Aesop Rock - The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3 lyrics

I could make 'em all dance, or I can sleep
I can walk with a limp and
Make your step feel incomplete
People are made of match sticks
Life is bred of flames
Noted the craft work bore the last
Smirk of the Damien mainframe
My boxcar siphons third rail
Juice from lost poets
Inhabit ocean bottom with a bin of
Rotten scapegoat pardons Note to self:
Don't bargain at martyr parliament rallies
Where participants squeeze in last giggle
Then widdle sacrificial finales
I can tie my bootlaces alone
Save the knee deep offerings
Sorta brings you coughing bunk
Persona to light
I might, Build anti malignant
Railroads, find you, and lay tracks adjacent
Just to scream "fuck off" as the
Engine pulls out the station
What should we do with
A thousand drunken sailors?
"Kill 'em all, locate their family address
Release a mailer: "

(Dear Sir or Madame
Your son or daughter's embarrassed humankind
Consuming booze and gut-fuel
Till their cruise had crossed the line)

I spin gold he bats a dirty lash toward the
Nursery class act impressionable bubble
(Y'all could've been more subtle when
Polluting paradise gene puddle)
Man, huddles make us look like cool peeps
And I'm trying to school sheep
Toward the right idea, see ya
This basic divine subsidiary buffs
Gunner syllable logic, fold origami
Plantation shut
Does this picket fence hang on
To your dreams kitten?
You'll probably never hear this song
Let alone sip the mission
Long enough to listen

(I smoke cigarettes down to filter
Smoke the filter down to space
Now I'm gonna roll this question tight and
Smoke that shit up in your face
Now if you were to alter masks
Every time fame circus approaches
Do you really think your
Maker wouldn't notice?)

Okay, I've died a thousand
And I'll die a thousand more
I leave footprints in fours, two for bipeds
Two more to break the door
You can practically caress the utterings
Of crushed by drudgery
Brothers and sisters mothering
Stickler cabinet, mad and shit
I'll fix your wing for a penny and a parable
Yeah, but this friendship sunk with a
Barrel full of tarots pulled
Snake eyes harbor bad shiners
Then wonder why the cauldron sitting
At the their rainbows ending
Rocks garbage bag liners (garbage bag liners)
I sat to breathe adam and Even
Without the Apple seed's useless
(I sat to breathe) Bashful boredom crafts
A castle out of toothpicks
(I sat to breathe) I
Breathed too hard nearly
Metamorph castle loose pins
Now I stand to breath as
Not to disturb the plumage
And I know that sob story
It no longer turns my stomach
Hollering wolf in the form
Of one frustrated culprit
Caught a love tap full of washed up stardom
Melted trying to milk it
Win a ticket to ride white
Lines highway sideways knelt it, smelt it
One love to the rungs in my ladder
One love to the gathering of
Laughter baths that hung from my rafters
See the jackal met the badger
They were both such fucking bad asses
That clashing wouldn't make sense
(hence my tape deck)
Now I ain't gonna name names
And I ain't gonna drag others in
But I ain't about to say that I'm
The only catch you got bubbling
You're lucky
Somehow you've managed to befriend
Some good people
Who will sit and soak the evils you secrete
But why? I'm not really sure

(Knock knock fuck off kicking his
Lip across the floor
'til the archival vinyl venom soak the lure
Anti-clarity mechanism spit flattery burners
Fusing a million majesty murders
Then stole your crown)

Oh wait, that's right
You discovered me right?
Offered up the peace pipe then oh
It's all cotton candy when
Aesop rocked a b-line
He's acting foolish left in the
Middle of laying bricks
(but we weren't building nothing but a great
Wall around these stones and sticks)
Oh and for the record I've been rhyming since
Me and Andre thought we could freestyle
Built foundation out passion and
Brother's dusty Tascam
Studied dope rappers, vocab expansion, poems
Syllable placement
You just mad because somewhere in
There you came and went
(And I ain't the type to dwell) Dismissed
It as casually non-compatible and bounced
Obtained status where I
Could straight objectively
Critique your after projects like
'Oh that sounds fresh' or 'Damn
That shit is garbage
What happened? I'm not even laughing'
Yeah, but the barriers were broken
(you choked) you choked a few comments to
The wrong Vulcan who
Out of respect and honor leaked your program
Now like were
Both trying to sit and breathe
Another dawn so my advice
To you is when I say "move on" just move on