Drawbridge Lyrics - Aesop Rock

this is not your ordinary ballad 

with a perfect little bow around the middle 

and a black man on a white horse 

or a white man on a black horse 

it's got all these tired parts where 

we don't even sing at random 

princess, raise the drawbridge 

we don't serve your kind 

it ends where it begins 

and the beginning isn't pretty 

can't forget that not-so-perfect 

bow around the middle ('round the middle, 'round the middle...) 

har-bour (???) and it goes a little something like this. 

new walk in a broken sole (???), pedigree incessant 

got (gut?) the cruddy (???) frame 

the zealots enveloped inside the belly of the blame 

cut-throats the result of pope jokes soaked in poacher constants 

and now the jewel emits cold, wander prominent. honour (honour) 

i bought up silkworms by the bucket like starter kits 

so you first bought a stitch 

joined damaged mammoth brigading caper 

nurse the tantrum with a fantasy chaser 

i keep the spare wings strapped to my fuses 

in case the hackers snatch the plumage 

so you mean these things are worth money 

now drifting off 

this is the who-you-calling-homeless 

mock me fearful 

twisted???????? and i got front row seats at the d-d-d-d-dead concert 

and you're in it, ichabod (???) 

running out of most (???) from the alamo (???) we're moseying 

my kind of people???????????????? moseying (???) 

with my eyes patched???????????? universe 

so i back it and gave my verdict (???)???????????????? 

oh it'll be soon (real soon)???????? immune to doom blends 

i eat ditch (???) in the kitchen 'til every spoon bends 

a glance along tomorrow, sorry 

looking not at hopefuls (???), where's the raindance 

my little flint never dreamed would flood unpotable 

see i sanitize nothing for the sake of contemporary taste 

contemporary taste made my lip drop in the first place (incoming) 

hmm, yo why not be a czar, analyze fallen heroics 

recognize root of the worship, search and hold it 

who put the fun in dysfunctional? i. 

chronicle sun combustible, donkey-punching pinholes 

in uncomfortables and conjunctionals for good (good) 

dr-rink up, slop a goblet of dirt wine (???), 

i nurse a single application of introvert, serpentine 

now a sunset without a scrape of red an-an-and plastic bag 

now sunk around his head (???) sick-sick-sick-sick... (???)???????????? 

the sickness likeness in the roofer's eyes and his alone 

and nothing terrible happened to the bag????????????????????... 

and brought on out... 

and clouds... 

the hiss cuts out... (???) 

suppose it's noise... 

and the piano... 

and the window frrraame... (???) 

sky and dirt that's fresh... kept 

from where i'm going... holy other 

holy other, holy other, holy other... 

b-b-b-b-b-but 

i've got charcoals in my heart, i've got charcoals in my heart 

i've got charcoals by the armfuls that burn my armor apart 

i've got charcoals in my heart, but i've got charcoals in my heart 

i've got charcoals by the armfuls that burn my armor apart 

and before, when i said 'shut the fuck up, it's none of your business' 

that was to be in vain 

you shoulda locked that up when you're all finished 

finished yet? now uhm... 

i usually finish this number with uh... my skull up (???) 

everybody rally around the novel burners, spit, murder the matches 

where the junkies trade diseases and the gullible trade passions 

then the masses wanna lean on me like 'o captain, my captain' 

not considering maybe this oarman hosts orbit attachments... 

button, button, who's got the button (???) 

take my name, please... 

button, button, who's got the button (???) 

leaks the little checker-men made out of lightning in my???? 

oh, you like to help with goats (?!?) see what i got in this here locket 

this is not your ordinary ballad 

with a perfect little bow around the middle 

and a black man on a white horse 

or a white man on a black horse 

and i can't forget the not-so-perfect bow around the middle 

har-bour (???) 

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