Keep Off the Lawn

Most copious
Rains soaked the opiates
Notice how the phobias
Appropriately procreate
Woke up with a ghost farm
Focused on his groceries
When they aren't telling stories
They are multiplying grossly on the lawn.
Let ?em loiter, never let ?em spawn
The apparitions have been drinking his water for too long
So when they gathered by the bird bath in the morning he would tell ?em
?I mean no disrespect, but you have all outstayed your welcome?
Interesting in a sense
Interrupt commiserating phantoms on your picket fence
How quickly they will lift their heads, and breathe an ultimatum like the dead don't argue
Said ?You're living by the bayonet, but how alive are you??
...Shit, A is all juice and bad etiquette
Elbows on the table, lobster bibbin' on the ready set
He said ?but how alive??
I dunno money you decide
?No you decide.? Fine
How alive? Too alive.
?How alive?? Too alive.
?How alive?? Too alive.

And one by one around the yard ?til each one felt communal pride
Like they had done their little part in cleaning up the public,
With a steaming plate of justice for them easy baker stomachs.
We the legends that hunt with the unremembered,
Geriatric lore in the clutch of the budding censor,
Who snuck around the art police and all related governments,
To infiltrate a human lung and hike up off his tongue and lip.
Ah money's in the market for a mothership
To double as a vessel that drags his legacy under it
And who am I to hang him out to dry by the heat
When if re-hydrating fails we're all dumber because of me
Zombies of the antiquated nation chatter quietly
The ?too alive? channel from the library of rivalry
And summers in the mud
Winters by the track
No story goes untold, Aes is back.
I got a handful rockin' the same poker-face down
To dance around the table like they own the place
I got the whole world thinking it's a holiday
Cuz they can smell the chum in the water from miles away.

?How alive?? Too alive. (8x)


source: Songteksten.nl

turntable(s): DJ Big Wiz
lead vocals: Aesop Rock
guitar: Allyson Baker
additional guest vocals: Camu Tao; Hollis; Rob Sonic
mixer: Joey Raia
Producer:
lyricist:
musicbrainz_work_id: 42dc513c-fc26-3c82-b29b-888a431c8c5f
Language: english
Mood: Reflective; Brooding; Intense; Confrontational; Literate; Searching; Ambitious; Fiery; Hostile; Rebellious; Nocturnal; Elaborate
Theme: Night Driving; Rainy Day
Style: Alternative Rap; Underground Rap