Aesop Rock Holy Smokes Lyrics

[Intro: Various Samples]
Give him one of these pills if he has any pain

A parable; what is it? Well it's a little story with a lot of truth in it.
An earthly story with a heavenly meaning.
Jesus told many parables to grown-ups and children alike.
He told them simply and sincere, in words everyone could understand,
so that all might learn the lesson he was trying to teach.

[Verse Intro: Aesop Rock]
They were selfish with the helmets on the little bus
'Till brick fluid sewage crippled up the get-retorted nickel punks
Slowly cope but swore his lowly robot vole evoke
Would someday rise in sections to interrogate the Holy Ghost

[Verse: Aesop Rock]
Holy smokes father, black suit white collar
Kiddie p___ dungeon, guns, and three fingers for your daughters
Caught belly-up, antique n___ paraphernalia
You can not pay you bills with holy water and Hail Mary luck
Shut this f___er, enjoy the Alcatraz shower fun
And mommies Madame cliche generation Agnostic front
It ate the nifty fate, the 1958
Before the New-New Testament approved altar-boy fisting rape
And "take me to your leader"
Long as it don't manipulate toddler-fever [Leave him alone!]
Call me crazy but I'll bet that wasn't God's demeanor
Saw the meter peaking and Long Island was Jesus every weekend
Spoon-fed to appease traditional love bringing
Of a little Pennsylvania s___-hole where elders movement
Stressed the stellar therapeutic Bible cycle
One church with a fate and tackle store next door and not much MORE
So the two moved to New York, made babies raised on what they SAW
Christmas morning smelled fresher than angel p____
But immaculate conception came second to playful goodies
Like laser-tag was way more spiritual than blood and body wafer bags
And mangier staff is swung as Santa ate the cookies
When I was a saint, I'll eat paint with snakes in Belize
Said, if only you'd memorized your prayers like you did your Kool-G's!
By the time I was old enough to know what religion was
I was Catholicism-numb and truly didn't give a f___!
'94, moved out the crib and it ain't seen a steeple since
What Knievel-evil seeps in a Christian leader's pitch
'Til priests slack, slapped with parental advisory warnings
I'll be auditioning God's in my office on Monday morning

[Chorus: Various Samples & Aesop Rock]
[Yeah!] {Scratched throughout chorus}

Uh oh! And yet another pill slipped
Down the hatch and pass 'em through the kill-switch

I need a couple A's for Q's
I'm not an a__hole, I'm just a little confused

[Interlude: Sampled]
This story reminds us of the one Jesus told about people who were kind and
helpful to others. He said that one day the king would say to these people:
"Come, inherit the kingdom prepared for you. For when I was hungry you gave me food.
When I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me."
But the people asked, "Lord did we see you hungry and feed you?
Or sick or in prison and come to you?"
And the king answered; "In as much as you have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, you have done it unto me."

[Chorus: Aesop Rock]
Just a little bruise in the back of the pews
Acting amused with a mask on them Vatican blues
For in the eyes of the organization I was raised in
Aes is just another sinning brick in Hell's basement
Cubicle adjacent to the killers and rapists
For what? Drugs and f___in' is part of growing up
Like cups all the dumbshits better than the schools
I'm not an a__hole, I'm just a little confused
Just a lit fuse in the back of the pews
Watching a thousand flavors of the same God feud
I figure ultimate peace is the common theme
So it's a no-brainer piece when the blood hit the screen
Got a basic good and evil sensibility born
Good neighbor know a halo wouldn't win over horns
I'm more science than faith, I'm more the karma than bread and booze
I'm not an a__hole, I'm just a little confused
Not an a__hole I'm just a little confused
Not an a__hole I'm just a little confused
Not an a__hole I'm just a little confused

[You know what Aesop, to be completely honest you're a f___ing a__hole]