The Court Heard That

[In] Yeah Low gravel, court lights, no choir Put the rally tape up on the wire No mole, no leak, no backroom rat Just press play The court heard that [EvCt] Court heard that Exhibit A Press play Public record [V1] You thought the rally was a stage, judge treated it like paper Mouth ran loose, now the docket got a scraper Said it out loud with your chest and your flag Now the record got teeth and a legal toe tag Vance hit the mic with the pet-shop fiction “Create stories” turned court-record friction No cats, no dogs, just a scapegoat plate Fed the crowd bullshit, then called it debate Trump grabbed the lie, dragged it under bright lights Dogs and cats on the national fight night Whole damn country watched the clown act crack Now the transcript walked in wearing steel-toe black No whistleblower needed, no wire in the wall No secret tape humming from a bathroom stall You barked through the dog whistle, broke the damn horn Now the court got receipts from the day it was born [Hk] The court heard that Yeah, the court heard that You said it out loud Now the record talks back The court heard that No spin can blur that No whistleblower needed Just press play on the track [EvCt] Pet lie Create stories No cats No dogs [V2] Here come the contrast, put the map on the screen Haiti got slurs, Norway got a limousine Somalia got smoke, Scandinavia flowers That ain’t border policy, that’s color-coded power Call some places dirty, then beg for the pale ones Talk “invasion” for some, roll rugs for the favored sons Middle East heat, Caribbean blame Then “send me some nice folks” when the names sound tame Man, that shit ain’t subtle, that’s a floodlight confession Racism with a podium and campaign protection You can’t launder bias through executive ink When your own damn mouth is the missing link Judge said, “I’m not blind, I can read the room” Public record came back with a courtroom boom The quiet part died when the mic got fed You signed the damn exhibit with the words you said [Hk] The court heard that Yeah, the court heard that You said it out loud Now the record talks back The court heard that No spin can blur that No whistleblower needed Just press play on the track [EvCt] Haiti got slurs Norway got flowers Color-coded Power [V3] Refugee door locked, then the key turned white Freeze the whole line, make exceptions take flight Afrikaner fast lane, everybody else wait Tell me that’s random with a straight-ass face You got a pattern, not a typo in smoke Every little “joke” got policy spoke Every little slur got paperwork boots Every little lie grew government roots This ain’t Mr. Rogers with a cardigan diss This is courtroom warfare with a turntable fist DJ cut “hellholes,” scratch back “Norway” Cut “pet lie,” bring “Exhibit A” the hard way Your defense got cooked by your own damn tongue Your dog whistle shattered when the bass drum swung You wanted a crowd chant, got judicial notice Now the whole damn docket singing, “Everybody knows this” [Br] You said it They clipped it You spun it They shipped it You lied it They cheered it You signed it Court heard it You staged it They played it You framed it Judge weighed it You fed that hate in the public square Then acted shocked when the law looked there [EvCt] Judicial notice Public square Mouth signed it Court heard that [V4] Dissents don’t die, they sleep in the ink Wake up in another court when the record starts to stink Footnotes get cold, then they come back mean Like ghosts in the margins of a legal machine You can blame the press, blame the judge, blame the tape Blame the mic stand, blame the damn landscape But the mouth was yours and the words were too Now the paper trail came home looking dead at you No more “fake news” when the quote got legs No more clean hands with that stain on the regs You built the bonfire, then asked who smelled smoke Man, sit your ass down, the whole damn law woke [FHk] The court heard that Yeah, the court heard that You said it out loud Now the record talks back The court heard that No spin can blur that No whistleblower needed Just press play on the track [FEvCt] Court heard that Exhibit A Haiti got slurs Norway got flowers [Out] No mole, no leak, no backroom rat Just public record and a hard boom-bap You said it out loud Now the law talks back Turn that shit up The court heard that