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Night Light Lyrics

Voice: "Day turns Night" x8

[Aesop Rock]
Night Light suckas..
Put one up shackle me, not clean logic procreation
I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation
While the triple sixers lassos keep angels roped in the basement
I locate my old halos and pass em out to the pavement
Y'all catch a 30-second flash frame
Dirty cooperative Neptune bloom head-trip split
Fantastic! Fathom the splicing of major league low lifes
With anti hero earthworm mentality (Godzilla!)
I paste my game to zero all completion
See a cretin's still a cretin even speakin' altered moniker
American nightmare lost in the monitor
I'll hold the door open so you can stagger through
Then ten berserk and bread cookies in after you
It's the gutter and I spell it with the 'G' I stole from "Get the fuck up"
Noise crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teaming dumb luck
Still I promise temperance storm breed still bleeding Amish
See the freaks sucked out the bottom dropped 3 bears and a baby in a cottage
And I can't sleep now
Yeah, the police'll laugh
You won't be laughing when your covered wagons crash
You won't be laughing when you're hosted by the ghost of Christmas past
You won't be laughing when your blow up doll's
got a headache and won't give up the ass
And I lay my kicks to rest when I'm impressed
So I staple-gun them to my feet
This origami dream is beautiful: pull the tail watch the wings flap
But you really can't do a thing with that

All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Night (Light) Day (Light) x8

I'm pretty sure I got a pulse.. plus
We Shimmy cross the centerfold, and our night light engulfed
Just let me keep the crumbs (Please)
With seven deadly stains
To hear the plane to crystal conscious
The results a dead-beat trying to make a dollar off a bomb threat (OK)
Lift me to activism chain activate wild-style Pluto orbit
Set a course then push the button
I swallow spores born by the laws of a morbid glutton
I can spot a drunk battalion by the Charlie Chaplin waddle
Zig zag and zig 'em again before they can pull a badge out
But I lash out
Another thick installment of one night in Gotham like
"Houston we have a problem"
They're buffing the trains the same days the graffiti writers bomb 'em
Who split how many freaks on box cuts of a high road bellow?
Heads ripped! Watch red bricks turn yellow
I'll try to meet the wizard
But a tailgating tit-man holding an oil can
won't let a hermit crab break in his new shell-toes
Life's not a bitch, life is a beotch
who keeps the villagers circling the marketplace
out searching for the G-spot
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole; maybe I'm just an asshole
Kiss the speaker wire, seaming swashbuckler or pagan thresh hold
Stomach full of diner food
Wings span cast black upon views
Here to help release the rabbit hounds or pick apart your mood
I got this friend of polar nature and it's all peace
When I seek similar stars but can't sit at the same feast
Metal Captain!
This cat is asking if I've seen his bit of lost passion
I told him: "Yeah" I gave him one last look and smashed him

All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Night (Light) Day (Light)..
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as if "daylight" wasn't amazing enough. :)

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The first sentence is a little off, and its a good one: "Put one-up for shackle-me-not clean logic procreation..."

...as in: props to making babies with true love, not that shackled, desperate and dependent kind of infatuation...Or maybe its a one-up to parents who raise their kids as individuals with their own life and dont shackle them down due to the parents' own insecurities...or maybe i'm just an asshole.

So Day vs Night, what is the comparison? help/hinder fix/destroy?

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you said it...

Cover art for Night Light lyrics by Aesop Rock

i think theyre just about being in either a good or a bad mood and how u treat, experience the world when u in these moods. fix or destroy help or hinder etc....

sorry if i didnt right a one sentence review btw.

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i think theyre just about being in either a good or a bad mood and how u treat, experience the world when u in these moods. fix or destroy help or hinder etc....

sorry if i didnt right a one sentence review btw.

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Awesome song, i like the different ways that hes changes some of the lyrics throughout this piece, Sounds so good

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"tit-man"? hahahaha, no. sorry.

Cover art for Night Light lyrics by Aesop Rock

"Zig zag and zig 'em again before they can pull a badge out. But I lash out" is supposed to be "Zig zag 'em, zig 'em again, before the bacon pull the badge out, but I lash out."

this is my favorite song.

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If you compare Daylight and Night Light it is crazy! The "Life is not a bitch part" and the "origami" sections are beautiful in both songs.

I've also noticed that Aesop refers to himself constantly as an asshole throughout many of his songs....I wonder whats behind that.

Like in Daylight, the chorus is still talking about expressing his daily experiences through hip hop and his poetry, here... 'All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day Swallow up the pieces Spit 'em at your species' same idea, but its a more in your face way of expressing himself.

After listening to a couple live versions of this song, I'm thinking it's "Pass them out to the caveman" not "Pass them out to the pavement".

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