Aesop Rock — Water Tower

[Intro] Vita est morte est vita Life is death is life [Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] 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) [Interlude] Hold the fuck up Who is you talking to? Cause ain't nobody talking to you You can't do a motherfucking thing [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] 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) [Interlude] 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 [Verse 3] 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 pits Iron Maiden denim paint the devil under grawlix Crawls out a clawed coffin to huff and puff Somewhere in between the dust and dust [Chorus] 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)