Lyrics
The text glowed green on the cracked iPhone screen, quarter past two.
Crenshaw's asleep but the old debts are pulling through.
'Loc, I'm short again.' Same words, different Tuesday.
Seven Junes since the lock changed, still wonderin' what you'd say.
Pops, you hearin' this? Or is the silence just a dial tone?
This first check I'm holdin' feels like a polished stone
I'm supposed to throw at something, a window or a dream.
Got your ear for the Moog, but your poison in the blood stream.
[Chorus]
So what's the prayer for the branch that's born to break?
Do I prune it back clean, or just water the mistake?
What's the prayer for the branch that's born to break?
This hollow inheritance is more than I can take.
[Verse 2]
This paper feels heavy with the same kinda ghosts
that built you a castle and left us with the posts.
The landlord is callin', my sister's voice is thin,
like a transplanted garden that the blight is creepin' in.
I could solve it with a wire, a swipe and a prayer,
and plant another bad root in the polluted Inglewood air.
Is this the skeleton key for the cage you left us in?
Or just a new deadbolt for where the trouble begins?
[Bridge]
The back house is cold, the Moog hums a low-end lie.
Taught me the notes, but never how to say goodbye.
[Outro]
What's the prayer for the branch that's born to break?
(No answer. Still waitin'.) More than I can take.
About Locus Hale
Locus Hale was raised on his family's Creole cooking and the G-funk rolling down Crenshaw. At 21, a devastating family betrayal concerning his sister's stolen college fund forced him to cut ties with his father, a silence that has lasted seven years. Now, from a small back house in Inglewood, he channels that complex history into his music, telling stories of loyalty and loss over beats he…
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