How to Be a Carpenter - Aesop Rock

So you want to be a carpenter do you
Well it takes more than a hammer boy
You're gonna need blueprints and a will to build and
Straighten your cap
You look like you've been through a war
Wipe that grin off your mug
You got a sturdy frame
Sluggish posture just won't cut it
You're gonna need schooling
And and take notes
And god if I catch you yawning again
You're gonna regret ever asking for my help
And dammit you gotta hustle
This is a slacker-free zone
And where's my pencil go get your hard-hat
Here's a nickel go get us a ruler
And a saw and a drill and lots of graph paper
I used to have a rope ladder
But tattered were the rungs
I strung it from the highest willow
Trying to hug the sun
The seventh level buckled
And I tumbled from the summit
Now I'm back to re-climb
And this time light my cigarette from it
My stitchin division to vision warfares numb
Enough to soak suddenly in a bullet bath
And skip stones in the morning as I
Lie in color phantom tantrum explicable
Sit and pull the petals off wild flower patches
Magic happens
Behold pity the lowlife parish
Doom City barracks left remorse coursed
On a horse-drawn carriage by the torch of Polaris
To the Badlands where every bridge
Collapse right where the crowd stands
Where the witches are fireproof
And every preacher's a madman
Frigid be the appleseed demeanor towards the bay
Where the landshark Parliament swims
When they pause to polish they fins
The better brains will preach the village
Through the city square
To the light heavy and middle-weight integrate
Slept with sticks and stones in my pillowcase
Oohmy bomb's light simulator
Picks barnacles off the tugboat belly
Left my spirit home in a shoebox in case I die
Got a rugged smoke-green halo floating inches off the swamp
Had that phase when the devil
Tree contacts a sparkle in my eye
Now step back from the reservoir
And let the settlers drink
Salvage all priorities and iron out all kinks
My house ain't made of bricks
And straw but never has it crumbled
Cuz I stitched the brain's rigidity with symmetry
Come visit me
It's fascinating
Now here's how its done
I'm only gonna show you once
So pay close attention
Hear me now or hear me never
Glue your little eyes to the diagram
See the plywood the nails the glue
You work every inch
Your domain and you must treat it well
Keep it clean or it'll swallow you whole
Where's the T-square hand me the pliers
Now dammit oh this will never do
You have to want the castle
Head Up shoulders back
Be the materials
Know your limits only to break your limits
Are you listening
God dammit boy pay attention
Little bit more juice this time
Try it again
Yeah a little bit more elbow grease this time
Try it again
Concentrate a little more focus this time
You can kick and scream
And yell but damn I'm only tryin' to help
Try it again You're not doing it right
Here now yall watch
Try it again Stop sulking
I'm the example for real Watch
Try it again I'm bout to make it easy
For you yall just Watch
You can kick and scream
And yell but damn I'm only tryin' to help
Stinging the hunt
The hunt dispatched a pack of wild dog silhouettes
All sulking by the skyline
Focused with a bonus hunger pain
My sincere addiction imbalance stems
From a vintage grimace slap to the mug of
Ancestral branch camped on the vessels
Yes and I abide
The laws of the hidden desert survived
And every peasant presenteed it
On the crescent less deprived
With the exception of pleasant finale binges
On the great endangered interests
Of phantom brigades slaving to save that princess
I double the negative
To no avail no promised benefits
Just delegates peddling pairs of negatives
With magnified magnanimous appearance
Sandy sinners in opinion shut
Now what of the madness fragments Stagnant
I oughta make a vision sing my twix
Cling to your pigeon wings
Vision militia indent benders
We've flooded Hell's kitchen sink
Walkin' eye civility simpleton citizen
Mixers to kiss the sky in unison
Sinister city-blistered corporate rule-igans
All I really want's a nickel to feed my little pigs
Big d**k three cheers to the product
Consumer populace feed but never dreamed of the process
When a slanted advantage point sort of makeshift
Criminals date R**e the hostage
Dream away the blame pain yeah
But it seeps through the cracks
And drips from the ceiling and smells
The rich scent of my tracks
All I ever really wanted was a jungle
And a jungle I got
See it ain't the vision
It's the plot that makes me stop
Try it again I don't want to
Try it again I don't want to
Try it again I don't want to
Try it again I don't want to
Try it again I don't want to
Try it again I don't want to
Try it again I don't want to
Try it one more time
I'm not even interested anymore
Try it one more time
How to Be a Carpenter - Aesop Rock