11:35 / Ketamine U.S.A. Interlude

[Intro: Aesop Rock & Mr. Lif]

We rolling now, official?

Uhuh, uhuh

Turn the beat up a little

Uhuh, uhuh

Outside the box, Lif you with me? Yeeah I'm with ya

Aright, let's go

[Hook: Aesop Rock]

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

[Verse 1: Aesop Rock]

Now Benny was a New York City graff kingpin

Five borough fame, guaranteed to itch pigskin

Raided near the Brooklyn Naval yard, juxed undercover

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

[Verse 2: Mr. Lif]

Okay, Jose is working in the slaughterhouse

And 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

[Verse 3: Aesop Rock]

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

Overqualified but the rent's thick

Red brick bash with a texted green screen

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

[Verse 4: 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 (RUN!)

Quit or cold raise hell waving a gun (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?

[Verse 5: Aesop Rock & Mr. Lif]

Billy was a coke fiend

Maggie was a cop

For the dope he stole cream

She patroled the block

Banking off his old scheme

She recognized his plot

He thought he was home free

She knew that he was not

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

She pocketed the crack before they got far

Billy watches Maggie from behind steel bars

Like "Where the crack went?"

"I'ma smoke it tomorrah"

[Verse 6: Aesop Rock]

They call him Larry Luck

Blackjack, big spender

He was married once

Till he bet her ring finger

Seen 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 with in an hour

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

And was immediately shot to his death over debts

[Verse 7: Mr. Lif]

As Colin died, his mama cried

Then the EMS arrived

Said that he could be revived but they lied

Afterlife realized that water from the skies

Washes pain from our eyes so our hopes could rise

[Verse 8: Aesop Rock]

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

Bum touched girls looking young enough to thumb suck

Once sought a life thought it right to rat him out

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

[Verse 9: Mr. Lif]

Ted did 20 years for growing 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

[Hook: Aesop Rock]

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 January 21st some shit went down

[Verse 10: Aesop Rock]

I got one Jack or Jill

Jill won't, Jack will

Jill didn't, then did it

Jack fell

No cellophane secrets, b

I guess I sense two felt bumps in the tar

No cell

But hell, you jump the bar so well

Parted your partners veil and dipped

I'm New York harbor

Tale of a sail, ripped sorta

Stuck on purpose for tha love of birthplace

But would have carried you home inside of my teeth anyday

Turns out I wasn't cast in the master plan anyway

He holds no grudge, holds his tongue, wow

Same one she used to hold in both smiles

Dagger the instinctual last shout if it killed me

So you can ride up into the sun city guilt-free

One year passed, the table is wobbling and your hollerin' back

Sippin the fits you skip when shit cracks

They never missed it

Not a long haul, bullshit, kids kicked into the sink

Shoebox, with a flicks of lipstick

I'll love you forever, cuz you know me better

For the record, at one time, would have married you in a second

But kill the rekindling dreams, and navigate the friendship

Or else by the time the stress airs out we'll both be dead and friendless