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TWO WEEKS NOTICE lyrics
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Intro
To whom it may concern at the corner of Lauderdale and Third
Verse 1
Per our agreement, undocumented, I started here at fourteen Unpaid training, mandatory overtime, hazard pay was never offered I'm writing this to notify you of my intent to separate Effective two weeks from today, please consider this my last shift My daughter came in February, six pounds and some change I held her in the parking lot because I couldn't walk inside the building My knee don't bend the same since the incident you never filed I'm requesting my departure be processed with no contest
Pre-chorus
I'm signing at the bottom where the witness line should go But ain't no witness, ain't no line, ain't no form for this
Chorus
Dear Block, this is my notice Fourteen days and I'm off this Gave you ten years of my honest This my formal resignation Dear Block, this is my notice
Verse 2
The severance is complicated, I owe and I'm owed Marcus still got forty from the re-up I fronted back in October Keisha built her shop off clientele I introduced, so Do I collect or leave it on the table like I never worked here The corner store adjusted inventory based around my traffic Pull me out, their Friday numbers drop, that's infrastructure damage Retirement disrupts the schedule, somebody gotta fill my post And filling posts out here don't come with job descriptions or a posting
Pre-chorus
I'm signing at the bottom where the witness line should go But nobody built a witness line for corners, just for courtrooms
Chorus
Dear Block, this is my notice Fourteen days and I'm off this Gave you ten years of my honest This my formal resignation Dear Block, this is my notice
Verse 3
I waited for the confirmation that don't exist My cousin called and didn't say nothing for eleven seconds A Charger drove past twice on Wednesday, tinted, no plates Trey texted you good with a period, which means he asking different No counter-offer, no acknowledgment, no exit interview Just a feeling like the air got thicker on my street since Tuesday The institution got no paperwork, it just applies the pressure And the pressure don't come formal, it come quiet, it come slow
Bridge
I never asked to hold you, I was just a set of streets They poured me without exits, no off-ramp, no release I don't got HR, I don't got a door to close I became a system cause they never built you somewhere else to go I'm not angry that you leaving Nobody taught concrete to open up its hands
Verse 4
The letter sitting on the table by the bassinet I fold it twice, put it next to the ultrasound in the top drawer Right beside the bail receipt and my mama funeral program Every document that mattered, none of them was filed right I never pressed send, there ain't no send button for a block You just stop showing up and pray the absence don't speak louder She sleeping in the next room making sounds like tiny questions And I'm lacing up real slow like leaving is an answer
Chorus
Dear Block, this is my notice Fourteen days and I'm off this Gave you ten years of my honest This my formal resignation Dear Block... this is my notice
Inside the recording
To whom it may concern at the corner of Lauderdale and Third
I'm signing at the bottom where the witness line should go But ain't no witness, ain't no line, ain't no form for this
Dear Block, this is my notice Fourteen days and I'm off this
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