Aesop Rock - Ruby '81 lyrics

Here we go, happy holidays

July 4th, 1981 candles of a Roman ilk
Unloaded from a Chevy truck
Into the home her folks had built
Patio was charcoals and extended
Fam in folding chairs
Safely arced around the yard to
Focus on the smoking flares
Couple cousins, uncles, aunts
Mostly grown-ups, couple brats
Baby Ruby's only two
She's too close to the jumping jacks
Mommy scoops her to the house
Buckles up the booster seat
Rolls her to the storm door
Let her long for all the lunacy
Telephone distracting Mom
Ruby wriggles out her strap
Fingers push the plexiglass
She's off into the sour patch
Past the pyrotechnics
Undetected and invisible
Woke the sleeping beagle skipping toward
The kidney swimming pool
Off into the yawning blue
The splash would mum the rocketships
Ruby's lungs were filling by the
Time her kin were cognizant
Many sprung and sprinted down
All arrive belated but
The beast she had earlier stirred had
Been alert since waking up
Canine let his gainer fly
Water-top commotion grow
Howling guests assume the cloven hooves
Had come to do-si do
Frenzied and congested deck
Part to let the others see
Soggy beagle gently dragging Ruby
In his yellow teeth
Laid the tiny body in the
Sun before her father‘s feet
When she choked the liquid through her
Bluish lips he dropped his knee
Help the air to reconvene
Towel his shaking Ruby off
EMT confirm the save
Everybody say "good dog!"