Battery chords by Aesop Rock
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Yo, change the fuckin'
channel
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I burn a coma candle
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When the flame fades,
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consider my flatline a soldier's sample
We them cats talkin' noise behind
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that New York trash heap
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Where the stench of commuter briefcase
replaces a bad sleep
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And it's (what) worker zig- zagers versus
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piggy badge flashers
Training generation fallout
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Waterfall bricklayer
pincushion crawl out
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There's smoke in my iris
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But I painted a sunny day on
the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (what you
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ready for?)
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I'm ready for life in this city
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And my wings have grown almost
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enough to lift me
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I'm a dinosaur with Jones
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Beach in my hourglass
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Passing the time with serial killer coloring
books and bags of marbles
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Don't tell me you ain't the droidthat held
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the match to the charcoals
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Don't tell me Lucifer and God
don't carpool
This is our school
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Verse 2
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I'm not trying to graduate life
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at the personalized bar stool
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Head in a jar with a desk,
feet dangling in a shark pool
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(Man please)man please
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My name stands for my being
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And my being stands for the
woman who stood
And braved the storm could
raise the seedling
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Brother, sun, sister, moon,
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mother beautiful
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Yeah, middle sibling suitable but
far from son of excellence
Back in the long time ago,
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I was to way the wishes wish
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But missers miss,
I slept through my appointment (man)
Saw the liquid dreams of a thousand
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babies solidify
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And picked the rose, it wilted
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The second I introduced
myself as nervous
Well it appears the scars of
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learning have spoken
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Some are burning, some are frozen
Some deserve tall tales,
some wrote them
Some are just a brutal repercus
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sions of devotion
Mine are all of the above,
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'cause everything leads to erosion
Now where I live there's
a homeless man
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He sits upon a crate (yeah)
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He makes a rusty trumpet sound like
the music that angels make
Now if you ever come and visit me,
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I suggest you watch the show
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Tell him Aesop Rock sent ya just to hear his horn blow like
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Verse 3
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And I ain't getting any younger
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My knuckles wear their bruises well
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I've yet to lose that hunger (oh)
But only time can tell
Prodigal son with a prodigal wish
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to sew that prodigal stitch
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And crucify bigot voodoo doll
on two popsicle sticks
See your name is ambiguity
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My name is something
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hands can't hold
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But hearts part oceanscapes just
to watch the starlet unfold
It's like sketching a circle in the
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dirt with a pointed stick
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Knowing the wind'll kill it some day,
still it calls my burning wits for now
And if I plow the fields,
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that don't guarantee plentiful harvest
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But starving artists die,
I set my alarm for five o'clock
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Idols block survival crops the cycle stops
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for nothing (what)
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The bible's carp revivalist
winos flock by the hundreds
To the opening,
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scarlet carpets greeting their duel (oh)
Leading the stubborn mule
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to cruel rug burn
But y'all numb from gut fuel
Verse 4
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I administer eclipse,
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there ain't no motor like a martyr- made motor
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'Cause a martyr- made motor
don't quit (quit)
I am an epiphany,
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I am webbed foot mammal
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Channel surfing my way to the top
Tugboat in a bottle
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With no holes poked in the nozzle
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I fed 'em bedlam diluted in limelight
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Till that rookie boogie graduated
hostile (hostile)
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And the vehicle is grandeur and it
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veered over the medium
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The second my halo ran
outta helium
Demoted to thorn crown,
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damn talk about numbskull
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I was born bound to a sten
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cil called symmetry
But my energy's a rental
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So I take this now to say
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Thank you, senorita behold
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ing a flame to a lost wick
Thank you James Anthony for
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the Band- Aids on my ego
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Y'all are family for life
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I'll take that bullet to preserve you
I wannna be something spectacular
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On the day the sun runs outta batteries
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Attach my fashion to the
casualties of anarchy
Save my nickels up to buy that home
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less man a brand new horn
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Then sit up on his crate as
I witness the beauty born like this
Verse 5
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I ain't gettin' any younger
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