Talk While You Can

Intro

Verse 1 Run that mouth, boy, spend it loud Play to your boys, play to the crowd Every word you spit is a grain fallin' down Through the neck of a glass that don't make a sound Tick, tick — hear the hats keep time? That's your seconds, and they ain't mine I don't interrupt, I just let it run 'Cause you talkin' means the clock ain't done

Pre-Chorus When the sand runs flat There's no talkin' after that

Chorus Talk while you can, run it dry Every word's a grain in the glass gone by When the top runs empty, so's the sound Talk while you can — I do mine underground

Verse 2 You filibuster like it buys you time Like a longer speech unwrites the crime I've heard men beg, I've heard men swear Heard a judge shake hands on a dead-wife prayer Words are cheap — that's the lesson I learned Watched 'em all move on while my whole world burned So say your piece, get it all out loud The quiet man's just measurin' you for a shroud

Chorus Talk while you can, run it dry Every word's a grain in the glass gone by When the top runs empty, so's the sound Talk while you can — I do mine underground

Outro Time. That's all it was ever buyin' you.

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