Some cats grow by the laws of the wild
Some learn slower and lag in the mud
Some stand up in defense of a style
Some let the big dogs eat them up
At exactly 11:35pm on January
21st I fell asleep sound
At exactly 11:35pm on Januray
21st some shit went down

Aesop Rock
Now Benny was a New York City graf kingpin
Five Borough fame
guaranteed to itch pigskin
Raided near the Brooklyn Naval
yard, juxed an undercover
When they asked him what he
pled he said, "You're
fuckin' up my colors!"

Mr. Lif
Okay, Jose's working in the slaughterhouse
Said he's living in the hood,
but he wants to get his
daughter out
Slipped off a ledge, and
fell into a machine
Another dead immigrant,
that's the American Dream

Aesop Rock
Miss Molly, helpless, made
a penny with a data entry
temp gig
Overqualified with the rent stick
Red brick bash where the text print green
Like, "I entered my data
right into your screen"

Mr. Lif
Jane went insane, she's an anchorwoman
Sick of pushing skewed information
And abusing the nation
Had a few options:
Either jump or run
Quit or cold raise hell, waving a gun
Time for C-H-A-N-G-E
Held a knife to the VP on TV
She demanded that the format be expanded
Beyond fair, everybody
clear, understand it?

Aesop Rock
Billy was a coke fiend
Mr. Lif
Maggie was a cop
Aesop Rock
For the dope he stole cream
Mr. Lif
She patroled the block
Aesop Rock
Banking off his old scheme
Mr. Lif
She recognized his plot
Aesop Rock
He thought he was home free
Mr. Lif
She knew that he was locked
Aesop Rock
Now it's off to the jail
in a blue squad car
Mr. Lif
She pocketed the crack before they got far
Aesop Rock
Billy watches Maggy from behind steel bars
Like "Where the crack went?"
Mr. Lif
"I'ma smoke it tomorrah"

Aesop Rock
They call him Larry Luck
Blackjack, big spender
He was married once
Till he bet her ring finger
Seen him leaving Las Vegas
With a pick up truck, diamond
Fourty large, and beautiful wife piece
Less than what he came with
hitched to the crib found
nickels in the couch
Hitched back to the casino within an hour
Said "I'm here to make
a dollar out of fifteen
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And was immediately shot to
his death over debts

Mr. Lif
As Colin died, his mother cried
Then the EMS arrived
Said that he could be revived but they lied
Afterlife realized. Water from the skies
Washes pain from her eyes so
her hopes could rise

Aesop Rock
Now, J.J. punch drunk,
acts like a dumb fuck
Bum touched girls looking young
enough to thumb suck
One sought the light thought it
right to rat him out
Now gets raped by Aryans in
the big house (OUCH!)

Mr. Lif
Ted did 20 years for rolling some weed
Although he used to snort coke
and dabble with speed
Welcome home, homie, here's
a blunt with hash
They said you know the rules,
bitch, take two and pass

Some cats grow by the laws of the wild
Some learn slower and lag in the mud
Some stand up in defense of a style
Some let the big dogs eat them up
At exactly 11:35pm on January
21st I fell asleep sound
At exactly 11:35pm on Januray
21st some shit went down

Aesop Rock
Jack for Jill
Jill won't Jack will
Jill didn't, then did it
Jack Fell
No cellophane secrets
But yeah I guess you
sensed bumps in the tar
No cell.
But hell, jumped the bar so well
pardoned your partners bail and dipped.
I'm New York harbor tail
of a snail
ripped
Sort of stuck on purpose for
the love of birth place
But would have carried you home
inside of my teeth anyday
Turns out
I wasn't Master Plan anyway.
He holds no grudge
holds his tongue.
While.
Same one she used to hold in both smiles.
Dagger that instinctual lash
out if it killed me
so you could ride off into the sun,
Silly,
guilt free.
One year passed.
The tables wobbling
and you're hollering
back
sipping the fits
you skipped
when shit
cracked
I never missed it.
Now the long-hall
Bullshit kit's
kicked into the same shoe box
with the flips and lipstick.
I'll love you forever
'cause you'll know me better.
For the record
at one time would've
married you in a second.
But killed the rekindling dreams
but navigate the friendship or else
by the time the stress
air out wheel both be dead
and friendless.