The Bars Volta - Intellectual

[Intro: Chaz]

Yo, put this in the bible

[Verse one: Chaz]

Nimbus in the air -

Dick to god - fuck the sky up

Ichabod rappers

Lose their heads like it's ISIS

Make up competition

Just so we could Fight Club

So why trust? -

Liken us to the Right Stuff

[Verse two: Austin]

Yup, with three clicks

The G6 a spaceship

We go gorilla biscuits -

Oh, we're going ape shit

Look like an Animorph

When I start to shape-shift

Since the cameo of Cannibal Corpse

In Ace Ven-

-tura Pet Detective

Calling all our jungle friends

I blast off with caps, stalks

And fungal stems

Ride the lightning -

Let the thunder rumble in

Mumbling 'til I hover

In a bumble Benz

Look -

I'ma be honest

I've got a gang of Tanqueray

And an eighth of bubonic chronic

You and your dames looking plagued -

Make it hot and polished

Hell, even I get hot and bothered -

My demonic sonnets are bomb

Atomic - and I'm a con

For common knowledge

A Kamikaze with goggles

Katanas, and bottled tonic

A modest amount of goddess

Is God in itself so frolic

Inside of Ms. Piggy -

Kill it, shouting, "Avada Kedavra"

From your spot in the Milky Way

To our neighboring galaxies

Ain't playing make-believe

Favoring fallacies

Can't lay to peace

In Valhalla with Valkyries

But I'll lay for the weekend

Vague in Vegas with Valerie

We tailor the tapestry -

Cut a rug 'til we're concave

She's co-dependent

On Coricidin and Bombay

I only cheef on Khalifa -

The weed is Pompeii

And I'll ash the day

I fall out with the Enclave

[Verse three: Chaz]

Check your Pip-Boy -

I'm a classical actor

And bring the hits, boy -

Austin produces them after

You swing and miss, boy

I'm on a passionate matter

So that's a kick, punch, block

Like Parappa the Rapper (Hawiyah!)

Yeah, I happen to be rapping

On the side of my real job

I'm getting paid to act in movies

When the reel's on

There go the fishnets

Like the reel's off

Thar she blows

When I pull up with my riel lot

[Verse four: Austin, Chaz]

That's real talk -

We'll learn to convert the currency

A world tour

Is our aspiration currently

Get aggrivated

'cause our talent's next to Curren$y

And still, these motherfucker's

Sleeping on us in the current sea

Of media -

And that's as wet as she gets

She's my main thing -

Beyblade - letting it rip

We on the same page -

Maintain several tricks

You be the plain Jane lame -

Nimbus better than this

Like it's from heaven we're sent -

Extraterrestrial men

We're from another planet -

Gave the reverend for Lent

We send the message mentally -

I'm bending dimensions

And sense the devil's the end of me -

Not pretending to vent

I'm just beginning to touch down

On some of these facts

Corner pass it to Chaz

And then he's running it back

Hit the corner and pass

Until the end of the half

Nimbus Nation ain't gang banging -

We throw yellow flags

At Grand Haven State Park -

Big waves at the beach

Maybe at the skate park -

Fuck around 'til I bleed

Thoughts of bombing down Five Mile

When thinking 'bout my trial

Been living the lifestyle

Since late in my teens

Now every day of the week

I slave and stay on my feet

When I sleep, I wake and bake acres -

Raking the leaves

I'm a native to the lake -

That's what made me a chief

You're a hater to the greatest -

That's what made me achieve

Or maybe I ain't the greatest

But maybe I'm in denial

See, I do this for my nephews

Avion and Asile

So they can get into college

If they be on for the while

As well as the icy rocks -

Glaceon in the wild

[Verse five: Chaz]

And that's the evolution

Of two kids in the game

That's how you end up with stitches -

I put that brick in your face

I told you to have patience -

Now I'm lifting the wait

My future and past

Present the gift of today

And now I'm riding the wave -

There's nothing right in the way

Just watch me barrel through this barrel -

Roll and die in the wake

Piece of pie and the cake -

Fly Hawaiian to Leie

I don't think I'll ever change -