Sword Box - Malibu Ken, Aesop Rock

What kind of bastion of trust

Hit the stage with a straight-face and jacket full of doves?

Where daisy-chained hankies vanish into plastic thumbs

It was classic misdirection sold as magic to the young

Via masters of deception

The full force, court of volunteer

Pull a quarter out his ear in a recession

Pull a rabbit from a Stetson, as a rapper

Though it’s basically the same exact profession

Watch, con artist, give a fuck who the mark is

Whether gorgeous or New Yorkers through the eye of Diane Arbus

No outstanding warrants, nothing up his sleeve

I need you feeling weak and needing something to believe

I need you feeling freakish, that’s when I really flourish

I wake up in a sword box, I brush my teeth with bullets

Underneath some cosmic retrograde where patsies get their signals flipped

Hold on to your crystal pouch, step up to the thimble rig

And for my next trick

I’ll make a dollar bill climb up out your wallet

Disappear and reappear inside my pocket

I never really do these things twice

But if y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

It goes scarves into wands

Into flowers over common sense

I’m all heart, rib cage housing a Svengali deck

Pick a card, tricky turn a vic' into a bobble-head

Absconders into clingers-on, Klingons into Romulans

Saw myself in pieces for purveyors of the strange

Put the pieces back together though I’m never quite the same

We undermine the infantry with trickery that range

From weighted dice to blowup dolls up in the carpool lane

I’m charcoal with the art school lames

I’m skateboarding with heshers

Seen scepters shaped like feather pens and '57 fenders

Carving knives and camera parts and canvas over stretchers

And whatever make that project in the cellar go Excelsior

At the whim of older bones that magically predict the weather

He like his eye of newt with pinch of pepper

The nerd rage scurry out a collapsible bird cage

Ace in the palm at the workplace, jerkface

And for my next trick

I’ll make a dollar bill climb up out your wallet

Disappear and reappear inside my pocket

I never really do these things twice

But if y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might

If y’all ask nice I just might