How to Be a Carpenter-Aesop Rock

[ti:How to Be a Carpenter] [ar:Aesop Rock] [al:Float] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.65]So you want to be a carpenter do you [00:02.83]Well it takes more than a hammer boy [00:04.30]You're gonna need blueprints and a will to build and [00:05.85]Straighten your cap [00:06.91]You look like you've been through a war [00:08.22]Wipe that grin off your mug [00:09.44]You got a sturdy frame [00:10.40]Sluggish posture just won't cut it [00:12.09]You're gonna need schooling [00:12.67]And and take notes [00:14.52]And god if I catch you yawning again [00:16.03]You're gonna regret ever asking for my help [00:17.56]And dammit you gotta hustle [00:18.67]This is a slacker-free zone [00:19.78]And where's my pencil go get your hard-hat [00:21.35]Here's a nickel go get us a ruler [00:22.73]And a saw and a drill and lots of graph paper [00:24.20] [00:24.87]I used to have a rope ladder [00:25.80]But tattered were the rungs [00:27.32]I strung it from the highest willow [00:28.51]Trying to hug the sun [00:30.31]The seventh level buckled [00:31.37]And I tumbled from the summit [00:33.25]Now I'm back to re-climb [00:34.16]And this time light my cigarette from it [00:36.35]My stitchin division to vision warfares numb [00:38.24]Enough to soak suddenly in a bullet bath [00:40.64]And skip stones in the morning as I [00:42.48]Lie in color phantom tantrum explicable [00:44.32] [00:45.13]Sit and pull the petals off wild flower patches [00:47.33]Magic happens [00:48.07]Behold pity the lowlife parish [00:50.10]Doom City barracks left remorse coursed [00:52.04]On a horse-drawn carriage by the torch of Polaris [00:54.04]To the Badlands where every bridge [00:55.72]Collapse right where the crowd stands [00:57.20]Where the witches are fireproof [00:58.27]And every preacher's a madman [01:00.41]Frigid be the appleseed demeanor towards the bay [01:03.05]Where the landshark Parliament swims [01:04.26]When they pause to polish they fins [01:06.07]The better brains will preach the village [01:07.79]Through the city square [01:08.63]To the light heavy and middle-weight integrate [01:09.96]Slept with sticks and stones in my pillowcase [01:12.38]Oohmy bomb's light simulator [01:13.42]Picks barnacles off the tugboat belly [01:14.47] [01:15.39]Left my spirit home in a shoebox in case I die [01:18.29]Got a rugged smoke-green halo floating inches off the swamp [01:20.84]Had that phase when the devil [01:22.42]Tree contacts a sparkle in my eye [01:24.00]Now step back from the reservoir [01:25.61]And let the settlers drink [01:27.42]Salvage all priorities and iron out all kinks [01:30.45]My house ain't made of bricks [01:31.57]And straw but never has it crumbled [01:33.15]Cuz I stitched the brain's rigidity with symmetry [01:35.26]Come visit me [01:36.44]It's fascinating [01:37.09]Now here's how its done [01:38.43]I'm only gonna show you once [01:39.74]So pay close attention [01:40.90]Hear me now or hear me never [01:42.28]Glue your little eyes to the diagram [01:43.74]See the plywood the nails the glue [01:45.48]You work every inch [01:46.36]Your domain and you must treat it well [01:47.77]Keep it clean or it'll swallow you whole [01:49.64]Where's the T-square hand me the pliers [01:51.01]Now dammit oh this will never do [01:52.94]You have to want the castle [01:54.48]Head Up shoulders back [01:55.84]Be the materials [01:56.86]Know your limits only to break your limits [01:58.39]Are you listening [01:59.23]God dammit boy pay attention [02:00.69] [02:01.72]Little bit more juice this time [02:03.13]Try it again [02:03.88]Yeah a little bit more elbow grease this time [02:06.18]Try it again [02:06.96]Concentrate a little more focus this time [02:08.93]You can kick and scream [02:09.89]And yell but damn I'm only tryin' to help [02:11.44] [02:12.23]Try it again You're not doing it right [02:13.95]Here now yall watch [02:14.74]Try it again Stop sulking [02:16.42]I'm the example for real Watch [02:17.96]Try it again I'm bout to make it easy [02:19.80]For you yall just Watch [02:20.99]You can kick and scream [02:22.13]And yell but damn I'm only tryin' to help [02:23.35] [02:24.12]Stinging the hunt [02:24.71] [02:25.24]The hunt dispatched a pack of wild dog silhouettes [02:26.80]All sulking by the skyline [02:27.91] [02:28.70]Focused with a bonus hunger pain [02:29.73] [02:30.27]My sincere addiction imbalance stems [02:32.19]From a vintage grimace slap to the mug of [02:34.31]Ancestral branch camped on the vessels [02:36.09]Yes and I abide [02:36.73]The laws of the hidden desert survived [02:38.50] [02:39.07]And every peasant presenteed it [02:40.65]On the crescent less deprived [02:42.08]With the exception of pleasant finale binges [02:43.79]On the great endangered interests [02:45.78]Of phantom brigades slaving to save that princess [02:48.18]I double the negative [02:49.91]To no avail no promised benefits [02:52.15]Just delegates peddling pairs of negatives [02:54.33]With magnified magnanimous appearance [02:55.26] [02:56.22]Sandy sinners in opinion shut [02:58.11]Now what of the madness fragments Stagnant [03:00.31]I oughta make a vision sing my twix [03:01.99]Cling to your pigeon wings [03:03.18]Vision militia indent benders [03:04.22] [03:04.93]We've flooded Hell's kitchen sink [03:06.56]Walkin' eye civility simpleton citizen [03:08.25]Mixers to kiss the sky in unison [03:10.35]Sinister city-blistered corporate rule-igans [03:12.53]All I really want's a nickel to feed my little pigs [03:14.83]Big d**k three cheers to the product [03:17.65]Consumer populace feed but never dreamed of the process [03:20.37]When a slanted advantage point sort of makeshift [03:22.60]Criminals date R**e the hostage [03:24.02]Dream away the blame pain yeah [03:25.56] [03:26.16]But it seeps through the cracks [03:27.27]And drips from the ceiling and smells [03:28.56]The rich scent of my tracks [03:29.90]All I ever really wanted was a jungle [03:31.80] [03:32.41]And a jungle I got [03:33.59]See it ain't the vision [03:34.47]It's the plot that makes me stop [03:35.98]Try it again I don't want to [03:37.06] [03:37.65]Try it again I don't want to [03:39.32]Try it again I don't want to [03:40.77]Try it again I don't want to [03:42.18]Try it again I don't want to [03:43.88]Try it again I don't want to [03:44.97]Try it again I don't want to [03:46.63]Try it one more time [03:47.66] [03:52.36]I'm not even interested anymore [03:54.35] [03:54.87]Try it one more time [03:56.31] [03:57.84]How to Be a Carpenter - Aesop Rock