Lys Vert - Flex Kill Lyrics

[Intro]
Sirens wailing, badge numbers failing
Flex for the 'gram while the city's derailing

[Verse 1]
Late night afterparty, champagne on ice
While tear gas burning just two blocks tonight
Fake tough guy stance, yeah I wear that mask
Like daddy's callused hands from his working-class past
Marie-Claire's tapes still haunting my head
While I'm playing power games with the bourgeois instead
Got my French clean pressed, Arabic suppressed
Cultural tightrope walk, yeah I'm f*cking stressed

[Chorus]
Flex hard, flex deep, but what's underneath?
Performative strength while we grinding our teeth
Acting hard in the club while the streets bleed out
Is this armor or prison? I'm starting to doubt

[Verse 2]
Fatima called me fake at that gallery show
Said I lost my roots chasing status quo
But she don't know the weight of this masculine dance
Walking both worlds like a f*cking romance
Construction site rhythm in my DNA
But I'm sipping cocktails, pretending I'm okay
Every punch I throw is at my reflection
Every flex I show is misdirection

[Bridge]
Between the police scanners and the bass
Between the protest lines and the VIP space
Between my father's silence and my loud display
Between what I am and what I portray

[Chorus]
Flex hard, flex deep, but what's underneath?
Performative strength while we grinding our teeth
Acting hard in the club while the streets bleed out
Is this armor or prison? I'm starting to doubt

[Outro]
Sirens fade but the tension remains
Cultural warfare running through my veins
Masculinity's a dance that I can't escape
Till the city burns or my soul breaks