i love @dessadarling & think she's a poet of the highest caliber as well as a wonderful musician so i made this to spread the Word Of Dessa™! • mod: @chromquwu
When the wagon tipped,
I prayed over your body
I asked God to take the damage out on me-
Ten years later, he finally gets the memo,
Sent it to accounting and knocked out my front teeth.
Put all your words away
For all the noise you make,
You were always safe.
You were always,
You were always,
You were always safe
With me,
Safe in sleep
Oh, say when
Say when
Looks like I win again
I win again
Oh, say when
Say when
I win
I win again
Oh, say when
Say when
I always win
I always win
Oh, say when
Say when
Been a woman too long for that song now,
I been lost and I found out
How supply just drives the cost down,
They don't want you involved, just want you around
Walkin' in, I gotta step over
A pretty thing leanin' her head on her own shoulder
I don't ask, if she's all right
Because I think she'd lie tonight,
That her ride's coming,
Her ride's coming,
Her ride's coming,
Her ride
Maybe you'd be here
In lights, and tears
And I'd have been the bride raising kids with my hair swept up and my goals pushed to the side
Making do singing lullabies
You sterilize the needle with a lighter and a prayer
You sew your empty pockets closed, cut off all your hair
You train up on the mountaintop to weaponize the blood,
You bring your body back down to sea level to see what body does, does, does
And it runs
And it runs
And it runs
I've single-handed some duets,
I've been as bad as good girls get, but
I don't regret too much just yet
I mostly gave more than I got,
Tried not to watch the ticking clock, like
Always a bridesmaid, never an astronaut!
(Laughter)
Okay.
Around here we don't like talk of big dreams
To stand out is a pride, a conceit
To aim high is to make waves, to split seams,
But that's not what it seems like to me, 'cause
I wanna try
I wanna risk
And don't I wanna walk,
Rather swing and miss
Don't make me say it,
I know what it was,
Can't you just let me call it a-
Sooner or later,
Wouldn't be enough
One of us was gonna fall into-
Don't make me say it,
I know what it was,
Can't you just let me call it-
Can't you just let me call it a crush