Aesop Rock — Keep Off the Lawn

[Intro: Camu Tao] Good evening All right Yeah Happy to be breathing Yeah I am alive Yeah Yeah [Scratches] "You look like you've seen a ghost" [Spoken: Aesop Rock] Are you asleep? Or are you Are you awake? Nah, man, I'm done I'm showered, I'm everything Ate some fuckin' Lucky Charms Let's go [Verse 1] Most copious, rains soaked the opiates Notice how the phobias appropriately procreate Woke up with a ghost farm, focused on his groceries When they aren't telling stories, they are multiplying grossly On the lawn, let 'em loiter, never let 'em spawn The apparitions have been drinking his water for too long So when they gathered by the birdbath in the morning, he would tell 'em "I mean no disrespect but you have all outstayed your welcome" Interesting in a sense Interrupt commiserating phantoms on your picket fence How quickly they will lift their heads And breathe an ultimatum like the dead don't argue Said, "You're living by the bayonet (but how alive are you?)" Shit, A is all juice and bad etiquette Elbows on the table, lobster bibbin' on the ready set He said, "But how alive?", I dunno, homie, you decide (No, you decide) Fine! How alive? Too alive (How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive And one by one around the yard 'til each one felt communal pride Like they had done their little part in cleaning up the public With a steaming plate of justice for them Easy Baker stomachs (Say what?) We the legends that hunt with the unremembered Geriatric lore in the clutch of the budding censor Who snuck around the art police and all related governments To infiltrate a human lung and hike up off his tongue and lip Ahh, money's in the market for a mothership To double as a vessel that drag his legacy under it And who am I to hang him out to dry by the heat When, if rehydrating fails, we're all dumber because of me? Zombies of the antiquated nation chatter quietly The "Too alive" channel from the library of rivalry And summers in the mud (Mud), winters by the tracks (Tracks) No story goes untold, Aes is back I got a handful rockin' the same poker-face Down to dance around the table like they own the place [Scratches] "You look like you've seen a ghost" I got the whole world thinkin' it's a holiday 'Cause they can smell the chum in the water from miles away [Scratches] "You look like you've seen a ghost" (How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive