One Simple Ask

Intro

Yeah

Mask on or mask off

Tell me how it went down

Verse 1

Spring of twenty twenty

Whole world shut its doors

I asked one simple thing

Cover up before you breathe on us

He didn't like the ask

Something snapped behind his eyes

Fists came down like rain

I hit the pavement twice

Pre-Chorus

Called it sickness later on

Called it something in his brain

Called it everything but what it was

A man who chose to swing

Chorus

Put the mask on (put it on)

That's all we said

Put the mask on (put it on)

And he broke my head

Twenty months behind the wall

That's the number that they read

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

That's all we said

Oh-oh-oh

Handcuffs at the scene

Verse 2

Cops rolled up quick

Caught him standing there

Cuffed him on the spot

Indicted in a cell

Lawyer talked bipolar

Talked a lifetime of the blues

Judge said that don't undo

The bruises on my face

Pre-Chorus

He wanted mercy then

Wanted somebody's grace

But mercy's not a shield

When you throw the first punch

Chorus

Put the mask on (put it on)

That's all we said

Put the mask on (put it on)

And he broke my head

Twenty months behind the wall

That's the number that they read

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

That's all we said

Oh-oh-oh

January came and went

Bridge

Bills pile up quiet

Medical and all the rest

Nobody says a word

Nobody says a thing

A hundred percent they owe

A hundred percent I'm owed

Chorus

Put the mask on (put it on)

That's all we said

Put the mask on (put it on)

And he broke my head

Twenty months behind the wall

That's the number that they read

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

One ask one ask

Oh-oh-oh

And the silence after