Dorks (Instrumental)-Aesop Rock

[00:00.971]Question: If I died in my apartment like a rat in a cage [00:05.177]Would the neighbors smell the corpse before the cat ate my face? [00:08.028]I used to floss the albatross like Daddy Kane with the chain [00:10.893]I'm trying to jettison the ballast with the hazardous waste [00:13.749]The kid is comfortably numb, routine a tedious crutch [00:16.626]Steep in a self-imposed Stockholm and Lima in flux [00:19.274]Maybe an occupation popular with demons and ducks [00:22.153]Made any mingling akin to being seasoned and stuffed [00:25.280]It's a theatre of jumping jellyfish, jealous little sycophants [00:28.443]Miserable and flimsy from the skippies to the pissy pants [00:31.583]Each one seperately convinced [00:32.880]They're sketching with Da Vinci's hands [00:34.463]Delusion turned the communication to prison camp [00:37.358]You ****ing dorks ain't a threat to the cause [00:39.453]There ain't a lesson we can learn from the ostensibly lost [00:42.356]I think it's funny when defendants from identical haunts [00:45.248]Step out the tempest [00:46.557]A measure of what the spectrum involves [00:50.244] [00:50.778]Maybe no one cares, party over here, I'll be over there [00:55.492] [00:57.047][Sample - Sweet Tee - On The Smooth:] [00:59.667]Don't need no help, all by myself [01:10.871] [01:11.132]I used to hang around with rappers at the root of the scene [01:13.729]It meant a lot to feel the fugitive community breathe [01:16.630]Maybe to sentimentalize is to be truly naive [01:19.260]I know some shit about your heroes that you wouldn't believe [01:22.383]I think we're all a bunch of weirdos on a quest to belong [01:25.022]The songs are echolocation up in impregnable fog [01:28.156]That's why it's odd to see a pile of imperfections and flaws [01:31.027]Ascend a pedestal to patronize the rest of the cogs [01:33.658]In a mess of obnoxious fantasy, posturing and pageantry [01:37.032]I ain't even mad, I'm impressed, shit it's baffling [01:39.912]God almighty, chop an ivory tower to piano keys [01:42.544]Play your own dirge on the way to surfing maggot beach [01:46.220]You ****in' dorks ain't a source of the art [01:48.045]You can't be cooler than the corners [01:49.368]Where you source all your parts [01:50.942]The poker-faced, all it takes a couple sordid remarks [01:53.831]We let the manticore out, We make the sorcery bark [01:58.813] [01:59.345]Life is so unfair, party over here, I'll be over there [02:04.324] [02:05.647][Sample - Sweet Tee - On The Smooth:] [02:08.002]Don't need no help, all by myself [02:19.486] [02:19.732]I view the rattling of sabers like a show to expose [02:22.072]Insecurities exploding in emotional code [02:25.226]When braggadocio to go from mostly jokey to gross [02:27.859]Corrode a homie 'til his probity is notably ghost [02:30.735]Before the hobby was a jobby was a miniature Hell [02:33.372]You would wobble round your momma like an infant gazelle [02:36.256]The disillusionment has truly been a difficult pill [02:39.122]But you as anything menacing is a difficult sell [02:42.257]In a whistle and bell-o-rama, black mollies that dress up like piranha [02:46.194]It's not even compelling melodrama [02:48.036]It's a comedy, somebody wanna shop you as a saga [02:51.168]I'm very voluntarily persona non grata [02:54.605]You ****in' dorks ain't the leaders we need [02:56.703]This ain't the medium for divas out to weasel and breed [02:59.313]I'm often coffee with the paupers over tea with the queen [03:02.165]Don't make him show the regency what disobedient means [03:07.118] [03:07.632]Heavy load to bear, party over here, I'll be over there [03:16.763] [03:17.289][Sample - Sweet Tee - On The Smooth:] [03:18.059]Don't need no help, all by myself