Brick by Brick

Verse 1

Midnight

Concrete cold and gray

The diesel engine groans heavy

Ten stacks stuffed inside my dusty leather boots

Trucking south

Past the desert brush

Iron

Cold iron

Pressed against my hip

I see the red lights flashing far away

Moving weight

Dirty freight

Paper plates

Counting miles through the cracked glass windshield

Driving

Waiting

Hiding

Twenty bricks packed tight in the side panel

The sweat is dripping down my spine

Chorus

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Doing time or doing fine

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Keep it moving every time

Verse 2

Rims spin

Chrome against the sand

Nobody speaks when the money changes hands

I pull the plastic off the bundle

Sharp blade

Quick trade

Real paid

Gold chains swinging on a thick neck

He nods

He smiles

He leaves

The burner phone is ringing in the seat

One call

One haul

One fall

Everything I built is on the highway

My mother needs a house with a garden

I need a way out of the rain

Chorus

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Doing time or doing fine

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Keep it moving every time

Bridge

State troopers at the rest stop

Keep the eyes straight

Keep the heart steady

I can't go back to the cage

I won't go back to the cage

Never going back to the cage

Verse 3

Sun up

Yellow light hitting the dashboard

The city skyline starts to rise like ghosts

Safe house

Back alley

Red brick

Toss the keys to the man in the mask

It's over

It's done

It's gone

Five hundred thousand in a duffel bag

I take my cut and disappear

Leave the smoke

Leave the fear

Leave the year

Walking home while the world starts waking up

Chorus

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Doing time or doing fine

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Twenty bricks across the line

Keep it moving every time

Outro

Across the line

Just another day

Twenty bricks

Moving weight

Yeah

Biggie

Ninety five

Done