The Mayor and the Crook

[Hook] No more pencils, no more books I built the city out one brick It had a mayor and a crook I made the crook stab the mayor then slay himself in the guilt I stole the brick back and migrated east, now, let's build [Verse 1] Every tenderfoot cadet bettered slit-throat percentages Chicken penmanship tied the thirteenth knot (Hangman) I arrange panoramics of a placid cataloguing where wild dogs sing tailor-made lullabies tried by my offspring I'll bring the butterflies and he can bring the centipedes And she'll bring the cadavers set 'em free and let 'em feed The deviltry penciled me in, but I slept thick through my alarm clock Silly Billy hid in the barn while farmer charmed the crops And I'm a warden My tongue is full of glass Because I promised my friend I'd chew up the bottle If he truly drank the poison I'm alienating the mating dance of the higher, ire-based, tired-faced, miser-made God clones We can manufacture medicine Patent the five digit slide clock the essentials in (I'll be a bill collector) My destinies resting with red worms chewin' off the carcass anyway Let me slay artists for tips in the penny tray By the way if that diamond ring don't shine That's cause I bought it at the five-and-dime but don't neglect the sentiment I'll pedal my tricycle through the F-5 logistics of a twister Soaked in the religions of a nit-picker [Hook] [Verse 2] If I botched the operation I apologize (Sorry) The err's rooted in carbon I'm but a mortal archer parked in amber waves of starlets I'm fresh out of Gepetto's woodwork asylum See the frame, wire-bound knuckles Let a tug of the puppeteer steer my hustle Now when a page becomes a squire, be engaged, clap your wings When a noble's demoted hope it don't sucker-punch the colony But when the catapult releases lease your claims behind the bunker And fasten stinger pageant results to the public eye (Glory hunter) Is it genuine enough to feel, baby felon? Negotiate comradery or wilt My dismal little little loom Purged urgent with dirty dominion monitor boxes Hovering inches 'bove pertinent urchin toxins (Now) You ain't excused from table side Till the dinner plate's spotless Slurping' liquid happy citizen enhancer I got this slicky sycamore handshake That mimics stitch splinter entry Thereby filtering citizens tin man prior to axe descending (Tight) Cats know the ambiance, calm beyond comparison Captain passive spring loaded serenity I'm trying to give this city acupuncture Shovin' one-way pins in subway systems Standing up where I'm landing', now that a runway victim (Push, push) Nature's gone batty, spreading spore legitimate Slice the bishop, sever the ties, splinter the kinship See every now and again I love life but hate to admit it Cause it spreads the jinx on a sleeping cynic [Hook] No more pencils, no more books I built the city out one brick I had a mayor and a crook I made the crook stab the mayor then slay himself in the guilt I stole the brick back and-- [Verse 3] I'm quadruple six plus scruples category mayhem stems So one overlooked the scene including loopholes When Christ studies the return ramifications I'll burn the campus to impress him Then rock like Medusa glances Who ran the final mile before the blanks blown? Home alone sipping beetle juice Just to numb it, then shimmy the needles loose I built a castle out of fifty-two cards Plus jokers, wit, and image Modern theory charges us while remaining harnessed to the vintage I'm valid hypothesis honoring Occam's Razor With a seam sewn via fatigued knuckle work (Labor) I've patched the little leakage in the shell around my greed In case Tommy Turbulence located The Matrix then impedes Whistle me a dirge, falcon boogie burst classic Bastard repellant fell in haunted machines screened by similars Got beckoned like a suicide king to the dagger surface Due to one queen who lodged her faith inside a broken circus Me and my stargazer from the woodwork serve the furnace Omit the discoloring on the lung then stung the serpents I cherish the Ferris wheel's revolutions It's not because the ride enthralls More simply to the fact that it still revolves Nursed in a bracket of televis, plastics and saccharin (well) I oppose mass panic Thoroughbred fantasy cadets pose with a latch key demeanor Returning to find a home vacant with no similars to compare days with So let's build!