Drill Music in Zion (song)

## Single by Lupe Fiasco

"**Drill Music in Zion**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released as the second single and title track from his eighth studio album on June 16, 2022.

## Background

In an interview with *XXL* magazine, it brought up his reference to Condoleezza Rice, the former U.S. Secretary of State. When asked if he still spoke about politics, Fiasco responded, "The last show that I just did, this show was at an Air Force base. And I was always hesitant from the blowback that I had, politically. Talking about the president and politics and shit like that. So, when doing the meet-and-greet, the commanders, they come last. He pulled me to the side, he was like, "Look, man." He said, "I just wanna let you know something. I did a background check on you." They have to, to even let you on the base. Check your whole shit. He was like, "Yeah, so I looked you up, man, and I seen your politics and the shit that you was saying," and this, that and the third. He was like, "I just wanna let you know, that you are who we are fighting for. You are the example of why we do what we do. To go out there and protect your right to say whatever the fuck you wanna say. To speak truth to power." When you see shit like that happen to you, man, it reframes and recontextualizes the stuff we do, why we do it, who we do it for. And then, what's the goal? What's the success? Is that success? That sound like success to me."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

Yeah

[Verse 1]

The August symphonic, power of a Blahnik

To heal steel, medical bill drill harmonics

Silver sonnets from the "bonne nuits" and bonnets

I leave a whole sleeve down in Condoleezza's comments

Copper ebonics, competent and gannet

Godzilla's economics rock gondolas 'til you vomit

Bigger than the tongue and write signatures with a Thomas

Great Wall of China climber and Bonnie Woo correspondent

Opera onyx, popular's for convicts

Stay below the doppler, turn Robotniks into Sonics

Positioned jostlers, monitor hegemonics

Robots make the robots that solder the electronics

Nostradamus couldn't bother to keep a promise

Logic's on the rocket, what profit defeats a conscience?

Somebody's daughter is contemplating the convent

But a man with a dollar is slobbering for her haunches

Mouth is just watering for some nonsense

And this might be the moment her modeling probably launches

Gobbling collard greens through the rumpus

Washing gasoline, watch hollering, replace a congress

Golden gossiping auditing through my content

Running out of water, just pondering where the pond went

World's hottest summer, we're wondering if they pawned it

Desperate for the credits to come tumbling through the conflict, yeah

[Chorus]

These episodes of the soul

Make me cold, pass the 'mote control

Can you make a hole for

All the drill music in Zion?

These episodes of the soul

Make me cold, pass the 'mote control

Can we make a hole for

All the drill music in Zion?

[Verse 2]

Now there are those that resoluted to wreck

Got caught, fought, lost, electrocuted to death

Came a little late for the rescue and the flesh

DNA exonerates posthumously whatever's left

No resurrection but reputation's correct

The revelation brings decorated regrets

All due respect, it's not really about fair

Collective sigh 'cause the real killer's still out there

Probably calling up police

Complaining 'bout his neighbours or just walking on the beach

Why should he have such views of the ocean?

And not be hanging from the gallows with his neck neatly broken?

I let it soak in, then I put the soap in

Then I put the boats in, then I play with both them

The hot tub's now lookin' like a yacht club

Makin' sure I get all of the shoes like a bot does

Neighbor is pissed

Tells the cops "if he wants to bathe like a sailor

Live on a container ship"

I party all night and the bangin' is intense

'Cause I know exactly what you did

And you gon' pay for it, you bitch

[Chorus]

These episodes of the soul

Make me cold, pass the 'mote control

Can you make a hole for

All the drill music in Zion?

These episodes of the soul

Make me cold, pass the 'mote control

Can we make a hole for

All the drill music in Zion?

[Verse 3]

We'll end this shortly, story moral is the same

You either fly into the portal or pull the portal over the plane

Coralling mortals is nothing short of insane

Let's try and turn this quart of water to a quart of Bartles & Jaymes, haha

[Chorus]

These episodes of the soul

Make me cold, pass the 'mote control

Can we make a hole for

All the drill music in Zion?

These episodes of the soul

Make me cold, pass the 'mote control

Can we make a hole for

All the drill music in Zion?

## References

1. ↑ Coleman II, C. (July 14, 2022). "Lupe Fiasco Gives a Deeper Meaning to His Music, Mindset and Martial Arts". *XXL*.