Ruby '81-Aesop Rock

[ti:Ruby '81] [ar:Aesop Rock] [al:Skelethon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ruby '81 - Aesop Rock [00:48.12]Look go happy holidays [00:49.14] [00:50.79]July 4th 1981 [00:51.61] [00:52.69]Candles of a Roman ilk [00:54.23]Unloaded from a Chevy truck [00:55.71]Into the home where folks had built [00:57.38]Patio was charcoals [00:58.58]And extended fam in folding chairs [01:00.67]Safely arced around the yard [01:02.03]To focus on the smoking flares [01:03.67]Couple cousins uncles aunts [01:04.87]Mostly grown-ups couple brats [01:06.90]Baby Ruby's only two [01:08.27]She's too close to the jumping jacks [01:10.14]Mommy scoops her to the house [01:11.72]Buckles up the booster seat [01:13.21]Rolls her to the storm door [01:14.61]Let her long for all the lunacy [01:16.43]Telephone distracting Mom [01:18.00]Ruby wriggles at her strap [01:19.64]Fingers push the plexiglass [01:20.75]She's off into the sour patch [01:21.98] [01:22.51]Past the pyrotechnics [01:23.36] [01:24.80]Undetected and invisible [01:25.98]Woke the sleeping beagle [01:27.23]Skipping toward the kidney swimming pool [01:28.95]Off into the yawning blue [01:30.25]The splash would mum the rocket ships [01:31.96]Ruby's lungs were filling [01:33.33]By the time her kin were cognisant [01:35.17]Many sprung and sprinted down [01:36.59]All arrived belated but [01:37.77] [01:38.38]The beast she had earlier stirred [01:40.02]Had been alert since waking up [01:41.22] [01:41.85]The canine let his gainer fly [01:43.36]Water top commotion grow [01:44.65]Howling guests assume [01:45.27] [01:45.82]The cloven hooves had come to do-si-do [01:47.60] [01:48.18]Frenzied and congested deck [01:48.97] [01:49.60]Part to let the elders see [01:51.17]Soggy beagle gently dragging [01:52.37]Ruby in his yellow teeth [01:53.51] [01:54.15]Laid the tiny body [01:55.24]In the sun before her father's feet [01:57.22]When she choked the liquid through her bluish lips [01:59.62]He dropped his knee [02:00.76]Helped the air to reconvene [02:02.14]Toweled a shaking Ruby off [02:03.66]EMT confirmed the save [02:05.02]Everybody said "Good Dog"