Aesop Rock - The Mayor and the Crook lyrics

No more pencils, no more books
I built the city out one brick
It had a mayor and a crook
I made the crook stab the mayor
Then slay himself in the guilt
I stole the brick back
And migrated east, now, let's build

Every tenderfoot cadet bettered
Slit-throat percentages
Chicken penmanship tied the thirteenth knot
(Hangman) i arrange panoramics of a placid
Cataloguing where wild dogs
Sing tailor made lullabies tried
By my offspring
I'll bring the butterflies and he
Can bring the centipedes
And she'll bring the cadavers set 'em
Free and let 'em feed
The deviltry penciled me in
But I slept thick through my alarm clock


Silly Billy hid in the barn
While farmer charmed the crops
And I'm a warden my tongue is full of glass
Because I promised my friend I'd
Chew up the bottle
If he truly drank the poison
I'm alienating the mating dance of
The higher, ire based, tired-faced
Miser made God clones
We can manufacture medicine
Patent the five digit slide
Clock the essentials in
(I'll be a bill collector)
My destiny's resting with red worms
Chewin' off the carcass anyway
Let me slay artists for tips
In the penny tray
By the way if that diamond ring don't shine
That's cause I bought it at the
Five-and-dime but don't neglect the sentiment
I'll pedal my tricycle through the
F-5 logistics of a twister
Soaked in the religions of a nit-picker

No more pencils, no more books
I built the city out one brick
It had a mayor and a crook
I made the crook stab the mayor
Then slay himself in the guilt
I stole the brick back
And migrated east, now, let's build

If I botched the operation I apologize
(Sorry) the err's rooted in carbon
I'm but a mortal archer parked
In amber waves of starlets
I'm fresh out of Gepetto's woodwork asylum
See the frame, wire-bound knuckles
Let a tug of the puppeteer steer my hustle
Now when a page becomes a squire, be engaged
Clap your wings
When a noble's demoted hope it
Don't sucker-punch the colony
But when the catapult releases lease
Your claims behind the bunker
And fasten stinger pageant results
To the public eye (Glory hunter)
Is it genuine enough to feel, baby felon?
Negotiate comradery or wilt
My dismal little little loom
Purged urgent with dirty
Dominion monitor boxes
Hovering inches 'bove pertinent urchin toxins
(Now) You ain't excused from table side
Till the dinner plate's spotless
Slurping' liquid happy citizen enhancer
I got this slicky sycamore handshake
That mimics digit splinter entry
Thereby filtering citizens tin man
Prior to axe descending (Tight)
Cats know the ambiance
Calm beyond comparison
Captain passive spring loaded serenity
I'm trying to give this city acupuncture
Shovin' one-way pins in subway systems
Standing up where I'm landing'
Now that a runway victim (Push, push)
Nature's gone batty
Spreading spore legitimate
Slice the bishop, sever the ties
Splinter the kinship
See every now and again I love
Life but hate to admit it
Cause it spreads the jinx
Upon a sleeping cynic

No more pencils, no more books
I built the city out one brick
I had a mayor and a crook
I made the crook stab the mayor
Then slay himself in the guilt
I stole the brick back and -

I'm quadruple six plus scruples
Category mayhem stems
From one overlooked scene including loopholes
When Christ studies the return ramifications
I'll burn the campus to impress him
Then rock like Medusa glances
Who ran the final mile
Before the blanks blown?
Home alone sipping beetle juice
Just to numb it
Then shimmy the needles loose
I built a castle out of fifty-two cards
Plus jokers, wit, and image
Modern theory charges while remaining
Harnessed to the vintage
I'm valid hypothesis honoring Occam's Razor
With a seam sewn via fatigued knuckle work
(Labor) i've patched the little leakage in
The shell around my greed
In case Tommy Turbulence located
The Matrix that impedes whistle me a dirge
Falcon boogie burst classic
Bastard repellent fell in haunted
Machines screened by similars
Got beckoned like a suicide king
To the dagger surface
Due to one queen who lodged her
Faith inside a broken circus
Me and my stargazers from the
Woodwork serve the furnace
Omit the discoloring on the lung
Then stung the serpents
I cherish the Ferris wheel's revolutions
It's not because the ride enthralls
More simply to the fact
That it still revolves
Nursed in a bracket of televis
Plastics and saccharin (well)
I oppose mass panic
Thoroughbred fantasy cadets pose with
A latch key demeanor
Returning to find a home vacant with
No similars to compare days with
Let's build!