Aesop Rock - Troubled Waters lyrics

You replicas overlooking the
Guidelines of acoustics
Miserable attempts result in
Miserable conclusions
Paragon Pendragon tactician on free-form
That uncomfortable
Silenced pride of combat cliques
That unexpected zephyr, the cyclone shifts
Worked up, you're shooken jutted to the side
I stagger this vagabond wandering
Minstrel forms your phobia
Worst fear the terror-stricken muted
The roots of all evil I've rooted pinnacle
Poised with pride pouncing to
Break your stride, forsaken
Agony rides inside the
Heartache wretched condition
My intuition felt you slip up
You tripped alone what are you aiming for?
Or the useless tries to classify your genus
Distorted fetus evolve, type unsolved


You lack the malediction
Malleable martyrs get molded
Then folded under pressure
Dowsed with scenes of slaughter suspension
Bridge over troubled water drown
Sound study intensive
My square drops to erase
Your lines like Tetris
Relentless agent hush horrendous circles
On my pavement
Two sticks to burn basics that
Lie adjacent to my placement
On the game board
Lunge forward and wind up impaled
By the same sword choose your weapon
Stains splattered upon your flag
Tattered rag shielding the exterior inferior
Stall face to face with a
Forms that force your downfall
Admittedly suspicious of your cadence
Your network's on hiatus
Permanent, provoked and choked
Upon the potency
The peril be the penetrating
Agent pierce the insights
Why the cold sweats at midnight?
Why the dim light? Why are we staring at a
Truth from the inside?
Why the pen slide with vigor on a put down?
Like why'd I put my foot down stomp your city
A-E-S-O-P scoping through the myrth
Opening minds behind the smirks

Only in my sweetest dreams do
My streams lack troubled waters
Babbling brooks with babbling crooks
Only in my sweetest dreams do
My streams lack troubled waters
Shallow pools full of shallow fools

I've seen misery
I've seen disgust dust ridden ruins
Ironclad oracle test recon
Unit disperse silently
Over confidence leads to irony
Plot twist foolhardy Icarus shifted in
Facets of my form
Forbidden aspects of the swarm a
Thorn upon your side
A storm upon the rise, Adam
Ire crush come brush upon the red zone
Crook you're shook you started poorly
Your powers parted pace uncharted territory
Disoriented malicious bar you'll
Burn your bridges
This craft requires first drafts
Graphs, gritted blueprints of
Nemesis perimeter hunting by night compute
Twenty one mic salute
One life polluted, concerned muffle moans
From the nine rings of Donnie's hell
Burn you in your slumber
Sleepwalk then pulled under now
Whipping through the willows is the
Warden of this garden
Slipping through the silhouetted skylines
Aesop sidewinds jaded
Don't wind up war painted into the
Jungle the solution's not intrusion
The starving institution broke your mainframe
I pose the question
Are these waiting games worth
It or worthless?
While I comb the crowd for clues
Your naivety hands be my purpose
Our planet is the pivotal point
In which this network slowly
Turns to filter kicks
We out-box the berserk bewildered
By the wilderness
My clench is frantic clutch
Manners falling through underbrush
Touch fools that duel with a dominant
The evil-minded tried to triple six
Me but he missed me
Intervene emcees appear as red blips
On my color radar screen

Only in my sweetest dreams do
My streams lack troubled waters
Babbling brooks for babbling crooks
Only in my sweetest dreams do
My streams lack troubled waters
Shallow pools full of shallow fools