Cover art for Zero Dark Thirty by Aesop Rock

Zero Dark Thirty

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Jul. 10, 20121 viewer176.9K views

Zero Dark Thirty Lyrics

[Intro]
(They did not know how long they had been there)
(They did not know how long they had been there)
(They did not know how long they had been there)
(They did not know how long they had been there)
(They did not know how long they had been there)
(They did not know how long they had been there)
(They did not know how long they had been there)

[Verse 1]
Look…
Unsigned hype, front line aeronauts flurry
Zero dark thirty
Zero Friends minotaur-fugly stepchild
Evoke lunch jumped over plunging necklines
Up, beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes
Devolved into mothmen munching textiles
Punisher, out past go-time
Back 10 fried worms chubbier
Brown grass both sides
Canned food, manmade tools
Lanacane, band aids, mandrake root

Bindle on a broomstick, pancaked shoes
And a handshake-proof campaign, can’t lose
Can’t gain
Smoke out moles like a force of nature
Pray fortune return to his favor, swiftly
Maybe in the form of a nest egg
Maybe in the form of a Tesla death ray

Or a solid gold scene with something better to celebrate
Than powder on a face like a flatfoot on jelly day

M-m-moral compass all batshit
Spinning in the shadows of immoral magnets

Are we supporting the artist or enabling the addict?
I mean, I guess it matters to me, I wish it mattered to you
How a thousand virtues
Kick the same bucket like chinatown turtles

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July 10, 2012
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