Shere Kahn

[Intro: Sample]

"And you can come and meet my mother

Any day you like; System 605, Unit 91"

[Verse 1: Aesop Rock]

I forever wallow in glitches, grimly distributed by side effects

Consumed, cocooned in antisocial trenches, drenched

Cradled between dense pillars of polar value

Lies a grey soul blueless, it's got I fiending for the sky

(Synthesized lies rise synthetic)

Sitting inside solidified plastics whose lateral burns germ-compatible

My firm's radically piloted, dodging a fire swiftly

Yellow-brick stalker walking shifty

I'm but a prototype Metroid programmed to holocaust style

While you're sulking in the stages of denial

Your petty soldiers stand fragile like Giacometti sculptures

Embedded in eremetic cultures we's rocksteady vultures

Plus I's the geyser throwing a soul

My wingspan stands flags in the snow of the poles, berserk!

Swerve my alignment towards solitary confinement and jaded

Tripping, color my passion mitigated, I'm slipping

[Pre-Chorus 1: Ann Colville]

You always seem like a small grey cat to me

Sleeping underneath the silvery moon

Paws curled beneath your head

'Til the sun came 'round just around noon

And you would greet me, purring in your doorway

Drawing at your tail around my hips

And I would go into your mouth wide open

Waiting for my language to come from your lips

[Chorus: Ann Colville]

And I'll move you, and you like it

Just enough to let me

And I hate you, 'cause you're lonely

And you know how to forget me

[Verse 2: Aesop Rock]

For the love of my personal practice I reside

Where obstructive fluxes and societal withdrawal collides

Slide fueled by the fury, spun a ring around my honor

But the opulence took shelter in my hollow

Melancholy masquerade, cast amongst the braiding of belligerence and

Blazing terror that blew the lock down off my placement

I stay special agent 'til the sky falls

Reverse the curse 'til my fellow Lost Children disperse

[Pre-Chorus 2: Ann Colville]

And your footsteps leading down the pathway

Never seem to be quite like my own

Your mind and smokey circles

Have blinded me, 'til I turned towards home

And you would watch me falling in the distance

Hands held high above your head

I only leave the territory

When there's nothing left to be said

[Chorus: Ann Colville]

And I'll move you, and you like it

Just enough to let me

And I hate you, 'cause you're lonely

And you know how to forget me

[Sample: Mike Batt]

And you can come and meet my mother

[Verse 3: Aesop Rock]

I make music and connect color to canvas

Swoop down from the trees with potpourris of other bandits

Landed randomly upon the valleys of the grimace

Saw my planet lead starts burning from the outside in, meaning your clout lies thin

Salt prep the blades prior to fire phase

In my ever-changing underworld, serate a day to decorate a traitor

That sting never fades like belly wounds from sling blades

Follow my portion, I'm gon' swallow distortion and spit the filter

[Sample: Mike Batt]

And you can come and meet my mother

Any day you like; System 605, Unit 91