Commencement at the Obedience Academy Songtext
von Aesop Rock

I fell asleep again, I wasn′t ready for it

The harvest appeared less plentiful than last season
I imagine sloppy seed handling evoked a stroke of tardy planting
And the crops we'd have harnessed mid-November
Had only brushed the blossom bracket then soon sacrificed

Lives to icicle jackets when the frost hit
I sunk to find the warmth beneath the mosses
With a plan to tunnel pass after the rains had run their courses
But alas the portraits of these frostbit corpses tortured in the grass

Offered this torch supporter one tall glass and nauseous
And I′m asking you: Why's the spy supply hiding in strangers
When they know atop these food chains I could spot biters for acres?
Now be gracious, these minstrels turn the bully cycle civil

By dissolving the candy coated image down to the pixels
The upbringing of self-styled freedom brigade investors
In their studies connecting one hit wonders with dust collectors
Puts it down
It's down beneath your sappy sing-a-longs


So lets take it further down
We′ll let Dante decide which ring I′m on
Nova
The elders took positions the fans marched
Parched, plain and steamed hawking the rain in my canteen

Now I'm like point:
I guess I could spare a splash for a couple of heads
Counterpoint: During my famine I never got broke your bread
Well, equation of intrigue, yes, yes

Lemme fence-sit for a bit
These tense lips need soaking before I hand out tokens
Shut the fuck up
Drama like kabuki with a heart of dirt
Skull fucked cross bones hence my birth
It hurts

Must not sleep, must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I milk my habitat for almost everything I want
Sometimes I take it all and still can′t fill this pitfall in my gut

And I'm like must not sleep, must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I′m trying to walk on top of sunshine
But it's ridiculous at times that′s why I'm touring with this warning


Wanting the glory of our advance
Fire ants to water beetles
Free masons adjacent debasing on pins and needles
Pupil turned pedagogue, benediction to my dream
Beaming a billion bottle rockets off the golden mezzanine
Check it
I pluck the petals off a classic blood rose one at a time

Gripping the stem in right, invite the thorns to dig up in my lifeline
It's a metaphor for night-time
Ante up the slight cost of exhaustion
To salute the moon above Paradise Lost
And you′re a spectator scrinching
Inch by sacred inch shoveling coal in my earthworm soul
Burrow up through the dirt with bloody digit
Lick my knuckles clean

Noting the corporate clusters holding hands round the abode of the damned
Now what′s your poison?
Starlight and amaze her with a nicotine chaser
Sip it clean savor the taste then sit and dream later
The islands pivot back upon their hinges
20 miles across the glassy-eyed windows of wonders to passers-by

Now I'm six-foot-four with a sixth-floor walk-up just to recline
With no free time, the alarm storms at nine
My daytime′s on some, "Yes sir. Okay sir. Right away, sir
Sir, do you mind if I breathe, sir?
Oh, you do? Well excuse me, sir, fuck you"

I breathe slow, I'm running with these fantastic amalgams
Painting casket bound careers to pierce gunning with plastic albums
Security′s the javelin, catch it
Labor
Clocked in at '76 and haven′t clocked out ever since

Must not sleep must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I milk my habitat for almost everything I want
Sometimes I take it all and still can't feel this pitfall in my gut

And it's like must not sleep must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I′m trying to walk on top of sunshine
But it′s ridiculous at times that's why I tore ′em with this warning
Feel it it's like

Must not sleep, must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I melt my habitat for almost everything I want
Sometimes I take it all and still can′t feel this pitfall in my gut
And it's like

Must not sleep, must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I′m trying to walk on top of sunshine but it's ridiculous at times
That's why I′m touring with this warning
Feel it, it′s like that