Lyrics Mindful Solutionism.lrc Aesop Rock
[id: pshzngep]
[ar: Aesop Rock]
[al: Integrated Tech Solutions]
[ti: Mindful Solutionism]
[length: 03:35]
[00:00.07]2.5 million years ago, a friend of mine
[00:03.49]Made a tool from a stone and defended his tribe
[00:06.17]It’s technology, sorry for the technical term
[00:09.19]It’s a wheel then a fire and the rest is a blur
[00:11.87]Throw a theorized plot in the pot with applied science
[00:14.96]Let it sit, I bet it streamlines your environs, yeah
[00:17.99]What’s a resource local to the grotto?
[00:20.55]The method isn’t free until the mechanism follow
[00:23.22]That’s technology, innovate a difference
[00:26.13]A feat of engineering, a system made efficient
[00:28.89]There isn’t a condition, complication, or a vision
[00:31.57]Where the answer ain’t to build a more sophisticated widget, idgit
[00:35.04]Tired of games, Bronze Age, Iron Age
[00:37.96]Weaponry in stellar form, shelter finer by the day
[00:40.36]Livestock and vegetables in rows behind the hideaway
[00:43.04]Mesopotamia out the motherfuckin’ lion cage, yuh
[00:46.20]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[00:48.97]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[00:51.82]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[00:54.47]Now that is a powerful cat
[01:00.13]Now that is a powerful cat
[01:05.98]Now that is a powerful cat
[01:07.81]You take a lever and a pulley and a winch and a wedge
[01:10.54]You get a labyrinth of aqueducts and pyramid steps
[01:13.23]Before the Jesus, Archimedes on that miracle tech
[01:16.12]Year Zero, you could feel the future rearing its head
[01:18.86]Put a shoe on a horse, shoot a man with a gun
[01:21.86]Steam power, bifocals, and mechanical funk
[01:24.45]Manipulate electricity, no, it cannot be done
[01:27.12]Yes it can, ain’t a dam that can cancel the flood
[01:30.07]True to human curiosity, at the Tree of Knowledge
[01:33.02]Pulling genies out of bottles, stealing from Leonardos
[01:35.79]Plain train auto hauling space age cargo
[01:38.64]Bizzaro technology, every day is tomorrow
[01:41.33]Telegraph, telephone, you can flirt with Doris
[01:44.27]In Poughkeepsie from a cozy geodesic dome in Sydney
[01:46.99]You can write a letter with no paper
[01:49.80]You can fix anything with a laser
[01:52.81]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[01:55.72]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[01:58.72]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[02:01.90]Now that is a powerful cat
[02:07.89]Now that is a powerful cat
[02:12.96]Now that is a powerful cat
[02:16.66]You could get a robot limb for your blown-off limb
[02:19.84]Later on the same technology could automate your gig, as awesome as it is
[02:25.61]Wait, it gets awful: you could split a atom willy-nilly
[02:28.87]If it’s energy that can be used for killing, then it will be
[02:31.72]It’s not about a better knife, it’s chemistry and genocide
[02:34.73]And medicine for tempering the heck in a projector light
[02:37.65]Landmines, Agent Orange, leaded gas, cigarettes
[02:40.25]Cameras in your favorite corners, plastic in the wilderness
[02:42.91]We can not be trusted with the stuff that we come up with
[02:45.85]The machinery could eat us, we just really love our buttons, um
[02:48.78]Technology, focus on the other shit
[02:51.44]3D-printed body parts, dehydrated onion dip
[02:54.36]You can buy a Jet Ski from a cell phone on a jumbo jet
[02:57.25]T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y, it’s the ultimate
[03:00.49]Altitude, climate, geography, medical research, automated teaching, distribution, better health, unknown factors
[03:11.02]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[03:14.06]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[03:16.97]If it’s out of the bag then it’s out of the bag
[03:20.75]Now that is a powerful cat
[03:25.26]Now that is a powerful cat
[03:30.91]Now that is a powerful cat
[03:33.37]Year of Release: 2023