Eyes on Their Plate (Remix)

Lyrics

[Title Announcement]

[restaurant silverware clinks chopped into rhythm, luxury-ad voices reversed, subway rumble, vinyl crackle, dusty soul sample over a dark piano loop]

[Street Announcer — Deep Male Voice]
Ten Commandments: Brooklyn Boom-Bap Trap Edition.

Commandment number ten:

“Thou shalt not covet.”

Track ten—

“Eyes on Their Plate.”

[DJ Scratch]
Eyes on—eyes on—eyes on their plate!

[Beat Drop]
[grimy Brooklyn boom-bap drums, hard snare cracks, dusty piano sample, upright bass layered with deep 808, chopped soul choir, silverware percussion, sharp turntable cuts]

[Intro — Crew Chant]

[Announcer]
Why you watching their house?

[Crew]
Watch your own!

[Announcer]
Why you watching their spouse?

[Crew]
Watch your own!

[Announcer]
Why you counting their portion?

[Crew]
Stay in your lane!

[Verse 1 — Male Rap]
He saw his brother’s new ride, now his own felt slow,
Saw the pictures from the trip, now he mad he could not go.
Saw the watch, saw the house, saw the numbers going up,
Never saw the monthly payments or the stress behind the stuff.

Comparison made dinner taste bitter at home,
Had a full plate sitting there, still watching what they owned.
Started calling every blessing he had average and small,
Because envy made another man’s life look like it had it all.

Coveting is deeper than wanting something nice,
It is resenting what they have and thinking it should be yours by right.
It will turn support to jealousy and love into a race,
Make you smile inside their face while praying they lose their place.

[Hook — Crew and Chopped Choir]
Eyes on their plate!
Now your own food getting cold!

Eyes on their plate!
Envy got your gratitude sold!

Eyes on their plate!
Do not want another person’s role!

“Thou shalt not covet”—
Guard your heart and guard your soul!

[DJ Scratch]
Stay in—stay in—stay in your lane!

[Verse 2 — Female Rap]
She watched another marriage through a filtered little screen,
Thought their love was perfect, thought her own was getting weak.
Started comparing her husband to a man she never knew,
Only saw the anniversary posts, never saw what they went through.

Then attention crossed the line, admiration turned desire,
She wanted someone else’s home and started feeding secret fire.
Covet does not stop at clothes, a title, or a check,
It can make you reach for people and destroy what they protect.

You do not know the private tears behind a public win,
Do not judge your whole beginning by the place where they have been.
Their portion is their portion, your assignment has a name—
You lose sight of your own road when you keep running in their lane.

[Hook — Crew and Choir]
Eyes on their plate!
Now your own food getting cold!

Eyes on their plate!
Envy got your gratitude sold!

Eyes on their plate!
Do not want another person’s role!

“Thou shalt not covet”—
Guard your heart and guard your soul!

[Breakdown — Street Sermon]
[drums cut, silverware sounds stop, low organ chord sustains, subway train passes beneath vinyl hiss]

[Announcer]
Exodus chapter twenty, verse seventeen:

[Spoken Choir]
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife,
nor his manservant, nor his maidservant,
nor his ox, nor his ass,
nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”

[Announcer]
Their house is not your portion.

Their spouse is not your portion.

Their position is not your portion.

Their timing is not your portion.

You cannot enjoy what was given to you
while staring at what was given to them.

Turn your eyes back home.

[Verse 3 — Male and Female Trade-Off]

[Male]
You wanted their platform—

[Female]
But never carried their pressure.

[Male]
You wanted their income—

[Female]
But never learned their measure.

[Male]
You wanted their marriage—

[Female]
But only saw the display.

[Male]
You wanted their whole life—

[Female]
Without knowing what they paid.

[Male]
Celebrate your neighbor.

[Female]
Do not feel reduced.

[Male]
Their blessing is not proof—

[Female]
That your own has been refused.

[Both]
Work the field you have been given.
Keep your purpose in its place.
You cannot finish your assignment
With your eyes inside their race.

[Final Hook — Full Crew]
Eyes on their plate!
Now your own food getting cold!

Eyes on their plate!
Envy never fills the soul!

Eyes on their plate!
Count the blessings that you hold!

“Thou shalt not covet”—
Let contentment take control!

[Ten Commandments Roll Call]

[Announcer]
No other gods!

[Crew]
First above everything!

[Announcer]
No graven images!

[Crew]
Idols off the timeline!

[Announcer]
Do not take His name in vain!

[Crew]
Do not put His name on that!

[Announcer]
Remember the Sabbath!

[Crew]
Sabbath in the city!

[Announcer]
Honor father and mother!

[Crew]
Respect where you came from!

[Announcer]
Thou shalt not kill!

[Crew]
One trigger, two funerals!

[Announcer]
Thou shalt not commit adultery!

[Crew]
Delete that thread!

[Announcer]
Thou shalt not steal!

[Crew]
Dirty money don