[ti:One Brick Feat. Illogic] [ar:Aesop Rock] [al:Labor Days] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]One Brick (Explicit) - Aesop Rock [00:02.06][Aesop Rock] [00:09.36]I start my city with a brick (one brick) [00:13.48]Then add another brick (two bricks) [00:15.04]Brick by brick I manufacture homes for fallen angels [00:17.85]I ain't no great Samaritan that's just the way the game goes [00:20.40]Respect the polars but acknowlege middle-value rainbows [00:21.84] [00:23.61]My snout turned up from dream factory eyelids [00:25.99]Slingin bottled prosperity for the kamikaze colonels [00:28.29]Yeah rocks the match that burned the Nazi journals [00:30.98]And plottin verticals amidst blatantlly horizontal [00:31.97] [00:32.97]Models then swallowed by famished potholes [00:35.28]And I'm tired [00:36.16]Tied up on these functions [00:37.47]Killer cottoncandy clouds and huckleberry justice league [00:40.28]Another knuckle-dragger dungeon breed [00:40.96] [00:42.66]Run breathe sit bellow [00:44.16]Wild Aes scream through your style to hear the echo [00:47.21]Aight then flinch for the great granddaddy payback [00:48.59] [00:50.22]When Little Billy bought a Tugboat [00:51.47]Now he thinks he's Captain Ahab [00:52.91]Facist takes for the pegleg's birds and eyepatches [00:55.40]Learn that lesson you'll be swashbuckling with the best of them [00:58.59]Wonder why you wept over spilled milk [01:01.46]And got your crayons wet the room reaks of a thousand bayonettes [01:03.61]I'll fision vision with a lie longer than your most walked meridian [01:07.16] [01:07.70]Connecting life with that little species of midians [01:10.26]We've now officially scraped barrel bottom [01:12.88]Aesop Rock an Apple to the core but ya'll ignored him [01:15.56]I know a planet made of porcelain [01:17.62]And once I get tired of holding this gavel up [01:19.76]Ya'll prayer circles met him up born again [01:21.88]I ain't too good for tap water [01:23.69]Play"Taps" out of order [01:25.25]For a ballad corpse a dead man walkin [01:27.06]You can lead a man to a city but that don't assure civility [01:30.05]You can beat a man to death with Aesop Rock bootleg cd's [01:33.18](That's more fun anyway) [01:34.30]Some cats Float some cats don't [01:36.48]I speak in Farenheit and burn off colon lyric [01:38.79]Diss blatant harassment spit honor whistle fearless [01:41.97]Don't dismiss the billygoat appearance for that common sheep [01:44.98]Now with my trusty paperclip [01:46.35]I picked locks of thoughts vault [01:48.04]Finding the God in barren [01:49.85]The harvest fruitless [01:51.16]Only the Tree of Life flourishing [01:52.47]Wanting to take a bite but I'm toothless [01:54.09]Is that predestination or is it by design [01:56.34]That I'm trapped in time sand [01:57.35]Show radio mission control but for my rhymes [01:59.84]Man cuz I can like aluminum [02:01.53]And I recycle my consciousness [02:02.84]This is just a note [02:04.34]For any action or lack thereof as a consequence [02:05.15][Illogic] [02:05.90] [02:09.06]Wingless angels [02:09.38]Stroll a top shapeless cottonballs [02:11.87]With halos in your syringe [02:13.39]Celestial ground is found broken [02:15.02]Exposing a bottomless depth [02:15.11]Where heartless spines awake to devour [02:18.53]The small piece of your soul that's left [02:19.78]You're immersed in sound floating [02:21.52]Aimless destination [02:21.96] [02:22.77]Drop anchor to gain stability [02:24.71]Stare out potions restrain fertility [02:26.14]Pedestal talk is a token [02:27.58]Soaked in pockets with lives topics lack conceptual ridicule [02:32.02]The night breathes but light's choking [02:33.75]Darkness occupies the throne [02:35.56]Where poems are persecuted [02:36.19]The purity at times dilluted [02:37.94]Rhymes are executed [02:39.12]For genre I'm told when has-beens attempt [02:41.32]To cause heat to rise and wonder why they're trapped in cold [02:43.94]Life's an oragmi box and I'm hidden within the fold [02:46.62]So when the yarn unravels I won't be caught by surprise [02:49.50]And as society's fabric of orthodoxes dismantle [02:50.87] [02:51.62]I'll see you embracing the pentagram within this crucifix disguise [02:54.06] [02:55.73]See when the canvas stands before me [02:57.29]I'm compelled to spill a vision [02:58.47]For the sinners that listen I got three spikes and a thorned crowns [03:00.91]It seems I need a new soul cuz mine is worn down [03:04.22]But from the pregance of my hardship was born style [03:07.03]Still my pen bleeds and stains the paper with thought [03:09.96]Finding me lost among statues and mainstream idols [03:12.89]Browning in melted ice to reinforce that breath is vital [03:15.93]If your father and his father were fish out of water [03:18.18]You must break the cycle [03:19.17]How many times must a plant be uprooted for it to die [03:21.50]When it's smothered with lies that abolish the potency of the sky [03:24.45]So when the stars burn out and God replaces the bulbs [03:27.07]With a million watts [03:27.81]And throws the switch sparks filament [03:28.91]Hurting new giants and flocks [03:30.91]I stand my own two aura illuminated in red [03:33.15]Showcasing the agony held within this welded spirit [03:36.52]Sacrificing itself for the health of a masocistic culture [03:39.52]Yearning for the truth that we speak but refuse to hear it [03:42.83][Chorus]