[ti:Battery]
[ar:Aesop Rock]
[al:Labor Days]
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[00:00.00]Battery (Explicit) - Aesop Rock
[00:23.90]Yo change the f**kin channel
[00:26.47]I burn a Coma candle
[00:27.96]When the flame fades
[00:29.06]Consider my flatline a soldier＇s sample
[00:31.14]We them cats talkin noise behind
[00:32.56]That New York trash heap
[00:33.90]Where the stench of commuter
[00:35.25]Briefcase replaces a bad sleep
[00:37.01]And it＇s worker zig-zagers
[00:38.77]Versus piggy batch flashers
[00:40.14]Training Generation Fallout
[00:42.08]Waterfall bricklayer pincushion crawl out
[00:44.97]There＇s smoke in my iris
[00:46.53]But I painted a sunny day
[00:47.88]On the insides of my eyelids
[00:49.34]So I＇m ready now
[00:50.66](What you ready for)
[00:51.58]I＇m ready for life in this city
[00:53.46]And my wings have grown
[00:54.20]Almost enough to lift me
[00:55.57]I＇m a dinosaur with Jones Beach in my hourglass
[00:58.07]Passing the time with serial killer
[00:59.81]Coloringbooks and bags of marbles
[01:01.74]Don＇t tell me you ain＇t the droid
[01:03.70]That held the match to the charcoals
[01:05.05]Don＇t tell me Lucifer and God don＇t carpool
[01:07.13](This is our school)
[01:07.77]I＇m not trying to graduate to life
[01:09.82]At the curse on the lounge barstool
[01:11.59]Head in a jar on the desk
[01:12.94]Feet dangling in a shark pool
[01:14.16](Man please) Man please
[01:15.79]My name stands for my being
[01:17.23]And my being stands for the woman who stood
[01:19.23]And braved the storm could raise this evening
[01:21.02](Brother sun sister moon mother beautiful)
[01:23.38]Yeah middle sibling suitable
[01:24.53]But far from son of excellence
[01:26.18]Back in a long time ago
[01:27.94]I was to wishway the wishes
[01:29.31]But Mister Smits
[01:30.17]I slept through my appointment
[01:31.69]Saw the liquid dreams of a thousand babies solidify
[01:34.54]Rose and And picked wieldedthe
[01:36.08]The second I introduced myself as Nervous
[01:39.01]Well it appears the scars of
[01:40.32]Spokenlearning have rosen
[01:41.79]Some are burning some rose
[01:43.08]Some deserve tall tales
[01:44.32]Some have wrote them
[01:45.24]Some are devotionjust a brutal
[01:46.52]Reprocussion of botion
[01:48.00]Mine are all of the above
[01:49.44]Cuz everything leads to erosion
[01:50.88]Now where I live there＇s a homeless man
[01:52.96]He sits upon a crate
[01:54.07]He makes a rusty trumpet sound like
[01:55.69]The music that angels make
[01:57.16]Now if you ever come and visit me
[01:58.56]I suggest you watch the show
[02:00.19]Tell him Aesop Rock sent ya
[02:01.83]Just to hear his horn blow like this
[02:27.72]And I ain＇t getting any younger
[02:29.56]My knuckles wear their bruises well
[02:31.09]I＇ve yet to lose that hunger
[02:32.71]But only time can tell
[02:33.85]Prodigal Son with a prodigal wish
[02:35.67]To sew that prodigal stitch
[02:37.12]And crucify bigot voodoo doll
[02:38.88]On two popsicle sticks
[02:40.13]See your name is Ambiguity
[02:41.52]Is My name something hands can＇t hold
[02:43.50]But hearts part ocean scapes
[02:44.87]Just to watch the starlet unfold
[02:46.41]It＇s like sketching a circle in the dirt
[02:48.25]With a pointed stick
[02:49.25]Knowing the wind＇ll kill it some day
[02:50.93]Still it calls my burning wits for now
[02:52.63]And if I plow the fields
[02:53.94]That don't guarantee plentiful harvest
[02:55.81]But starving artists die
[02:57.15]I set my alarm for five o＇clock
[02:58.98]Idols block survival crops the cycle stops for nothing
[03:01.28]The Bible＇s carp revivalist winos flock by the hundreds
[03:04.83]To the opening scarlet carpets greeting their duel
[03:07.66]Leading the stubborn mule to cruel rugburn
[03:09.28]But y＇all numb fuelfrom gut
[03:10.81]I administer eclispe
[03:12.57]There ain't no motor a like martyr-made motor
[03:14.55]Cuz a martyr-made motor don＇t quit
[03:17.51]I am an epiphany I am wet foot mammal
[03:20.20]Channel surfing my way to the top
[03:22.11]Tugboat in a bottle
[03:23.20]With no holes poked in the nozzle
[03:24.84]I fed em bedlam diluted in limelight
[03:26.75]Till that rookie boogie graduated hostile
[03:29.15]And the vehicle is grandeur
[03:30.93]And it veered over the medium
[03:32.40]The second my halo ran outta helium
[03:35.00]Demoted to thorn crown
[03:36.58]Damn talk about numbskull
[03:38.23]I was born bound to a stencil called symmetry
[03:40.09]But my energy＇s a rental
[03:41.71]So I take this now to save
[03:44.38]My cute seniorita beholding
[03:45.60]A flame to a lost wick
[03:47.02]Thank you James Anthony
[03:48.47]For the band-aids on my ego
[03:50.06]Y＇all are family for life
[03:51.61]I＇ll take that bullet to preserve you
[03:53.49]I wanna be something spectacular
[03:55.60]On the day the sun runs outta batteries
[03:57.53]Attach my fashion to the casualties of anarchy
[04:00.38]Save my nickels up to buy
[04:01.95]That homeless man a brand new horn
[04:03.52]Then sit up on his crate
[04:04.92]As I witness the beauty born like this
[04:12.58](I ain't gettin any younger)