Aesop Rock

Float

Aesop Rock


So I heard y'all wanna float...

Yo, this fallen angel could stitch a wing 
With a shoestring
Prime directive selects reflective 
Aviation bathed in mood swing
I'm broke; I know a walking corpse 
That spit icicle dagger to slit throat
Quicker than you can prove 
There's four letters in hope (h...o...p...e)
I paint a portrait of myself, 
Bored life inside the tortoise shell
Tortured, orbiting Hell's orchid, 
Intrigued but not compelled
I smell a hint of charred child flesh 
Sweeping through my corridor
More than one canteen, 
A liquid caffeine 
And eclipse the slaughters now ? 
Is the villain of my Kabuki hologram
As I hobble with hollow hands, 
Please pin the nozzle
We see intent to reinvent dream application 
With homage to ancients
But honor modern replacements 
Circling now basics, fresh
I'm Bilbo Baggins, 
With stilts tippin' the peatree dish
Beached fish on the shores 
With a feast of wits eats the corpse
Divy the servings and study the traits 
That deemed killer breed credible
That's a harp of a different color, 
Yeah, but the song remains identical
I am not a crook (crook)
I cook the wick at both ends just to blend 
That element of chance with my 

Tight rope leaf life, sight beyond, 
I reign where hunger pain got begone
Belong to something civil saint 
'Cause this Rembrandt paints on
And it's a tall canvas, 
Lodged in the gut of Atlantis
I'm pretend, 
Impressive lungs, 
Some truly learn what a death chant is
I alone personify mankind's collective soul
As the result of one angry Zeus fist 
Blistering pulp cult evoked
Face it, place it on the shelf 
Next to the portrait Mommy gave you
And the day it rains but y'all pose 
By the slave ship anyway (how sweet)
Make it rain 'till the lead be grain
My face is a combine of Father Tom 
And his sweetest concubine
Whine, and it saddens me 
Like televised casualties
I'll be hung in the village square 
In exactly five minutes
You don't want to miss it
I've been soaking up my discontent 
Regarding the equation
I'm officially closed for consultation

I float
When everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
When everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
When everyone around me's busy drowning, I float