Aesop Rock - Marble Cake (Official Audio)

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Song Credits:
Written & Produced By Aesop Rock
Bass By James Lynch

Lyrics:
Born garbage day, warden of the shawarma plate, fork a naked eye, and trade survival tips with tardigrades, ephemera burning where the morning look like haunted marble cake, parkas and pajama pants, I’m part of what don’t march-in-place, I’m partial to the closest roving pack of gnashing gums, smoking out the local protein, brokering the rabbit punch, I’m broken, fuck a focus group, fuck your folk, and Toto too, the produce of a pencil-neck who never met a social cue, eye of the archfiend, appetite for alpha dogs, step into the party with a killing jar and shadow box, like “Who invited acid wash?” I’m shopping for the mantelpiece, overkill is catalogued and crammed into banana leafs, polaroids around him like a visit from the vanta black, miniatures in Biggie shirts and minutes that he can’t get back, it isn’t just gorillas in a camera trap, it triggers, the history pack a little aftermath in every image, look

I should paint a eye on the front door, I should tell time by the sun more, I want a flaming arrow shot into a creeping raft, I’m kidding I just want the cheapest shit you people have

No displayed blazonry, unmistakably mutinous, the mood is disillusionment, shit, even Cindy Lou Who quit, I’m super stupid, future looking tuna fish and suture kit, in route to mute the TV and a view without a boot to lick, bruised at the nucleus and drooling through the bells of war, meet the neighbors when your resume is “skeleton-with-oar”, “Ummm, that’s really cool your -poodle made the paper”, let’s keep it at shoes in a elevator, he’s a hat and coat, floating with no discernible visage, the villains turn to their homies who mostly turn into crickets, I’m part of a larger ghosting, I go to work with the wizards, who already voted homecoming theme as a burning village, the damn shame campaign pivot when you in the field, thinning blood and newly surfacing disorder, spin the wheel, feeders out to slow the roll, reaper on the protocol, people you confide in will be spotted eating rodents whole 

I should hang a skull on the side door, I should drink water from the sky more, I want a thousand lanterns drifting on a summers wind, I’m only joking, y’all can feed me to the fucking pigs

Marshmallows over magma from the mantle has been cancelled, how snappy can you adequately scaffold? Happy canvassing the neighborhoods I’ll never take advantage of as patron, as a patient they are plays to be a phantom of, naan under the bandages, examine ’til he vanishes, I don’t feel a social pull to show the wolves where grandma lives, I find deliverance from evil either in a sedentary binge, or spring interning with the cemetery winds, no stacked sash or accolades from authority, the backstory gets all back-into-a-corner-y, abuses in the feeding tube, that circle back to eat at you, bacteria that tip the hat, adversity that gleam the cube, it’s tit for tat with slippery aristocrats who pity cops, and brilliant rats who find the grit to slip out of the Skinner box, the moat’s supposed to keep the rivals out, the calls are coming from inside the house

I should nail boards to the back door, I should feed squirrels from my hand more, I want to meet the maker in a proper suit and shoes, I’m lying, let ‘em find the body with the loot removed 

#AesopRock #MarbleCake #SpiritWorldFieldGuide

[drb]

"People you confide in will be spotted eating rodents whole" is the best line I've ever heard

[tmujir]

"I wanna meet the maker in a proper suit and shoes
I'm lying, let em find the body with the loot removed."

that shit is colder than his body is gonna be

[anniesocial]

The fact that his mind, soul, & experiences continue to breed nonrepetitive topics for him to write about is just plain cool asf. & he has always been great but there is something incredibly special about the instrumentals, his sound & just everything about these tracks...I don't even know how to formulate what I'm feeling into words. In my opinion, it isn't often that an artist, after so many years in the game, throws out one of the best albums theyve created to date...but he did done it. 🧡

[timflemmingchrist]

This is unbelievable. Aesop tops himself yet again.

[devinfisher]

From start to finish, the album is very satisfying.

[RemAtmos]

"Born garbage day, warden of the shawarma plate
Fork a naked eye, and trade survival tips with tardigrades
Ephemera burning where the morning look like haunted marble cake
Parkas and pajama pants, I'm part of what don't march-in-place"

I was done after these beginning lines hahaha
So insanely good, and the imagery is crazy

[jwightman]

0:56 that chorus then break is the best break I've heard all year!

[calvinholland]

To think how he and el p have progressed so much since 99. Bless em. Turns my fucked day round

[jwightman]

2:03 the chorus and then break is leaving me speechless, its ear-gasmig

[tomd]

I don't know if i ever interpret his songs remotely correctly. But this one is really hard hitting. Like it conveys the frustrarion of not being able to give a shit about anything in your life despite wanting to.

[kathyfish]

My favorite thing about his music is even as much as he shows off the beats his lyrics are so dense that you have to listen 4 or 5 times and study to actually comprehend if.

[cmurda]

Aesop Rock is my favorite musician plain and simple. Across all genres

[StefanBorglducky]

Aesop Rock never sounded this good to me... Late to the party, but damn I'm enjoying this album so far.

[Nillbor]

Aesop Rock is so good with the abstract metaphors.

[JorgeAceituno-vsjt]

His Insanity just keeps getting deeper..
Aesop for Eva ! 🔥

[mycroftwilde]

Goddamn, dude, well done. I love this track, and it's definitely my most played song off the album.

[rayrigz]

Sick bass lines throughout the song. I like how its a real instrument bring played. Need more songs like this I think alot of the beats is what brings you in and keeps you in the song.

[AchillesCanine]

4 years later and I still can't find the song sampled at the end. I know it from like 30 years ago. If anyone has any idea, please let me know. Please help my brain from the pain. haha

This song flippin' rocks too! Aesop with the sickest rhymes over deep cuts of obscure tracks. Straight gold.

[danamulter]

Aes. I had to pause, I'ma restart anyway, every track of yours is one to run back.
Fam. Been a fan a long time. Long enough that I always assumed you'd go on forever.
I'm getting some great reflection moments outta this one, and I gotta regularly check that I'm not projecting - the vibe is like that. You're a dope human being.

[BigTex]

I can’t stop playing this... I’m Stuck.
Aes 🧙‍♂️

#SpiritWorldFieldGuide 🤲👽