Released: April 29, 2016
Songwriter: Aesop Rock
Producer: Aesop Rock
[Sample]
I see how y'all be trying to front, man y'all be fronting, man
[Verse: Aesop Rock]
Been a bit since Mu died
Been a lot more loss in the wake
I recall thinking, "Someday
Someone's gonna say it's all from the same cause and effect"
And I just couldn't fathom
Blaming a whole new page on a made-up chain reaction
Each claim individual peaks and pockets
Pains and a slew of unique nuances
Nahmean? When you wake up 8 years non-responsive
It's a lot to process
Gone from a happier jack-in-the-box
To a package of clogged up chakras
Oh shazbat, not the "ever after" he wanted
From the "once upon a time, "dot, dot, dot
Once upon a time he was so much more
Than a punchline for his own potshots
Ah, Watch the Impossible Kid
Everything that he touch turns promptly to shit
If I zoom on out I can finally admit
It's all been a blur since Mu got sick
None of the subsequent years stood a chance
Whether you his moms or his mans
Whether you his pops or his girl
I was poison, heart full of canines, head full of voices
Whole life trying to quiet 'em down
Like a suicide king with a knife in his crown
Hounds at bay, but they just won't stay
True friendship in a tugboat way
A go dark in the face of the fucked
When the fucked was a friend I was basically done
Into the woods go his alien tongue
It was that or a textbook faking of funk and I can't
Here go the hindsight
8 years been one long blindside
I could pinpoint 7 more turns that occurred
'Cause he never really healed from the first
Oh what a world, any hack is a myth
Any dap is a joke, any map is a trick
Any graph is a hoax, ease on down
I'm burning up, I'm bleeding out
Knowing ain't half the battle
That's a bullshit quip written by some asshole
You can own what you are
And still sit around stoned in your car
Not doing shit, halfway to nil
Cranky and waiting for a boss key and hat full of bills
Get out the car, Aes
I see how y'all be trying to front, man y'all be fronting, man
[Verse: Aesop Rock]
Been a bit since Mu died
Been a lot more loss in the wake
I recall thinking, "Someday
Someone's gonna say it's all from the same cause and effect"
And I just couldn't fathom
Blaming a whole new page on a made-up chain reaction
Each claim individual peaks and pockets
Pains and a slew of unique nuances
Nahmean? When you wake up 8 years non-responsive
It's a lot to process
Gone from a happier jack-in-the-box
To a package of clogged up chakras
Oh shazbat, not the "ever after" he wanted
From the "once upon a time, "dot, dot, dot
Once upon a time he was so much more
Than a punchline for his own potshots
Ah, Watch the Impossible Kid
Everything that he touch turns promptly to shit
If I zoom on out I can finally admit
It's all been a blur since Mu got sick
None of the subsequent years stood a chance
Whether you his moms or his mans
Whether you his pops or his girl
I was poison, heart full of canines, head full of voices
Whole life trying to quiet 'em down
Like a suicide king with a knife in his crown
Hounds at bay, but they just won't stay
True friendship in a tugboat way
A go dark in the face of the fucked
When the fucked was a friend I was basically done
Into the woods go his alien tongue
It was that or a textbook faking of funk and I can't
Here go the hindsight
8 years been one long blindside
I could pinpoint 7 more turns that occurred
'Cause he never really healed from the first
Oh what a world, any hack is a myth
Any dap is a joke, any map is a trick
Any graph is a hoax, ease on down
I'm burning up, I'm bleeding out
Knowing ain't half the battle
That's a bullshit quip written by some asshole
You can own what you are
And still sit around stoned in your car
Not doing shit, halfway to nil
Cranky and waiting for a boss key and hat full of bills
Get out the car, Aes