Skip Town-Aesop Rock

[ti:Skip Town] [ar:Aesop Rock] [al:Float] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Skip Town - Aesop Rock [00:13.13]Watchin the rainbows (thank you windows) [00:14.89]I mean it's all the same to some [00:16.32]But that cityscape makes me numb [00:18.24]Walkin'the wire between firewater and water [00:20.03]I'll take the tap [00:21.19]Still managed to end up thirsty the day [00:22.90]The nursery collapsed [00:23.37] [00:24.12]In my hand I hold the plumage of a buzzard [00:26.48]Somethin'for circlin'nutrition (seems barbaric) [00:28.67]I may have just saved your children [00:30.54]There's an inborn tendency tellin'me to grip that sickle [00:33.11]The pirate tyrant breathes [00:34.29]Feed on your precious little pixels [00:36.30]I interviewed the sun [00:37.48]He said the future's lookin bright [00:39.07]I interviewed the rain [00:40.36]He claimed the suns truly a nansle [00:42.48]I'was supposed to interview the snow today [00:44.04]But of course he flaked [00:45.19]So I let my frigid demeanor teeter [00:46.61]Take his vacant place [00:48.31]We three sprout from the same litter [00:50.11]Yet amazingly crafted by separate scissors [00:52.61]I stalk the morbid beaten past [00:54.31]Splashin'in the cretin blizzard [00:55.40]Half my time is herded toward little lost causes [00:57.73]Half my time is spent pluggin these leaky faucets [01:00.03]An I'm here to pose inquiries [01:01.84]I'm here to draw a fork in the road [01:03.36]And call it the diary of common sheep aspiring [01:06.39]Little Billy star lit up the block got the right premise [01:08.78]But can't thread the needle [01:09.45] [01:10.04]Without consultin apprentice present [01:12.48]I don't really know you [01:13.55]And I don't really care [01:15.15]Can't judge a man's dignity by the wattage in his stare [01:18.40]Maybe that deams me that vagabond you'd love to kill [01:21.03]But I really ain't got time for the mother f**king guilt [01:23.93]I'm gone and I best believe I'm leavin' [01:26.94] [01:27.45]Pack up my belongings then it's off into the evening [01:30.41]Now I haven't exactly been embraced by the populace [01:33.32]Set sail upon the seven deadly seas of the anonymous [01:36.03]I'm gone and I best believe I'm leavin' [01:39.26]Pack up my belongings then it's off into the evening [01:42.45]I'm diggin' a tunnel to where the sun'l never shine [01:44.80]I've got my book I got my dream [01:46.33]I've got myself an' I'll be fine [01:48.13]My time is the day before the day the earth stood still [01:51.10]My time is the day before the soldiers fired at will [01:54.35]My time is the day before the hunter made his kill [01:57.02]My time to find a mile before the valley meets the hill [02:00.01]I'm an archer [02:00.91]Partnered with a farmer's board of appetites [02:03.46]Sweetalkin' a rasping down to a mere flashing of badges [02:06.26]Prototypic landscape staged every step of my well-oiled [02:08.65]Collective workhorse with prose and attention festive Wait [02:11.72]What about the captivator [02:13.42]I am the product of skeleton dancers voice [02:15.76]Crooked scattered amidst blue fields of firey bliss tricks [02:18.28]Where disease applicant activist rattlers [02:19.92]Fascinate brave child [02:21.38]Where expectant slave smiles at the stick [02:22.77]In the painted living [02:23.96]God if I could offer maintenance to fantasies I would [02:26.22] [02:27.17]I'd place the button in the city square [02:29.02]For everyone to push [02:30.23]You see my mission's responsibilities range across the board [02:33.04]And so I'd rather be a pen than a sword [02:35.30] [02:35.98]I swim a cold lake make no mistake I was not ready [02:39.30]All edgy and outta shape made the company look messy [02:41.78]Sorry well sorry [02:43.00] [02:43.64]Honestly take it or leave it [02:45.20]Just let me know [02:45.97]So I ain't beggin' forgiveness throughout the evening [02:48.22]Basic locomotive with a whistle and caboose [02:51.47]Tryin'a pull my cargo 'cross the map without a boost [02:54.45]Brasher than more ways in ten years sturdy bird construction [02:57.49]Help the smokestacks puff until the morn dream torn [03:00.36]I'm gone and I best believe I'm leavin' [03:03.49]Packed up my belongings then it's off into the evening [03:06.35]I've knocked upon every little door that comes about [03:09.35]I'll sweep ya porch [03:10.16]If you can spare a couple of breadcrumbs and a couch [03:12.00]I'm gone and I best believe I'm leavin' [03:15.42]Pack up my belongings then it's off into the evening [03:18.31]This turning in my sleep is getting old and older still [03:20.98]I think I can I think I can I think I can [03:22.84]I think I will