Prosperity

By Aesop Rock

On Float

Released on September 5, 2000

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[Intro]

Sulking in bulk and a half, sulk in a laugh, crash test

Figure the mixture's digging up his last breath

Grief leaf thief briefly turned chieftain

The tap water is on the waters off the waters leaking


[Verse 1]

So this is blue?

My frame reportedly sparred in garden variety burners and lost to normalcy

My terms the memoir, obligation the bookmark

Crystallize impurities to zero on the...

Autocrat derby catapult sponges, my hunches hurling murder abundance

Lunches where the city sump is pungent, (Curdling!)

Tomorrow sits on what the sin/consquence merger brings

To bubble up along the edges of precious child fantasy broken, broken

Hi, my name is Hazardous Tobacconist (Hi), hung on the brink

I purge a dirge and spit my lung in the sink

As for the product, well it's wrenched in a barren backward wasteland

Of shimmering moral tension adventuring to blossom pleasant

I've done it all, from pixie dust to cramming pins in voodoo dolls

And ninety-nine dreams linked on the shooting gallery wall

But it's like, not a wave crash similar to last or next

Heckle me not already doctored by regrets

Rain (rain)

Belligerent fragments bond massive

Usher in the pixels 'til the image burn classic

Bliss in a barrel and motivation in a basket

Imma cast it out to sea and wait for my karma to grasp it (Well!)

I left my crutch over the rainbow with my riches

And I know the rat race of the bad taste once its grimace cringes

See, an iron butterfly will float if given good condition

But I'm still fishing the same worm from the same faulty position


[Interlude]

(Prosperity)

Sorta makes you think


[Verse 2]

I'm a Tomahawk I walk alone and miss the bliss

Inside the accidental meeting of the pencil and the seedling

And the central started beating

Breathing at a rapid caliber

I doubt if her allotted grace will last forever more

Dusting off a dream to be an autopilot

Still a silent understudy. Funny how the opposite will throttle

And the different stroke and model to the prison

Is an accurate portrayal of inadequate betrayal of a wish

Gonna-wanna-coulda-shoulda-woulda didn't

Isn't it amusing choosing

Yet a plan is hibernating

Waiting till the mating dance of motivation took a fine position

Dishing only after every little kiddy has performed


[Bridge]

I just wanna be a general he said

I just wanna, I just wanna be a general he said

I just wanna, I just wanna be a general he said

I just wanna, I just wanna be a-

I just wanna sleep


[Verse 3]

Oh, Eidolon, Capitol Crush

Gallop my chariot burning and awful enigma

Sprung by the sling of David to pierce gutter bug batch prior to hatch

Dismiss it as a soul cadets' excuse to decorate maps with thumb tacks

This gold star product pushing hate boogie themes Enter the smoke screen

Blazing saddle remnants alive analyze pensive

Connect all picket fences like chain gangs linked digging trenches

To candy land image factory. Sold

Oh, I wanna be an astronaut, I got the merits and heart

And I bought a starship with hard earned money from one hour selling dreams to dummies

When they raised the lights:

Ja-ja-Jesus Christ! I've never seen so many goblins in my life! (Oh, my lord)

Migrate through the fog and then some

Dragging bitch circuits on a short leash like organ grinder primates dancing for bread crumbs

Well, did you touch that slugger?

Banging on the table with an old tin cup, thin luck

I can raise the dead while the shocked settlers fled the blaze

Sprung out their bed of nails to spread the sails, racing for milk and bread

But I got (big) big plans. I ride a big boat with a big ol' motor

And I'm not really that big on helping you turn your leaf over

(Let's sing)

Bring out your dead, I got a pile sky high

(Let's sing)

Run if you're miserable, saw the planet fly by

My name is "Try to deny the magnificent doom craft my ragged soul built

And I'mma show you why this fucking globe tilts"


[Outro]

Take me where the air is clear

I don't really know where but I know its not here and

Every little step she takes makes me spin

Cause I know I'll never have to ever sleep alone again

Take me where the air is clear

I don't really know where but I know its not here and

Every little step she takes makes me spin

Cause I know I'll never have to ever sleep alone again

Take me where the air is clear

I don't really know where but I know its not here and

Every little step she takes makes me spin

Cause I know I'll never have to ever sleep alone again