Illogic - Celestial Clockwork

Illogic - Celestial Clockwork (2004)
http://illogic.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-clockwork
Lyrics:
I walked into a life of tainted dreams and gumball machines
Nestled between the window seat and the drain of the main stream
Watching chaotic daylight stands thermal horizons table
Mock the moon with liquidated stars lapped from a ladle
Looking glass has limited view when you're trapped in a label
Still borns turned action figures when they're stacked in a cradle
Thorough bred disorientated from running laps in a stable
Loss of direction sparks the search for a map in the fable
Leave me to hunt for scavengers with eye patches and peg legs
Use planks to punish perpetrators so the seas will stay fed
I told that snake in the grass to roll over and play dead
When the seed of the righteous is planted in belly of hybrid companion
They fled with torn a silver spoon and lips grasped
Cherishing the John Hancock or some jock on your hips clasped
Find your own only path this is my territory to tell a story
Tailored in three pieces flag, oxygen and thesis
I'm nursed by the bosom of a Columbus compass
Since birth walking the line of life of rhyme to see which will die first
It took me awhile to realise the fact that I'm cursed
With the given gift of anointing so only the truth can be dispersed

[Hook:]
It disappoints that conjoint twins are more individuals than most
So I hunt the industry as a phantom until all my words become ghost
Celestial clockwork is an elixir
Simplifying in obscure picture
So sip the defiled mixture
Concocted by purity's twisted sister [x2]

Now the trees are more beautiful on this side of the mountain
Plush springs run in abundance I drink direct from the fountain
But the dream was opaque the stream was perfectly clear
That an acute disorder of paradise would exist if I die here
So lie down your pitch forks and raise your pins to the clouds
Till they're struck twice by lightning sparking styles to move crowds
Fish in the pond can't understand the concept of dry land
So they swim aimlessly unbeknown to the purpose of which I stand
Don't ask a question, if you don't want the answer given
Time is an illustrious liquor if the candle ceases to flicker
Driven to a life of constant death no choice but one
Children rise from the shine hide in the shade to evade the rays of the sun
Glaciers become oceans and boulders become bevels
Icons become gods and the birth of a spawn is the birth of a devil
Individual once realised is the birth of a rebel
When I've dug my own depth in your faith rest in a shovel
The pedestal is crowed over bearing with trinkets a silver lined sink
Which drown me in sounds of de-evolution and if it's not your calling to be enlaced with the evolving of hip-hop
Then stop is the inevitable solution

[Sample:]
I'll work harder. Amy (I'll work harder), I promise I'll be better
Better isn't good enough
I don't think you'll ever be good enough
You don't have it
I know it's a hard thing to hear and it's not a pleasant thing to say
But it's the truth and I'm saving you a lot of time and pain by saying it to you now
I don't want to be the best

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[dangsthurt]

Thumbs up if Listverse brought you here!!!

If my comment makes you mad...you will suck cocks in hell!

[BrosephGreyson]

I just came from watching ICP's "Miracles," and I feel like The apes in 2001 discovering the monolith.

[Tyton]

@guy0Npage38XBL I think you hit the nail on the head there. Aesop Rock is supposed to be simply complex or complicated in a simple way. Aesops fables are simple tales with far more intricate and deeper meanings.

[xXPsychogenocidestXx]

@TruMaster94 I never said he was the most intricate rapper on Earth. He is definitely more intricate than Nas, as i agree with guy on his statement. I love Nas, not saying anything bad about him just to clarify. Aesop Rock is very intricate and he uses contexts deriving from cartoons, History, philosophies, movies, poetry, referring to famous artists and writers from history, etc. He admixes and consolidates his verbosity very well and does so expeditious and subsequently. Aesop wins on that.

[xXPsychogenocidestXx]

@guy0Npage38XBL Utterly agree.

[guy0Npage38XBL]

@TruMaster94 LOL your welcome.

[TruMaster94]

@guy0Npage38XBL Hey I Love Your Philosophy! thanks!

[guy0Npage38XBL]

@TruMaster94 Id say he is definitely more complex than nas. Hes able to word sentences that have such detailed and significant meaning yet he says it so simply. And thats my problem with aesop. Aesop is mad cxomplex but i honestly really struggle to get the full meaning of the song as it is to him. That being said, Aesop creates a whole new way youre meant to enjoy his music.

[ThatNastyBastard]

@chrykel909 One Brick is one of the best songs on Labor Days, and the whole album is masterpiece after masterpiece.

[TruMaster94]

@xXPsychogenocidestXx more complex then aesop rock and NaS?? bro.

[xXPsychogenocidestXx]

The greatest rapper alive. Intricate songs so in depth, they transform and transmute into multiple stories and pictures so vivid, so brilliant, but still manages to retain his work of art. He creates such powerful messages and remains with such resonance. Having the ability to completely avoid straying and dragging of the song, making it incoherent and puerile like most artists, makes him such a magnificent artist. Truly a work of art, and a master at his work. Illogic, should be heard globally.

[itskrill]

i wish the outtro was longer, it really moved me. i feel motivated after hearing it.