Released: November 10, 2014

Songwriter: Rob Sonic Aesop Rock

Producer: Rob Sonic Aesop Rock

[Intro]
I consider myself a daredevil

[Chorus]
It's 4AM
It's-It's 4AM
It's 4AM
It-it-it-it-it
It's 4AM
It's-It's 4AM
It's 4AM
It's

[Post-Chorus: Aesop Rock]
4AM, short of breath
Patient zero, hoarding pets

[Verse 1: Rob Sonic]
Drinking his omelet, timing his meds
Morphine drip, get a fix to the flesh
Gripping the edge of the ledge of the place
Where he gets to be met with the end of the day
Left of the face is a table, a tray
TV Guide with the guy from The Fray
Or maybe it's Clay, Anarchy's son
Regardless, the farewell party's begun
Party of one, you start in the breach
Birthing a burden shouldering me
In tonight, the rest of the rat fam
Round and round like the death of a Pacman
Life of a salesman hiding his text
John Wayne couldn't even stand the rein of my ex
Later I'll just go with phone tag
'Til the court tells me "Sure" now row the boat back
Hold the stoge pack and get with the fall
With the beehive hair and the rest on his bald
Head held high, Family, no joke
Grown folk broke at the antique roadshow
Can't breathe right in his nose are bleeds
In his wing they singing ring around the rosary

[Chorus]
It's 4AM
It's 4AM
It's 4AM
It-it-it-it-it
It's 4AM
It-it's 4AM
It's 4AM
It's

[Post-Chorus: Rob Sonic]
4AM, pouring sweat
Patient zero, courting death

[Verse 2: Aesop Rock]
Use your illusion and move as a wounded gazelle
On a moonlit future in hell
I'm a loser, room with a view to a stupor
No real room to acutely maneuver
A shoe, nevermind two in a sequence
He get down to the root of the defect
Peep, cruel is a pool full of deep ends
Prove an immovable defense
You in the beautiful breach
Unusually moody and losing the beach head
Rats in the wall tap out drums
An amassing of non-retractable claws
This old man, he plays actual odds
On these detachable jaws
Not for the faint go moshing the paint
Cold dime in the day by impossible day
Frog town creep in a sensible car
No caution or obvious sense of tomorrow
Spit shake might stick or break the right nicely
Or instigate tonight's crises
Sample the you scream, I scream
Break if his eyes go widescreen

[Chorus]
It's 4AM
It-it's 4AM
It's 4AM
It-it-it
It's 4AM
It-it's 4AM
It's 4AM
It-it-it
It's 4-4-4-4-4-4AM
It-it-it-it
It's 4-4-4-4
4-4-4-4
4-4AM
It's 4AM

Hail Mary Mallon

Hail Mary Mallon is a hip-hop group comprised of Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Wiz.

The group met each other in the ‘90s and began working together on Definitive Jux–the record label EL-P owned at the time. Aesop and Rob collaborated for the first time on Aesop’s 2005 song “Winners Take All”—the two went on to become close friends. Aesop explained their bond in a 2014 Rhymesayers video

We started joking around. Which is kinda what-kinda a lot of what our bond is was just like being funny to each other.