Ruby '81 Lyrics - Skelethon - Aesop Rock

July 4th 1981,candles of a Roman ilk 

Unloaded from a chevy truck 

Into the home her folks had built 

Patio was charcoals and extended fam in folding chairs 

Safely arced around the yard to focus on the smoking flares 

Couple cousins, uncles, aunts, mostly grown-ups, couple brats 

Baby Ruby's only two 

She's too close to the jumping jacks 

Mommy scoops her to the house 

Buckles up the booster seat 

Rolls her to the storm door 

Let her long for all the lunacy 

Telephone distracting Mom 

Ruby wriggles out her strap 

Fingers push the plexi-glass 

She's off into the sour patch 

Past the pyrotechnics undetected and invisible 

Woke the sleeping beagle skipping toward the kidney swimming pool 

Off into the yawning blue 

The splash would mum the rocket-ships 

Ruby's lungs were filling by the time her kin were cognizant 

Many sprung and sprinted down 

All arrive belated but 

The beast she had earlier stirred had been alert since waking up 

Canine let his gainer fly 

Water top commotion grow 

Howling guests assumed the cloven hoofs had come to do-si-do 

Frenzied and congested deck 

Part to let the elders see 

Soggy beagle gently dragging Ruby in his yellow teeth 

Laid the tiny body in the sun before her Father's feet 

When she choked the liquid through her bluish lips he dropped his knee 

Helped the air to reconvene 

Towel his shaking Ruby off 

EMT confirm the save 

Everybody say 

"Good dog!" 

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