Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Aesop Rock
Performer
Grimace Federation
Synthesizer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Aesop Rock
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Aesop Rock
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Question
[Verse 2]
If I died in my apartment like a rat in a cage
Would the neighbors smell the corpse before the cat ate my face?
I used to floss the albatross like Daddy Kane with the chain
I'm tryna jettison the ballast with the hazardous waste
The kid is comfortably numb, routine a tedious crutch
Steep in a self imposed Stockholm and Lima influx
Maybe an occupation popular with demons and ducks
Made any mingling akin to being seasoned and stuffed
It's a theatre of jumpin' jellyfish, jealous little sycophants
Miserable and flimsy from the skivvies' to the pissy pants
Each one separately convinced they're sketchin' with Da Vinci's hands
Delusion turn a communication of prison camp
You fuckin' dorks ain't a threat the cause
There ain't a lesson we can learn from the ostensibly lost
I think it's funny when defendants from identical haunts
Step out the tempest to measure of what the spectrum involves
[Verse 3]
Maybe no one cares, party over here, I'll be over there
[Verse 4]
Don't need no help, all by myself
Don't need no help, all by myself
[Verse 5]
I used to hang around with rappers at the root of the scene
It meant a lot to feel the fugitive community breathe
Maybe to sentimentalize is to be truly naive
I know some shit about your heroes that you wouldn't believe
I think we're all a bunch of weirdoes on a quest to belong
The songs are echolocation up in impregnable fog
That's why it's odd to see a pile of imperfections and flaws
Ascend a pedestal to patronize the rest of the cogs
And a mess of obnoxious fantasy, posturing and pageantry
I ain't even mad, I'm impressed, shit, it's baffling
God Almighty chop an ivory tower to piano keys
Play your own dirge on the way to surfin' maggot beach
[Verse 6]
You fuckin' dorks ain't a source of the art
You can't be cooler than the corners where you source all your parts
The poker face, all it takes a couple sordid remarks
We let the manticore out, we make the sorcery bark
[Verse 7]
Life is so unfair, party over here, I'll be over there
[Verse 8]
Don't need no help, all by myself
Don't need no help, all by myself
[Verse 9]
I view the rattling of sabres like a show to expose
Insecurities exploding in emotional code
With braggadocio to go from mostly jokey to gross
Corrode a homie till his probity is notably ghost
Before the hobby was a job, he was a manager, hell
You would wobble 'round your mama like an infant gazelle
The disillusionment has truly been a difficult pill
That you was anything menacing is a difficult sell
In a whistle and bell-o-rama, black mollies to dress up like piranha
It's not even compelling melodrama
It's a comedy, somebody wanna shop you as a saga
I'm very voluntarily persona non grata
[Verse 10]
You fuckin' dorks ain't the leaders we need
This ain't the medium for divas out to weasel and breed
I'm off in coffee with the paupers over tea with the queen
Don't make 'em show the regency what disobedient means
[Verse 11]
Heavy load to bear, party over here, I'll be over there
[Verse 12]
Don't need no help, all by myself
Don't need no help, all by myself
Written by: Aesop Rock