Keep Off the Lawn

[Intro: Camu Tao]

Good evening

All right

Yeah

Happy to be breathing

Yeah

I am alive

Yeah

Yeah

[Interlude: Aesop Rock]

"You look like you've seen a ghost"

"You look like you've seen a ghost"

Are you asleep? Or are you

Are you awake? Nah, man, I'm done

I'm showered, I'm everything

Ate some fuckin' Lucky Charms

Let's go

[Verse: Aesop Rock]

Most copious, rains soaked the opiates

Notice how the phobias appropriately procreate

Woke up with a ghost farm, focused on his groceries

When they aren't telling stories, they are multiplying grossly

On the lawn, let 'em loiter, never let 'em spawn

The apparitions have been drinking his water for too long

So when they gathered by the birdbath in the morning, he would tell 'em

"I mean no disrespect but you have all outstayed your welcome"

Interesting in a sense

Interrupt commiserating phantoms on your picket fence

How quickly they will lift their heads

And breathe an ultimatum like the dead don't argue

Said, "You're living by the bayonet (but how alive are you?)"

Shit, A is all juice and bad etiquette

Elbows on the table, lobster bibbin' on the ready set

He said, "But how alive?", I dunno, homie, you decide

(No, you decide) Fine! How alive? Too alive

(How alive?) Too alive (How alive?) Too alive

And one by one around the yard 'til each one felt communal pride

Like they had done their little part in cleaning up the public

With a steaming plate of justice for them Easy Baker stomachs (Say what?)

We the legends that hunt with the unremembered (Uh)

Geriatric lore in the clutch of the budding censor (Yeah)

Who snuck around the art police and all related governments

To infiltrate a human lung and hike up off his tongue and lip

Ahh, money's in the market for a mothership

To double as a vessel that drag his legacy under it

And who am I to hang him out to dry by the heat

When, if rehydrating fails, we're all dumber because of me?

Zombies of the antiquated nation chatter quietly

The "Too alive" channel from the library of rivalry

And summers in the mud (Mud), winters by the tracks (Tracks)

No story goes untold, Aes is back

[Chorus: Aesop Rock]

I got a handful rockin' the same poker-face

Down to dance around the table like they own the place

"You look like you've seen a ghost"

I got the whole world thinkin' it's a holiday

'Cause they can smell the chum in the water from miles away

"You look like you've seen a ghost"

[Post-Chorus: Aesop Rock]

(How alive?) Too alive

(How alive?) Too alive

(How alive?) Too alive

(How alive?) Too alive

(How alive?) Too alive

(How alive?) Too alive

(How alive?) Too alive

(How alive?) Too alive

[Outro Skit]

Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock

Okay, really loud

Aesop Rock!

Aesop Rock!

[*Inaudible*]