Battery (Explicit)-Aesop Rock

[ti:Battery] [ar:Aesop Rock] [al:Labor Days] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Battery (Explicit) - Aesop Rock [00:23.90]Yo change the f**kin channel [00:25.42] [00:26.47]I burn a Coma candle [00:27.96]When the flame fades [00:29.06]Consider my flatline a soldier＇s sample [00:31.14]We them cats talkin noise behind [00:32.56]That New York trash heap [00:33.90]Where the stench of commuter [00:35.25]Briefcase replaces a bad sleep [00:37.01]And it＇s worker zig-zagers [00:38.77]Versus piggy batch flashers [00:40.14]Training Generation Fallout [00:40.97] [00:42.08]Waterfall bricklayer pincushion crawl out [00:44.97]There＇s smoke in my iris [00:46.53]But I painted a sunny day [00:47.88]On the insides of my eyelids [00:49.34]So I＇m ready now [00:50.66](What you ready for) [00:51.58]I＇m ready for life in this city [00:53.46]And my wings have grown [00:54.20]Almost enough to lift me [00:55.57]I＇m a dinosaur with Jones Beach in my hourglass [00:58.07]Passing the time with serial killer [00:59.10] [00:59.81]Coloringbooks and bags of marbles [01:01.74]Don＇t tell me you ain＇t the droid [01:03.70]That held the match to the charcoals [01:05.05]Don＇t tell me Lucifer and God don＇t carpool [01:07.13](This is our school) [01:07.77]I＇m not trying to graduate to life [01:09.82]At the curse on the lounge barstool [01:11.59]Head in a jar on the desk [01:12.94]Feet dangling in a shark pool [01:14.16](Man please) Man please [01:15.79]My name stands for my being [01:17.23]And my being stands for the woman who stood [01:19.23]And braved the storm could raise this evening [01:21.02](Brother sun sister moon mother beautiful) [01:23.38]Yeah middle sibling suitable [01:24.53]But far from son of excellence [01:26.18]Back in a long time ago [01:27.94]I was to wishway the wishes [01:29.31]But Mister Smits [01:30.17]I slept through my appointment [01:31.69]Saw the liquid dreams of a thousand babies solidify [01:34.54]Rose and And picked wieldedthe [01:36.08]The second I introduced myself as Nervous [01:37.76] [01:39.01]Well it appears the scars of [01:40.32]Spokenlearning have rosen [01:41.79]Some are burning some rose [01:43.08]Some deserve tall tales [01:44.32]Some have wrote them [01:45.24]Some are devotionjust a brutal [01:46.52]Reprocussion of botion [01:47.33] [01:48.00]Mine are all of the above [01:49.44]Cuz everything leads to erosion [01:50.88]Now where I live there＇s a homeless man [01:52.96]He sits upon a crate [01:54.07]He makes a rusty trumpet sound like [01:55.69]The music that angels make [01:56.51] [01:57.16]Now if you ever come and visit me [01:58.56]I suggest you watch the show [02:00.19]Tell him Aesop Rock sent ya [02:01.83]Just to hear his horn blow like this [02:03.11] [02:27.72]And I ain＇t getting any younger [02:29.56]My knuckles wear their bruises well [02:31.09]I＇ve yet to lose that hunger [02:32.71]But only time can tell [02:33.85]Prodigal Son with a prodigal wish [02:35.12] [02:35.67]To sew that prodigal stitch [02:36.53] [02:37.12]And crucify bigot voodoo doll [02:38.88]On two popsicle sticks [02:40.13]See your name is Ambiguity [02:41.52]Is My name something hands can＇t hold [02:43.50]But hearts part ocean scapes [02:44.87]Just to watch the starlet unfold [02:46.41]It＇s like sketching a circle in the dirt [02:48.25]With a pointed stick [02:49.25]Knowing the wind＇ll kill it some day [02:50.93]Still it calls my burning wits for now [02:52.63]And if I plow the fields [02:53.94]That don't guarantee plentiful harvest [02:55.81]But starving artists die [02:56.55] [02:57.15]I set my alarm for five o＇clock [02:58.98]Idols block survival crops the cycle stops for nothing [03:01.28]The Bible＇s carp revivalist winos flock by the hundreds [03:04.24] [03:04.83]To the opening scarlet carpets greeting their duel [03:07.66]Leading the stubborn mule to cruel rugburn [03:09.28]But y＇all numb fuelfrom gut [03:10.81]I administer eclispe [03:11.38] [03:12.57]There ain't no motor a like martyr-made motor [03:14.55]Cuz a martyr-made motor don＇t quit [03:16.48] [03:17.51]I am an epiphany I am wet foot mammal [03:20.20]Channel surfing my way to the top [03:22.11]Tugboat in a bottle [03:23.20]With no holes poked in the nozzle [03:24.84]I fed em bedlam diluted in limelight [03:26.75]Till that rookie boogie graduated hostile [03:29.15]And the vehicle is grandeur [03:30.93]And it veered over the medium [03:32.40]The second my halo ran outta helium [03:33.89] [03:35.00]Demoted to thorn crown [03:35.81] [03:36.58]Damn talk about numbskull [03:37.60] [03:38.23]I was born bound to a stencil called symmetry [03:40.09]But my energy＇s a rental [03:41.71]So I take this now to save [03:43.47] [03:44.38]My cute seniorita beholding [03:45.60]A flame to a lost wick [03:47.02]Thank you James Anthony [03:48.47]For the band-aids on my ego [03:50.06]Y＇all are family for life [03:51.61]I＇ll take that bullet to preserve you [03:53.49]I wanna be something spectacular [03:54.69] [03:55.60]On the day the sun runs outta batteries [03:57.53]Attach my fashion to the casualties of anarchy [03:59.76] [04:00.38]Save my nickels up to buy [04:01.95]That homeless man a brand new horn [04:03.52]Then sit up on his crate [04:04.92]As I witness the beauty born like this [04:06.35] [04:12.58](I ain't gettin any younger)