Atmosphere - Fishing Blues Lyrics






I realize that we ain't the same
But you might appreciate it if I try to explain
While I'm sitting in the middle of a lake
Gotta find a fish to come and nibble on the bait
I'mma set the stage for the challenge
I'mma meditate just for practice
I'mma concentrate on my balance
I'mma contemplate on this canvas
I'mma bandit running with a stolen moment
The careful arrow, narrow focus
Gotta roll with both eyes open
Quality of life feels like I'm floating
Trying to make this minute stretch
Cause whats in my face is so picturesque
I mean, it even made me quit the cigarettes
I mean, shit I guess I got a fish to catch

[The Grouch:]
Just like an answered calling
When I drop this line in the water
Keep fishing man with a vision
Look brother I saw the future
Look past I'll draw it for you
Strong words of an old soul
"Don't rock my boat" I told them
Reel em' in throw em' back slow

Everything looks clear in hindsight
If you can adjust to the twilight
Trying to live enough life to last a lifetime
Roll with the ride like I'm supposed to survive
How you know that you alive?
If you ain't fighting for a mouthful of future?
This ain't business as usual, check the tackle
Box full of beautiful, look like shrapnel
Break the cycle and the old mistakes
But the boat obeys the waves
And then the little fish spoke as it broke away
It said, "Know limits, but know with a 'K'"
Yesterday's catch will cook tomorrow
Right now I gotta do what I gotta
Took a time out from the human drama
Put my line in the water now who wanna holler?

[The Grouch:]
Just like an answered calling
When I drop this line in the water
Keep fishing man with a vision
Look brother I saw the future
Look past I'll draw it for you
Strong words of an old soul
"Don't rock my boat" I told them
Reel em' in throw em' back slow
Just like an answered calling
When I drop this line in the water
Keep fishing man with a vision
Look brother I saw the future
Look past I'll draw it for you
Strong words of an old soul
"Don't rock my boat" I told them
Reel em' in throw em' back slow





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  1. m.... i....

    love this video. love you.

  2. A.... S....

    Best American songwriter

  3. C.... T....

    Aes rock is your favorite rappers fav is apper.

  4. p.... d....

    Fishing the bait caster upside down CRINGE!

  5. x.... ....

    I wanna go fishing..

  6. C.... S....

    Slept on

  7. a.... ....

    Mississippi

  8. Z.... B....

    Atmosphere finally made a good album

  9. S.... G....

    i look down, to the rhyme sayers logo and spin it like vinyl?!

  10. D.... ....

    How is this called Fishing Blues, and doesn't talk about fishing or blues.. Terrible. Many better "fishing blues" out there.

  11. i.... ....

    Life is just a song and i hope that its long. Te amo atmos to the fear 😱

  12. A.... ....

    It's so good to see you kids becoming men

  13. V.... C....

    I fuckin love you atmosphere, ,, u da homie forsure

  14. J.... D....

    Wtf dude....I’ll be too see you guys in Detroit......

  15. J.... M....

    boosting any loose thing
    9:02 favourite verse

  16. f.... s....

    as soon as someone insults or cuss at somebody in the comment section I be like,,, they musta lost lol

  17. J.... D....

    Did he ever catch a fish??

  18. R.... S....

    Had had a couple fishing weekends in the last month, wish I could go every weekend! Bumped a lot of this album. Winnipeg, pretty much the Minnesota of Canada! HOLLA

  19. E.... B....

    Do they catch any fish?

  20. k.... b....

    This Album is perfect. Guys can reunite after those years and make a masterpiece.

  21. C.... C....

    "I'm a feminist, I'm also a misogynist
    spit like an arsonist, dick like an obelisk"
    new national anthem

  22. C.... C....

    only 2 songs in and this slaps

  23. S.... ....

    Yo Slug.. You shave your legs?

  24. G.... ....

    dude shows up and smokes everyone else's weed

  25. D.... V....

    Once upon a time in the next few days....Reppin Nola!

  26. N.... S....

    Love from amsterdam!

  27. x.... ....

    Very cool ive never seen a music vid do this

  28. A.... A....

    I want Atmosphere to start making Independent Alternative Rock style of music. Rap has been kinda fading away.

  29. W.... ....

    Watching video. Dude has to show dude how to fish.

  30. J.... B....

    Fucking a
    .. You guys rock.

  31. T.... ....

    damn how cool is that

  32. C.... B....

    This concert in Pittsburgh brought back old memories..Thanks for those.. I love live concerts!

  33. R.... D....

    love ya slugbut you've changed mannn

  34. s.... ....

    ATMOSPHERE LIVE PERFORMING CAMERA THIEF & LOVELIFE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWkepWvA44U&feature=youtu.be

  35. l.... ....

    14:30 what a fucking vibe

  36. A.... D....

    I seriously miss u!

  37. U.... B....

    New tunes to fish too.. Fishing Blues...

  38. F.... ....

    This is so great as a video experience. I need to get a headset setup for VR and watch and listen to this.

  39. M.... L....

    Fish swimming up a river full of pessimism

  40. T.... P....

    It's Elementary Fedora or ski hat drawers or dungaree slacks

  41. B.... F....

    I love fishing.

  42. M.... L....

    I'm so in love with this video

  43. W.... ....

    Fall from the sky just to learn how to fly. Don’t even gotta put me in the dirt when I die. Flows so perfectly I love it

  44. I.... T....

    I've only seen these guys once, but been a fan for years. I saw them when they were touring after this came out. slug walked up to everyone in line before the show and shook everyone's hand and said thanks for coming. I had never been to a show where the headliners did that.

  45. J.... N....

    Ranking the songs (in my opinion only)
    1. Won't Look Back

    2. Everything

    3. Perfect

    4. Pure Evil

    5. The Shit That We’ve Been Through

    6. Next To You (I have no idea how Ant and Slug can make a song about being drunk and fapping sound good, but somehow they did)

    7. Fishing Blues (After a few listens this song really grew on me. I love Grouch’s chorus)

    8. Anybody That I've Known

    9. Besos (9-13 is pretty interchangeable)

    10. A Long Hello

    11. Like A Fire (Good song to start the album)

    12. No Biggie

    13. Sugar

    14. Chasing New York

    15. Seismic Waves

    16. When The Lights Go Out

    17. Still Be Here

    18. Ringo (Hit or miss track. I personally just find the beat too weird to enjoy)

    Overall their are no real "bad songs" though. I can listen to the whole album without having to skip a song.

  46. N.... ....

    Slug and Kool Keith!!

  47. S.... R....

    heh Slug is wearing an Aesop hoodie and i was just bumpin Aesop.

  48. J.... D....

    The FN reel is upside down you doofus'

  49. G.... S....

    I have that same dope ass Aesop hoodie

  50. S.... ....

    A solid bounce back from Southsiders, great album guys

  51. j.... c....

    if u were a real man ud be gobbling caps and stems and rolling blunts smoking up

  52. j.... c....

    locusts

  53. j.... c....

    legalize psychedelics or prepare to die

  54. j.... c....

    long sleeve shorts short sleeve pants

  55. j.... c....

    legalize psychedelics slug fagit

  56. D.... P....

    genius writer

  57. h.... ....

    Guys.....you're holding the rods wrongside down.....

  58. A.... K....

    I'm a longtime fan of slug, every album gets better and better

  59. J.... K....

    Keep fighting for true good. Put it up that elite's gspot with their latex. Let's all consider what bunkers and spacecrafts mean for humanity

  60. M.... C....

    360 video AND he has the Aesop Rock shout out sweater on? hell yeah man

  61. P.... W....

    Great Content!

  62. a.... ....

    Atmosphere get your fucking head out the sand and write something with meaning, this is garbage nonsensical crap and you know it

  63. T.... D....

    Dope as usual. You both blow my mind every time. What is it, like the day after the 15 of god loves? still my favorite album OF ALL TIME. Truly, I have grown with you both as you have both grown thru your music. Still undeniable quality and truth every time. Thanks for being some real cats. And one of my greatest inspirations to make music!! From production to writing to just taking pictures. #REALHIPHOP #NEVERDIES #JUSTGROWS

  64. m.... f....

    i love how theyre just fishing

  65. D.... K....

    Cool........

  66. J.... T....

    Next to You...best music video

  67. C.... H....

    I've loved and lived, with and without, because of and in spite of...and atmosphere (etc) has been a main staple of that soundtrack. thank you slug and ant. looking forward to what's next!

  68. D.... R....

    Love you guys. but you suck at fishing :D <3. nice boat.

  69. D.... M....

    Well well, hip hop has been on a fucking rolling lately. This release, the Palmer Squares release, K-rino releasing 7 fucking CDs, then a new sadistik alblum. I'm gonna need to buy new speakers soon. This is probably the best streaming video I've ever seen, stay gold ponyboy!

  70. T.... ....

    Do they catch anything?

  71. T.... B....

    why don't we see them catch any fish?

  72. B.... C....

    Just waiting for them to catch them.

  73. D.... S....

    I miss the early Atmosphere and Dyno Spectrum days but fuck me, this is a fuckin brilliant album and I've only just heard the first half so far.

  74. M.... ....

    Veliki majstori!!!!

  75. H.... T....

    This 360 video is so sick im flabergasted ❤️❤️👌🏼

  76. A.... N....

    this video never streams

  77. R.... R....

    this is sick!! thanks for the full audio plus visuals makes it pleasant addition

  78. W.... P....

    LOL! I hate that this is the top viewed slug, you and me both know this aint how you came up. It was the Kids buying tapes @ first Ave for them rage raps In mInn-E.

  79. I.... C....

    So god damn good! Every last damn song of every last damn album you have ever made! Down to every mixtape you have made and the ft. You could ever ask for! Keep spitting the creative shit you have ever thought of and keep going!!!

  80. R.... ....

    My favorites

    11:11- Pure Evil feat. I.B.E
    18:06 - Seismic Waves
    22:04 - Next To You feat. deM atlaS
    26:23 - The Shit That We've Been Through
    37:14 - Everything
    1:04:59 - A Long Hello

  81. J.... W....

    Amazing

  82. O.... M....

    When meth labs in buildings such as these make their product, to vent the noxious fumes, they hose the gases down the toilet. This causes the sewage to bubble up and out, creating the smell of decayed sewage, garbage disposal meat and other rotted waste to reek like death. This is what was done to my clothing at Island Village. The reason I was high, is because I waged a smart war on the strench. This is executed by simply running the faucet for a VERY long time. I ran it for almost three hours. This does several things. It flushes the waste by adding alot of fresh water into the waste water pipes. Unfortunately for me hot air created by the sewage, and the fact that gaseous bi product is lighter than air causes the gas to rise. This causes the ether, used to make meth to rise up and into my apartment via the pipe I am flushing. It will make you very drunk for as long as you inhale it. This I knew would be OK, just cause I was doing the right thing. It allowed the toilet the meth makers were "snaking" to back up and begin to bubble HUGE amounts of the ether gas to flood their room. This effectively caused the smell to be pointing directly to the cops, who I heard beating the living shit out of them and arresting them. They were tipped off by the gas invading others homes. Voila! Instant drug bust. Oh, and I warned them when the gas was about to flood them, as even a surge as often happens here could ignite the very flammable gas which when ignited clings to everything. I did this by playing a famous Rolling Stones song about a guy who was lit on fire, and badly burned. It is called "fuck your face" I am quite sure they unplugged the things in the outlets. I don't want to be in a burning building, and they don't want to be badly disfigured. When I knew the bust was going down, I left my trademark. It is that I put "patchouli oil" , a very smelly oil that is most often found on very devoted hippies, a peaceful lot who are most likely to know about this shit. I put it on my fan, and then washed my hands in the running sink, flooding the toilet gas where the busted and the cops were with a lovely smell. Now it smells like oil and fresh water. Ahhh, nice.

    O.... M....

    The fuck?

    O.... M....

    Lol. Yeah, I was just a little twisted. Tad bit. Uhh...Thanks for the reality check.

    O.... M....

    Don't eat the brown acid, man.

  83. C.... R....

    Got the fucking reel upside down you jokers. Do you even fish !?

    C.... R....

    I thought the same thing. Like WTF.

    C.... R....

    yeah its a fucking shame.....

  84. N.... ....

    looks like we're hooked

  85. D.... K....

    Great.spot.u.got.there.love.mn.rivers.lakes.fuck.mosquitos.bug.spray.all.i.know...is.i.moved.to.nc..its.a.whole.new.world...no.mosquitos.here.coming.back.to.me.homeland.mn.soon.....yesssss..oh.yeah....your...shit.is.dope.been.listening.4.years.amazing.keep.it.evolving..amazing......

  86. D.... K....

    Is.that.the.saint.croix.river.or.mississippi...?

    D.... K....

    In description it says Mississippi, btw do you need to borrow a spacebar? Haha

    D.... K....

    My phone does the period instead of space thing too

    D.... K....

    David Kunz broken spacebar

  87. J.... M....

    I can't stop listening to this, man, it's so fucking great. best album out for the last 10 years, at least. ya'll fuckers can't fish tho haha

  88. J.... M....

    holy hell thank you so much. this is so great. I really needed some help, ats always been there. I'd swear this fool knows me haha peace.

  89. B.... W....

    what is the song title that starts at around 52 mins?

    B.... W....

    Brock Way Description bro.

  90. I.... l....

    atmosphere is everything to me😢💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

  91. Y.... ....

    Just saw them last night

  92. A.... I....

    I love the growth. Always and forever
    you guys make life a little easier

    truly appreciated

  93. R.... A....

    atmosphere rulez all!!!!! never be a dude like slug...and 🐜

  94. Z.... S....

    My Fav Atmosphere Songs as goes

    1 Paint the Canvas Brown.
    2 Gods Bathroom Floor.
    3 ..and the Entire Sad Clown Bad Dub albums.......

    slugs getting back to those feel good songs.....long hello.....

    if any Rhymesayer reads this.....

    the Earth is Flat...

    Everything will make sence....will fit in.....check it out.....

  95. C.... H....

    $mart went

  96. j.... k....

    cool video for a great album as always, would expect nothing less from slug and ant:) these guys rock

  97. R.... F....

    this album is dope