Aesop Rock - Wise Up lyrics

(Now hear this) it's big Aesop Rock
(Now hear this)

Metropolitan, grab bag apocalypse
Maggot patch is swallowing the
Traps baddest columnist
Big vision, tiger soul, anonymous alacrity
And pulse
Held together by a beached bucket of bolts
I’m here to bleach masker lust
And touch false allegations
Where the born-agains and pagans claim
The same corner store pavement (pavement)
Silence and the needle pin hybrid
Bought you this reflecting pool to school
You on my underlying bias now if
I polish off the poison with a sip
I know my orphanage massive will
Help you lift my casket
With the drip of this B-positive
And ominous last cackle


Bury me beneath the cherry tree bough
And run for the castle (I'm one propaganda)
I'm one propaganda speech ahead of televised
Recognize-life-cycler, too deep to
Stop and decipher
We cross-section a vision every genus dreams
Something obscene with
Syncopated, simultaneous land
Speed achievement (drench)
Drench! River dance your way
Through bed and breakfast
Blemished predetermined destiny checklist
(but first check this) well I was born upon
A swiftly tilting galleon
Circling sloppy pseudo stigmatic pity-me
Sound system servers (oh god)
We the dicky dawn left
Handed scribbles of god
Approached gruesome by drunk
Buddy system twosomes
One attacked sternum turned
To vaporized minor (c'mon)
The second in turn circled
To confirm the fertilizer
And I'm one of a small tribe
Camped in a rubber stamp facility
With best friends like utility who
Needs these instabilities of mine
You wanna hold that grudge that's fine
In fact let's both hold grudges just to
See who's stubborn and who budges
Well I'm the stubbornest bastard this
Side of four dimensions
And I'm here to build this picket
Fence around your frigid lenses
I ain't ever known a potion as potent
As zen to mend a broken friendship
I'm saying don't get defensive

(Now hear this)

Wise up, rise up, size 'em up
Line 'em up against the wall
It goes run, walk, crawl, wise up
Wise up, rise up, size 'em up
Line 'em up against the wall
It goes run, walk, crawl, wise up
Wise up, rise up, size 'em up
Line 'em up against the wall
It goes run, walk, crawl, wise up
Wise up, rise up, size 'em up
Line 'em up against the wall
It goes run, walk, crawl, wise up

I barely know myself, man
And you barely know yourself
But I don't claim to know yourself
See you claim to know myself
I barely know myself, man
You barely know yourself
But I don't claim to know yourself
See you claim to know myself
I barely know myself, man
You barely know yourself
But I don't claim to know yourself
See you claim to know myself
I barely know myself, man
And you barely know yourself, man
But I don't claim to know yourself
See you claim to know what I am

And I hear you recognize the jeopardy
Finally shepherd me
Honoring the touch of pure peasantry
I've been harboring presently
Tough as nails
Tough enough to sail through broken ballads
With a pinch of foul demeanor
Inching forward through your outlets
(fuck that)
Fuck that, I grease burden incredible NOW!
Couldn't even offer concept minimum wage
Let alone benefit grace wait wait wait
Let's make all paper dolls line
Up in size order
Just to gaze in amazement upon
A short fuse getting shorter
(getting shorter)
Basic upheaval laced with logical absurdities
(c'mon) stolen promise lacking witness
To the burglary i'm sharp
See yesterday I seen upon the target face
Your bargain basement dream
Attached with thumbtacks, so I arched
Boogie bullseye upon that dim
Excuse for group effort
Triple thin oxidized box cutter
Lost lamb ecosystem, dribblin' on my person
You see my version of
Ruler don't include underlings
Thumbing through yellow pages for a future
Today I strike a match adapt tragedy
Tomorrow humankind's logic pistons
Crash and burn the next day procreation
Becomes annual formality
I guess it's once a kid, always a kid
It's just some kids'll never learn
I pack my bags and steadily
Trudged out the door
Off to secure my legacy in
Bread and water blizzards
I couldn't feed the masses with more fishes
Yeah but I can force feed 'em wishes
And I'd rather be hungry with
Desires than bloated and tired
(bloated and tired)
It goes keen cohorts condense at high noon
To force every rattlesnake to
Beat the dead horse (horse) aesop Rock
Premiere dysfunctional grief citizen
Of course, I'm headstrong
But even stronger in support
Man I've been there done did this and that
(Aight?) i've been the engine all the way
Down to the railroad spike
It isn't pretty, walked in sober
Staggered out dizzy
Take this lesson as a key
To that life mystery

(Now hear this)

Wise up, rise up, size em up
Line em up against the wall
It goes run, walk, crawl, wise up
Wise up, rise up, size em up
Line em up against the wall
It goes run, walk, crawl, wise up
Wise up, rise up, size em up
Line em up against the wall
It goes run, walk, crawl, wise up
Wise up, rise up, size em up
Line em up against the wall
It goes run walk crawl

We're runnin' and we're walkin' and
We're crawlin' and we're wising up
We're runnin' and we're walkin' and
We're crawlin' and we're wising up
We're runnin' and we're walkin' and
We're crawlin' and we're wising up
We're runnin' and we're walkin' and
We're crawlin' and we're wising up
We're runnin' and we're walkin' and
We're crawlin' and we're wising up
We're runnin' and we're walkin' and
We're crawlin' and we're wising up
We're runnin' and we're walkin' and
We're crawlin' and we're wising up
We're runnin' and we're walkin' and
We're crawlin' and we're dead