Time Capsule

(Aesop Rock)

Dear then, I'm writing from the now

Trying to steer this crooked zen somewhere else and warn your crowds

The current date somewhat irrelevant, I can't see through this cloud

Wish I could say these bunk samaritans boogied to make you proud

Spawned a thousand grand objects dot daughters

But these fathers bothered only to harbor pain in the nostrils

The sparkle in they iris fell to earth

Dissention of the jackal hybrid overloader, draped over the curse

Now from the sunniest of meadows to the bummiest of ghettoes

Every man bloodthirsty buzzard behind sweet hummingbird hellos

And its portable mayhem that stems from every premise and it's burden

And it's the result of sheep refusing to be herded

Radio, television mixer, hand cannons

Ying yang, the worker ants war dance for carjackin bandwagons

And I preface my apologies with a buckle that latch up, soldier

Hoping your professors counteract their predecessors

I know my job and bully my heart into every token tossed

I wish I had a penny for every word that I spoke and lost

Some cats never soaked the right elixir

Oblivious to the wild dogs procreate well beyond modern man's victors

And I'm done, I just completed knot thirteen, it's sliding well

My neck fits to perfection, I hung it inside my cell

It's in your hands now, closed eyes, pick off fools departing

Leaving you this letter and this worldwide fucking mess, I'm sorry

(Illogic)

I thought, therefore I was

A man-machine with chrome hands holding plans to expand the scene

With eyes wide shut, I wasn't surprised to find this mind of mine behind the mask of time

Crushed glass altered the path on which

Bare feet would skate, foiling all attempts to escape hell

Due to sliced soles, I left blood trails for land sharks to follow

Easing the pain with capsules to swallow

Resting on civilization's peak, tasting the climate

Creating a ladder, attach it to weather patterns and climb it

Shattered the sunlight, scattered in the nights so the sky can't find it

Now how's that for a game of hide-and-seek?

My body walks, but my mind's asleep

So when I dream I think

Therefore, reality is surreal, and destiny's a fantasy

Fate is an illusion, when life becomes a canopy

When poems occupy catacombs on display for clones who fell prey

To delay on microphones, into each page of text, my heart is sewn

So when the seed is planted and domes the harvest alone

Is an interpretation of excellence

Where pesticides abide to ward off the weeds from gardens of negligence

The sharpness of rhymes stabs pen til it bleeds

Drenching the paper that clothes each body the souls

When the sun hides in the folds of the horizon

You know these three celestial silhouettes standing on the seas, crying

(Vast Aire)

I daydream like, part of my mind stays in space travel

From the top of New York to Ohio

Back to the lower Eastside to crop circles

And ciphers we recommended the first one's to hurt you

You babblin, doggie paddlin, in a shark circle

And the outcome's about to become horrible

Like the teachings of Hannibal Lecter

Who taught me how to kill a man with just one lecture

But the times have changed and so have the seasons

And rhymes have changed and so have the reasons

This rap's ready to remove clouds from the sky's cleavage

(Best believe it!) If it ain't broken, best leave it

There's still a part of me that can't see it

But tries every single sunrise to retrieve it

Atom stepped on the scene, shortly the balance beam tipped

Leaving times multi-ripped

Who said it's time to relax? It's time to react

And don't get trapped in an endless cycle

Of minutes and seconds, runnin laps around you

Do you wanna change time? Or let time change you?

So we left a precious capsule

So in a hundred years when you find, this you gotta rewind this

It's an evolving compliment, like we all came from fish

Like we all came from fish