While his Rage Against the Machine bandmates are traveling with Prophets of Rage, frontman Zack De La Rocha has been laying low, apparently hard at work preparing to release a solo project produced by none other than El-P, who is not only one half of Run the Jewels, but also a Company Flow vet and founding member of the indie label Definitive Jux. The first single, “Digging For Windows,” is available for a free download and a mere tease from the often elusive artist.

The lyrics came along with the press release and they are posted in full below:

fuck that bright shit

the spot or the flashlights

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we in la ducking both

in the shadows with lead pipes

the days are all night

see if i pay edison

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no medicine

these blues ain’t more better when

my fever rise in the jungle

as quick as the price spikes

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the days are all night

my future snapped like a rubber band

off my fold on a hand to hand

he drew from his waist

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i put two in his roof

and i can still hear his screams

all night

now they ride their portfolios

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like rodeos

rise every time my cherry glows

on the end of my cig as

the smoke blows through the bars

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and the co’s laugh fades

as he strolls away

says i gotta pay

off that roll away

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or its fuck your visitation days

and i pop off so in solitaire

i dream of offing these fred astaires

and the skin off my fingers tear

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we digging for windows here

where the days are all night

this city’s a trap my partner

under the lights of they choppers

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bodies tools for they coffers

not worth the cost of our coffins

i stare at a future so toxic

no trust in the dust of a promise

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won’t mark the name on a ballot

so they can be free to devour our options

and just like you I’m a target

ill defined by the guap in my pocket

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but the stage make figures

as quick as it off em

what marley  and pac get?

i put these caps in capitals

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leave minds blazed in they capitols

i step with a fury so actual fact

that my offense could be capital

we digging for windows here