Babylon By Bus lyrics
by Aesop Rock
[Verse 1: billy woods]
Babylon by bus, no tagalongs
It's a marathon, tryna run it up
Lake Michigan, a frozen pond
Black Swan with the bubble butt
Opera glasses clutched front my ugly mug
I administer the food and drugs
Monsoon love, oxytocin flood
Red mud ran out the hills like blood
Glistening waterbug on clean counter
Plague mask, gave the place a cursory glower
He ran away, I gave chase but gave up and sat on his gate for hours
p*ssing in a bottle
Lampposts adorned with the missing
Listen, I'm not swimming in tomorrows
Parachute twisted and snarled
Just glad I kissed 'em, I knew the time was borrowed
[Verse 2: Curly Castro & Prem Rock]
(Shrapknel)
Hey yo
Stiff swig of Blanton's to cеlebrate the Nеw Wave
Hope our host ain't got himself a 12 gauge
Not Akata Lu Deng, playing devil's advocate, now who's game?
Handsome with my b-boy, Trugoy in the PJs
Cold open, slow to focus, cameras pan to a freeway
The ransom was a decoy, we p-noid, a heat wave
Red herring's nest in the Bible Belt
Cashier with a carbine, never can be too safe these days
Before Novitzki's blonde phase, mic hand caught a callus
Dallas overseas kick when Detlef was a Maverick
Mouth dry on that Southby road to Damascus
Better call Saul a cab, it's getting bad with traffic
Bumper Bumper Knight Rider, wish we had an Airwolf
di*khead Logic somehow hacked into our Bluetooth
Move quick, bad news, Cru Thik
Constellation funk, bad moon as viewed through the roof tint
[Verse 3: billy woods]
Caught 'em lacking on 9/11
I lie down like V.I. Lenin
People don't want the truth, they want me to tell 'em grandma went to heaven
Rifle on the wall as an icebreaker
All the world's a stage, she came to me in full makeup
Anyone wanna be in my life gotta sign several waivers
Wires out the taser, suspicious fire in the galley of the freighter
What I do can't be copied
I take care of these words, Munchausen by proxy
Somehow beat the tox screen
God save the Queen, but that train doesn't stop here anymore