Punishing Hard Drive Lyrics - Singles - Howard Lawrence

The news is out 

They say it's not good 

Your hand was in the cookie jar stealin from the hood 

Why are you still running? 

When do you think you'll show? 

That look on your face says they're never gonna know 

Now you're in danger of losing an empire 

That took so long to build 

You're holding onto dead weight 

That shit'll bring you down 

Don't take us for granted man 

We're standing our ground 

Life don't mean a thing 

With your gut busted open or your head in a sling 

You eat what you kill-sometimes it comes up 

It trips the alarm but not before you've had enough 

Under false pretenses 

I signed the dotted line 

Sniping was my big mistake 

It taught me I was blind 

You were so committed then 

We brought them to their knees 

But the aftermath cost everything we'd built overseas 

Somewhere there's a prisoner donning his disguise 

The master of the castle looks down 

He watches as the prisoner tiptoes towards the gate 

The guards can't stop him-it's already too late 

Words don't mean a thing 

When twisted up like pretzels or chewed up like chicken wings 

Sew a pig's ear all covered in mud 

Even a cow can't make fresh milk from cud 

Hey wait a minute people 

Whaddya think I'm made of stone? 

Sure I tripped myself up a little here and there 

But I was only spreading God's word-was I alone? 

You're calling me a Jesus freakin guy 

Well look what I put up with? 

The mystery is why 

When history's rewritten 

And the bums are long gone 

They'll bargain for a bigger block of someone else's lawn 

We'll celebrate the empty rhetoric purged of all detail 

And leverage our future on a fool's coattails 

It's easy to be enthralled by a rags-to-riches story 

From the backstreets to Wonderland sells 

And each time we're suckered in we take a nosedive 

Over the icy cliff... 

Again? 

Downsized! 

This we call a punishing hard drive