Aesop Rock - Keep Off The Lawn (Official Lyrics)
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- All lyrics are taken straight from the Digital Lyrics Booklet that came with the Deluxe version of None Shall Pass.
I got sick of reading incorrect lyrics to his songs online and on youtube videos. Here is the official version.
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Album: None Shall Pass (2007)
Track 1
He said 'But how alive?'
I don't know homie you decide.
No you decide.
Fine! How alive? Too alive!!!
SIMPLY PUT...One of the greatest rap songs ever made !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't realize it was all about ghosts hangin' in his front yard, fuckin' with him.
I've encountered some analyses of this song as being representative of addiction, and the phantoms being metaphorical representations of addiction and so on. Personally, I disagree. I believe that Aes is illustrating the necessarily repressive nature of "the American Dream" and a civil pursuit of happiness. Let me explain:
The contemporary definition of happiness as being essentially unfulfilling prefaces the song, opening with the lines "most copious, rain soaked the opiates", illustrating that contentment is not a matter of materialistic achievement, as it is so often conceived by western culture. Now this could certainly be an overly analytic interpretation - and those lines undoubtedly parallel the struggles of an addict- but the reason I believe Aes is speaking of materialism especially is the deliberate use of suburban imagery, such as the birdbath, picket fence, and absurd juxtaposition of groceries taking priority over the ghosts upon one's lawn. But what exactly do phantoms have to do with a misguided pursuit of happiness?
The third line of the song; "notice how the phobias appropriately procreate", seems to suggest that if one is overly focused on the gratuitous accumulation of his opiates it is inevitable that he will suppress the more fundamental aspects of his nature, and that it is only appropriate for those haunting yearnings to come knocking as phantoms and phobias. A similar indication of the horrors incurred by the stifling of one's true (and often artistic) nature can be found in Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Thus we see Aesop demonstrate the lifeless and desolate lifestyle that is ordinary suburban pursuit. That is, of course, until Aes shows us how the artist contrasts such empty lifestyles.
He starts with the lines of bad etiquette and poor table manners (an undoubtedly appalling spectacle in a respectable home) but delves far more intensely into the life of the artist at the outset of the second verse. "We the legends that hung with the unremembered, geriatric lore in the grip of a budding censor" is an incredibly poetic representation of Dr. Jordan Peterson's view on the role of the artist in society, as social outliers responsible for perpetually playing with and pushing against the boundaries of acceptable content and ideas. The moral of the song, in my opinion, is most eloquently captured in one line of the second verse. That summer (prosperity and happiness) can be found in the mud (hardship and struggle), and that winter (monotony and desolation) is within the easy and already well paved route of the tracks.
This is why I enjoy Keep Off The Lawn as a rallying cry to the individuality of the artist. What do you guys think?
I think you are giving us this massive word wall, your thesis being different from the intro to the conclusion. "Rain soaked the opiates" Does not refer to contentment of materialistic achievement, there is no fathomable way you could have gotten "Rain soaked the opiates" and thought of it referring to material. I think your attempt was admirable, but devolved into pretentiousness.
I think its about the demons in his head that are no longer welcome.
nah, it's about keeping off the lawn
I swore, this is played by a live band. Amazing track
Dope
Thank you
What song(s) are sampled in this?
47 follows this guy around
can smell the chum in the water
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