Aesop Rock - Merit lyrics

Alright, I can hear the ocean in a shell
But for the life of me I've never heard
Your surges more than raindrops in a well
Paladin tribe, break beat elitists
Element five fully sold on operation
Jeopardize of my survival
Will survive when sprayed by
Heaven's liquid ammunition
I'll survive when betrayed by
My brethren's wicked ambitions
I'll survive when braided with shut
Eye sticky thickets and thorns
Born clutching a fistful
The hurt's morbidly blissful
Forms spiraling
Sovereigns bring the rise in the funnel
A chorus line of blind crazes tap the water
Find the tunnel (Find the tunnel)
As skinny click
Mechanics flock to block pick of the land
We stretch the Earth around the canvas


Drag a stick in the sand
And pan the hell out, timid, you're tireless
Bold the cold that ire spit's
Clicks subtly on supremacy
Therefore blemishe me
Oh, the treacherous penalty centers me
Renders me bait skating slalom through this
Churning murder columns
I am not entirely trained to undo the shame
And all I got's three pennies and
A rusty mic unto my name
Unto my game, defy the Siamese approaches
Whose delinquent dichotomy comps Emerald
City in wondrous novelty
Drink drum, sip a snare to
Spit a rigid sequence
That's when freak sons
Fade to black just like
These pretty pink lungs, slugger
Paper dolls' facade as swashbuckler (yeah)
Bounty hunt the front to
Document the frosh cluster
I am structure with a smoke ring
Militant distinction with a cloak-and dagger
Stagger prime directive
And all else burrows it'self
Amongst drunken perspective, fade me
I flee the scene grippin' the missing
Link like chain gang escapees

Build me, kill me
We cadets hold determination as property
Undeniably divine
We leak passion for the noise
There is not a track to cherish
From he who lacks merit

And all I think about's the motion
Exerted to color mavericks alerted
Herd a billion nervous lost child
Prodigies home to flourish (yeah)
Now taciturn facets burn open
To yield malarkey
Navigator when wrestled on fancy
Driftwood out the vessel
And I settle a conquest, stamp it
Label it fresh (Fresh)
I in turn apply policies
Which require intrinsic merit (Uh)
Try to wallow down these yellow bricks
With yesterday's appendix on hold
Spot it like sky horizon, posed as barcodes
Load your fantasy
Interject a bad dream candidly
Blue in the face
Through in the chase between
Myself and fame's embrace
Face engaging presence resonant with
Chiaroscuro atmospheric traps
Inhabit the land of denied clearance (yeah)
Pigeonholed styles, drop similar, the course
The corpse patients
Lacing non sequiturs that spittle
Off the chin (Spittle off the chin)
Upon the recognition pilot soften up the grin
Spinning me dizzy, cold
Bending my city to hold water
Yeah, we got affiliates
Cadet merit and brilliance
Cleric apparel king-thing, crooked, I shrink
I sink into my book
It's like fury blew the scaffolding
Askew and tainted curiosities
Allow the freak show to continue
Forty thieves received the cue
Commence blending a planet
Decorate the dusk like henna to hand
We unknowingly sketched the pentagram by
Sending clans of caffeinated couriers
Upon a quest to run the
Perfect circle 'round a star
Bizarre pattern with a bad vibe
Like Jafar to Aladdin
Pardon the carbon based blaze amongst
The stagnant trend frenzy
It offends me wait
Ain't it the Liquid Soul therapy?
I sip to grip a stationary pillar, yet
We slipped these boogie nights, sucked
Wattage from rookie lights, now you proud
I'ma be there when you rush in
Just to touch the mushroom cloud
Drink failure
Lord have mercy on their dreams
Pretty pixels tend to trickle off the screen
(Know what I mean?)

Build me, kill me
We consider fresh sound play to
Sink frighteningly close to extinct
My life line is an assignment to
Feed the arts my spirit and bleed, merit

The conclusion is subtle
Huddled amongst hermetic
Gutter-bugs, peasants, and drunks
Junkies to critics, sick dictators, haters
Kings to alley urchins, monarchs
Narcs to liars
Circling the wild fires, live wires
I tend to blend an action
Less than orderly in
With an otherwise uncommonly primer
To normalcy torn
These trait's fade as cadavers due
To conflicting data matter
First heard as remarkable's now
Labeled as unmarketable
Damn, thorn in my side
Now the high five hives despised
From freeing demating alien seedlings
Retreating
Burst the threshold, make the vessel capsize
Then the hollerings of buoyant survivors
Treading awoke dreaded leviathan
Deaded, headed to crunch the
World of MC etiquette
By dismantling mics prior to
Passing towards degenerates
How you like that settlement? You feel that?
A maverick like myself bottles
Will quit 'til the cocoon
Naturally peels back
This little light of mine shines
At a hundred billion times
The magnitude of every star
Within an ample sky sample
I alerted my sole crusaders
To trade the games
Prescribed them strict diets of
DDT and Kelthane
It fester when ingested, glorious vellum
Addressing helots to zealots
To Jezebel's to hellish felons
Granted my span of attention is not
What it used to be
But most of y'all delinquents ain't
Amusing me no more, kid, merit