(Aesop Rock)

Uhh, A.R. One, Two.. One, Two.. One, Two...

Let's go, Ese. Aight, I'm ready. Uh, let's do this

Notice the catacomb kid is alive, tin can calico alley, racket his mind

The ham on his neck will salute the moon if him climbed

Til then, he toss another sardine skeleton on the pile

Wore a rootin suit and tie to sod off on a whim

Olivine, navy brim, dipped, more low than high, why?

The short answer, I'm high. The long & more accurate answer

Make Britannica read like a fur is murder flyer

Now, meanwhile (meanwhile) back at the hive

They're bellyachin for bacon all magnified before it dies

I got more observations than advised

Like spoilers don't really kill the surprise

When the butler arrives with knives

It's the nature of the risk and yet the nature of the swan is to dive

Besides the sheep I knew led such pitiful lives

Fuck it, face-first into the fires

This is my little outreach program pirating all wires

(Jaymanila)

Now

On the most basic case, the viscous base

Boils down to the fact, I love this gift from the moment I got my first taste

But after years of making statement for my peers

All the blood, sweat, and cheers have helped me love my long face

On one hand there's money, on the other self-fulfillment

If I could just implore more work, I think maybe I'll afford some children (clap clap)

So clap your hands now when you purchase some merch

So I can maintain poverty lines and secretly stay perched

Now what most consider a non-choice to search for your own voice

And you might be successful if you succumb to scream in unison

But I can't chant for either partner in this dance

Of slippin the party line of wonderin what we're doin here

At the cross roads with no choice seems applicable

So I'm finally freed up with no-thing to hold vigil to

Left to speak the voice of what seems simple true

And brings no great fortune but brands me individual

(Cool Calm Pete)

Wha-ba-ba back to the program, new day next scam

Tape deck, bullet holes, drive-by, summer jam

Stuck in his old ways, but can't a boy daydream

Unfrozen caveman, same job, new team

Nothing's evolved, same pocket full of chains

Same anvil, the bird, gets away, same game

So, play it again Sam, he's lookin at you kid

Under surveillance, so when they watch, he plays stupid

Skidded off the highroad, rubberneck the TV

52 pick-ups, everybody was so speedy

Fled the debris now, steady go the hi-hat

Phone sex, buyouts, corn syrup, bear traps

Square meals and cubicles, peep the geometry

Parallel universe, head first lobotomy

He numb now, numbnuts, everything is everything

Checkmate, Red Rover, times up, game over