Merit Aesop Rock

[Verse 1]
Alright, I can hear the ocean in a shell
But for the life of me I've never heard your surges more than raindrops in a well
Paladin tribe, break beat elitists, element five
Fully sold on operation, jeopardize of my survival
Will survive when sprayed by heaven's liquid ammunition
I'll survive when betrayed by my brethren's wicked ambitions
I'll survive when braided with shut eye; sticky thickets and thorns, born clutching a fistful
The hurt's morbidly blissful
Forms spiraling, sovereigns bring the rise in the funnel
A chorus line of blind crazes tap the water, find the tunnel (Find the tunnel)
As skinny click, mechanics flock to block pick of the land
We stretch the Earth around the canvas, drag a stick in the sand
And pan the hell out, timid, you're tireless, bold
The cold that ire spits clicks subtly on supremacy, therefore blemishe me
Oh, the treacherous penalty centers me, renders me bait
Skating slalom through this churning murder columns
I am not entirely trained to undo the shame
And all I got's three pennies and a rusty mic unto my name
Unto my game, defy the Siamese approaches
Whose delinquent dichotomy comps Emerald City in wondrous novelty
Drink drum, sip a snare to spit a rigid sequence, that's when freak sons
Fade to black just like these pretty pink lungs, slugger
Paper dolls' facade as swashbuckler (Yeah)
Bounty hunt the front to document the frosh cluster
I am structure with a smoke ring, militant distinction
With a cloak-and-dagger stagger prime directive
And all else burrows itself amongst drunken perspective, fade me
I flee the scene grippin' the missing link like chain gang escapees