Scar Tissue Economy (Version 2)

Intro

Loyalty tastes like metal on your tongue

First time you taste it, you don't know you're young

Think it's just the cost of keeping close

Think the debt's the only thing that holds

Verse 1

Marcus front me rent when the check don't land

Fifty dollars short, he just understand

Didn't ask for nothing, just a nod next week

I saw him sweat it out, saw him choose the street

Six months later, his sister need a ride at three a.m.

I'm there, no questions, that's how it begins

He never mention what he gave, I never say I owe

But both of us know how the payment flow

Grandmother in the hospital, my line ring at two

Marcus there before I call, that's what brothers do

Not in words or promises, in the small things

The gas, the time, the standing still

When a man says nothing but he shows up for your weight

That's the currency that save

Chorus

Loyalty tastes like metal on your tongue

First time you taste it, you don't know you're young

Loyalty tastes like metal on your tongue

First time you taste it, you don't know you're young

Verse 2

We don't keep a ledger, just a memory

Of who held the door when the cold came heavy

I remember his face when his mother passed

Didn't have the money for the casket fast

I sold my watch, didn't think about it twice

Some things don't got a price, but they change your life

Now his daughter call me uncle, she don't know why

That I would die for that man, and I ain't tell no lie

The block made us, but the block don't teach you love

The block teach you hunger, teach you push and shove

But Marcus taught me that a handshake mean something real

That a man who got your back is a deal sealed

Chorus

Loyalty tastes like metal on your tongue

First time you taste it, you don't know you're young

Loyalty tastes like metal on your tongue

First time you taste it, you don't know you're young

Bridge

Fifteen years, and we don't talk about it much

Just the way he look at me, that's enough

Just the way I know where he stand

Just the way he know I'm a man

Metal taste fade, but the bond don't rust

That's the economy we trust

Outro

Loyalty tastes like metal on your tongue

First time you taste it, you don't know you're young

Hold it close, don't ever let it go

That's the only wealth we know