Aesop Rock - Water Tower lyrics

Vita est morte est vita
Life is death is life

Found nothing but the feathers and the skull
On the porch like a present with a bow
Denizen of black earth
Gutted and uncoupled from the patchwork
Buried by a 7 year cherub in the backyard
Epitaph and all
Disciple of the cycles and sciences
Of birth into fertilized hyacinth
Life into vitamins, invited up to cypresses
A testament to moxie and
The miracle of lifelessness
It's tricky when you'd rather rot into
The soil as a nutrient
Than navigate this mortal coil in human skin
Dig?
The nuances of putrefying jelly hit the levee
When those feathers are a
Cancer in your bestie
And I pick a ginger gold as
Fed by a drunken uncle
One from a customer pumping
That Sumner blood work
Memitim ascending, settling any high scores
40 meters up with the heart
Of a high dive horse

Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
(Impossible, impossible)

Hold the fuck up who is you talking to?
Cause ain't nobody talking to you
You can't do a motherfucking thing

I told my ex in '97 I
Was falling on my weapon
Ripped the phone up out the wall
The po' would drag me from my bedroom
An embarrassing ordeal involving
Hospitals and questions
And the kind of doctors who use
Words like "cognitive" and "spectrum"
While explaining why you're selfish
To romanticize a ruse
In which unruly roots pull you to
Lucifer by your shoes I mean
It isn't perfect but don't
Misconstrue the purpose
Any urge is indiscernible from community
Service to the kiddo
Plus she'd make a beautiful widow
But that's an altruistic ticket to
A room with no windows
Hmm you'd think he would've learned
Back in the 80s
When they pulled him out of class
Over concerns about his safety
But he didn't
It wasn't cause he doesn't get the message
More he doesn't judge a man by
How honorable his death is
On a scale you made up anyway
Half past out to pasture
Whether clapped or batteries in backwards

Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
(Impossible, impossible)

Check this shit out here
Don't be trying to come all for me
Cause you is not all of that
With your fucked up haircut

I had a pet lizard, he never got an obit
Fed him crickets
It was dead a fucking month before I noticed
An older me would note
That whether disposable goldfish
Or theist, we certainly become
The earth as equals, in a circle
Unique until the spirit isn't willing
While the flesh is still a staple
Of the labor force and whistling
It's roadkill evoking emotion his
Own totem don't
That's a reality you evade or grow to own
Social code broke and a hierarchy to gasp at
Black labs over wack dads on the admat
Tabby over parasite, bats at the parish
A civil war becoming of ungovernable atoms
I'm born from the guts of
Stars and black tar pit's
Iron Maiden denim paint the
Devil under grawlix
Crawls out a clawed coffin to huff and puff
Somewhere in between the dust and dust

Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
Paint "No Rules" on the water tower
(Impossible, impossible)