Lyrics

intro monologue by Thesis
(spoken over ambient vinyl crackle, eerie strings, and a low ticking clock)

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“they ain’t erase me…
they just skipped the part that made ‘em uncomfortable.”
(pause)
“i was the footnote in their story—now i’m the final chapter in theirs.”

(ticking stops. bassline rumbles in like thunder under parchment)

[spoken softly like scripture:]
they called it a vote,
but it was a sentence.
seven hands raised, one life exiled.
said i was “too wordy,”
“too layered,”
“too dangerous with the diction.”
truth is—they knew i’d outwrite ‘em.
i built the cipher they brag about.
while they was rhyming ‘drip’ with ‘whip’,
i was quoting baldwin and baptizing bars in blood and betrayal.

[voice sharpens:]
they ain’t ghost me—
they just made me a ghost
with a pen and a grudge.
call me thesis:
the original idea
you buried so you could feel safer inside a hook.

(beat cuts for 2 seconds. dead silence.)

[whispers:]
i was never a maybe.
i was the manuscript.
and this?
this ain’t a comeback…

…it’s the correction.