Aesop Rock - How to Be a Carpenter lyrics

So you want to be a carpenter, do you?
Well it takes more than a hammer, boy
You're gonna need blueprints and
A will to build, and
Straighten your cap! you look like
You've been through a war
Wipe that grin off your mug
You got a sturdy frame?
Sluggish posture just won't cut it
You're gonna need schooling, and, and
And take notes!
And god if I catch you yawning again you're
Gonna regret ever asking for my help
And dammit you gotta hustle
This is a slacker-free zone
And, where's my pencil? Go get your hard hat
Here's a nickel
Go get us a ruler and a saw and
A drill and lots of graph paper

Yo i used to have a rope ladder


But tattered were the rungs
I strung it from the highest willow
Trying to hug the sun
The seventh level buckled and I
Tumbled from the summit
Now I'm back to re-climb and this
Time light my cigarette from it
My stitch in division
Division warfare's numb enough to
Soak suddenly in a
Bullet bath and skip stones in the morning
Is a flying color phantom tantrum explicable?
Sit and pull the petals
Off wild flower patches, magic happens!
Behold, pity the lowlife parish?
Doom City barracks left remorse coursed on a
Horse-drawn carriage by the torch of Polaris
To the badlands
Where every bridge collapse right
Where the crowd stands
Where the witches are fireproof and
Every preacher's a madman
Frigid be the appleseed demeanor towards the
Bay where the landshark Parliament swims
When they pause to polish they fins
The better brains will preach the
Village through the city square
To the light
Heavy and middle-weight integrate
Slept with sticks and stones in my pillowcase
Ooh my born flight simulator picks
Barnacles off the tugboat belly
Left my spirit home in a
Shoebox in case I die
Got a rugged smoke-green halo floatin'
Inches off the swamp
Had that phase when the deviltry contacts
A sparkle in my eye
Now step back from the reservoir
And let the settlers drink (Right)
Salvage all priorities and iron out all kinks
(Okay) my house ain't made of bricks and
Straw but never has it crumbled (Why?)
Cause I stitched the brain's
Rigidity with symmetry
Come visit me, it's fascinating

Now here's how it's done
I'm only gonna show you once
So pay close attention
Hear me now or hear me never
Glue your little eyes to the diagram
See the plywood, the nails
The glue? You work every inch
Your domain and you must treat it well
Keep it clean or it'll swallow you whole
Where's the T-square, hand me the pliers
Now dammit, oh, this will never do!
You have to want the castle, head Up
Shoulders back be the materials
Know your limit's only to break your limit's
Are you listening? God dammit boy
Pay attention

Try it again, little bit more juice this time
Try it again, yeah
A little bit more elbow grease this time
Try it again, concentrate
A little more focus this time
You can kick and scream and yell but
Damn I'm only tryin' to help
Try it again, you're not doing
It right, here now, y'all watch
Try it again, stop sulking, I'm
The example, for real, watch
Try it again, I'm bout to make
It easy for you y'all, just Watch
You can kick and scream and yell but
Damn I'm only tryin' to help

As if it didn't sting enough
The hunt dispatched a pack
Of wild dog silhouettes
All sulking by the skyline
Focused with a bonus hunger pain
My sincere addiction imbalance stems
From a vintage grimace slap to the muck of
Ancestral branch camped on the vessels
Yes and I abide
The laws of the hidden desert survived
And every peasant present teetered it
On the crescent less deprived
With the exception of pleasant finale binges
On the great endangered interests
Of phantom brigades slaving to
Save that princess i double the negative
(Double the negative) , to no avail
No promised benefit's
Just delegates peddling pairs of negatives
With magnified magnanimous appearance sandy
Sinners in opinion shut
Now what of the madness fragments? Stagnant
How to make a vision sing while
Twigs cling to your pigeon wings
Fission militia, indent bent to split blood
In hell's kitchen sink
Organize civility simpleton citizen mixers
Then kiss the sky in unison
Sinister city-blistered corporate hooligans
All I really want's a nickel
To feed my little pig
Redefine big dig, three cheers to the product
Consumer populace feed but never
Dreamed of the process
On a slanted advantage point saw the
Makeshift criminals date rape the hostage
Dream away the plain pain
Yeah but it seeps through the cracks
And drips from the ceiling and smells
The rich scent of my tracks
All I ever really wanted was a jungle
And a jungle I got
See it ain't the vision it's the
Plot that makes me stop

Try it again i don't want to
I'm not even interested anymore
Try it one more time