Sage Francis - Climb Trees lyrics

Sun set and sun rise I'm
My own personal light show
Flipping switchesmoving from basin
Bottoms to plateaus
The Earthmanipulates it'self beneath me
I stand stillstagnate can't
Killthis lagged state

Lifemanipulates it'self around me
But I'm dead still uprightbut dead still
Word is still borni will not stoop to the
Level of the stoop that y'all chill on
If the building's boarded up and
The children of the corn
-er Liquor Store don't want to
Kick it no more
Because holes have filled the wall
Sneakers are scuffed & toes have become sore

I saw y'all walk from the hood of tough luck
Yeah, if these walls could talk they
Wouldn't shut the fuck up

Jump in your pick up truck
Drive from the mountain range
Cash the chips in on your shoulder
Cut your losses, die young, count the change
How strangeyou think these
Clouds look lovely?
Smoke signalsmanipulate themselves above me
No symbolsare below me enough to overlook
I know you read my every move
I wrote the book

Mind not the blemishes that are on my
Premise endlessness is my "to be continued"
Notice the nervousness in my
Footnotes when being interviewed
Shaking uncontrollably "How you doing?"
"Not badhow about you?"
Brought it right back to me like
"What've you been up to?"

I don't talk to freaks i even ignore
My neighbors who live down the stairs
I walk the streets and they don't know
That I'm famous in 2000 years
So I say shit loud in their ears and
I spit a wretched verse in their face
Disrespecting their personal space
In a split second
Curtains and drapes get closed
They think they've shut me out
But I can see their ugly mouth
In the shape of "O"s
I'd break their windows with a stone
That has a note attatched
That says "I hate Jim Crow
And here's a poem to let
You know the haps: "

"I've got a golden axe and
I chop cherry trees down
Dead to this world bury me now"

I am from a distant place that sit's and
Wait's for my belated time to come
But it's too late I've missed my
Fate i "F" with the deaf, blind and dumb
My father taught me one thinghow
To fire a gun
I don't botherthis is survival for fun

I have become the most
Sinister sin city clicker
Cynical dim witted trixter
Critical shit grinning hipster
Whisperto my earholetell me not to be fearful
Be careful not to make anysuddenmovements
Show me your solei like to study shoe prints

You've stepped to me before! I
Can recognize them stubby toes!
I left them guys with bloody clothes
For a second timenobody knows
The pain I've seen nobody knows
The pain I've seen
Nobody knows why I've got a bloody nose
Or how they made it bleed

Climb treesgo out on a limb
To find meforget about him
Forget about hymnswhat are those
Psalms that you sing
What are those songs that are
In your head echoing

I am not here to make a change i break chains
I break dance moves and move Strange -
Strange Famous is infamous for
Inflammatory mission statements
Living in basements with subterranean
Secret service agents
With little patience a pediatrician
Who hate kids
Women's lib is getting choked to death
By their own baby bibs
Baby, did you know I love
Women who hate mankind?
I talk about it all the
Damn timekeep it comin' HUH!

"i i i i i i
I i i hhhhaaaaaaaate meeeeeeeennnnn"

This conversation is mine i own all
The stock in boring small talk
And I've trade marked this facial
Expression called the "gawk"
So fuck off i dis functions souped
By ninjas and hockey fights
While discussion groups infringe
Upon my copyrights
All them bitches want me tonighti've
Been so great and respectful
They only get salty when I bend them
Into the shape of a pretzel
I make them flexible when I break
Their schedule it only got hard
When I asked 'em politely not to
Fight me and to give upgod
Damnthis is easier than I thought it would be
They'll attend any party and not fight it
As long as they're invited cordially
Unfortunately, I've only got so
Many hundred openings but talk to me
I want to take you all under my broken wings

Who's the right man for the job?!
Put up your hands y'all because I'm not
Tall enough to stand up to God

Who's the right woman?! Throw up
One handand wave it now