Aesop Rock - Water lyrics

It would've been the most
Beautiful second-coming of Christ
That anyone had ever seen

The water ain't safe
The land's made of water
I hug a half-empty glass my
Dignity's tryin' to pawn her
I'm tryin' to see the future in
A tea cup and a saucer
But I rather be drinkin' coffee
With my cigarette foster
Can a run-away buckle the cloud-nine
Fantasy filter to force the
Brutal truth of daily marketplace
Wars through the roof? I mean
I stood beneath the icicles that
Bleed under the awning
And magically mastered the great
Absorbing of spirit falling but I'm sick
I've plowed these fields a
Thousand times over
Sold botanical research studies to
Farmers with whole quarters
And when science proposes to art
Besides that peaceful sea
I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow
Shouting: "Finally!" take a number
The apple seeds raineth upon your slumber
A hundred thousand freaks on parade
For the village hunter
My every whim acted upon has gone loopy
But I play a game called
"Let's prepare barnacle city for
The end-all noosings"
I split the radius of go-getter bellies
Reconnaissance
Sleeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze
Run for the fountain but the fountain
Is a desert optical tease
Tummy full of sand, running man, impossible
Stop
There's a wing in my gut and I'm all dust
Surfin' the urban Iditarod, certainly flushed
Now one in the hand is worth
Two atop the tallest cedar
But what lies inside my heart
Is off the motherfuckin' meter

The water ain't safe no more
I'm just tryin' to build myself to
Act as a truly better man, damn
See, the water ain't safe no more
I'm just tryin' to be a solid oak tree
For every child to carve it's name across
The water ain't safe no more
I'm just tryin' to be the dream
Of every peasant the hurricane can offer
See, the water ain't safe no more
I'm just tryin' to be somebody
I can talk to in the morning with a smile
The water ain't safe no more

And I've always been a
40-night chronologic hostage
Rusted hook in the lip of the monarch
Wingless anime idol
I don't play in the man race cycle
Hope floater
Gloating inside carnal indifference
'Til doom cops a slot and potent quotas
I'm 20 something
Pumping acrylic tomorrow sideways
Blazing passage with a map tattooed on
The back of the classless
Now tip-toe across a lost cause
Because a lost cause found don't
Mean you found a cause
That means you found a lost cause
Okay, now I've been here for role-playing
Slaying my here and now
To benefit consumption for my
Peers steering the plow and it's incredible
Handy jackets turn numerals to sentinels
But bad apples ain't sweet
And cretins' saddles ain't that memorable
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide
Hiding the inconsistencies of man
Behind water and wine
I wear a tiger-striped ego
And bivouac my progression
Where the kindlings formulated
Through the flesh of the oppressors
Now, God had a flask, I can prove it
You really think the thirteen
Loops that used honor
Spawned me a sober unit? Check potion
Addressed the ghost inside my TV with a ruler
Adhered to the back bone, stone pusher
Here ten thousand hackers deep
In the movement that's 20
000 crucial ruby heels clicking in unison
And it's beautiful
I keep a stick inside my hand
And carve my name inside every
Wall of the falling hologram

The water ain't safe no more
I'm just tryin' to build myself to
Act as a truly better man, damn
The water ain't safe no more
I'm just tryin' to be a solid oak tree
For every child to carve it's name across
The water ain't safe no more
I'm just tryin' to be the dream
Of every peasant the hurricane can offer
See, the water ain't safe no more
I'm just tryin' to be somebody
I can talk to in the morning with a smile
See, the water ain't safe no more