Aesop Rock

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1 of 4 (Thank You)

1 of 4... My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz I was born in 1-9-7-6, at Syosset hospital, located in Long Island, NY I am 6 foot, four I weigh 2-0-0 pounds I have brown hair and green eyes I enjoy writing songs, painting, movies and diner food I have two brot...

1,000 Deaths

Aesop Rock 1,000 Deaths Lyrics: [Verse 1:] I saw the wrought-iron cross inverted circlin above my turret Slid the spiraling banister down and hide, banished am I, My ruby glass glazed specs staple the trader market thieves Where vendors count the stolen c...

1,000 O'clock

I wear shoes to bed Paint teeth on my lips Trench foot, gangrened for the win Blitzkrieg bopper Petitioned out of shit's creek proper The only inaccessible blip on the streaming doppler Screaming ‘uncle’ in a sea of TV doctors Free to occupy the same space in...

11:35

Some cats grow by the laws of the wild Some learn slower and lag in the mud Some stand up in defense of a sow Some let the big dogs eat them up At exactly 11:35 PM on January 21st I fell asleep sound At exactly 11:35 PM on January 21st some shit went down [Ae...

39 Thieves

Hunters with their dogs and deer rifles Thousands of them line the pavement Like patient pupae waiting to become worms Another dark night, teething I'm marking a beast sheep Like I walk in front of 39 thieves in a beat Smores over warm helvetica brown proper...

6b Panorama

I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw... sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeons a vagabond begging for three pennies and a princess a junkie tourniquet surgeon urging the needle in a batty senior citizen flashing that awful teethless grin I saw a cor...

89.9FM Nighttrain Promo

[whats up this is Aesop Rock for wkcr] I traded my title as bent pedestrian for passenger status to coast muted Finding the night train mildly therapeutic Rugged hacker flashing mood full of swings Beneath this puppet master pulling my strings Leaking sm...

9-5ers Anthem

Zoom in to the fuming of an aggravated breed Via the study of post-adolesent agitated seeds Half the patients wasted self pride at Commencement So I focus on the urban Oxygen samples, the hot that made it breathe They sold Pompeii impression, waste infections...

Abandon all hope

Aesop Rock (Aesop Rock)... (x16) Is it love such as that which I exhibit for my practice The factor which then amalgamates the baits with straight-jackets and ROBES Huddled in brackets that blacken the average globe Xenophobe, loathe to modify the fly, feel t...

Alchemy

[Blueprint] I spit with an immense amount of power Stalk slang showers, cowards, cower, underneath our Storm clouds that indicate the acid rain hours Now or, never, ever, ending on a bad note Ripping ya' craft's throat, for spitting a bad quote (Blueprint what...

Antisocial

[looped sample] It’s like antisocial hazardous portion organically nourished couraged to flourish and musics orphans Lunged nicotine dream missing languorous Caution we proclaim till brain’s arch like Sagittarius Shield. Yield to the eye mescaline killer...

Appleseed Intro

APPLESEED (one, two) yeah. yeah- i recall the first time i bumped heads with my head led to a dead bargain, a "thanks for nothin, lowlife", and a start of "beg my pardon, "when a dust mite harbored spite it barely dents the cicada phase, blades a- vert...

Attention Span

[Aesop Rock] 3x Every little step we take breaks the dreams Of a warm pig itching to re-stitch the seams [Vast Aire] Namsayin, when I walk, I wanna break concrete! Ox'll spit some shit that'll reflect off the mirror My light beams are mad bright, they stay c...

Babies With Guns

radio, check check, video, check check this is how the city folk and mole people connect somebody warp the message right i'll pass it to the next now the perferrated county's making you upset harvest all brand x clark kents to worm pool carbon heart burried h...

Basic Cable

Television; all hail grand pixelated god of fantasy, murder-scape, and bent perspective. Fuck a sore channel changed digit, I sit with a nasty network intravenous plan, with a stable diet of my cable pirate. Yo, the doctor is in, the doctor is on, born the bas...

Battery

[Aesop Rock] Yo, change the fucking channel. I burn a coma candle. When the flame fades, consider my flat line a soldier sample. We them cats talking noise behind that New York trash heap where the stench of commuter briefcase replaces a bad sleep. And it's th...

Bazooka Tooth

[Verse 1] Diamond colored spine Armadillo armor that bends around the blades Bugs in the beard Ebony in the lungpiece Bricks in the Timbs Bazooka in the tooth that he's flashing at your friends This is the lifestyle, baby Know and sip the recipe Not a single i...

Bent Life

{Aesop Rock} Yo I take 10 steps with a bedlamped vision Study the disorders we've absorbed inside the village I understand the plagues and shake hands with my grimace that remain up in my face like top to bottom train car fill ins Lets question the ascension o...

Big Bang

[Aesop Rock] Well, so we meet again (He said he's grown spiritually since the last TIME) OK. This is the dawning of the book of bitter aspects Where the jackals sit and watch the pedagogues clash flesh. Poison function accompanied by six armor-clad Black hors...

Blacklist (feat. MF Doom)

(MF Doom) Keep in mind this flow is used for practice. Even so still top choice off the tracklist. Far as I know we've been blacklist For as long as the earth rotate on a 23 degree axis. “I can stop anytime I want to.” Famous last words that came back t...

Blood Sandwich

[Verse 1] Yep Steps up to the plate Little brother, little league '87 he was 8 Rookie season for the skinny slugger Newly out of t-ball Pit against a pitcher with a ripper you could eat off Church, then a grip of loons run to 3rd first Granny yelling...

Blue In The face

Yo, I surf an axiom kicked in a center fold by ugly tenements Oh Distribute sour inhalants regulate lobby development Today summon the rug rat oblivious to what’s delicate. Tomorrow siphon imperfection out the fetus prior to selling it. There is a brain in...

Bonus Round

Bonus round This is hot tin roof stepper hold it down with centipede foundation Mr. Greed he burns rugged obstructions and bunches Like little Jackie paper puffs the magic dragon and Dutches We don’t need another hero homey Gallop off on your my little on...

Boombox

Raw, I'm going to give it to you With no trivia Raw like that Aesop rock iron-fisted list militia While bent funny bone grown community Spit a thousand and 1 ripples to cripple the continuity Tap water builds character Right, I irrigate it straight to ma...

Bosico (feat. Grimace Federation)

You look like you were charmed out of a basket, slack jaws clap straw homes, if the piggy in it clapper-claw his own, each a little Isaac Asimov, actually down to accurately whack-a-mole and get the taxidermy catalogued, with or without this bag of bone...

Bracket Basher

Hey We are experiencing some serious technical difficulties [...] Mother fucker Hey yo, must not sleep I bash the bracket open and reach The priority's bleached since that '76 umbilical severed Majorities cordially abhor the pinnacle benders I got West Nile v...

Bring Back Pluto

This is my friend Tony He's pretty cool although he's not always so smart And then they were eight, just like that In the beginning it was Large Marge sent me, I'm bent Empty the rent if you can double park the garbage barge gently The moon took a second mort...

Catacomb Kids

I was a dark, dumb student, no hooky rookie Day tripping on visions of chickens that look like R. Crumb drew em They grew em in a royal dirt of Suffolk County's Flooring with the blood of an alcoholic clergyman in his forearms Long Island was porn stars and pu...

Citronella

I stood before the glittery borders of new radius In search of the fabled city of mud and crushed velvet, What i found was a gutter where the love of entertainment Meets the lust for blood and demerits, Cutters of the pie throw your summers in the sky, Collar...

Coffee

Aesop Rock: Chorus: We don't need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie talkies, We don't need your coughing when offing the morning coffee, No, we don't need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie-talkies We just want our hermitry to stay and our coffee to go And the...

Coma

"I now present to you...music" *cut up* "Music to make you stutter" [Aesop Rock] I've been a biplane dog fighter Henson invention Trooper burst the result of Dragon Ball Z/Speed Racer gene splicing Mach force, blind the extorted style from the common dirty De...

Commencement at the Obedience Academy

Verse One: The harvest appeared less plentiful than last season I imagine sloppy seed handling evoked the stroke of tardy planting And the crops we'd have harnessed mid November Had only brushed the blossom bracket, then soon sacrificed Lives to icicle jacket...

Cook It Up (Feat. Pfac)

"Yo that movie sucks " "Whack." "Bull shit" "I wanna keep my fuckin money in my pocket "oh snap" "hold up" "damn" Cook it up spooky, Salute, look bazooka hook it up Shoot the local Winnie Cooper loopy Lowbrow low brim She asked me: What’s your name? I flashed...

Crows 1

[Kimya Dawson] Birds of a black Black feather stick together forever and ever and they always remember you And all of the shit you do They pass it to the baby birdies and then they remember too Little baby bluebird's eyes turn black Without forgetting the face...

Crows 2

4 and 21 crows None go south For the supper when a punk goes out Checkerboard of mothballed death-forms Hauled via vaudeville canes And encased where the claw marks wane off broadway the god way Watch, our father Commuters from the farms with news of el Chupac...

Cycles To Gehenna

Baseheads locally approach all spark plugs Total disregard for a dying man's shark jump Post-meridian pretty tungsten attracts any once-pale horse painted gunmetal black Face masking, hard-shelled ebony propeller hat Clubmans, gloved rakes grappling the clutch...

Daylight

(Yes, yes, y'all, and ya don't stop, keep on, to the break of dawn) (4x) Yyo... Put one up for shackle-me not clean logic procreation I did not invent the wheel, I was the crooked spoke adjacent While the triple-sixers' lassos keep angels roped in the basemen...

Dead Pan

This be the dawning of the age of dead water Stitchin every b-boy fragment Somebody live enough to bust through the belly with a fist up This is a right now generation murdered by the fan base This is adored by the writers-Dead water With a still force ac...

Dorks

[Verse 1] Question: If I died in my apartment like a rat in a cage Would the neighbors smell the corpse before the cat ate my face? I used to floss the albatross like Daddy Kane with the chain I'm trying to jettison the ballast with the hazardous waste Th...

Drawbridge

INTRO This is not your ordinary ballad with a perfect little bow around the middle and a black knight on a white horse or a white knight on a black horse. It's got all these tired parts where we don't even sing and random princess raise the drawbridge we don't...

Dryspell

On a sunny afternoon in lower east side New York... You about ready? (Yeah) Good morning my sweet vision of morbid disorder And Good evening wonderful riddance and such Maybe today I'll touch the burgundy halo Trimming the tunnels and of in with tenants...

Easy

(Thank you) Cameras or guns one of ya'll is gonna shoot me to death Just know that shit I take it...Easy (That's how we doin' this) (I like that) I take it...Easy (Ya'll say that shit) I take it...Easy (Where we goin' with this) I take it... Easy (Here it go)...

Face Melter

blaze with a face melter, go fish, pigeon itchin for a pit to put the pig in, scalped bottom feeder, nose bleeder, cheap seats, to the meat eater sweeps sweet weak freaks, what up? grip clicker, smack the dummy box fix picture, stickle over shit, cinema...

Fascination

Shooken to Casper. Illustrate beautiful disaster. Flight of the mothership lift to badger the male-factor. Marionette vs. the threat of wire cutter function. Stereotypical grinch bashing your pumpkins. Plug. Try to count up your warrior hatchling batch before...

Fast Cars

Who's that walking with a hole in his head? Big bad Bazooka Tooth, I came to break bread. What's a troop's recipe for treacherous times? I tell 'em...... ah fuck it, yo I pull the elephant tranq out of my neck, gaffle a tank, count up the chips, wrastle the f...

Fishtales

once upon a time in the days of yor, when the people lived fresh out of legend and folklore, there was an old geezer with his teeth to the curb he had a hook and a line and a sinker and a worm. Slept in a city that kissed the seashore woke with a bait and...

Five Fingers

Take take, the medicine tastes great Gotta keep in the city I'm way baked Waiting for the meteor shading at twelve begin paint The origin of a deeper leader will take place Two coke bottles adorn the rope toddler Rebel of refrigerator Give him a Nilla wafer No...

Flashflood

"We'll have more news after this commercial word" (As so it goes..) "At least I think I was here asleep... Is it possible, conceiveable that I sleepwalked out of my apartment And went berzerk?" [Aesop Rock] In slipped rhythm Fed a cycle bound by dilemma-deb...

Float

So I heard y'all wanna float... Yo This fallen angel could stitch a wing wit a shoestring Prime directive selects reflective aviation bathed in moodswing (I'm broke) I know a walking corpse who'd spit icicle dagger to slit throat Quicker than you can prove th...

Freeze

It goes welcome the pop off, some pop soft. We bang b-bang b-bang bang out loud. Ready on the left with a face full of death. We slanged out fang mouth bang out now. This is a never dug disco, Zoo York tycoon, memorandum bonanza banter clamp crunk out the fis...

Frijoles

Yeah yeah nasa lets try this ah park your bets sharks or jets these bark mark targets where the barnacles nest they burrow deep under the carnivores flesh without a trace carnival games like trying to shoot the star out of a space come double fist them aqua c...

Fryerstarter

Let me put you up on Bob's donuts Controller of the warm deep fryer that charms cobras Mostly it was aggravated ulcers over goat's legs Will they go for maple, custard, buttermilk or wolfs bane? Hm, late after your cinderella pulsate and crash I was rotating c...

Fumes

You ain't shit man, your story's a joke You should package it with a last smoke and six feet of rope Stay awake little misfit Her lips wet a very particular mischief Sis' wiggle an index if your limbs let Or settle for a warm burgundy bubble out of her beak i...

Garbage

The ritual goes, same window different visual. Wing of wax, or wing of gold leaf Choose one. Float or plummet 20 thousand cold legues My nourishment's provided in the summer So that I wonder How y'all chasin' dreams when what's tangible still outruns ya Hail...

Get Out Of The Car

[Sample] I see how y'all be trying to front, man y'all be fronting, man [Verse 1: Aesop Rock] Been a bit since Mu died Been a lot more loss in the wake I recall thinking some day someone's gonna say it's all from the same cause and effect And I just cou...

Gopher Guts

Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts; Poolside; 0 for 1 and don't forget spoons twice Lukewarm folgers; mold on his moonpie Rooms in his home that dissipate into fruit flies Suicide lane wide load ride looting in the wake of an amicable marooning My duty go from moving in...

Grace

Ian why don't you say grace "dear god thanks, and if you loved me vegetables would be extinct" Now I'm looking down the barrel of a string-bean side like an exodus of biblical proportion redefined Rectangle seat 4, squeeze 5, each one May not be excused from t...

Hold the Cup

Verse One: And the saints come marching in Serpentine regime ordered by response sort of fell this population Caboose humming no fence me in a van with common patrons The parody plastered every red brick in site Where had to keep his plights from ticking...

Holy Smokes

voice over: give him one of these pills if he has any pain a parable; what is it? well it's a little story with a lot of truth in it, an earthly story with a heavenly meaning, Jesus told many parables to grown ups and children alike, he told them simply and si...

Homemade Mummy

How to make a homemade mummy: Get a corpse, get gauze, get comfy Shampoo and disinfect dead fluffy For the hallowed excavation of his x-marked tummy Scalpel to stern, the butter cutter b-lines well Tongs butterfly the unzipped feline shell We'll be escorting v...

How to Be a Carpenter

So you want to be a carpenter, do you? Well it takes more than a hammer, boy, you're gonna need blueprints and a will to build, and... Straighten your cap! you look like you've been through a war. Wipe that grin off your mug, you got a sturdy frame? Sluggish p...

I'll Be Ok

[Slug] Burn it down... Pad the circles 'round your life To capture all the sides you sight Magic tricks where skeptics sink The ice is thin, stay off the lake Waiting for a clock to punch Wish I could breathe and stop for lunch If I stop to count the leaves o...

Junkyard

Same hand that snuggled the barbed wire Tug an orphan assortment of bell and three-alarm fire Beautiful loser maneuver the goofy cubicle future alert Big brother super-community burn OK shoppers, tickets won't last For the straight-to-video "Dog-Boy eats...

Kill the Messenger

(spoken) Hey stupid youre listening to Bazooka Tooth, Dental Cannons, Molar Pistols, shit like that this Merc mutha fukcer this is Aesop Rock Aes-Rizzle ya know what Im sayin'? Check it out like living legends Def Jux... Every leader dead and its making you...

Kirby

[Hook x2] Hey Kirby Whatcha doing Kirby Whatcha doing there [Verse 1] Hobgoblin, shots of hot Strongid Vaccine queen deem church socks hostage 9 weeks awesome Hides in a slipper Look in her eye like she might be a wizard Cold met a cat lady in a par...

Labor

Who put the monkey wrench in well oiled prefectionist emblem Just to watch these moniters spit white noise through your office space? Automate. I infect jolly gene pool descendent cloud clusters starving art revolution sound jugglers. Delinquent fan for brick...

Leisureforce

Postcards from the pink bath paint leisure As a cloaked horse through a stained-glass Saint Peter Hack faith-healer, cheat death to the very end Cherry wooden nickels on his specs for the ferrymen X-O, Zodiac a pentagram expo Pet Semetery in electric fresco Ab...

Limelighters (Feat. Camp Lo)

AESOP- Pain cave uno, smoking a broken blue note. Tar pit escape artist carcass linger in the bull doze. Rose radio Lazarus via linear bark screaming 'I'm back to kill the video star and I'm double parked!' CHIBA- You can kite this or yet maybe baby you won't...

Lotta Years

[Verse 1] The kid that work down at the local Baskin-Robbins Got a tattoo of a lipstick print attached above his collar I watched him relocating pistachio to a waffle Thinking I had lost the plot if not the passion for the novel He asked me what I wanted,...

Maintenance

[Aesop Rock] Count that for me...thanks [Robotic voice] 4x One, two, one, two, three, four [Aesop Rock] Well any asshole with a book of matches can light a fire fresh Make that sucker burn for days, I'll be impressed Circlin past the culture's bigot, procrea...

Mars Attacks

These lil', lil' fuckin' Martians You gotta love em' though Mars attacks wit' electric gats Not for sapien abduction (what's up then?!) Billy took a laser to the mug piece; hallowed out the mandible Channel headquarters order the cannonballs (Mars attacksssss...

Mayor and the Crook

no more pencils no more books I built the city out one brick It had a mayor and a crook I made the crook stab the mayor then slay himself in the guilt I stole the brick back and migrated east, now let's build Every tenderfoot cadet better they be slit-th...

Meter Feeder Leak Edit

Researcher #1: What's new? Researcher #2: Oh, I never said. The blood analysis came back from the lab- Most of it was from a lion, but some of it was from a bat. Hail Mary Mallon: Hey, what's up dude, want a Sun Chip?! Deepthroat: Fuck you, Hail Mary Mall...

Nickel Plated Pockets

[INTRO: Vast Aire & Aesop conversing] Yo, (Alright Ok) Can I get a quarter or something? Little hungry, you know what I'm saying? (Alright Ok) Homeless... I need a Lucy yo... (Yo...) [VERSE ONE] Walk into the store with a pocket full of nickels And a city...

Night Light

(Day turns Night) x8 Night Light suckaa! Put one up for shackle-me not clean logic procreation (Ahh) I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation. While the triple sixers' lassos keep angels roped in the basement, I locate modern halos and pass 'em out to...

Nightlight

Day turns night (8x) Night Light suckas.. Put one up shackle me, not clean logic procreation I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation While the triple sixers lassos keep angels roped in the basement I locate modern halos and pass em out to the pavemen...

No Jumper Cables

Intro: It blew up It blew up in my face Chase the gimmick Chase the genius But i'd rather chase the phoenix If i could ever hit em up, i'd like to grab the wingtips I guess thats stupid mother f**ker Splurgin on the track im actin as if it's urgent Dirty dusty...

No Regrets

Lucy was 7 and wore a head of blue barettes City born, into this world with no knowledge and no regrets Had a piece of yellow chalk with which she'd draw upon the street The many faces of the various locals that she would meet There was joshua, age 10 Bully of...

No Splash

[Aesop Rock] In January, I fell to the cobblestone In April, I cut little paper flowers In August, I drank cold tea on my lonesome In October, I was introduced to scour I love New York Saturdays But Mondays last longer And since I plan to live a long life Mayb...

None Shall Pass

flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist wither by the watering hole, border patrol what are we to heart huckabee art fuckery suddenly? not enough young in his lung for the waterwing colorfully vulgar poacher outta mulch like "i'm 'a pull the pulse out a sol...

Numb (To The Guns)

(News Reporter) atop the news this evening *static* this just in *static* thanks, bob. (helicopter, gunshots in background) due to extreme technology advancements, i'm able to report to you live here, from what military officials are calling a 'hot zone.' As...

NY Electric

New York (indistinct) Stanton Isle, up state, Tri state {Just for my people} x 4 {Get down} I cut the ropes (breath) Fresh cut as a pigeon blooded smoke Load bazooka Stoke the cobra coats over a broken hookah Got rabble pants with psycho dance and cook becaus...

Odessa (featuring Dose One)

shhh Dose: Well or, And this is, new york city Aesop: Where the shiftiest sources leak out the back door, For more and this is new york city Dose: oh I see these hear walk, I, Simply a shade of shephard, seems we share fate, honestly Aesop: (o...

One Brick

[Aesop Rock] I start my city with a brick (one brick) Then add another brick (two bricks) Brick by brick, I manufacture homes for fallen angels I ain't no great Samaritan, that's just the way the game goes Respect the polars but acknowlege middle-value rainbow...

Oxygen

I'm twice born, once and seven something Once is the resurrection of honorable function Been shoveling a coal as the engine's doctor Long enough to see my silhouette acquire a permanent kink in a posture The maintenance of icicle spirit by the warmth of true e...

Pigs [Hidden Track]

Sharks in the dunk tank, vipers in the garden locusts stole the groceries out the local farmers market All God's critters hold positions some are violent, some are victims each alive is an equal and vital piston I support - so when the piranhas honor New...

Prosperity

sulking and bulking a half sulking a laugh crash test figure the mixtures digging up his last breath grief leaf thief briefly turned chieftan the tapwaters on the waters off the waters leaking so this is blue my frame reportedly spotted garden variety burners...

Rabies

Hey warm cider, barn full of spiders Orange moon, starry night, particle exciters In a pageant rivaled only by the origin of fire Now add an organism from alternative environs A dozen pair of cartoon eyes in a thicket To see a neophyte get sliced into rib...

Racing Stripes

There is a bowl cut template mapped with a billy can Mega morn scissoring a topiary lego man Mini-ramp cowlick Good ship snot nose Lap rain water out of pigeon hill potholes Rat brain, shovel green peas offa butterknife Racoon hat, moon boots all summer-type F...

Rings

Used to draw Hard to admit that I used to draw Portraiture and the human form Doodle of a two-headed unicorn It was soothin', movin' his arm in a fusion Of man-made tools and a muse from beyond Even if it went beautifully wrong It was tangible truth for...

Ruby '81

July 4th 1981, Candles of a Roman ilk, Unloaded from a Chevy truck Into the home where folks had built, Patio was charcoals And extended fam in folding chairs, Safely arced around the yard To focus on the smoking flares. Couple cousins, uncles, aunts Mostly...

Same Space

Killings reflect the destiny of the village So when 20 count regrets float down futility spillage See I'll pass the broken arrow this time for certain Yea but from here on out its hoofed mare or bare footed urchin Dig in your person Now exhibit true audac...

Saturn Missiles

If you step on the lawn I keep the foot Peep, in the pot go 6 degrees of cooked geese Boiling, blitz the beach of mushed peas Over 10 meat hooks with a blister each I'm all pincher, fever-y hoodie on, hoodie off Sweat thru his E.T. sheets to the worry dolls Ne...

Save Yourself

(Chill with that ill behavior) - KRS sample Pull the pin out, sheep creep in wolf garb Fronted by the Hail Mary parry lunge mixer Kill the populace for stability, jeopardy's a stickler Its bob and weave amalgam played the falcon to your fixture I branch...

Shere Kahn

[Sample from Sing-A-Song] "You can come, I'll leap right over Any day you like System 605, Union 91" [Aesop] I forever wallow in glitches grimly distributed by side effects Consumed, cocooned in antisocial trenches drenched! cradled between dense pilla...

Shovel

I don’t shrug instead of the ramifications of my shovel Lovin the consequence of uprooting the jungle I’m huggin the cyclo Gemini stooped contenders from viewin the puzzle I don’t budge the motives encased inside the gauntlets hung in quotas X2 My kitchen si...

Sick Friend

[Intro - Unknown man] Thou mayest indeed Tune onto the forbidden channel And see it like it is baby *Record Scratch in* You should be a champion Never fall on me Deceit, deceit, deceit *Record Scratch out* "Getting dusty in the cellar" [Verse 1 -...

Sinister

[Sample from "Snatch"] "Do you know what 'nemesis' means? A righteous infliction of retribution Manifested by an appropriate agent.... Personified in this case by me" [Aesop Rock] We're all in the same gang, bread and butter Just a couple subdivisions...

Skip Town

On the train Watchin' the rainbows bend, (thank you window seat) I mean, it's all the same to some But that cityscape makes me numb Walkin' the wire between firewater and water - I'll take the tap and still manage to end up thirsty the day the nursery collapse...

Spare a Match

Electric charge comin' from the mainframe - Aceyalone "The Energy" I'm from where the phat beats stretch for mad blocks - Ladybug Mecca "Where I'm From" by Digable Planets My every little step set in a star, retina Scarred; Tread in a sled of bedbugs got my d...

Supercell

[Verse 1] Die already None defy the one-man walled city Stone made flesh, veins etched in his hands 88 stance draped in invasive plants And rain dance unsafely, brace for the supercell Mutiny or footage for your blooper reel, who can tell Pours hot tar...

Take Me To The Basement

Take me to the basement. Let me count the holes in your foundation. Ancient ridicule system alert, kissing my lurk The perch of rare grimace on iron mask. I remember science class, If chemistry could silence the lions laugh I'd be fine. (I fail ta'...

Tetra

Don't fool with his cool I turn a staff to a snake and back, evade crack Shake a 5150 in shades and a fake stache Dirtbike made of 5 worse bikes, uphill Tabletop frames on dutch tilt, crush kill MakerBot coin-op arcade punk Talkin' arcane science, dark age pu...

Thank You

[Aesop Rock] One of four... [Voice] My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz. I was born in 1-9-7-6, at Syosset Hospital, located in Long Island, New York. I am 6 foot, for I weigh 2-0-0 pounds I have brown hair and green eyes. I enjoy writing songs, painting, movi...

The Active Element

I pilot a lion heart My polar half’s negotiate it (right) Shook upon the difference between tumble weed and sacred, Read a hostel gospel attributed to land shark Apostle squad Unfroze the hideous image like ??? ???. Bat up in the bell free (help me) I wa...

The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History

[Chorus] Get up to get down now Get up to get down now (like this) Get up to get down now (like this) Get up to get down now (alright) I don't wanna do it anymore Couldn't do it if I tried, wouldn't do it if I wanted it Hey I don't wanna do it anymore Couldn'...

The Harbor Is Yours

Throw your babies in the air. Dead men tell no tales. Just up push the daisies till the soil is stale In a padded blue tux for the farmer's sale Mr. big sleep with the carp and kelp Once upon a time in the days of yore when the people lived fresh outta legen...

The Mystery Fish

Tech support, feral army In a cave on a failed bit of terraforming 4 corners of paranormal Get shorn for a thermos and pair of thermals In the warehouse air where his dairy curdles St. Vincent de Paul trying to square the circle Circle the source of his...

The Substance

Four rooms, a ceiling and a floor but there's more (close to insanity) A desk with a subtle light, a window and a door (close to insanity) One bottle of the bluest inks your iris ever saw (close to insanity) One child prodigy with a vision in his core (...

The Tugboat Complex

Oh my God They've got angels sweatin' like Helots workin' their little halos 'til the bones combing them deserts my figure eight knotted lifeline defined traffic the way my schoolin' end-less-ly defined every day one exquisite fit of crisis rivets and oc...

The Tugboat Complex, Pt. 3

I could make 'em all dance, or I could sleep I could walk with a limp and make your step feel incomplete people are made of match sticks, life is but a flame note at the craftwork door the last smirk of the the Damien mainframe my box cost siphon third rail ju...

The Yes and the Y'all

Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal rages When bible page verse tidal waves begun (Water one) I wrote the book that shook America to splinters In a winter wasteland Icicle-bound barren township Call Baron Munchausen's proud gimps to clinch this chemical wa...

Tomorrow Morning

These are the unregulated rabbit holes, Barrack homes and taverns built for devil's acre Opium enthusiasts and baritones, marigold - The garish allure of the burning barbary, Underbelly born of 40 thieves in whorish harmony, Hammering for the dark and hea...

Troubled Waters

[Verse One] You replicas overlooking the guidelines of acoustics Miserable attempts result in miserable conclusions Paragon pen dragon tactician on freeform Then a comfortable silence try to combat cliques That unexpected Sephotus cyclone shifts Worked u...

Wake Up Call

[Aesop Rock] Wake up, wake up Ayo Percee P, it's time to wake these kids up [Percee P] Word up Aesop Rock, they'd better take their fingers off pause and hit record [Aesop Rock] Is you fat cats or lab rats? Trails to my steppin got em sweatin flashba...

Water

It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather...

We're Famous (Feat. El-P)

[El-P] I brought that genuine shit in '96 Before you knew the underground or independent existed I watched the whole scene straight jump on the dick After stepping to KCR lit and flexing my shit No gun talk, no gimmicks, just rounds of raw-dogging Dirty dusty...

Winners Take All

[Verse 1] Parachute ratty, one bunk cord now the air is scooped badly Dripping out the sticks like a twig-tweed hammock Miter cut the cables for that quick, clean transit Miser took the big screen; Panic made a business card Ankle out of whack, painkiller toba...

Zero Dark Thirty

They did not know how long they had been there (x6) Unsigned hype Frontline ever north's flurry Zero dark thirty Zero friends minotaur fugly stepchild devote lunch jumped over plunging Netlines Up beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes default in a mothmen munchin...

Zodiaccupuncture

March, the more the merrier. Get a couple of whores to carry you to the burial. F-R-E-S-H. Fresh to death and keep it def to the left. Well it was Capricorn, Virgo, Aquarius, Cancer, Leo, Sagittarius, Pisces, Libra, Scorpio, Aries, Gemini, Taurus, Let 'em die...

ZZZ Top

Somebody in a cultivated moment of distress Composed himself to artfully carve Zoso in his desk They was probably thinking fuck you fuck you fuck you in they head With a hell bound arm and a acidy wash Homemade curfew a thousand o'clock And a pot leaf tattoo h...