Aesop Rock - Night Light Lyrics

Night Light suckas..
Put one up shackle me, not clean logic procreation
I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation
While the triple sixers lassos keep angels roped in the basement
I locate my old halos and pass em out to the pavement
Y'all catch a 30-second flash frame
Dirty cooperative Neptune bloom head-trip split
Fantastic! Fathom the splicing of major league low lifes
With anti hero earthworm mentality (Godzilla!)
I paste my game to zero all completion
See a cretin's still a cretin even speakin' altered moniker
American nightmare lost in the monitor
I'll hold the door open so you can stagger through
Then ten berserk and bread cookies in after you
It's the gutter and I spell it with the 'G' I stole from "Get the fuck up"
Noise crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teaming dumb luck
Still I promise temperance storm breed still bleeding Amish
See the freaks sucked out the bottom dropped 3 bears and a baby in a cottage
And I can't sleep now
Yeah, the police'll laugh
You won't be laughing when your covered wagons crash
You won't be laughing when you're hosted by the ghost of Christmas past
You won't be laughing when your blow up doll's
got a headache and won't give up the ass
And I lay my kicks to rest when I'm impressed
So I staple-gun them to my feet
This origami dream is beautiful: pull the tail watch the wings flap
But you really can't do a thing with that

All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Night (Light) Day (Light) [x8]

I'm pretty sure I got a pulse.. plus
We Shimmy cross the centerfold, and our night light engulfed
Just let me keep the crumbs (Please)
With seven deadly stains
To hear the plane to crystal conscious
The results a dead-beat trying to make a dollar off a bomb threat (OK)
Lift me to activism chain activate wild-style Pluto orbit
Set a course then push the button
I swallow spores born by the laws of a morbid glutton
I can spot a drunk battalion by the Charlie Chaplin waddle
Zig zag and zig 'em again before they can pull a badge out
But I lash out
Another thick installment of one night in Gotham like
"Houston we have a problem"
They're buffing the trains the same days the graffiti writers bomb 'em
Who split how many freaks on box cuts of a high road bellow?
Heads ripped! Watch red bricks turn yellow
I'll try to meet the wizard
But a tailgating tit-man holding an oil can
won't let a hermit crab break in his new shell-toes
Life's not a bitch, life is a beotch
who keeps the villagers circling the marketplace
out searching for the G-spot
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole; maybe I'm just an asshole
Kiss the speaker wire, seaming swashbuckler or pagan thresh hold
Stomach full of diner food
Wings span cast black upon views
Here to help release the rabbit hounds or pick apart your mood
I got this friend of polar nature and it's all peace
When I seek similar stars but can't sit at the same feast
Metal Captain!
This cat is asking if I've seen his bit of lost passion
I told him: "Yeah" I gave him one last look and smashed him

All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Night (Light) Day (Light)..

holy shit ive had daylight on repeat for like a month and just discovered this

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Welcome to the 4th dimensional Aesop Rock. His library is full of pairs and triplets of songs that create layers of new meanings between the juxtaposition.

Its gutter and i spell it with the G i stole from GET THE FUCK UP

Sometimes i feel daylight

And somedays i feel nightlight.

I did invent the wheel! In a previous generation

Hola, soy el homerito :D

What happens when chaos is more organized than order?

I can spot a duck battalion by the Charlie Chaplin waddle

As good as nerd rap gets.

Besides the A$AP Rocky coincidence, there actually was a totally different rapper named Asop and I think he was wit Grouch and Eligh and all of that crew. Aesop Rock just is an unfortunate name.

Aesop de god

bleached in the city of lost barnacles and leeches... <3

it's gutter and I spell it with the 'g' I stole from GET THE FUCK UP...

NIGHTLIGHT SUCKKAAA!

This beat is indescribable...

HELL YEAH

bushwick

This is the personification of war music

ur lit fam

Day turns Night

I think this track is portrayed through the perspective of a cynical and dark minded person with the opposite motives than the person portrayed in the daylight track. I don't know at least that's what got. perspective

Sounds more like the same person, but he became more jaded as time passed. For example: "Night light got me when the daylight went to evening"

I think you maybe right on that one. because, when thinking daylight kinda reminds me of that youthful mindset of accomplishment and setting up a plan for the future. as years go on life isn't what we think or thought it was.

Felipe Segura they're motives are the same, if not then nearly the same. Where their differences lie are their ideologies and how they act to bring the goals to fruition. Daylight is optimistic and very open to plan changes, naive to people's nature because of his confidence. Nightlight is pessimistic and closed off more analytical. Knowing full well of people's nature and his own but lacks perspective because of his anger

The darker side of light. The lighter side of the dark.

@Dream Ghost these two songs have always spoke to me.
As someone who is bipolar I can relate to having positive thoughts perverted by a negative mindset I find myself in.

https://soundcloud.com/axiom_tha_wyze/night-light-brigade - Rendition of ALfred Lord Tennyson's Light Bridage mixed over Night light

can u dont

someone knows what song playing in intro? I've heard that before but I cant remenber the name of the song

+hellishsnake It's called: Original

+hellishsnake http://www.whosampled.com/Aesop-Rock/Night-Light/

Dark as FUCK.

But the nightlight is there, remember?

Im sorry for the bad pun.

Good thing he doesn't refer himself as Ae$op Rock.

If Aesop Rock put a Dollar sign in his name back when he first gave himself his stagename, then asap rocky would be ripping off Aesop Rock. But they have NOTHING to do with each other.

bestest song ever

A rapper happened upon a similar name to Aesop Rock. Unfrotunatr, but it happened

He's name is A$AP Rocky, and he's shitty af, no match for aes.

come on rocky is artistic check out his new song with tyler

the other one is garbage, aesop rock should beat his ass

@Malibu Ken clearly you fucks dont praise the lord

There's a video of them meeting. It's super awkward

Lifes not a bitch like is a BIAATCH who keeps the villagers out circling the marketplace lookin for the G spot

Jk

Hey fuck you for mixing your corn flakes with fruit loops

Fuckin Muslim sucks

where exactly did u find muslim in this song?

The funny part is that ian is a Jew.

Anna M pretty sure he's atheist

Voy  a empezar a aunque este todo el silencio... 

@Tiago Tapponnier Lo voy a hacer para que tu mente se abra

Soy el mejor y vine a demostrarlo

+Esteban Dido que hermosa cadena <3

Yes, I also agree with the above posts.

Best remake of one of his best tracks

this is sick !! i love it

him and earl sweatshirt need to collab

maybe i should look him up some more i got yall

@jesse herm And his new album has a lot of crazy lines, too.

Ok the problem with that is Earl is West Coast, while Aes is East.

Location doesn't mean anything.

Aes works with Kimya Dawson regularly, and she is based on Seattle (formerly Oylympia) Washington.

its GUTTER n I spell it with the g I stoke from GET THE FK UP!

i love both nightlight/daylight but i like day light more because its a positive message and its just to easy to focus on the negatives.. 

Hardly. Daylight is so filled with cynicism and contempt, it's really hard to see it in a positive way once you understand all of the references.

@Notsuchabadguy Not really. Daylight may be cynical, but that doesn't to mean it isn't positive. It's cynical of those who create problems. 
"Life's not a bitch; she's a beautiful woman." What's negative about that?

@Notsuchabadguy or the fact that he his finally sleeping, or saying how he isnt the one fucking the generation up, 

A beautiful minor version of daylight.

This has got to be one of my favorites.

Its gutter, and I spell it with "G" I stole from "GET THE FUCK UP!"

I love that line!

Alex Cabalu simon says: get this upvote!!

sound dope , but what does this one mean?
I can't uncript everything

GODZILLA!

I also like both versions, but this one is my favorite.

Go listen to Blockhead. He makes Aesops beats. (and he's among the best instrumental artists, in my opinion).

I prefer Blockhead's instrumental over this, but I like both versions :)

Blockhead made this instrumental too. It's not just a beat change either, it's more like a sequel to "Daylight."

I had never heard of ASAP Rocky until I read his name mentioned on Aesops' comments.... Thanks cunts...

BEEP BOOP

Actually, Aesop did not get his name from another rapper. This is a direct quote from aes, and it can be found on his wiki. "I acquired the name Aesop from a movie I had acted in with some friends. It was my character's name and it sort of stuck. The rock part came later just from throwing it in rhymes."

It's about the LOVE. ...I think someone said it once in that sick 45-minute-ish "Orphanage" freestyle.

definitely daylight for me

Beat is good but there is not no song, just jive.

NIGHTLIGHT GOT ME WHEN THE DAYLIGHT MET EVENING! day turns night. TO ME ONE BEST MC'S THEIR IS.listen to what he says and you will see it!

all these comments are full of hot ass air. no one gives a fux about whether you like aesop more than asap or vice versa. clearly you came here to listen, so do that. if not, then why type it in? there's someone out there for everybody, and clearly aesop isn't for ya'll.

and real mcs dont need to rap about how they dress, ace is boss

its the polar opposite of "daylight", different/same but different song

night light suckas!!!!

This fool bit his name and Flow from Aesop who dropped some BIG fables in 550 BCE. You have know idea what hiphop is if you do not know this.

word is bond suckaz

His name isn't really that original because it comes from the A$AP crew or w/e but it wasn't a steal from Aesop Rock. Highly doubt he listens to him and even if he does or heard of the name he has no reason to steal it because Aes isn't all that famous.

Or maybe they genuinely like Aesop and genuinely hate A$AP. Just a thought.

would you self-righteous idiots quit mentioning that you prefer aesop rock over a$ap rocky? you probably couldn't even name one album by aesop, and you are just saying you like him cause you think it makes you some elitist hipster. you are not cool for hating mainstream music. f**king kids.

What's an ASAP...never heard of the boy.

*implies that his taste in music is more mature and intelligent*

*spells Aesop Rock wrong*

I can't tell if this is a remix or a different song from him.

Maybe I'm just an asshole.

+10 Internetz for you, sir/madam.

UnderFuckinGround

Congratulations, you're different.

i don't hate asap, and i love aesop rock. stop speaking for everyone.

yeeaaa too bad "effort" for most artists is just showing up and reading shit 5 other people wrote for them while 2-3 actually made the beat and a shitton others work to actually make the shitty sounding posterboy fuckwads sound good

That is the point I've been trying to make to a couple of my friends for so long XD there's no reason to hate certain artists just because they're popular it doesn't make they're music any worse. Well, no that's not true sometimes it actually does but you're right, one should definitely not hate a popular artist just because an underground artist is good. And, I think, really, any artist who can show they put effort into their music is a good artist in my tastes.

i hate reading youtube comments. some are smart. most are stupid. but in the long run, my music library out classes most others. and aesop is fresh beyond fresh. and always high up on my playlists. but i'm just saying...

I feel like you are which is sad, I personally don't like those rappers just because of my personal preferences when it comes to rap. But there are people who used to like mainstream who've stopped just because they heard better underground music. I've literally seen a comment that read, "Aesop made me hate mainstream." I feel like you shouldn't hate an artists JUST because he's mainstream. A lot of underground fans say "if it's mainstream it sucks" most times without giving it a chance.

is ASAP mainstream? like his music is definitely similar to what is popular, but I had never heard of him until I saw all the arguments on Aesop's videos

I get what youre saying. When you're just trying to have fun you dont give a fuck abut the music, just the atmosphere.

song is aggro as fuck
like, the bassline alone would probably kill someone

I like listening to mainstream music at parties, I just hate most of the lyrics when I actually listen to it by myself and then I feel like you don't really need any talent to do what they do.

Lmao no people just need to keep up their perception of themselves so they are never going to admit they like mainstream things.

You wont be laughing...

i like how his comments gone xD

God this song just always sends shivers down my spine. Awesome.

"A$AP" is the name of A$AP rocky's crew. Everyone in it is named A$AP (dumb twats) Now Shut Up And Enjoy The Music

uhh i dont really understand the connotation you mean by that.

Am I the only one who love a whole bunch of mainstream stuff such as ASAP, rick ross, wale, all of those guys etc.. and alot of underground stuff such as block head, aseop, bonobo, atmosphere etc..?

lmao i love how people just quote those since that's all they can remotely make sense out of.

Awww, did that hit a chord with someone? I'm sorry, want me to kiss it and make it better?

Dude go fuck yourself

thats how every rap artist is don't act like aesop is the same. rap now a days and even in the 90s is recycled stuff from the 80s 70s and they got a lot of the beats through blues in the 60s and even 50s. so really no one has brought a new style to hip hop in a long ass time.

anybody else just wanna sample this track without the negative opinions?

You be trollin'
and yours is the most elitist comment on here

HAHAHAHA word a$ap is a tool... people just think hes cooler than other rappers because he didnt sign.. just like people think mac miller is beast cause he didn't sign to a mjor label... people are dumb.

A$AP Rocky couldn't even think of an original name

This is so sassy

You either spelled Aesop wrong, Rocky wrong, or you're an idiot. I'm going with the first and third ones.

Im with you on that one. Every Aesop Rock video has people mentioning ASAP Rocky and every Macklamore video has shit about Mac Miller. This is intelligent music and people resort to stupid arguments instead of the intellectual and enlightening discussions we should be having that reflects the song. Hip Hop is about enlightening this generation- Aesop Rock is doing his part, we all need to do ours in turn.

Asap rock? You hybridized 'em, which would surely bring an end to comparison lol.

hahaha the ezbeatz 1 eyeword101 0 just think harder, classic!

No no, Asap Rocky is fucking awful. Listening to him makes me want to kill myself. Which is, of course, the logical thing to do if you're ever forced to listen to his "Music" for more than a minute. And, god forbid, you have to listen to it at all, you'll probably have to slit your wrists.

Ohhh, yeah my bad. Yeah definitely, it's been getting super shitty. There's definitely artists who still keep it real, though. And Minneapolis still has a solid scene, but for the rest of us, it's just obscure underground artists who keep our hopes high. haha

my bad son i thought u was talkin about aesop 4 a sec i was like hold up...didnt he start back in the 80s?? but i feel u tho...rap started goin downhill n since like 05-06 is when it jus started getn super bad

He started around 07-08. That's total bullshit.

he was rappin b4 alotta big rappers out there 2day...u cant b xactly the same as people who werent in the picture b4 u

Yeah i can see what you are saying, because those are also the things that hip-hop was really originally based on. I really only like to listen to mainstream for some of these rappers' flows and the catchiness and maybe some good punchlines that will come along. But I can also listen to poetic music when the catchy music gets too corny for me.

you don't know shit either.

yeah, everyone has their own style. you let anyone in the world practice writing a couple songs and they will develop their own personal style, any type of creativity/individualism is good in today's music industry. but a completely disagree, a materialistic lifestyle is not ok in any means. that's where all the worlds problems started and lie today. ideology is the worst thing for a human's soul. it lacks culture, art, beauty, spirituality, and everything that makes life pure.

good to hear that brotha. nothing wrong with some mainstream. like right now nas is considered mainstream, and he is still my favorite. and he hasnt changed his style or beliefs for the money. but you tell me who hasn't sold out besides nas that is mainstream nowdays...