Water Lyrics - Aesop Rock

[Aesop Rock] 

[Spoken] 

"I wanna be the most beautiful second coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen, but." 

[Verse One] 

The water ain't safe, the land's made of mortar 

I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her 

I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer 

But I'd rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster 

Can a run-away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter 

To force the brutal truth of daily marketplace wars through the roof? 

I mean, I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning 

And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirits falling 

But I'm sick I've plowed these fields a thousand times over 

Sold botanical research studies to farmers with whole quarters 

And when science proposes to art besides that peaceful sea 

I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally 

Take a number, the apple seeds raineth upon your slumber 

A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter 

My every whim acted upon has gone loopy 

But I play a game called let's prepare barnacle city for the end-all noosings 

I split the radius of go-getter bellies, reconnaissance 

Sleeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze 

Run for the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease 

Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop 

There's a wing in my gut and I'm all dust 

Surfing the urban Ididaride, certainly flushed 

Now one in the hand's worth two atop the tallest cedar 

But whats lodged inside my heart is off the motherfucking meter 

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[Chorus] 

And the Water ain't safe no more 

"I'm just trying to build my self to act as a truly better man damn" 

See the water ain't safe no more 

"I'm just trying to be a solid oak tree for every child to carve its name across" 

See the water ain't safe no more 

"I'm just trying to be the dream of ever peasant the hurricane can offer" 

Nah nah the water ain't safe no more 

"I'm just trying to be some body I can talk to in the morning with a smile" 

The Water ain't safe no more. 

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[Verse Two] 

And I've always been a 40 night chronologic hostage 

Rusted hook in the lip of the monarch 

Wingless Anime 

I don't play in the man race cycle 

Hope floater 

Gloating inside carnal indifference till doom cops a slot 

And potent quotas 

I'm 20 something pumping acrylic tomorrow sideways 

Blazing passage with a map tattooed on the back of the classless 

Now tip-toe across a lost cause 

Because a lost cause found 

Don't mean you found a cause 

That means you found a lost cause 

Ok now I've been here for role playing 

Slaying my here and now 

To benefit consumption for my peers steering the plow 

And it's incredible 

Handy jackets turn numerals to sentinels 

But bad apples ain't sweet 

And cretins acts ain't that memorable 

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide 

Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine 

I wear a tiger striped ego and bilbo whack my progression 

Where the kindling's formulated through the flesh of the oppressors 

Now, God had a flask I can prove it 

You really think the 13 loops that used honor 

Spawned me a sober unit? check potion 

Addressed the ghost inside my TV with a ruler 

Adhered to the back bone, stone pusher 

Here ten thousand hackers deep in the movement 

That's 20, 000 crucial ruby heels clicking in unison 

It's beautiful, truly beautiful 

I keep a stick inside my hand 

And carve my name inside every wall of the falling hologram 

[Chorus] 

See the Water ain't safe no more 

"I'm just trying to build my self to act as a truly better man damn" 

Nah nah the water ain't safe no more 

"I'm just trying to be a solid oak tree for every child to carve its name across" 

Hmm, the water ain't safe no more 

"I'm just trying to be the dream of every peasant the hurricane can offer" 

I can prove it see the water ain't safe no more 

"I'm just trying to be some body I can talk to in the morning with a smile" 

The Water ain't safe no more.