Maintenance Lyrics

[Hook]
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Yes she did)
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Yes she did)
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Yes she did)
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Days like this)

[Verse 2]
(Okay) Tell me who you chill with, and I'll tell you who you are
I walk a mile with a leash attached to your freak seminar
It's a modern sensation on the boulevards of maintenance
To sweep your broken hopes under the rug then hug the playpen

It's revolution pushing through the loose pins
Of the straight-jacketed maverick classed in a bunk category
They had him parallel with a tattered glory division
Aka them who drink dreams out a thermos with a whiskey after-burn

It's like, 9 o'clock wake (I'm up), spit obscenities
My girl ties on my cape, smoke a bone, then work my deviltry

The clear day's laced with a classic mother nature thunder chaser set
That got my paper crane's wings wet
(oh no)
Voyeurist amendments lacked expansive coverage in the syllabus
I dance for chuckles while you man the keyhole grilling post (that's fine)
I done my chores according to God's schedule
With coffee holding the wheel and nicotine working the pedals
Metal-edged cadence that tends to repel the bevel
Kettle screeching out the operetta (operetta)
I live to autograph the iron curtain with dove's backfeather pens spurting magma
Curséd television earns the burdens of my Cleopatra
Minor, (M-M-Major). Disperse slap on the wrist
For the tenants lacking arms to harbor the rarity of thick friendship
Sunk with a "yes sir" chained to fatigued ankle leagues beneath the angle I'mma call home 'til the Rock meets the angels
[Hook]
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Yes she did)
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Yes she did)
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Yes she did)
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Days like this)

[Outro]
(One, two, one, two, three, four)
(One, two, one, two, three, four)
(One, two, one, two, three, four)
(One, two, one, two, three, four)
(One, two, one, two, three, four)
(One, two, one, two, three, four)
(One, two, one, two, three, four)
(One, two, one, two, three, four)

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Genius Annotation
  • “Maintenance” is the seventh track off of Aesop Rock’s Daylight EP. it is followed with a fifteen minute silent interlude and is closed with the hidden track, One Of Four (Thank You)
  • The track also features a vocal sample, throughout, of Bruce Haack’s “Party Machine” (1978) (The computerized voice that repeats “1…2…1..2..3..4” in the background)

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Release Date
February 5, 2002
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