Aesop Rock - Mindful Solutionism lyrics

25 million years ago, a friend of mine
Made a tool from a stone
And defended his tribe
It's technology, sorry for the technical term
It's a wheel
Then a fire and the rest is a blur
Throw a theorized plot in the
Pot with applied science let it sit
I bet it streamlines your environs
What's a resource local to the grotto
The method isn't free until
The mechanism follow

That's technology, innovate a difference
A feat of engineering
A system made efficient
There isn't a condition, complication
Or revision where the answer ain't to build
A more sophisticated widget
Idget, tired of games, Bronze Age, Iron Age
Weaponry in stellar form
Shelter finer by the day
Live stock and vegetables in
Rows behind the hideaway
Mesopotamia out the muhfuckin' lion cage

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

You take a lever and a pulley
And a winch and a wedge
You get a labyrinth of
Aqueducts and pyramid steps
Before the Jesus
Archimedes on that miracle tech year zero
You could feel the future rearing it's head
Put a shoe on a horse, shoot a man with a gun
Steampower, bifocals, and mechanical funk
Manipulate electricity, no it can not be done
Yes it can
Ain't a dam that could cancel the flood
True to human curiosity
At the tree of knowledge
Pulling genies out of bottles
Stealing from Leonardos
Plane train auto, hauling space age cargo
Bizarro technology, everyday is tomorrow
Telegraph, telephone
You could flirt with Doris
In Poughkeepsie from a cozy
Geodesic dome in Sydney
You can write a letter with no paper
You could fix anything with a laser

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

You could get a robot limb
For your blown off limb
Later on the same technology
Could automate your gig as awesome as it is
Wait it gets awful
You could split a atom willy-nilly
If it's energy that can be used
For killing then it will be
It's not about a better knife
It's chemistry and genocide
And medicine for tempering the heck
In the projector light
Landmines, agent orange, leaded gas
Cigarettes cameras in your favorite corners
Plastic in the wilderness
We can not be trusted with the
Stuff that we come up with
The machinery could eat us
We just really just love our buttons
Ummm technology, focus on the other shit
3D-printed body parts, dehydrated onion dip
You could buy a jet-ski from a
Cell phone on a jumbo jet
T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y, it's the ultimate

If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag
Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat

Now that is a powerful cat