Lock Stock

Name: Lock Stock
Duration: 295 s
Description: Lock Stock by mBaileyz. From the artist’s lyric sheet: “The click was quiet but the whole block heard it The surrender wasn't loud, it was just... certain”

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Lock Stock lyrics

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Intro

Yeah... The lock already know the code...

Verse 1

Pressure sitting on the chest like the repo man already at the gate Rain tapping the hood like it's keeping score on how much a man can take Told the homie this the last time I let it ride without a answer But the answer already sitting in the waist, cold against the skin, waiting on the chance Mama praying in the kitchen, lights doing that slow blink again Court date in the morning, rent week knocking like it know where I been The block watching, the fallen ones whispering from the other side One text lit the screen and the mechanism started turning inside No more sliding, no more "maybe tomorrow we fix it" The decision already clicked, the tension already fixed it I ain't choose the life, the life chose the lock and turned it Now the hand steady even when the soul still learning

Pre-chorus

The click was quiet but the whole block heard it The surrender wasn't loud, it was just... certain

Chorus

Click... hold... the lock engaged in the rain Click... hold... no going back the same The mechanism seats and the night don't feel the same Click... hold... the lock already know the name

Verse 2

Steady on the grip like the wood remember the tree it came from Grandma voice in the back of the head saying "baby don't become" The one they all run to when the lights go out on the block Now the same hands that used to push the swing holding something that don't rock Acoustic in the chest, the vibration low and warm Even when the 808 waiting to transform I told myself this for the ones who can't stand no more The code in the blood, the loyalty deeper than the floor Rain on the concrete turning into something that sound like applause Or maybe it's the sound of all the ones we already lost The stock don't shake, the stock don't fold, the stock just hold Even when the soul screaming this ain't the way we was told

Pre-chorus

The steady ain't brave, the steady just... is The commitment already wrote the will in the ribs

Chorus

Hold... steady... the wood still warm in the rain Hold... steady... even when the whole world change The body remember what the mind try to rearrange Hold... steady... the stock already know the name

Bridge

The cost already sitting in the mirror looking back at me The ones I lost still sitting in the passenger seat I ain't even pull it yet and the smoke already rising The irreversible already practicing the timing Negative space hits — beat drops to almost nothing, only the acoustic harmonic and rain and one distant bus brake hiss

Verse 3

Then the discharge hit like the whole sky opened up at once Drums exploding, the ring in the ear replacing every "what if" with "what I done" The body moved before the mind could sign the release form Now the barrel smoking and the night got a new uniform Sirens in the distance sounding like the old songs we used to play The ones about getting out, the ones about better days But the smoke don't lie and the hands don't wash clean in the rain The lock was the decision, the stock was the chain The barrel was the only language left when the words ran out Now the echo bouncing off the concrete like it's trying to figure me out I told the homie we was just supposed to talk But the talk already turned into the walk that don't come back The release ain't freedom, the release is the new cage The one with no key and no expiration date on the soul or the name Now the concrete remember every step that led to this frame The lock clicked the decision, the stock held the chain The barrel just finished what the pressure already began

Pre-chorus

The explosion wasn't loud, it was just... final The surrender complete, the commitment turned primal

Chorus

Release... smoke... the barrel still singing in the rain. Release... smoke... nothing ever feel the same. The irreversible already wrote itself into the frame. Release... smoke... the barrel already know the name.

Outro

Click... hold... release... The smoke still rising... And the lock don't never let go...

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