Aesop Rock - Homemade Mummy lyrics
How to make a homemade mummy: Get a corpse, get gauze, get comfy Shampoo and disinfect dead fluffy For the hallowed excavation of his x-marked tummy Scalpel to stern, the bu*ter cutter b-lines well Tongs bu*terfly the unzipped feline shell We'll be escorting vital organs With exception of the precious kittens heart Into the privacy of separate pickle jars Or mayonnaise or jelly pick a card sh**, pick a part and scissor Stomach, lung, intestine or liver In a world of sanitizers and preservatives forever Brain exterminated through the whiskers (kiss & blow) Ditched, I blank NY alone We usher in the salts that call the husk home Might embalm and stiffen and rid the fawn of all his liquids Slather it in beeswax, wrap it up in ribbons Like limb by limb, by tail by ear by chin With the new hereafter I hereby win I hope you vow to meow another day and never Decompose, by the way before we seal these molds The shorten version goes... Take the brain out, leave the heart in Take the brain out, leave the heart in Paper playgrounds, leave your harvest Take the brain out... Gadzooks, punk's dead, last good gut wrenched Antennae sam cook, black book pushead Cat skulls stacked to the black hole sunset Olive on a toothpick, Dagwood Bumstead Tagged-hoof hatchery, matter ama** naturally Bad wolf, dash for the last rook castling Blue ox, red plaid ba** pro flannel king Hasbro crown, sour apple Abba-Zabba teeth In poorly taken pictures antiquating on his mantlepiece Before we only spoke in letters cut from magazines Folk broke bear claws over gross coffee Not as milquestoast men, as los muertos walking Ergo the scarecrow in rare barley Squared-off harpy to armchair: say a prayer for me I feel that mystifying times have gotten ugly I also feel that you could learn a lot from a mummy Take the brain out, leave the heart in Take the brain out, leave the heart in Major take down, eat your porridge Take the brain out, leave the carca** Take the brain out, leave the heart in Take the brain out, leave the heart in Games to reign now, pleased to bargain Take the brain out, leafed in garlic Take the brain out, leave the heart in Take the brain out, leave the heart in Fading halos, feeding herpes Take the brain out, eager starlets Take the brain out, leave the heart in Take the brain out, leave the heart in Take the brain out, leave the heart in Take the brain out...