Aesop Rock - Defender lyrics

Alex up the street called
Said he saw a bobcat
Keep the pets inside, notify your contacts

New Salem brave new voodoo
Wave a witch hammer in a
Haven for the woo woo
I'm paper china dinner
Mostly picking at my stitches
The bloody hair, bad code, bunny ears
Dad jokes bitch about Lamictal to
Whichever vixen listen
The skin rash, the schism
A million rash decisions
In truth, he had a capital T terrible 2 days
That chewed his plumage to the root
And proved a prequel to malaise
A feud he knew was brewing
Blew up in his face
He'd been replaying the scenario for days
With the variables replaced meh
Loser in the sky with more diamonds
Than the carpet from the Shining
Part riot, part Orion
We jarred a lot of lightning up
Shook a turkey leg or 10
Maybe we deserve a day of rest
Not to mention

Alex up the street called
Said he saw a bobcat
Check your trash can lids
Notify your comrades
I said, "I'll take first watch"
1 AM defend the whole block (1 A M)

The coyotes
Summon the ghosts of blown diodes
Open and moving like a
Luchador with no eyeholes
Fried while the pipes froze
Life goes Lovecraft
Christ-pose, sitting on invisible hubcaps, up
Call Alex back, daggers in the basil patch
Tell him maybe less badminton
More Scrabble Dash less Jarts more Rummikub
Whatever keep the scallywags wrapped
Up in the subterfuge gussied up, guarded
And wearing the same armor as
The night he argued
'til he dapped his mans up at departures
I could drive into a lake of fire
Pay the piper COD
Aware the pot and kettle shop a
Little toxin equally at least
It's probably more the kid than the kid
Either way a vital widget in
The system is sick
A sea of symptoms in the hinges
Hit the room all at once
All I can do is plug the roof with my gum
For now I gotta

Call Alex back, coyotes in the castle grass
Tell him, "Maybe less freeze tag
More hack-n-slash"
I said, "I'll take first watch"
1 AM defend the whole block (1 A M)

So a third party
Who is incidentally not Alex
Seen a black bear catawampus
By the college campus
Soon the safety propaganda clamps
Breeds on leashes
No compost, bird seed out of feeders
Make a lot of noise when
You frolic under the ether
Keep a hand on the pepper spray
Sneakers on the detour
They're more scared of you than you them
Although, one of us chews limbs
And one has 2 chins
So leave a couple messages
Vomit a couple dollar bills
Guilty in the window romanticizing
The potters field
Not sorry, but I never really was a leader
Found money in the speaker
Bought lower Manhattan pizza
You meet a few exceedingly forsaken
Sit around the cooler refusing domestication
Then a couple decades pass and
You can't even find the
Wavelength you was on when you
Was running 1 AM by the way

A third party, who was incidentally not Alex
Seen a bear put a thousand chickens
In a pot with carrots
I said, "I'll take first watch"
1 AM defend the whole block