6b Panorama Lyrics - Singles - Aesop Rock

I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw... 

sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeons 

a vagabond begging for three pennies and a princess 

a junkie tourniquet surgeon urging the needle in 

a batty senior citizen flashing that awful teethless grin 

I saw a corner store merchant rest on a milk crate with a stog' 

a pierced nose, a model with a stalker, cheap hooker, jay 

walkers 

a table on a sidewalk with four old men slappin' dominos down 

a city, a village, a neighborhood, a ghost town 

I saw vandals catching tags and Puerto Rican flags 

I saw a pregnant woman on the verge of bursting (boom) 

I saw a blind man with a dog screaming 'someday I'll see it all' 

and then he sat down with his hammer and saw 

business men with multi-colored ties, cashmere checks 

a nazi with tattoos on his neck, a Vietnam war vet 

a Caucasian man with a limp and a cane, a pimp with his names 

a thug circus, a pack of shook tourists hugging their purses 

I saw freaks with rainbow streaks in dayglo hair 

a mother smackin' the grin off her child, replaced it with a 

stare 

a pothole, a storefront with a broken open sign 

a hole in the wall bar kicking drunks to the gutter, it's 

closing time 

I see a f**k up, a bum knuckle up with a taxi driver 

a squatter, a grandfather, an angry right-to-lifer 

I can see the roof garden on the apartment across the street 

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and kick myself because somewhere along the way I lost my seeds 

I see a rat, a roach, a bat approach, a happy student 

a black man with a horn and a will to make you sit and listen to 

it 

I see a little girl on the corner with bubbles, braids and 

barrettes 

I see a teen mother with similak pacifier and regrets 

oh, a day turned stale, a hammer with a rusty nail, a failed 

marriage 

a universe of brick buildings slightly off balance 

a challenge, I see a chance to add real colors to my favorite 

palette 

raise my mighty mallet towards the gods and swing my talents 

I see a crack in the sidewalk 

a slide show of six civilians gripping bottles of gideon 

sitting inside bent meridian 

there's a fun house ooh, a sun spout 

spraying yellow beams above yellow back dreams 

and children in the hydrants 

tyrants(?), I see sirens 

the wall to the glamor standard 

a dead bird, a bent curb 

a bus stop of commuters waiting to have their souls towed off to 

work 

I seen the slap dash habits of bike messengers paws 

and hug that good leaf on the way to damaged packages, 

dependence 

oh my lord, I see bandwagons, all aboard 

a carnival amusement park where a heart is a luxury 

I see a gas galaxy huddled behind those pearly doors 

maybe I should sit up on my fire escape a little more 

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