[00:00:00] Battery - Aesop Rock [00:00:23] Yo change the f**kin channel [00:00:26] I burn a Coma candle [00:00:27] When the flame fades [00:00:29] Consider my flatline a soldier's sample [00:00:31] We them cats talkin noise behind [00:00:32] That New York trash heap [00:00:33] Where the stench of commuter [00:00:35] Briefcase replaces a bad sleep [00:00:37] And it's worker zig-zagers [00:00:38] Versus piggy batch flashers [00:00:40] Training Generation Fallout [00:00:42] Waterfall bricklayer pincushion crawl out [00:00:44] There's smoke in my iris [00:00:46] But I painted a sunny day [00:00:47] On the insides of my eyelids [00:00:49] So I'm ready now [00:00:50] (What you ready for) [00:00:51] I'm ready for life in this city [00:00:53] And my wings have grown [00:00:54] Almost enough to lift me [00:00:55] I'm a dinosaur with Jones Beach in my hourglass [00:00:58] Passing the time with serial killer [00:00:59] Coloringbooks and bags of marbles [00:01:01] Don't tell me you ain't the droid [00:01:03] That held the match to the charcoals [00:01:05] Don't tell me Lucifer and God don't carpool [00:01:07] (This is our school) [00:01:07] I'm not trying to graduate to life [00:01:09] At the curse on the lounge barstool [00:01:11] Head in a jar on the desk [00:01:12] Feet dangling in a shark pool [00:01:14] (Man please) Man please [00:01:15] My name stands for my being [00:01:17] And my being stands for the woman who stood [00:01:19] And braved the storm could raise this evening [00:01:21] (Brother sun sister moon mother beautiful) [00:01:23] Yeah middle sibling suitable [00:01:24] But far from son of excellence [00:01:26] Back in a long time ago [00:01:27] I was to wishway the wishes [00:01:29] But Mister Smits [00:01:30] I slept through my appointment [00:01:31] Saw the liquid dreams of a thousand babies solidify [00:01:34] Rose and And picked wieldedthe [00:01:36] The second I introduced myself as Nervous [00:01:39] Well it appears the scars of [00:01:40] Spokenlearning have rosen [00:01:41] Some are burning some rose [00:01:43] Some deserve tall tales [00:01:44] Some have wrote them [00:01:45] Some are devotionjust a brutal [00:01:46] Reprocussion of botion [00:01:48] Mine are all of the above [00:01:49] Cuz everything leads to erosion [00:01:50] Now where I live there's a homeless man [00:01:52] He sits upon a crate [00:01:54] He makes a rusty trumpet sound like [00:01:55] The music that angels make [00:01:57] Now if you ever come and visit me [00:01:58] I suggest you watch the show [00:02:00] Tell him Aesop Rock sent ya [00:02:01] Just to hear his horn blow like this [00:02:27] And I ain't getting any younger [00:02:29] My knuckles wear their bruises well [00:02:31] I've yet to lose that hunger [00:02:32] But only time can tell [00:02:33] Prodigal Son with a prodigal wish [00:02:35] To sew that prodigal stitch [00:02:37] And crucify bigot voodoo doll [00:02:38] On two popsicle sticks [00:02:40] See your name is Ambiguity [00:02:41] Is My name something hands can't hold [00:02:43] But hearts part ocean scapes [00:02:44] Just to watch the starlet unfold [00:02:46] It's like sketching a circle in the dirt [00:02:48] With a pointed stick [00:02:49] Knowing the wind'll kill it some day [00:02:50] Still it calls my burning wits for now [00:02:52] And if I plow the fields [00:02:53] That don't guarantee plentiful harvest [00:02:55] But starving artists die [00:02:57] I set my alarm for five o'clock [00:02:58] Idols block survival crops the cycle stops for nothing [00:03:01] The Bible's carp revivalist winos flock by the hundreds [00:03:04] To the opening scarlet carpets greeting their duel [00:03:07] Leading the stubborn mule to cruel rugburn [00:03:09] But y'all numb fuelfrom gut [00:03:10] I administer eclispe [00:03:12] There ain't no motor a like martyr-made motor [00:03:14] Cuz a martyr-made motor don't quit [00:03:17] I am an epiphany I am wet foot mammal [00:03:20] Channel surfing my way to the top [00:03:22] Tugboat in a bottle [00:03:23] With no holes poked in the nozzle [00:03:24] I fed em bedlam diluted in limelight