Aesop Rock - 11_35

Some cats grow by the laws of the wild

Some learn slower and lag in the mud

Some stand up in defense of a style

Some let the big dogs eat them up

At exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep sound

At exactly 11:35pm on Januray 21st some shit went down



[Aesop Rock]

Now Benny was a New York City graf kingpin

Five Borough fame guaranteed to itch pigskin

Raided near the Brooklyn Naval yard, juxed an undercover

When they asked him what he pled he said, "You're fuckin' up my colors!"



[Mr. Lif]

Okay, Jose's working in the slaughterhouse

Said he's living in the hood, but he wants to get his daughter out

Slipped off a ledge, and fell into a machine

Another dead immigrant, that's the American Dream



[Aesop Rock]

Miss Molly, helpless, made a penny with a data entry temp gig

Overqualified with the rent stick

Red brick bash where the text print green

Like, "I entered my data right into your screen"



[Mr. Lif]

Jane went insane, she's an anchorwoman

Sick of pushing skewed information

And abusing the nation

Had a few options:

Either jump or run

Quit or cold raise hell, waving a gun

Time for C-H-A-N-G-E

Held a knife to the VP on TV

She demanded that the format be expanded

Beyond fair, everybody clear, understand it?



[Aesop Rock]

Billy was a coke fiend

[Mr. Lif]

Maggie was a cop

[Aesop Rock]

For the dope he stole cream

[Mr. Lif]

She patroled the block

[Aesop Rock]

Banking off his old scheme

[Mr. Lif]

She recognized his plot

[Aesop Rock]

He thought he was home free

[Mr. Lif]

She knew that he was locked

[Aesop Rock]

Now it's off to the jail in a blue squad car

[Mr. Lif]

She pocketed the crack before they got far

[Aesop Rock]

Billy watches Maggy from behind steel bars

Like "Where the crack went?"

[Mr. Lif]

"I'ma smoke it tomorrah"



[Aesop Rock]

They call him Larry Luck

Blackjack, big spender

He was married once

Till he bet her ring finger

Seen him leaving Las Vegas

With a pick up truck, diamond

Fourty large, and beautiful wife piece

Less than what he came with

hitched to the crib found nickels in the couch

Hitched back to the casino within an hour

Said "I'm here to make a dollar out of fifteen cents"

And was immediately shot to his death over debts



[Mr. Lif]

As Colin died, his mother cried

Then the EMS arrived

Said that he could be revived but they lied

Afterlife realized. Water from the skies

Washes pain from her eyes so her hopes could rise



[Aesop Rock]

Now, J.J. punch drunk, acts like a dumb fuck

Bum touched girls looking young enough to thumb suck

One sought the light thought it right to rat him out

Now gets raped by Aryans in the big house (OUCH!)



[Mr. Lif]

Ted did 20 years for rolling some weed

Although he used to snort coke and dabble with speed

Welcome home, homie, here's a blunt with hash

They said you know the rules, bitch, take two and pass



Some cats grow by the laws of the wild

Some learn slower and lag in the mud

Some stand up in defense of a style

Some let the big dogs eat them up

At exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep sound

At exactly 11:35pm on Januray 21st some shit went down



[Aesop Rock]

Jack for Jill

Jill won't Jack will

Jill didn't, then did it

Jack Fell

No cellophane secrets

But yeah I guess you sensed bumps in the tar

No cell.

But hell, jumped the bar so well

pardoned your partners bail and dipped.

I'm New York harbor tail

of a snail

ripped

Sort of stuck on purpose for the love of birth place

But would have carried you home inside of my teeth anyday

Turns out

I wasn't Master Plan anyway.

He holds no grudge

holds his tongue.

While.

Same one she used to hold in both smiles.

Dagger that instinctual lash out if it killed me

so you could ride off into the sun,

Silly,

guilt free.

One year passed.

The tables wobbling

and you're hollering

back

sipping the fits

you skipped

when shit

cracked

I never missed it.

Now the long-hall

Bullshit kit's

kicked into the same shoe box

with the flips and lipstick.

I'll love you forever

'cause you'll know me better.

For the record

at one time would've married you in a second.

But killed the rekindling dreams

but navigate the friendship or else

by the time the stress

air out wheel both be dead

and friendless.