Battery -Aesop Rock
Yo change the f**kin channel
I burn a Coma candle
When the flame fades
Consider my flatline a soldier 's sample
We them cats talkin noise behind
That New York trash heap
Where the stench of commuter
Briefcase replaces a bad sleep
And it 's worker zig-zagers
Versus piggy batch flashers
Training Generation Fallout
Waterfall bricklayer pincushion crawl out
There 's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day
On the insides of my eyelids
So I 'm ready now
(What you ready for)
I 'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown
Almost enough to lift me
I 'm a dinosaur with Jones Beach in my hourglass
Passing the time with serial killer
Coloringbooks and bags of marbles
Don 't tell me you ain 't the droid
That held the match to the charcoals
Don 't tell me Lucifer and God don 't carpool
(This is our school)
I 'm not trying to graduate to life
At the curse on the lounge barstool
Head in a jar on the desk
Feet dangling in a shark pool
(Man please)Man please
My name stands for my being
And my being stands for the woman who stood
And braved the storm could raise this evening
(Brother sun sister moon mother beautiful)
Yeah middle sibling suitable
But far from son of excellence
Back in a long time ago
I was to wishway the wishes
But Mister Smits
I slept through my appointment
Saw the liquid dreams of a thousand babies solidify
Rose and And picked wieldedthe
The second I introduced myself as Nervous
Well it appears the scars of
Spokenlearning have rosen
Some are burning some rose
Some deserve tall tales
Some have wrote them
Some are devotionjust a brutal
Reprocussion of botion
Mine are all of the above
Cuz everything leads to erosion
Now where I live there 's a homeless man
He sits upon a crate
He makes a rusty trumpet sound like
The music that angels make
Now if you ever come and visit me
I suggest you watch the show
Tell him Aesop Rock sent ya
Just to hear his horn blow like this
And I ain 't getting any younger
My knuckles wear their bruises well
I 've yet to lose that hunger
But only time can tell
Prodigal Son with a prodigal wish
To sew that prodigal stitch
And crucify bigot voodoo doll
On two popsicle sticks
See your name is Ambiguity
Is My name something hands can 't hold
But hearts part ocean scapes
Just to watch the starlet unfold
It 's like sketching a circle in the dirt
With a pointed stick
Knowing the wind 'll kill it some day
Still it calls my burning wits for now
And if I plow the fields
That don't guarantee plentiful harvest
But starving artists die
I set my alarm for five o 'clock
Idols block survival crops the cycle stops for nothing
The Bible 's carp revivalist winos flock by the hundreds
To the opening scarlet carpets greeting their duel
Leading the stubborn mule to cruel rugburn
But y 'all numb fuelfrom gut
I administer eclispe
There ain't no motor a like martyr-made motor
Cuz a martyr-made motor don 't quit
I am an epiphany I am wet foot mammal
Channel surfing my way to the top
Tugboat in a bottle
With no holes poked in the nozzle
I fed em bedlam diluted in limelight
Till that rookie boogie graduated hostile
And the vehicle is grandeur
And it veered over the medium
The second my halo ran outta helium
Demoted to thorn crown
Damn talk about numbskull
I was born bound to a stencil called symmetry
But my energy 's a rental
So I take this now to save
My cute seniorita beholding
A flame to a lost wick
Thank you James Anthony
For the band-aids on my ego
Y 'all are family for life
I 'll take that bullet to preserve you
I wanna be something spectacular
On the day the sun runs outta batteries
Attach my fashion to the casualties of anarchy
Save my nickels up to buy
That homeless man a brand new horn
Then sit up on his crate
As I witness the beauty born like this
(I ain't gettin any younger)