Aesop Rock — Wise Up

[Intro] (Now hear this) It's big Aesop Rock (Now hear this) [Verse 1] 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) [Hook] 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 [Verse 2] 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) [Hook] 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 [Outro] 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