Aesop Rock, Vast Aire - Nickel Plated Pockets lyrics

Yo (Alright Ok)
Can I get a quarter or something?
Little hungry, you know what I'm saying?
(Alright Ok) homeless
I need a loosey, yo (Yo)

Walk into the store with a
Pocket full of nickels
And a city full of horns, jackhammers
And rape-whistles
The alley cats manipulate the
Blocks with gutter magic
Today my heart beats only out of habit
Check it, it's like my man Jus used to keep
An ox between his teeth
Said he could spit it with pinpoint
Accuracy if there was beef
We chuckled out loud
Still the thought of it intrigued me (right)
So now I keep a jackal under my
Tongue to spit with related reasoning


The earthworm turbulent murder burnout Gerber
Baby no-brainer memoir stardom
Alarmed, pardon the old buzz deader
Robert Crumb ugly dumb image
Barely sprung fairly numb grimace
Nearly cut cherry blood spicket wrists
Back in high school (now it's like)
Slide, with a millipede pedagogue pirate
Navigates city sump systems, urbanite
Turbines, twisted Pistons
Termites that infect sturdy grillage
There's roaches in the pillars, spillover
And crawl across commuter-clean
Wingtips and loafers
It's the theme park I built
Pocket full of nickels for cigarettes, gum
And milk bitterness, love, and violence
I'm writing a petition to have
Smoking as a sport
In the 2002 Summer Olympic Games
(wanna sign it?) now look
I jux' germs draggin a gavel knee
Deep in a maggot hatchery
Operation capture flag by any means
If this means anything at all
Anyway it's a riddle
Walking to the store with a
Pocket full of nickels

Ay uh, yo excuse me (Ay Yo) yo
Can I borrow a dollar or something?
(Ah sorry man) Nickel? (Sorry man
I can't help you out dog) Quarter?
Something, man? (yeah I only got enough for
Like cigarettes and shit man)
Alright man, I see how it is (I'm straight)

Walk into the store with a
Pocket full of nickels
And a city full of World
Trade Center victim candle vigils
There's anthrax in our mailboxes and
Xanax in my tummy
There's a single Spanish female out
West traveling the country
Freak of Fantasia leak laser
Major running bases
Neighborhood watch weasels pace in ugly
Acres more than often if I ever make it big
I'm gonna build a skyscraper
Tall enough to piss on Cloud 9
Egos from my corner office
You can't pull the plug on a catapult (nope)
I toss a nickel to a bum's
Cup from twenty paces thumbs up
Got twenty ways to tell you shut the fuck up
Nineteen of 'em are 24 bars long
The other one goes (shut the fuck up)
Animatronic daddy long legs stay grimy
Up in your zoning wall
Gobbling villagers trying to hide
Behind the windmill
I joust riding pig back through subway
Tunnels with a third rail lance
While most still try to
Penetrate the alligator glance (It goes)
Back of the class
Throwing pencils at professors
It made the Barbarellas giggle
That's when life's pleasures were simple
Now it takes a dancing bear
Jumping through flaming hoops
To even make em buy the god-forsaken single!
Thou shalt not desecrate the soothing spiral
Offered by a classic cut to vinyl
Find that in the Bible!
Miter saw militia fix ya up
How bout a pyramid shaped torso
With your hollow numbskull balancing on top
Now if you gotta rock a gas
Mask outside of your own apartment
You could pretty safely quote Shamar
Life's ill, sometimes life might kill
Sometimes prayers dwindle
Walking to the store with a
Pocket full of nickels

Yo (ay what's up man?) Yo can I ohh
No never mind, man (I can't help you out man)
Asshole! (Yo man, I'm trying to help myself out right now)
Fucking asked you for a loosey
And you turned me down (Dog, I'm sorry dog)

Walk into the store, same pocket
Same nickels in a city where every crack
In the sidewalk's a symbol
Where there's crack in the basement
Where there's krakens and slave ships
Where there's crack whores and corrupt pigs
Killing cats trying to crack cases
My boombox runs on a baboon heart transplant
(This is hell)
I got a poltergeist on a leash
Trained by Carroll Ann herself
Two Thousand something
When technology ate it'self glutton
Every move I make's from a robot
Gepetto pressing a red button
It's Vietnam in the fumes
So I run with cannibals that
Bite the hand that
Feeds cuz it tastes better than the food
The prickly outer shell's genetic
It helps defense mode
But it also helped to fuck up
A couple of sacred friendships
Watch a six legged insect crawl out
Of the billy goat beard
Watch a sick makeshift bitch threat fall
Out when the filthy smoke clears
Watch the insect's stinger sting threat till
It has sweat a bullet
Sweat a full clip, sweat a
River, dead the bullshit
Sail away and wither
You're the kind of cat that
Rolls a pimped out Caddy
Dropped with rims and limousine
Tints bumpin Enya insert laughter here
I wanna rap a lot and
Stack cheddar by the fistful but for now
I walk into the store with
A pocket full of huhh

Excuse me, man (alright ok)
Can I can I borrow a
Dollar or something to eat?
(alright ok) I'm i'm hungry
I'm saying yo (alright ok, Look at that)
I'm homeless, man
(Look at that bum, alright ok)
I fought for this country, man (yeah)
Sleep on park benches starvin'
All I need is like a loosey
And like a sandwich or somethin', man
Wiping my ass with the Daily
News man c'mon man sleepin' with squirrels
(Oh my god
What are you doing with that squirrel?)