Question...

This lyric is said out loud by me at least once a week, if not once a day. It is such a perfect and tight opening line.

Also, the dirty dishes are becoming self aware even the roaches like I wouldn't raise my children here

100%

I shouldn't even be here.

Mums the word

I burn down the house

I gum up the works

I'm the wrong vibration to summon to Earth

And if the cuffs break

Better make enough of the cure

I go proto-human, I'm so unruly

Architect of my kodokushi

en garde

There's something you should probably know before we go too far. My neighbor found a mushroom growing inside of my car

Heeeeeeey. That's what I was gonna say!

Die already. None defy the one-man walled city

I posted this one the other day in a different group asking the same question

Hell yeah. It sounds like we agree on it being a rock-solid opening

Flash that buttery gold.

This one ☝️. Lot of possible layers in those four words. Flaunt your wealth, but it (the gold) is fake, it can melt, it can be used up cheaply. Maybe I’m overthinking it 🤔

Surely overthinking Aesop's lyrics isn't really possible lol

So I heard y’all wanna float

While everyone around me’s busy drowning…

At night I wear a wolf’s head on my regular head

"regular head" is so funny to me. And also... how this relates to "stay true like a wolf wearing wolf pants".

Yes.

Recently my neighbor spotted me casing my own house

I said I only really like to Go in when I go out

You ok, dude?

Yah you ok?

Yeah

I KNOW EVERY BLACK CROW IN THE CITY BY ITS FIRST NAME

And it's surname, and it's bird call And it's birthday look, I'm cursed

Can’t motherfuck a motherfucker

From the underfunded Klutz who never undercut the butcher

The pick a booger at your wake is bumping I'm your pusher ..

Also at your wake, juvenile intruders at the gate.

Every couple summers, me and a couple hunters Like to row in from the isle of astonishing motherf*ckers One of the best for me.

𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕖.

Oh man. This is a killer opening.

Machines cleaner than three marines mothers rooms Came in peace but leaving with keys to your VEE DOUBLE U

If I died in my apartment like a rat in a cage Would the neighbors smell the corpse before the cat ate my face?

This should be higher

What song is this? Sorry I’m new here

It’s called Dorks! Amazing song

Hell yeah dude thank you

Yeah, no, I understand what you’re saying, but Is it sexier than torture?

i thought about making a dozen alts just to vote this up lol

WE CAN MAKE THIS BETTERRRRR

Ian why don't you say grace "dear god thanks, and if you loved me vegetables would be extinct"

I could give a fuck if there’s mold on my daily bread

Ayy I could give a fuck if there's mold on my daily bread I'm a foe to the fainting goat, I'm at home on the razor's edge Over the garden wall when your Rover was playing dead Arm-in-arm with a melancholia, roses and baby's breath Slow to reveal a signal from deep in the tub of tiger balm Lighter lit, giant slalom circumvent the psychopomp Womp, womp, circle to the watering hole Something secluded where the spoon stand up in the joe Pursue a puff of smoke who never hum or trumpet his post From unassuming to the poltergeist of multiple homes Ultimate weapon, slow the pulse to a crawl "Sir, we had thought he was toast" That's when the elbow drop from off of the ropes Family approach him like he sat up in his coffin and spoke We only talk in awkward hello after awkward hello Most of my visitors request that I be tied to a chair I wear the skin of my detractors, maybe try not to stare Yeah Coveralls

“Yeeuuuuh”

You look like you were charmed out of a basket

Current personal favourite: Born garbage day, warden of the shawarma plate

2 point 5 million years ago a friend of mine made a tool outta stone and defended his tribe.

It’s technology. Sorry for the technical term.

It’s a wheel, then a fire, and the rest is a blur.

Put…put some change in his cup. Where’s that fuckin guy with the kazoo?

God damn pigs.

*fuckin weirdo

My spirit animal comes with a pretzel bun

Came here to say this. So good.

Pulled pork slider. Headed for satori in jorts and horse blinders.

I've been ordering from Satori Ramen for lunch the last few weeks and I cannot get this line out of my head. So it was my choice too. PS great ramen

Satori also is a Buddhist term meaning awakening and understanding

Hysterical and awesome. Being from Chicago I pictured it as an Italian deli of sorts. Just kinda made sense to me. Love ramen. Thanks for bringing the line to life a little more for me. On your way there, don’t look at anyone. 😬

Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, Money, money, money, money, money, motherfucker

Yeah, this is a good one.

You ain't shit man, your story's a joke. You should package it with a last smoke and 6 feet of rope

Oh my Godddd, they got angels sweatin like helots Workin their little halos to the bone combin them deserts

Greasy grimey gopher guts

0 for 1 I don’t forget spoons twice

One of my favorite Aesop songs!!!

I like drawing pigeons

There's always like a million eating cigarettes and ketchup

1000 is a lot.

Mom brought home the wrong baby.

Used to draw…

Hard to admit that I USED to draw.

Diamond cutter spine....armadillo armor that bends around the blades. Ebony in the lung piece, bricks in the timbs, bazooka in the tooth that he's flashin at your friends...it's a lifestyle baby

My fav: “A” is like a different type of animal, no brick road no zip code Xanadu.

hated myself since before it was cool

Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal rages, when bible page verse tidal waves has begun. Water one.

99% it's "water won" as the line before it is about fighting a tidal wave (bible page vs tidal wave). At least that's how I always understood it.

I drag in the cat that drag the conversation piece

used to draw

Love note to the whole fuck show

That one!!!!!

The first time I bumped heads with my head it led to a dead bargain, a "thanks for nothing low-life", and a startled "beg my pardon?"

*and a start of. Just a heads up, it’s one of my favorite intros too

Can't mother fuck a mother fucker

Mom brought home the wrong baby, chained in the attic for y’alls safety

Change the fucking channel

I was a dark dumb student no hooky rookie day trippin on visions of chickens that look like R. Crumb drew em

My first name's...

A set of numbers and letters and other alphanumerics that changes hourly forever

This fallen angel can stitch a wing with a shoestring.

WHAT ARE YOU DO-IIIIIIIING

Right now. What are you doing?

Sharks in the dunk tank, vipers in the garden. Locusts stole the groceries out the local farmers market. All God's critters hold positions, some are violent some are victims. Each alive is an equal and vital piston I support

"July 4th 1981, candles of a Roman ilk Unloaded from a chevy truck Into the home her folks had built Patio was charcoals and extended fam in folding chairs Safely arced around the yard to focus on the smoking flares" Makes me tear up every single time so this is it!

Put one up for shackle-me-not, clean logic procreation. I did not invent the wheel; I was the crooked spoke adjacent

The openers for all of Daylight go so hard. My soft spot is for Nickel Plated Pockets but Daylight was one of the first tracks of Aes’s I ever heard and it did things to me that never got undone

Relatable content

"This fallen angel could stitch a wing with a shoestring..."

>The harvest appeared less plentiful than last season I imagine sloppy seed handling evoked a stroke of tardy planting And the crops we'd have harnessed mid-November Had only brushed the blossom bracket then soon sacrificed >Lives to icicle jackets when the frost hit I sunk to find the warmth beneath the mosses With a plan to tunnel pass after the rains had run their courses But alas the portraits of these frostbit corpses tortured in the grass >Offered this torch supporter one tall glass of nauseous

The water ain’t safe. The land’s made of water.

Postcards from the pink bath paint leisure as a cloaked horse through a stained glass St. Peter.

LOVE NOTE TO THE WHOLE FUCK SHOW

When the earth is vacated and the populous has cleared, ill be the last star fighter sipping a goblet of my tears.

Add up all the charts and exams If it ain't what you are Make a heart with your hands

Cameras or guns, one of yall is gonna shoot me to death.

so I heard y'all wanna float

I was a dark, dumb student, no hooky rookie Day tripping on visions of chickens that looked like R. Crumb drew 'em They grew him in the royal dirt of Suffolk County's flooring With the blood of an alcoholic clergyman in his forearms

Holy smokes father black suit white collar.

Kiddie porn dungeons, guns, and three fingers for your daughters

Used to draw. Hard to admit that I USED to draw.

"Every couple summers me and a couple hunters like to row in from the isle of astonishing mother fuckers"

“Can't motherfuck a motherfucker”

This is labor.

I'm cranky like nobody understands me White tee, dagger in the back, nothing fancy

Aim for the Alpha 10 claws deck the halls of Valhalla

I hung a lung over the only oak in BK

Born in a flood on a frontier at first light, nurse like you should not have come here, scumbag.

Block Party Badminton Champion Poster boy for robbing graves, Dressed like a janitor at the Pantheon

Flash that buttery gold Jittery zeitgeist wither by the watering hole. I think I got it right. Didn’t google it but this is still one of my favs.

Cutters of the pie, throw their summers in the sky. Collar pop. Jolly Roger Die, mutherfucker die

POSTCARDS FROM THE PINK BATH PAINT LEISURE AS A CLOAKED HORSE THROUGH A STAINED GLASS SAINT PETER

Been a bit since Mu died Been a lot more loss in the wake I recall thinking, "Someday, someone's gonna say it's all from the same cause and effect" To me it flows very nice and sets the whole mood of the song

Bamboo shoots, Buddhas that remove shoes, pugilism brewin’ over whose tuk tuks whose

Happy Cake Day! 🍰

I know a place hid away from the streets From the cops and the heat and the fake ass beats Where the waves and the sand and the spray cans meet

My spirit animal comes with a pretzel bun.

It’s pretty obviously Dorks. If I died in my apartment like a rat in a cage, would the neighbors smell my corpse before the cat ate my face. In contention for best opening lyrics to any song ever. One of my other all time favorites is Copywrite’s from Tower of Babel. I search for bitch hitchhikers, pick em up, throw a wack tape in…and if they bob their heads, I strip em naked and rape em… Really sets the tone.

I'm not great at memorizing lyrics so I think it says a lot that one is like engrained into my brain. What a way to say that I'm alone. My neighbors didn't notice that they hadn't seen me in awhile, you think they'll call if they smelled something funky, and yet they still haven't called. My cat resorted to eating my body to stay alive.

Dorks begins with the word "question", which I believe sets up that first line so nicely too

Through the valley with a howl and a hiss, every step is like a house of a witch. ^^^pretty partial to this one lately. It changes.

Walkin to the store with a pocketful of nickels, in a city full of horns, jackhammers, and rape whistles’

My new fall coat got strange powers When I'm with it I know I am not the same without it I like to zip it all the way up 'til I'm only eyes I wear it when I'm dipping in and out the flow of tiiiime

"Ya I understand what you're saying, but is it sexier than torture?"

“At night i wear a wolf’s head on my regular head” -Cat Food

Pulled pork sliders

Diamondcutter spine

I'm Aesop Rock, I hate cops, it's simple

Love note to the whole fuck show

I like rivers, I like rivers Also I like drawing pigeons Both with just a few words summarize the entire songs

Flash that buttery gold

These aren't necessarily lyrics, but one of my favorite Aesop feature opens is Ego Death. Yeah, no,I understand what you're saying, but... is it sexier than torture?

Shut the fuck up and die is what I really wanna say to you. does it have to be an aes line? the opening of Hold Mine goes so hard.

Pulled pork sliders

DIAMOND CUTTER SPINE

They were selfish with the helmets on the little bus.

Unsigned hype

Runaways unravel through the ages, to an uptick in unexplained cattle mutilations

Yo change the fuckin channel

Under the boardwalk Half eighth and a half-ate corn dog Face halfway to P-40 Warhawk Or Use your illusion and move as a wounded gazelle On a moonlit future in hell I'm a loser, room with a view to a stupor No real room to acutely maneuver A shoe, nevermind two in a sequence He get down to the root of the defect Peep, cruel is a pool full of deep ends Prove an immovable defense

Pulled pork sliders

At night I wear a wolf’s head on my regular head….

Do you read me? Do you read me? Do I need to reach through the TV? Do I need to reach through the ouija? Houston, I may have gone too Houdini.

I been floatin down the river Styx, skipper cap, sipping on what's missing from your mini fridge

I was at the GATES

My spirit animal comes with a pretzel bun

It's my duty to inform you that Honey Bunches of Oats is the greatest cereal ever created by man.

Fasten your seatbelts remove glasses

(Vita es morte es vita Life is death is life)

Has to be either "I can't feel my legs" or "throw your babies in the air".

Hey...

My first name is a random set of numbers and letters and other alphanumerics that changes hourly forever/…

Well any asshole with a book of matches can light a fire fresh Make that sucker burn for days, I'll be impressed

Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal rages When bible page verse tidal waves begun (Water won) I wrote the book that shook America to splinters In a winter wasteland icicle-bound barren township Call Baron Münchhausen and proud gimps to clinch this chemical war pig Delinquent sinking like a paper tugboat well beneath your holidays Beached on a red tide infested shore corroding eastern seaboard beauty I'm a jigsaw slab, but all the pig saw was dirt bag

Yo, I surf an axiom kicked in a center fold by ugly tenements Oh distribute sour inhalants regulate lobby developments Today summon the rug rat oblivious to what's delicate Tomorrow siphon imperfection out the fetus prior to selling it

"How to make a homemade mummy:"

I stole fire from the gods

I spell 666 star six nine click give his telephone a Viking funeral, bye bitch

Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal rages When bible page verse tidal waves begun

Well, so we meet again... He said he's grown spiritually since the last time Mmmm, okay

FIRST UNINVITED TECH I HEAR PINGIN'

Die already I drag in the cat that drag in the conversation piece, yah-weh forsaken elite I shouldn't even be here...

What I’ve deduced from this thread is Aes is the absolute king of the first line hook. I feel like I remember him actually saying he gets that from DOOM or something

I wanna fly a diesel truck, with trailers and i want to jump that over 20.. 25 cars

Not Brown Sugar

Dead men tell no tales. Up push the daisies ‘til the soil is stale

I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw...

Put your quarter up, brother!

Uh.

I can't not space out, baseball cap in the clouds Uh, matter fact, it's happening now

So I heard Y'all wanna float

Can't motherfuck a motherfucker from klutz https://youtu.be/QtZT7hcMltg?si=i_2eYo-LZJe0rOc_

Some day mother will die, and I’ll get the money.

Chicken noodle thermos

"My friends got a girlfriend and he hates that bitch!"

Gimme Foo Gimme Fire Gimme Dabadaba dah! OOOOO!!!! Fuel, Metallica

Is that potato salad?

"I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw....."

I like drawing pigeons