Candlelight and Chrome

It's love and war where I'm from. Same thing, different night.

Yeah. Yeah. I was raised with a porch light,

flicker like a warning sign. Mama praying over bills, I'm praying over

foreign time. Had to learn to keep it quiet, keep a smile

on. 'Cause the loudest in the room be the first one gone.

We was broke, we was proud, had a code in our veins. If you eat,

then we eat, that's the rules to the game. Now it's chains in the dark,

but my heart still rust. 'Cause the money come fast, but it don't