Chess Club - Stoic Lyrics

Dehydrated, roving through a concrete desert, seven blackbird feathers in my cap
A blade stuck heavy into my weathered heart
Plan to keep on crawling until my digits crumble into dust
Four-legged beast, domesticated feast, hyenas always scheming on the trail behind the real meat
But rugged and raging, I'm remaining unfazed by antagonistic wagons on the frontier
You must hear me, whispering discretely, self-soothing words
A cloaked stoic mixing iocane potion
But you won't find me falling on my sword, Cato-style
The pure exhaustion of a measured failed Roman rebel
My survival mechanism, something to reckon with
Honed and indestructible as a rhino femur club hit
Discard the tiger balm and tourniquets
Apply the iron hot and let it sit

Let the soul lead the mind
Let the swine feign divine
Trust fall into a vision of an intricate design and you'll be fine

Today's nihilistic dweebs and lingual-policing sleazes
Couldn't take a concrete step if they had cinder blocks for feet
Me? Retain momentum like a bullet train, slick with rain, conductor high on ketamine
Racing towards his destined queen. Yet I stay clean
I whistle mellifluous notes through the thistle and glorious willows and pines and vines
And limitless radiant flora they don't even notice
Definitively bogus derivative no ones
Respect my focus and you get a bonus
But know I'm taking my break today
Putting up my blinders like a Central Park Clydesdale
Content to lounge atop a rooftop with a pear and a visor
Humble cosmic admirer meeting with my Delphi advisor
You're a mote of dust. I know
I'm not trying to wrangle with the fates too much
Just give me a brush, I'll make the canvas lush
Unrushed in the service of the ones I love and trust

Let the soul lead the mind
Let the swine feign divine
Trust fall into a vision of an intricate design and you'll be fine
On my trail, crystalized, purified, harmonized
With sympathetic atoms saying Savor all your time while you're climbing
Let them think that you've resigned