Rings Lyrics - The Impossible Kid - Aesop Rock

Used to draw 

Hard to admit that I "used" to draw 

Portraiture in a human form 

Doodle of a two headed unicorn (it was soothing) 

Moving his arm in a fusion of man made tools 

And a muse from beyond 

Even if it went beautifully wrong 

It was tangible truth for a youth who refused to belong 

No name nuisance 

Fools in a bedroom 

Oozed in a brand new cuneiform 

Barely commune with the horde 

Got a whole grey scale ungluing his world 

Might zone out to the yap of the magpie 

Unseen hand dragging his graphite 

Cross contour little bit of back light 

Black ink after a Bristol to baptize 

You can imagine a rush that ensue 

When you get three dimensions stuffed into two 

Then its off to a school where its all that he do 

Being trained and observed by a capable few 

Back in New York five peeps and a dog 

In a two bedroom doing menial jobs 

Plus rhyming and stealing and being a clod 

Distractions free to maraud 

I left some years a deer in the light 

I left some will to spirit away 

I let my fears materialize 

I let my skills deteriorate 

Haunted by the thought of what I should have been continuing 

A mission that was rooted in a twenty year affinity and rickety condition with an 

ID crisis 

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Nap on the front lawn look up in the sky its. 

Shapes falling out of the fringe 

All heart tho he woulda made cowardly kings 

They will chop you down just to count your rings 

Just to count your rings, just to count your rings 

And there were 

Colors pouring out of the fringe 

All heart tho he woulda made cowardly kings 

They will chop you down just to count your rings 

Just to count your rings, just to count your rings 

Used to paint 

Hard to admit that I "used" to paint 

Natural light on a human face 

Stenciled fire on his roommates bass 

It was blooming addiction 

A miss and a push and a pigment 

Book like a tattooed pigskin (look) 

Pin head kids Intermittent 

Drank kool aid from a tube of acrylic 

And i grew up in a linseed oil over linen 

Joy to the poison voice in the resin 

Capture a map of the gesture 

Back up add a little accurate fat to the figure 

Re do that move that inwards 

Zinc white lightning shoots from his fingers 

Studios drone with allusions of tinctures 

Stay tuned for the spooky adventures 

You can imagine the stars that align 

When a forearm starts foreshortening right 

Or a torso hung on a warping spine 

Of proportion reads as warm and alive 

Routine day with a dirt cheap brush 

Then a week goes by and it goes untouched 

Then two then three then a month 

Then the rest of your life you beat yourself up 

Photos 

I left some seasons eager to fall 

I left some work to bury alive 

I let my means of being dissolve 

I let my person curl up and die 

Eating up his innards an unfeasible anxiety is brutally committed to relinquishing 

his privacy aligning with the trials of the anti Midas 

Nap on the back lawn look up at the sky its... 

Shapes falling out of the fringe 

All heart tho he woulda made cowardly kings 

They will chop you down just to count your rings 

Just to count your rings, just to count your rings 

And there were 

Colors pouring out of the fringe 

All heart tho he woulda made cowardly kings 

They will chop you down just to count your rings 

Just to count your rings, just to count your rings 

I'm getting sick and tired of never understanding... Where is the truth you promised?!