Cover art for Marble Cake by Aesop Rock

Marble Cake

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Marble Cake Lyrics

[Verse 2]
No displayed blazonry, unmistakably mutinous
The mood is disillusionment, shit, even Cindy Lou Who quit
I'm super stupid, future looking tuna fish and suture kit
In route to mute the TV and a view without a boot to lick

Bruised at the nucleus and drooling through the bells of war
Meet the neighbors when your resume is "skeleton-with-oar"
"Ummm, that's really cool your poodle made the paper"
Let's keep it at shoes in a elevator

He's a hat and coat, floating with no discernible visage
The villains turn to their homies who mostly turn into crickets
I'm part of a larger ghosting, I go to work with the wizards
Who already voted homecoming theme as a burning village
The damn shame campaign pivot when you in the field
Thinning blood and newly surfacing disorder, spin the wheel
Feeders out to slow the roll, reaper on the protocol
People you confide in will be spotted eating rodents whole

[Chorus]
I should hang a skull on the side door
I should drink water from the sky more
I want a thousand lanterns drifting on a summers wind
I'm only joking, y'all can feed me to the fucking pigs
It's no thing


[Verse 3]
Marshmallows over magma from the mantle has been cancelled
How snappy can you adequately scaffold?

Happy canvassing the neighborhoods I'll never take advantage of his patron
As a patient they are plays to be a phantom of
Nan under the bandages, examine 'til he vanishes
I don't feel a social pull to show the wolves where grandma lives
I find deliverance from evil either in a sedentary binge
Or spring interning with the cemetery winds
No stacked sash or accolades from authority

The backstory gets all back-into-a-corner-y
Abuses in the feeding tube, that circle back to eat at you
Bacteria that tip the hat, adversity that gleam the cube

It's tit for tat with slippery aristocrats who pity cops
And brilliant rats who find the grit to slip out of the Skinner box
The moat's supposed to keep the rivals out
The calls are coming from inside the house

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What did Aesop Rock say about "Marble Cake"?
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Aesop said the following in an interview with Flood Magazine.

This is about how the hunt is the prize. Explore all dimensions, and know that the value is in the experience, not what you have in the end. The chorus is meant to celebrate life by saying, “How I die is not important. How I live is.” I think when you are a person who finds value in making art—on your good days you recognize how much of a privilege it is to explore and learn and create and share. This was almost the last song until a late decision where I flipped this and the next one.

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November 13, 2020
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