Aesop Rock - Gopher Guts lyrics

Uh, greasy grimy gopher guts
Poolside, 0 for 1
I don't forget spoons twice
Lukewarm Folgers, mold on his moonpie
Rooms in his home that
Dissipate into fruit flies
Suicide lane wide load ride looting in
The wake of an amicable marooning
My duty go from moving in packs
To sharing food with a cat to "Ma, it's me
I accidentally sawed a woman in half"
She said "I'll keep you in my prayers
" I said "I need to hide a body"
She said "Ok, honey, talk to you on Friday"
Apparently we share a common plasma so
The growing disconnection doesn't matter
According to the blood-and-water chapter
Weird, who wrote the
Blood-and-water chapter anyway?
Probably some surly dad, only child, 30 cats
Looking for a way to reconnect
With an averted past
Except it doesn't always work like that

Today I pulled three baby snakes
Out of moss and dirt
Where the wild strawberry vines toss and turn
I told them, "You will grow to be
Something inventive and electric
You are healthy, you are special
You are present" then I let them go oh

You were sitting at the gate
Awaiting spirit's and provisions
I was privy to a
Headache over pirouetting innards
In the mirror sweating pitchers
Who's there: simian or lizard?
As it were there is a disappearing difference
In ambition and material
Antiquated gentleman outlaws reduced to a
Ferris wheel of vitriol
Move as a godless heathen:
Black gums, tooth gone
Bootleg 'Yukon Cornelius'
I'm a that's better, here we here we go
Disenchanted face printed on a
Zero dollar bill got a little plot of land
Where authority isn't recognized
Contraband keeping the core of
His Hyde Jekyll-ized
Check! Never mind a misanthrope
Vying for affection
To the wretched sound of mysticism dying
It is something he must handle on his own
The windblown way wanna win? Don't play

Today I pulled three green frogs
Out of leaf and bark
Where the grapevines climb a convenient barn
I told them, "You will grow to be
Something tenacious and exalted
You are mighty, you are gracious
You are lauded" then I let them go oh

I have been completely unable to maintain any
Semblance of relationship on any level
I have been a bastard to the people who
Have actively attempted to deliver
Me from peril
I have been acutely undeserving of
The ear that listen
Up and lip that kissed me on the temple
I have been accustomed to
A stubborn disposition that admit's it wish
It's history disassembled
I have been a hypocrite
In sermonizing tolerance
While skimming for a ministry to pretzel
I have been unfairly resentful
Of those I wish
That acted different when the
Bidding was essential
I have been a terrible communicator prone
To isolation over sympathy for devils
I have been my own worst enemy
Since the very genesis of rebels

Today I pulled three ghost crabs
Out of rock and sand
Where the low tide showcased a promised land
I told them, "You will grow to be
Something dynamic and impressive
You are patient, you are gallant
You are festive" then I let them go

Oh (On and on and on and on)