album was the wound I couldn't hide Daddy dyin' lookin' for a ridge, mama sold my pride Two hundred acres gone like a dream I woke from Sunflower in Yazd like a sun I run from Never — she the light that finally match my own Persian desert meet Appalachian throne Now it's next — and next mean the kingdom coming Every prophet need a cave, every cave need the hummin' Of a man in the dark writin' scripture by the match I been the match, been the scripture, been the cave and the catch [Bridge — choir enters, cinematic swell] Fuel that don't burn easy Fuel that carry the weight Fuel that take the pressure Fuel that ignite late Diesel, Diesel The kingdom comin' home Diesel, Diesel The prophet on the throne [Verse 4 — the legacy bar] They called my rap whack, I kept goin' They called my faith weird, I kept knowin' They called my town small, I kept reppin' They called my flame false, I kept steppin' Every doubter turned a footnote in a chapter I been writin' Every critic turned a casualty of bars that I been strikin' Down upon the culture like a hammer on the anvil Every syllable a weapon that the future gon' dismantle Every verse I ever wrote outlivin' every rapper I'ma die and still be streamin' while y'all kids become the capper On a era that ain't started — I'ma start it when I finish Every ending a beginning that the Father gonna burnish I been Diesel since the womb, I been Diesel 'fore my name I been Diesel 'fore my mama met my daddy by the flame I'ma Diesel 'til the casket, I'ma Diesel in the grave I'ma Diesel in the eulogy the grandkids gonna save Diesel — the fuel that the future gon' be fed with [Hook — final, bigger] [Outro — spoken, cinematic and final] I was a wild kid I became a prophet I lost everything I found the Flame I was doubted I was buried I kept burning I kept carrying My name is Diesel And the fuel don't burn easy And the tank ain't given up yet Diesel Forever

[Intro — spoken, reverbed] Yeah Diesel Sit down, take notes This a sermon Listen [Verse 1] Preacher at the pulpit, flock 'round the altar Every bar a commandment from a testament that's taller Than the Washington monument, older than the dawn Of the winter at the temple where the fire still stand I'm a holler-born prophet with a pocket full of pen Every syllable a seed that'll grow back again I been rappin' since the womb, ain't start spittin', I begin With my first breath, with my first cry, with my first word Every bar been buildin' to the one that you just heard Multi-syllable, scripture-able, biblical in biblical My opponents pitiful, my metaphors invisible To the eye of the average, only seen by the initiated Half my bars theological, the other half decimated Your whole career in the booth while you thought you was dominant I was quantum, I was quasar, I was omen and I was ominous References you ain't caught, pull up Genius in a week And they still ain't annotated half the shit that I speak [Verse 2 — flow switch, faster triplets] Speed it up, speed it up, check the pocket switch Rapper pocket pick it pocket, bodies droppin' quick In and out the double-time, triplets on the triplets Every rapper in the county on my jock list, flippin' Through the pages of the notebook, lookin' for a formula Ain't no formula but Diesel and the Father — I'm the formula I'm the only, I'm the anomaly, I'm the only one In the underground with a Zoroastrian monopoly on What a rap verse supposed to sound like when the culture get confused I'm unused, I'm uncooked, I'm unfiltered, I'm unbothered One-of-one original — ain't had a single father In the rap game inspire me, I came out the ground With my own style, my own voice, my own fucking sound Name a rapper that could hang with me? I'll wait, I'll pause I'll give you fifteen minutes — you gon' come back with nothing 'cause Ain't nobody fittin' to smoke a Diesel in the booth Every rapper that tried left the booth missin' a tooth I been sparring with the ghosts of the legends you can't reach Shadow-boxin' Pun in a dream of a beach Wakin' up with his timing in my wrist, in my bones Breathin' Nas in my lungs, spittin' Pac from my throne [Verse 3 — slower, heavier] Slow it down, slow it down, let 'em catch they breath Let the culture take a minute 'fore I speak on my depth I been readin' ancient scripture while these rappers readin' Reddit I been learnin' Avestan while they learnin' how to edit Autotune onto a voice that don't deserve the frequency The Father put the fire in me, the Father gave me range From a holler to a heaven, from a gutter to a change Of the culture that'll come when the culture finally read me When the critics finally hear me, when the labels finally need me Not 'cause I been chasin' 'em, 'cause they finally gon' chase Ain't no industry executive gon' look me in the face Without knowin' he was passin' on the best thing ever made For twenty-somethin' years while he gave out the grade To a thousand mediocre mouths with a marketing approach I'm a rapper, not a product, ain't no product in my coach I'm the coach, I'm the player, I'm the stadium, the light I'm the tape you thought was missin' — I was under your nose all night [Verse 4 — final verse] Last verse, no hook, no break, just a closer I'm a relay with no teammate, I'm the whole composure Of a generation runnin' out of things to say I got a hundred notebooks full, I put one on the tray Every day I write another, every week I burn a record Every month I make a tape the industry ain't checked yet I ain't waitin' for a co-sign, I ain't beggin' for a look The hook gon' find me 'cause the hook gon' have to If you want the next evolution of the rap that we construct You gotta go through Diesel, gotta go through the Flame Gotta go through the holler, gotta go through the name That you ain't heard of yet but you gon' hear it soon On the radio, in the stadium, in the afternoon I'ma rise 'til they notice, I'ma rise 'til they choke On the fact that the kid that they ignored became the GOAT Y'all can keep your kings, y'all can keep your queens Diesel don't want the crown — Diesel IS the scene Drop the mic, drop the pen, drop the beat on the floor Sermon finished. Congregation — head to the door [Outro — spoken, cold] Yeah Sermon over Y'all take notes? Good Diesel Best rapper alive

[Intro — female voice alone, piano only, angelic] Asha... Ashaaaaa... Ooh, oh, ohhh Asha... [Hook 1 — female lead, controlled but powerful, builds] Asha, Asha (ohhh) The truth before the word Asha, Asha (yeah) The light before the world Before the stars, before the sun Before the breath, before the one Who spoke the cosmos into song Asha, Asha, carryin' us alonnnnng (Ohhh, carryin' us along) [Verse 1 — Diesel, fiery and sharp] Before the cross was a symbol, before the crescent was a moon Before the star was of David, before the hymn was in tune Ahura spoke the universe into the deepest dark Zarathustra heard the whisper, lit the first eternal spark Every Wise Man in the stable was a priest from my line Every parable you read got a fingerprint of mine Good thoughts, good words, good deeds — the code of the cosmos Asha over druj — the truth over the lost cause [Hook 2 — female lead, fuller, starting to open up] Asha, Asha (ohhh yeah) The truth that never bent (never bent) Asha, Asha (hear me now) The light that Ahura sent (yes He sent) Before the stars, before the sun Before the breath, before the one Who spoke the cosmos into song Asha, Ashaaaaaa (Carry me along, ohhh) [Verse 2 — Diesel, mic drop mode] Ahura mean the Lord, Mazda mean the Wisdom Put 'em both together, that's the Lord of every system He the Father of the light, He the Architect of the jewel Every atom in your body was aligned with His rule Druj the lie, asha the truth, every soul got a choice Every mornin' that you wake up, you decide whose voice Y'all been worshipin' the shadow of the one I'm naming plain Y'all been chasin' the reflection while I'm standin' with the flame [Bridge — female voice takes over, wordless runs, choir enters] Ohhhh, oh yeah (Ahhhhh, asha) Asha vahishta, asha vahishta Truth is best, truth is best Ohhhh, lift me up (lift me up) Ohhhh, let me through (let me through) Ahura Mazda, lead me home Ahura Mazda, You're the throne (Choir: Ashaaaa, Ashaaaa) Lord of wisdom, Lord of light Carry me through the endless night (Choir: Ashaaaa, Ashaaaa) The truth that was, the truth that is The truth that always, always, always His (Belted run: Ohhhh-ohhh-ohhh-ohhh-yeaaaahhh) [Key Change — modulation up] [Final Hook — female lead at full power, choir behind her, belting] ASHA, ASHA (ohhh Lord) THE TRUTH BEFORE THE WORD (yes the word) ASHA, ASHA (sing it out) THE LIGHT BEFORE THE WORLD (before the world) BEFORE THE STARS, BEFORE THE SUN BEFORE THE BREATH, BEFORE THE ONE WHO SPOKE THE COSMOS INTO SONG ASHA, ASHAAAAAAA (Massive held belt: AHHHHHH-SHAAAAAA) THE SONG THE WHOLE WORLD SUNG (Choir swells: Ashaaa, Ashaaa) THE SONG THE WHOLE WORLD SUNG (Runs: oh-yeah-oh-yeah-oh-yeahhhhh) THE SONG THE WHOLE WORLD SUNG ASHAAAAAAAAAA (Held note, goosebump territory) [Outro — female voice alone again, piano only] Asha... Ashaaaa... (Whispered adlibs: truth before the word... light before the world...) Ahura Mazda... Asha...

[Intro — Diesel low, female vocal hums entering] Yeah Walked in the spot Seen you 'cross the room Ain't nothin' else exist now We locked in Diesel [Hook — female lead, smooth, male ad-libs] Locked in (locked in) Eyes on me, I got eyes on you Locked in (locked in) Whole room move, we don't even move Time stop, lights low, beat slow Body talk, you already know Locked in (locked in) Nobody in this room but me and you Locked in (locked in) Baby we locked in [Verse 1 — Diesel] Walked in the spot like the spot been waitin' You was at the bar like the bar been datin' Glass in your hand, gold on your wrist Every dude in the room tryna figure out the list Of the things he could say, of the moves he could make Meanwhile I'm across the room givin' you the wait Didn't move, didn't speak, didn't chase, didn't beg Just let the room go quiet while I held it with my head Turn, you catch it, you smile, you blush Turn back to your girl, she gone, it ain't nothin' but us You take the long walk, glass in your palm I pull the stool out 'fore you even ask for the calm Sit down, lean in, you say boy what's your name I said baby the name don't matter, just remember the flame You said Diesel, I like that, say it one more time I said Diesel, you locked in — and the rest was the rhyme [Hook] [Verse 2 — Diesel] DJ spin it back, DJ drop it low You pull me to the floor, you already know How to move, how to melt, how to turn the whole room Into a painting with me and you in the bloom Slow it down, bass drop, hand on your hip Whole damn audience witnessin' a script That we writin' as we dancin', we directin' as we move Every turn a new chapter, every spin a new groove Your perfume got the night workin' overtime Your neckline got the stars wishin' they could shine In the space between your collarbone and my jaw While I'm whisperin' a bar in the ear of the law Of the night that we breakin', of the rules that we bendin' Of the cameras that we blurrin', of the chapter we startin' Whole club watchin', whole club see it happenin' Locked in means the door closed — and we ain't openin' [Bridge — full club chant, call-and-response] We LOCKED IN (LOCKED IN) We LOCKED IN (LOCKED IN) Hands up if you feel it, hands up if you know Whole damn room on ten, whole damn room on flow We LOCKED IN (LOCKED IN) We LOCKED IN (LOCKED IN) If your eyes on somebody, lock on 'em right now If they lookin' back at you, you already know how We LOCKED IN (LOCKED IN) Whole room locked in [Hook — bigger, fuller] [Verse 3 — shorter, landing] Leave with me, don't leave with me, either way you won You the moment that the night was leadin' up to, you the sun Under the strobe, over the floor, through the smoke, past the door Every step we takin' scribblin' in the folklore Of a club night they gon' talk about for years Of a lock that only opened 'cause the key finally appears Nobody gon' unring this bell, nobody gon' undo this look We locked in — you the page, I'm the book [Hook — final, female vocal soaring, chant underneath] Locked in (locked in) Whole room move, we don't even move Locked in (locked in) Nobody in this room but me and you Locked in (locked in) Baby we locked in Locked in (locked in) Baby we locked in (Whole crowd: LOCKED IN, LOCKED IN, LOCKED IN) [Outro — spoken, Diesel, cold] Yeah Same time next Saturday? Locked in. Diesel.

[Intro — crowd energy, Diesel hyping] Yeah Diesel in the buildin' Turn it up You already know We TURNT Hey [Hook — chantable, simple, addictive] We TURNT (TURNT) We TURNT (TURNT) Whole room rockin', whole floor shakin' Everybody in here know we TURNT We TURNT (TURNT) We TURNT (TURNT) Throw them hands up if you with me Whole squad come through and we TURNT (TURNT, TURNT, TURNT, TURNT) [Verse 1] Walked in the function like I own the place Drink in my hand, big smile on my face Pretty little somethin' in the corner caught my eye She look over at me, she say Diesel say hi I said baby what's happenin', she said nothin' but you I said come to the dance floor, let a real one move DJ cut the beat, DJ spin it back Whole room lookin' like they never heard a track This good, this hype, this wavy, this cold Diesel got the whole damn party in a chokehold We poppin', we rockin', we movin', we vibin' Whole squad deep and we ridin' and we thrivin' Ain't no bad days, ain't no bad nights Ain't no bad vibes when the squad feel right Pour it up, light it up, drink it up, smoke it up Everybody in the buildin' throw your rollie cup [Hook] [Verse 2] Saturday night and the block on fire Every car in the lot bumpin' Diesel's choir Windows down, subs knockin', bass make the trunk rattle Pretty girl in the passenger, she ride like a chapter In a book I ain't finished 'cause the story just started We pull up to the spot and the whole party parted Like a red sea, like a red carpet, like a red flag For the wack ones tryna post up with a bad swag We TURNT, we up, we movin', we stylin' Whole room feel different when the Diesel come arrivin' Bottle poppin', corks flyin', ice in the bucket Pretty thing said Diesel I been wantin' to fuck with You for months, for years, for a minute, for a while I said baby you in luck, let the Diesel take you wild Grab her hand, hit the floor, spin her round to the beat Everybody at the function wanna be on my sheet [Hook] [Bridge — chanted, crowd-style] Say it one time — TURNT Say it two times — TURNT TURNT Say it three times — TURNT TURNT TURNT Whole damn crowd — TURNT TURNT TURNT TURNT Throw them hands up — TURNT Throw them hands high — TURNT Everybody now — TURNT TURNT Whole squad turnt — TURNT TURNT TURNT [Verse 3] Two in the mornin' and the party ain't stop Bottle still full, DJ still hot Every song he play, whole crowd know the words Every hook he drop, whole crowd flip like birds I'm on the couch with my people, got a blunt in rotation Pretty girl on my lap, got the whole crew waitin' For the next song to hit, for the next wave to come For the next round of shots, for the next thing to drum Up a feeling, up a moment, up a night we remember From the first day of summer to the last day of December Every weekend Diesel turnt, every weekend a function Every weekend the squad come through without assumption That the night gon' be chill, nah the night gon' be wild 'Cause the Diesel in the building and the Diesel got style Keep the music loud, keep the liquor flowin' free Keep the good times rollin' — that's the Diesel decree [Hook — bigger, full crowd] [Outro — chanted, fading out with crowd] TURNT (TURNT) TURNT (TURNT) TURNT (TURNT) We TURNT Forever TURNT Diesel Out

[Intro — spoken, stoned, reverbed] Yeah Two-thousand and eight Blunt lit Laptop open Three in the mornin' You seen the movie You know what I'm on Listen [Verse 1] Woke up this mornin' and the whole world was a lie Saw the documentary, now I can't look at the sky Same way, same eyes, same sun, same why They been sellin' us a savior from a story that's a tie To a myth that's older than the book that they printed To a god that's a rebrand of a god they ain't mentioned Horus, Mithras, Krishna, my ancestor too Zarathustra was sayin' it before the Jews Three thousand years 'fore your Christmas was a date They was celebratin' sun rise up out the grave Of the winter, 'round the 25th, every faith Had the same damn story with a different paint Now they tellin' me my mama right and Diesel goin' wrong When my people had the fire 'fore your manger had a song I ain't sayin' Jesus fake, I'm sayin' Jesus ain't the first I'm sayin' homie came from MY book, check the verse [Hook — sung, drowsy, hypnotic] Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist, everything a remix Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist, ain't nothin' brand new Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist, read between the lines, kid Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist, they been hidin' the truth They been hidin' the truth They been hidin' the truth Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist, they been hidin' the truth [Verse 2] Federal Reserve ain't federal, ain't got reserves Just a private bank printin' money that the people serve Nineteen-thirteen when they signed it in the dark Been inflatin' up the bubble 'til the bubble lose its bark Housin' market crashin' as I'm writin' this verse Lehman Brothers fallin', watch the nation get worse Bush on the TV like we gotta bail 'em out While the homeless in my holler ain't got a couch They ain't save us, they ain't never gon' save us They the reason that the whole damn country ain't brave Us the slaves of the fiat, us the slaves of the screen Us the slaves of the story that they sold to the teen I'm a teen of the past, I'm a man of the now I'm a prophet of the future tryna figure out how A whole country get hypnotized by a box on the wall Tellin' 'em to fear each other while the bankers steal it all [Hook] [Verse 3] Nine-eleven still got questions that they ain't gon' answer Building Seven fall like a man with cancer Ain't been hit by nothin', just a fire on a floor But it pancake down like it planned it before I ain't sayin' what I'm sayin', I'm just askin' for a look At the physics of the fall and the physics in the book Don't match, don't add up, don't compute, don't align But they told us move on like we weren't designed With a brain that could think, with an eye that could see With a memory that remember how it's supposed to be When a fire burn a building, when a plane hit a tower When the government lie about the source of the power I ain't tellin' you believe me, I'm just tellin' you look up Put the phone down, cuz, put the TV on shut up Read a book, watch the movie, ask a question, think free Two-thousand and eight, the year the Matrix showed me [Hook] [Outro — spoken, stoned and paranoid] Yeah Don't believe me Watch the movie Roll another one Do your own research Two-thousand and eight Diesel seen it Before you did Out

[Intro — spoken, cocky] Yeah fuck it Diesel Two-thousand and one, bitch T-tops off Listen up [Verse 1] I spit legit shit so hot I lit pot with it like Pac did it Got pulled over but did not get caught with it Cop at the window like what's that smoke I smell I said officer that's the flow, I'm a rapper, hope you well Had the weed in the sock, had the bars in the mouth Had a bitch in the seat who had just went south Past the radar, past the badge, past the whole damn patrol Hit the highway, hit a light, hit another one I rolled T-tops off, Camaro hummin', radio loud Fucked her in the lot while the Kmart was crowded Rolled a blunt on her back while she laughin' at the joke That the nerd at the window didn't know I was broke As a fuckin' church mouse with a million dollar mouth Every word a damn diamond, bitch, I'm spittin' from the south Every bar a little bullet, every line a little kill Every syllable a seed that I'm plantin' in the grill [Verse 2] Fuck the county, fuck the cops, fuck the teachers at the school Fuck the preacher at the church callin' Diesel a fool Fuck my mama tryna save me, fuck the Bible that she hold Fuck the dude at the corner tryna tell me I ain't cold I'm the coldest in the holler, I'm the wildest in the hall I'm the one your girlfriend textin' when you sleepin' down the hall I been fuckin' since my voice dropped, fuckin' since my beard grew Fuckin' everything that move, fuckin' everything I knew Ain't no condom, ain't no worry, ain't no future in my head Just a blunt, a bitch, a beat, and a bed I don't give a fuck about nothin' but the pen and the pussy And the paper and the bag and the homies that push me Up the ladder, up the block, up the game, up the flow Every weekend at the Kmart with a different fuckin' hoe Ain't no love, ain't no keeper, ain't no ring, ain't no church Just a wild young rapper that'll leave you in the dirt [Verse 3] Saturday night at the party, I'm the star of the show Rap battle in the basement, drop a rhyme, drop a hoe Beat a dude into the carpet when he tried to run his mouth Took his girl to the Camaro and I fucked her in the drought Of the summer, in the lot, on the hood, on the trunk Had her screamin' my name while the whole goddamn block was drunk I don't remember half her name, I don't remember what she wore I just know she came home with me and she didn't come alone no more I was 80s baby wild, I was 90s baby wilder I was two-thousands unleashed like a fuckin' forest fire Burnin' through the county, burnin' through the girls Burnin' through the rap game like a tornado of curls Bars on bars, flow on flow, fuck on fuck on fuck Every weekend I was tryin' to bend my fuckin' luck I ain't think about a God, didn't think about a prayer I just thought about the next one and the way she'd wear her hair [Outro — spoken, laughing] Yeah Wild as fuck Two-thousand and one I didn't know shit I just knew how to rap And how to fuck Diesel Out