1 Of 4 (Thank You)
Aesop Rock

* 1 of 4...

My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz
I was born in 1-9-7-6, at Biosfet hospital, located in Long Island, NY
I am 6 foot, for I weigh 2-0-0 pounds
I have brown hair and green eyes
I enjoy writing songs, painting, movies and diner food
I have two brothers, Chris and Graham
and two parents, Paul and Jameija
In august of 2-0-0-1 I went crazy..

This was originally not for public consumption
This was made for four people... four people that literally saved my life
They know who they are..
And ahhh I mean I could live to be a thousand years old and never re-pay them
I don't think this song would pay for them
But hopefully by putting it out, push the bank a little further..

This ain't a burner for the whips (no it isn't)
This ain't even Aesop Rock fly earthworm demeanor (no it isn't)
My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz and I was born in Long Island, New York
Seventy Six, before Graham and after Chris... OK
In August of 2001 my seemingly splinter-proof brain bone, scaffling imploded
I kept it on the hush, but nearly tumbling
to the cold hard concrete on near bodega trips
for ciggaretes and soda, shook me to kasper
Dizzy with a nothern chaser, motor sensory eraser
Gorophobe tunnel vision, guilt, self loathing arrangements
Rose rapidly outta fog I'd never fished in
that abates three separate foreign men's
While I seems to hook lines and syncro simple fishing
Simple primitive self taught, easing of soul, mind and body
but the symptoms rejected my cave-man modus operandi
So now it's one fish belly up, through medicated mol edge
Shrinks that get 250 an hour for awkward silence
And, I'd be lying if I said all of this
made even the slightest fragment of sense to me
That's frail... Simply put
I don't know what happened, or what's stillhappening
I literally feel like I'm teetering on the blunt edge of my sanity
JAMIE, I killed the robots and I'm sorry
Broke down in front of you, embarrassed
but you lent a heart and hand that only you could
you're one of my best friends and yes I'd take that bullet for you
That's my word, which is about all I have left
TONY, I know you know you crazy, 'cause you told me
but that did never bother you, I hold you as my brother 'til death
And I got your back if ever the drunk goblin step
for makin' a cat laugh, when I was walking with the dead
KATHERINE, mother figure, older sister, concerned be a limits
Letting me know I wasn't the only one with this
Continuous offers for vacation, Chicago visits
Talked me to repair of a head full of broken pistons
RIYAH, for the late night movie rentals and the company I needed
An' you knew it, but I just wouldn't admit it
You listened to me brag about my issues for hours
Offer incredible advice, gave me a hug when I was finished
Am I a jack of all trades? Nope... I like to write songs tho'
Are they good? I dunno..
But I could tell you that I only write shit down when I believe it
So take this how you want, but know I mean it
I want you all to know that I'm scared
Now my fuckin' crooked soul never faced a monster like the last few months
Never in my whole life... I wish I could explain this better (I can't)
But the pieces won't formulate it to anything even close to cohesive
So I guess this is my feeble way to thank you
Four soldiers that extended something sacred off the purity of kindness
I owe you all my life and please don't argue with that statement
'Cause without y'all I may not have a life to offer, take it

Thank you
I wish I could explain this better. (Thank you)
I'm sorry for burdening your pleasures. (Thank you)
I love you all with all that's left of me. (Thank you)
For helping try to kill what made a mess of me. (Thank you)
Somehow, someway. (Thank you)
I'ma get you back someday. (Thank you)
Just gotta figure this all out... So..

I guess it is kind of funny when you look headed from a step back
How one man can literally buckle under the same pressures
Other men operate normally under
I have soaked this out from all angles, walking through time
I have been over everything in my head, still I can't think anymore
But I guess some times, when you can't breathe, there are people there
to breathe for you
I am lucky enough to have those people around me
Thank you for helping me to not die
Thank you for helping me to not die

Pocket full of pennies, and a soul gone tilt
Cockpit full of memories and a dream full of guilt
Aesop Rock 1 Of 4 (Thank You)


  Purchase "1 Of 4 (Thank You)"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "1 Of 4 (Thank You)" Video   Play Spotify "1 Of 4 (Thank You)" Song   View Wikipedia "1 Of 4 (Thank You)" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Aesop Rock Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "1 Of 4 (Thank You)"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Aesop Rock

  1 of 4 (Thank You)   1,000 Deaths   1,000 Deaths   1,000 O'Clock   11:35   11:35   39 Thieves   6b Panorama   6B Panorama   89.9FM Nighttrain Promo   89.9FM Nighttrain Promo   9-5ers Anthem   9-5ers Anthem   Abandon All Hope   Abandon All Hope   Alchemy   Alchemy   Antisocial   Antisocial   Appleseed Intro   Appleseed Intro   Attention Span   Attention Span   Babies With Guns   Babies With Guns   Basic Cable   Basic Cable   Battery   Battery   Bazooka Tooth   Bazooka Tooth   Bent Life   Bent Life   Big Bang   Big Bang   Blacklist   Blacklist (Feat. Mf Doom)   Blood Sandwich   Blue in the Face   BMX   Bonus Round   Boom Bye Bye   Boombox   Boombox   Bracket Basher   Bracket Basher   Bring Back Pluto   Bring Back Pluto   Bug Zapper   Cat Food   Catacomb Kids   Citronella   Coffee   Coffee   Coma   Coma   Commencement At The Obedience Academy   Commencement At The Obedience Academy   Cook It Up   Cook It Up   Coordinates   Coward of the Year   Crows 1   Crows 2   Cycles to Gehenna   Dark Heart News   Daylight   Daylight   Daylight (EP)   Dead Pan   Dead Pan   Deadpan   Defender   Dokken Rules   Dorks   Drawbridge   Drawbridge   Dryspell   Dryspell   Easy   Easy   Face Melter   Facemelter   Fascination   Fascination   Fast Cars   Five Fingers   Flashflood   Flashflood   Float   Float   Food, Clothes, Medicine   Food, Clothes, Medicine   Freeze   Freeze   Frijoles   Fryer Starter   Fryerstarter   Fumes   Fumes   Garbage   Garbage   Get out of the Car   Getaway Car   Getaway Car   Getaway Car   Gopher Guts   Gopher Guts   Grace   Grace   Gun For The Whole Family   Hold the Cup   Hold The Cup   Holy Smokes   Home Again   Homemade Mummy   How To Be A Carpenter   How To Be A Carpenter   How to Be a Carpenter   I'll Be Ok   I'll Be Ok   Keep Off the Lawn   Kill the Messenger   Kirby   Labor   Labor   Lazy Eye   Leisureforce   Lime Lighter   Limelighters   Live on 89.9FM Night Train   Lotta Years   Maintenance   Maintenance   Mars Attacks   Mars Attacks   Mayor And The Crook   Merit   Meter Feeder   Molecules   Mystery Fish   N.Y. Electric   Nickel Plated Pockets   Nickel Plated Pockets   Night Light   Night Light   Nightlight   No City   No City   No Jumper Cables   No Jumper Cables   No Regrets   No Splash   No Splash   No Splash   None Shall Pass   None Shall Pass   Number Nine   NY Electric   Odessa   One Brick   One Brick   One Of Four   One of Four (Thank You)   One Of Four (Thank You)   Oxygen   Oxygen   Plastic Soldiers   Prosperity   Prosperity   Rabies   Racing Stripes   Racing Stripes   Rickety Rickety   Rickety Rickety   Rings   Ruby '81   Same Space   Same Space   Same Space (The Tugboat Complex Part 2)   Same Space (The Tugboat Complex Part 2)   Saturn Missiles   Save The Day   Save The Day   Save The Day   Save Yourself   Save Yourself   Shere Kahn   Shere Kahn   Shere Khan   Shovel   Shovel   Shrunk   Sick Friend   Sick Friend   Sinister   Sinister   Skip Town   Skip Town   Skip Town   Spare A Match   Spare A Match   Super Fluke   Supercell   Take Me To The Basement   Take Me To The Basement   Tetra   The Active Element   The Active Element   The Greatest Pac Man Victory In History   The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History   The Harbor Is Yours   The Mayor And The Crook   The Substance   The Substance   The Tugboat Complex   The Tugboat Complex   The Tugboat Complex, Pt. 3   The Yes And The Y'all   The Yes and the Y'all   Troubled Waters   Troubled Waters   TUFF   Wake Up Call   Wake Up Call   Water   Water Tower   We're Famous   We're Famous (Feat. El-P)   Winners Take All   Zero Dark Thirty   Zodiaccupuncture   ZZZ Top

Related Songs

  Thank God for Something - Hawk Nelson  Colored People - D.c. Talk  Babydoctor - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum  Colored People - DC Talk  My Everything - Yolanda Adams  I.D. - Janet Jackson  I.D. - Janet Jackson  Me Out...  I thank you Lord for you\u2019re in control of my ...  Bout Dat Life - Plies  Turncoat - Anti Flag  Beautiful - Adam Cohen  Beautiful - Adam Cohen  Ticket 4 Two - Cubic U  Area Codes - Ludacris  Thank You - Capaul  Prayer - Rick Ross  Spiders - Ozzy Osbourne  Thank You (4 Breaking My Heart) - Aselin Debison  If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked A Cake...  If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Ca...  Channel 5 Theme - Spice Girls  Power of Five - Spice Girls  Always There, In Our Hearts - The Flaming Lips  Running Back (Getting Fat) - Gucci Mane  Latch Key Kids - Bad Religion  T Baggin' Skit The Better One - Ludacris  T Baggin' Skit - Ludacris  T Baggin' Skit - Ludacris  As The Music Plays The Band - Bamboo  Cry Of The Whippoorwill - Rhonda Vincent  The Angel Of Goliad - Brian Burns  I Wanna Thank You - E-40  Outro - Chris Brown  How Majesty - Vinesong  Always There...In Our Hearts - Flaming Lips  I Believe What You've Spoken - Andrea Hamilton  The Chaos - The Futureheads  The Chaos - Futureheads  Mama Album Version - Il Divo  Running Back - Gucci Mane  31 Seconds Alone - Ke$ha  Story - P-square  I Trust You - Anthony Faulkner  The Magic Penny - Cathy Fink  Ooh La! Ooh La! - They Might Be Giants  Prayer - Rick Ross  Dr. Online - Zeromancer  Eledumare - Ebass  She's My Rushmore - Every Time I Die  I Can Make It Thru The Days (But Oh Those Lonely N...  Lady Cab Driver - Prince  At The First Fall Of Snow - Hank Williams, Jr.  5-4-3-2-1 - Manfred Mann  Drill Instructor - Captain Jack  Honky Rink [*] - Beastie Boys  Dirt Dog previously unreleased track...  Stumme Zeugen - Nachtmahr  L.A. Municipal Court - Tool  Sora Takaku - Arashi  Romance 1600 - Prince  2 x 4 - Wesley Willis  Outro Talking - Chris Brown & Tyga  Conteo - Don Omar  Honky Rink - Beastie Boys  Count On You - Big Time Rush  Thank Heaven 4 You - Esthero  Final Communique - Boy Sets Fire  Wasteland Discotheque - Raunchy  The Number Song - Dj Shadow  1-2-4-5 - Henry Fiat's Open Sore  The Weathermen Know Which Way The Wind Blows...  Big Red Boat - The Wiggles  closet ghost - glass cake  Perfect (Exceeder) (Vocal Club Mix)...  Things Have Gone to Pieces - George Jones  The Wind Beneath My Wings - Nana Mouskouri  A Good God - Cloud Cult  Fire Off Your Guns - Buckcherry  Area Codes Ft. Nate Dogg - Ludacris  Doctor Online - Zeromancer  VOODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN)/STEPPING STONE...  Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Lauryn Hill  Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Lauryn Hill  Deja Vu - Teairra Mari  Kesha 31 Seconds Alone is an electro-pop song by A...  31 Seconds Alone - Kesha  Count Up To Nine - Sesame Street  The Count's Counting Song - Sesame Street  5 4 3 2 1 - Manfred Mann's Earth Band  Brother - Ms. Dynamite  The Lottery - Mark Foggo's Skasters  The Count Song - Lemon Demon  The Human Body - Prince  1 2 3 4 - Fake Problems  Drill Instructor (C-Jah Happy Mix) - Captain Jack  4 3 2 1 - K Os  Work That Body - RuPaul  Work That Body - Diana Ross  Miserlou - Admiral Twin  Manate - Articolo 31  Area Codes - Nate Dogg  Area Codes [PB Mix] - Nate Dogg  Area Codes - Todd Clouser  1, 2, 3, 4. - Plain White T's  Eight Beautiful Notes - Sesame Street  I SAW GENER CRYIN' IN HIS SLEEP (II) - Ween  257.zero - Moby  So **** Fine - Jill Scott  Thank a Farmer - James Wesley  Wake Up Call - Prodigy  1, 2, 3 (Remix) - Gloria Estefan  Transylvania 1-2-3-4-5 - Clifford Kevin Clash  Transylvania 1-2-3-4-5 - Sesame Street  Area Codes (Hoes) - Ludacris  Vi Var Människor Från Början - Makthaverskan  Counting Is Wonderful - Sesame Street  Pump It Up - Pitbull  Flexxin - Tony Yayo  Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix) - Dj Shadow  Toad Of The Short Forest...  Topic Nr.1 - Tokio Hotel  The Red and the Number - Marmaduke Duke  The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix)...  L.A.M.C. - Tool  Rocketship Run - The Laurie Berkner Band  Marine 475 (Vroom Coda) - King Crimson  Four - Sesame Street  The Bantry Girls Lament - Clancy Brothers  Five Days - Patrick Nuo  Who We Are - Switchfoot  Fisheye - Shining (Norway)  A Simple Little Melody - The Black Eyed Peas  A Simple Little Melody - Black Eyed Peas  The Let's All Call Up AT And T And Protest To The ...  Imagine - Dizzee Rascal  1-2-3 - Barry Len  Cocky Lady - Clare Bowditch  Trees and Trust - Kye Kye  1234 - De La Soul  1234 - Ozomatli  So Fine - Jill Scott  1-2-3 - So You Think You Can Dance  I've Fallen In Love - Bap Kennedy  The Transylvania Polka - Sesame Street  Numbers [*] - The Hives  Numbers - The Hives  Numbers [PCM Stereo] - Kraftwerk  1, 2, 3, Goodbye - Demi Lovato  Hold My Body Tight [Danny Tenaglia Edit][Mix]...  Hold My Body Tight - East 17  Hold My Body Tight (album Version) - East 17  1234 - Ron Wood  A Very Bieber Christmas - Justin Bieber  A Very Justin Bieber Christmas! - Justin Bieber  If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody...  Pump It Up [feat. Dominic] - Pitbull  Lyrical Exercise - The Game  Simple Little Melody, A - Black Eyed Peas  Simple Little Melody - Black Eyed Peas  For All The Pretty People - Ben Folds  1-2-3 - Gloria Estefan  1+1 - The City Harmonic  Dog Days - Within Temptation  Dog Days (Demo) - Within Temptation  Somewhere in the Night - André Campagnani  Somewhere in the Night - André Campagnani  Walking Out of Stride - Badly Drawn Boy  Blast Off - Stray Cats  Steve Instant Neuman - Melvins  Band Aid 2---Do They Know It's Christmas?...  Six Snails - Sesame Street  Thank You - Boyz II Men  Octopus Blues - Sesame Street  Touchdown - Twice  One - Forward, Russia!  From This Day [Live][#] - Machine Head  From This Day [Video Track][Multimedia Track]...  1-2-3 - N-E-1  Eternity - Disciple  Math Necromancer - The Necrophiliac's Babies  Numbers - The Adicts  10-4 Over And Out - Dolly Parton  10-4 Over And Out - Porter Wagoner  Thank U In Advance - Boyz II Men  Walking Out Of Stride - About A Boy Soundtrack  It's A Fact (Printed Stained) - Matt and Kim  It's a Fact - Matt & Kim  Mr. Dj - S.O.A.P  The Elephant Elevator Operator - Sesame Street  Brain Of J - Pearl Jam  The 5 Golden Rules of Space Command - Nancy Vandal  Number Games - Drunken Tiger  Vegas Lights - Panic At The Disco  13 Little Dolls - Sophie Ellis Bextor  Knockout Kings - Coolio  Two by Four(2by4) - A.Jay  Fueled - Anthrax  Counting The Days - Goldfinger  Each Minute Seems Like A Million Years...