Aesop Rock - 12 and Holding

('Fuck you it's a birthmark!') The Aesop Rock song "Bad Karma" is off an album called Angels and Insects. The movie "12 and Holding" starring Conor Donovan and directed by Michael Cuesta is an Independent film. Both are hard to find beyond YouTube. Twelve and Holding plays out like "Requiem for a Dream" or "Crime and Punishment", with preteens. If you know the point of the song Bad Karma let me in on it:

[laughter]
These wings, have seen things most men would melt apart from
it's like, wait,wait,wait,wait,wait,
all my drunk destiny pushed was one radio flier chock full of halo parts,
ringing this crime like
Man, I could fix your broken shine,
We're all saints swept serpent tide around charcoal tomorrow,
bunk holiday debt, easy now brother, I'm here, I'm here
I'm now, then and there, I we us them it I'm sorry, I'm,
god, this final extension's beautiful, but friend, I don't deserve it,
I just don't deserve it
I beg of you sweet father,
please detach my chest's swollen lining,
I can't handle asymmetry,
and if it means my grand finale,
don't tally the votes,
finish me dormant with,
torture the machine silencer piece,
position where eyelids will reach
red well before I'm sure,
I've never asked for much,
never felt golden benefit worthy,
I I I gots, what I gots, and what I don't gots don't concern me,
I'm no model,
never aspired to be velociraptor fossil,
man, there wasn't no arraignment,
man, I never had a say in this,
I, wanna be the normalcy, that normalcy was jealous of,
no shimmer,
no celestial flight midwinter,
enter me now,
feet through greet and lowlife virus,
I'm not-I'm not ready for all this business,
that for some reason you all refer to as a privilege,
And I mean, look at me,
my feathers drag, this harp plays out of tune,
I fly about as straight as a blind tugboat through my legacy,
I accidentally killed cupid with his own weaponry,
and man, that was my homie,
talk about not cut out for these pristine pearly robings,
what could I possibly have done,
you really want me to steer child populace back to beaten path,
yeah, like teach em' morals,
I can't be a part of something
I ain't searching my feelings man,
I'm from the dungeon,
so from here on out,
it's hark the herald nothing,
listen, I quit.
That's it, but for the life of me,
one thing has plagued my being from the get-go,
why place the most blessed and sacred honors upon an alley cat like this,
I just don't get it, oh.. my god, it just dawned on me,
wait a second, oh, God

x2 - You have been a witness,
you have seen the days when,
I apply lies in a billion different ways, and,
now I harbor bad karma,
doomed to cope with the fact I dodged the ring
but gotta show these cats the ropes

x8 - Bad karma,
please lead these little wings to a road,
please lead this little halo to a child with a lighter load,
I'ma hold this tight like a life vest and throw it to a mic

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• aesop
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• 13
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• connor
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• tomvallie
• 2010

[TomvsAllie]

Last line: I'ma hold this tight like a life lesson told through a mic

[cinemahombre]

Just watched "12 and Holding" on instant Netflix and I really loved it. Glad I ran into this video from being an Aesop Rock fan or I wouldn't have heard about this movie.

[cinemahombre]

Oops. Last comment should've said "instead of" instead of "instead if."

[cinemahombre]

(My last comment should have said "were heaviy based" instead if "was heavily based.")

[cinemahombre]

I'm glad there's someone out there who's asked for interpretation about this song. I've actually spent a lot of time discussing Aesop Rock with others and this song has been a big deal for my inspiration in life. This song is basically a confession of failure. Aesop Rock's lyric['s before this album was heavily based on metaphors describing him as an angel trying to help rescue the hope that humanity and art can be for good. This song explains that he is no angel at all, we know he is though.

[Antigoats1993]

What I'm thinking is that this song was written because Aesop did somebody wrong one day. I'm talking about straight up fucked them over. Then this person forgave him and now he's thinking "why do I deserve your forgiveness?" "I fucked you over!"

Then he realizes that it's bad karma!

Well that's what I think anyway.

[MarkusHomer]

Whats that movie?

[valeo626]

aesop rock is the shit. true poetry in motion