Aesop Rock
"It's the year of the silkworm
Everything I built burned yesterday
Let's display the purpose that these stilts serve
Elevate the spreading of the silk germ
Trying to weave a web but all that I believe in is dead
Nah brother, it's the year of the jackal
Saddle up on high horse
My torch forced Polaris embarrassed
Shackle up the hassle by the dooming legend marriage
I bought some new sneakers
I just hope my legacy matches
It's the year of the landshark
Dry as sand, parched, damn get these men some water
They're out there being slaughtered
In meaningless wars so you don't have to bother
And can sit and soak the idiotbox trying to fuck their daughters
Man it's the year of the Orphan
Seated adjacent to the firefly circling the torches on your porches
Trying to guard the fortress of a king they've never seen or met
But all are trained to murder at the first sign of a threat
Maybe it's the year of the waterbug
Cockroach utter thug specimen
Your response, dreaming of your next of kin
I'm still dealing with this mess I'm in
I've been the object of your ridicule
You've been a bitch lieutenant
God it's the year of the underpaid employee
Spitting forty plus a week
And trying to rape earth on my off time
You bought dizzy, I can't keep myself busy enough
So you can run run run
And I'ma let you think you won"
(9-5ers Anthem)
Against Me!
"We're all presidents, we're all congressmen,
We're all cops in waiting,
We're the workers of the world,
There is the elite and the dispossessed,
And it's only about survival,
Who has the skill to play the game for all it's worth,
And reach an obscure kind of perfection,
Let's try and keep as much emotion out of this as possible,
Let's try not to remember any names,
We'll do it for a country, for a people, for a moral vision,
United, we'll make them remember our history,
Or how we'd like to be told,
How we'd like to be told..."
(Those Anarcho Punks are Mysterious)
The Dreseden Dolls
"It's half biology and half corrective surgery gone wrong
You'll notice something funny if you hang around here for too
Long ago in some black hole before they had these pills to take it back
I'm half jill
and half jack
"
(Half Jack)
"I can shuffle cut and deal
but I can't draw a hand
I can't draw a lot of things
I hope you understand
I'm not exceptionally shy
but I've never had a man
that I could look straight in the eye
and tell my secret plans"
(Perfect Fit)
Mother Mother
"I wear my ball cap to hide my big eyes
and you wear your black dress to hide your big thighs.
Oh, maybe, baby I'll loose my ball cap.
Well, only if you expose your loose fat.
Don't you know that beauty is only skin deep.
Well, maybe, baby come on and skin me.
I like the big hens, only 'cause they make me look real thin."
(Ball Cap)
Sage Francis
"I'm a veteran of spatial relationships
I clip ya wings to fit you in head shrinking magician
Shape-shifting reptilian turned body contortionist
Orphanages started offering torches to abortion clinics
I lost acquaintances
And a morgue of lady friends
I gender bent the heaven sent angelic devil boy with God's androgynous
I'm lookin' marvelous but looks can kill
YOU'RE unsure about my sexual orientations still
Put me in a special kind of case that only breaks if
You hit it with a bouquet of flowers and baby breath arrangement"
(Escape Artist)
Why?
"I want my mouth to always taste a blade
But I want to kiss like taffy,
hump gentle on a bed of nails and
feel salt to widen eyes
like a cut up clam's tongue does.
I want to dump early on and be empty the rest.
I want a patch of blue sky to follow me.
Unfold an origami death mask
and cut my DNA with rubber traits.
Pull apart the double helix like wishbone.
Always be working on a suicide note."
(Rubber Traits)