Mayor And The Crook Lyrics - Aesop Rock

No more pencils no more books 

I built the city out one brick 

I had a mayor and a crook 

I made the crook stab the mayor then slay himself in the guilt 

I stole the brick back and migrated east, now let's build 

Every tenderfoot cadet better they be slit-throat percentages 

Chicken penmanship tied the thirteenth knot (Hangman) 

I arrange panoramics of a plastic catalogue 

And where wild dogs sing tailor-made lullabies tried by my offspring 

I'll bring the butterflies and he can bring the centipedes 

And she'll bring the cadavers set em' free and let em' feed 

The devil tree penciled me in but I slept thick through my alarm sock 

Slick Willy hid in the barn while farmer charmed the crops 

And I'm a warden 

My tongue is full of glass 

Because I promised my friend I'd chew up the bottle 

If he truly drank the poison 

I'm alienating the mating man to the high ride, base tied 

Face mine's and make God clones 

We can manufacture medicine 

Cut into 5-digit slide clock the essentials in (I'll be a bill collector) 

My destinies resting with red worms chewin" off the carcass anyway 

Let me slay artists for tips in the penny tray 

By the way if that diamond ring don't shine 

That's cause I bought it at the five-and-dime but don't neglect the sentiment 

I'll pedal my tricycle through the f-5 logistics of a twister 

Soaked in the religions of a nit-picker 

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Chorus 

If I botched the operation I apologize (sorry) 

The air's rooted in carbon 

I'm but a mortal archer parked in amber waves of starlets 

I'm fresh out of Geppeddo's woodwork asylum 

Cedar frame, wire-bound knuckles 

Let a tug of the puppeteer steer my hustle 

Well when a page becomes a squire, re-engage, clap your wings 

When a noble's demoted hope it don't sucker-punch the colony 

But when the catapult releases lease your claims behind the bunker 

And fasten stinger pageant results to the public eye (glory hunter) 

Is it genuine enough to feel baby felon 

Negotiate comradery of wills 

Hows this my little loom 

Perv surgeon with dirty dominion monitor boxes 

Hovering inches 'bove pertinent urchin toxins 

Now y'all ain't excused from table side 

Till the dinner plates fly 

Slurping' liquid happy citzen enhancer 

I got this slicky sycamore head shaker 

Mimic stitch and splinter entry 

Thereby filtering citizens hit-man prior to acts descending (tight) 

Cats know the ambiance calm beyond comparison 

Captive, passive spring loaded serenity 

I'm trying to give this city acupuncture 

Shovin one-way pins in subway systems 

Stand up where I'm layin, now that a runway vic (push) 

Made you go batty, spreading spawn legitimate 

Spice the bishop, sever the ties, splinter the kinship 

See every now and again I love life but hate to admit it 

Cause it spreads the jinx on a sleeping cynic 

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Chorus 

I'm quadruple six plus scruples category mayhem stems 

So one overlooked the scene including loopholes 

When Christ studies the return ramifications 

I'll burn the campus to impress him 

Then rock like medusa glances 

You ran the final mile before the blanks blow 

Home alone sippin beetle juice 

Just to numb and then shimmy the needles loose 

I built a castle out of fifty-two cards 

Plus jokers with an image 

Modern theory jars us while remaining harnessed to the vintage 

I'm mad at how far this is dishonoring Occam's Razor 

But it seemed so being fatigued knuckle work (labor) 

I've patched the little leakage in the shell around my greed 

In case Tommy Turbulence located the matrix then impedes 

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