Dessa

[Verse 1] She's a Latter Day Saint But she's a Saturday sinner Suicide Sunday desserts for weekends drinking her dinner The worry keeps her slender The pills keep her awake Her man can't make her happy, but he helps to still the shakes Met her boyfriend at the...

[Verse 1] Well I'm sure it's complicated And I'm sure your story goes way back But you're looking desperate lately And now, is not the time, to look like that I don't know if he did it And I won't ask There's a lot of good women With a lot of bad backs Your ma...

Annabelle, pick up the phone I'm calling from the kitchen We just never seem to listen When we're sharing the same room I'm not sure anymore what might get your attention Everyday you see me less than you did just the day before Out there in the garden, motion...

Last night, old friend, big wedding and I knew you'd be there too Look at us all grown up collared shirts and high-heeled shoes You cross the room just the decent thing to do make sure we'd all been introduced you brought your new friend I brougt mine...

My father was a paper plane My mother was a windswept tree My little brother's nearly twice my age He taught me how to meditate I taught him how to read I grew up with a book in my bed I got these dark circles before I turned ten Heard my mother with her frien...

Dear Marie, you were right about me Dear Marie, you were right, you were right I should have been kinder I surely knew better not much of a writer but I'm sending a letter I hope that it finds you in love and at peace don't need much of your time for thi...

Oh someone taught Your walls to talk But if they ask me I ain't heard a thing... Back to the wall, bat to the ball Back to the drawing board Back to the wall, bat to the ball Back to the drawing board Back to the wall, bat to the ball Back to the drawing boa...

Mind your step I keep the overhead low Just the bed and the books and the rotary phone Chicago Manual of Style keeps the prose right crisp The Minneapolis Edition, well it goes like this: Well I talk way too fast And I shoot from a glass I keep Pope in the glo...

[Hook: Dessa & Cecil Otter] Everything floats down here. Anything that sinks from up there Floats down here Like she did her mask Like she did her smile The future is a bitter past Everything floats down here. Anything that sinks from up there Floats down...

Swimming in a snifter pretty as a picture don't get it twisted man, her bite is a bitch You can name, you can keep her but take care when you feed her You never can take the fight out the fish Chompin at the drill bit never one to still sit you can test...

It's too dark Just the passing cars Illuminate the room And it's harder every time I see you And then when you leave I'm wondering when Would be too soon But you ain't mine to miss And it's time we put a Line down in the dust I know what friendship is And it s...

[Verse 1] We sit in the car outside your house And I can feel the heat coming down I go to put my arms around you Give me a look like I'm way out of bounds Yeah, let out one of your bored sighs and Lately when I look into your eyes I'm going down, down, down,...

[Intro] [Verse 1] He'll be sorry in the morning You say he's tender when you're home But if I was your man I'd be more than just a cure for being alone You say you see some good in him You can't explain And he's somehow better than The way that he behaves [H...

So here we go back again Slow climb but quick to descend Arms out, arms out Turn into the spin It's lovely and brief With just gravity and me So here we go back again Slow climb but quick to descend Arms out, arms out Turn into the spin It's lovely and brief W...

Hello, it's only me, I know it's late Hoped to catch you still awake And maybe I was wrong to call Guess tonight broke my resolve I've been having that dream again It seems I always will I don't know what the thing means Except it sends me to the telephone an...

[Hook] The neon burns a hole in the night And the freon burns a hole in the sky You can find my kind living right on the fault line Eyes on the seaside, lives on the B-side Kites on the power-lines I know what he tells you But I don't know why you believe it,...

Taglay mo sa bagwis ng iyong paghayo Ang pangako ng walang hanggang bukas Pabaon man sayoy hapdi ng puso Aabutin na ang pangarap.. At ang bunga ng wagas mong pagsisikap Pag-unlad nitong bayang nililiyag Kapalit ng dalamhati’t paghihirap Pag-angat ng kabuhayan...

[Sims:] Barrel full of powder, ship full of tea Closer by the hour, bringing sick to the seas Bellies full of barter, thick with the thieves Once they hit the harbor it's a wick in the breeze There goes another one (whoa!), right out from under 'em Different s...

I changed the locks But your key, your key's still working Can't train a moth, I guess Each beast gets her burden So we circle this old flame Too much at stake But too late to change My nerves are shot My reserves are exhausted It's a tired plot, but we bought...

The list of things I used to be is longer than the list of things I am Ex-lover, ex-friend Ex-communicated atheist and an ex-patriot Living in the heartland Living on the small chance Luck would save the last dance For an underrated writer, overrated rapper Un...

Fifteen years from tonight you have to make a desicion The greatest love of your life Is gonna call during dinner... From the home of the girl that he's living with now And the guilt he'll say is killing him He's wilted in the middle and He knows how bad he a...

Here we are Rounding the edge again And I wonder if You recall what you said When I asked to hear Largest as yet unanswered question And you said, "why bother at all" I just arrived by the Train from Bombay Never heard anyone Say it so plain The prettiest gi...

Oh that trouble you’ve been looking for It came looking for you. You shouldn't open doors You don’t plan to walk through .. If I were you i‘d pay my due before I lose That trouble you’ve been looking for It came looking for You shouldn't open doors You don’t p...

I'm building a body From balsam and ash I'm building a body with No god attached I'm building a body From blueprints in Braille I'm building a body Where our design had failed There's a book full of plans At the feet of poor Atlas Titlled "For Man" But the arc...

[Intro: Dessa] [Verse 1: Dessa] [English translation in italics] Oye, cierra la puerta [Hey, close the door] La lucha está afuera [The fight is outside] Puede esperar una noche más [It can wait one more night] Baila antes de que te vas [Dance before you go] V...

I kept an angel In a box beneath my bed Little beast had broke her jaw And I tried to fix her head They said I had to put her back That I had to put her back exactly where I found her But I know, I saw That she was doing good until the cat got her I came to w...

I heven't met a locked door yet that I couldn't beat On a chain around my neck I keep my skeleton key Chorus x2 Don't waste your worry on me I always find what I need Come and go as I please I've got my skeleton key By now It's just a simple trick,...

[Verse 1] Boys, sound the bells The sun rose from the west today I doubt we'll see it set Oh and boys, bear it well Put all your paper maps away Mercator here can't help [Hook] Go lift your sails up For one last swell Go lift yourselves up To soun...

[Verse 1: Dessa] I travel with a lungful of music, doesn’t weigh a thing Reed’s built in, breathe through it every time I sing And I got pockets full of my own hands, head full of back-up plans Temper walks beside me, a gift I guess from my old man History: li...

[Verse 1: P.O.S] Think love, and think drugs, and they’re the same thing inside And we struggle, or get enough, but it’s the same thing Burn holes in the Moleskine Bout it, Been friends with a pen, gave trust to the page Turn in when the time’s up earn that a...

[Verse 1] Here comes the beekeeper With her pitcher full of smoke She'll put us all to sleep I hope it's dreamless and it's deep Sweet Prometheus, come home They took away our fire And all that this scarcity promotes Is desperate men and tyrants [Hook] What f...

Forget the bull in the china shop There's a china doll in the bullpen Walk with a switch, fire in her fist Biting at the bit Swing at every pitch Coach put me in like Forget the bull in the china shop There's a china doll in the bullpen It's all in the wrist,...

Now the bough breaks The books I read Said you were a fragile kid Just as I imagined it, your story goes Another nosebleed, Roses on the pillowcase The fever breaks And you're back on earth again You rehearse In the living room The nursemaid Comes mid-aftern...

That old crow came back today Sitting in my window like a prophet Out on the fire escape, to say Anger is just love, left out, gone to vinegar You wake up a stranger to yourself then you Learn to live with her Sit in her clothing 'til you fill out her figure Y...

By the time that you told me it was already plain that you'd changed but your conscience was clean and as while as a line of cocaine My back to the wall of your bedroom apartment you're talking in circles, got two cigarettes burning and I couldn't hide how...

[Verse 1: Sims] I'm in your garden now I picked them flowers out I went too far right now I meant we bottomed out You dig for higher ground You hit the fire now No time for stopping, tore the wires out [Verse 2: Dessa] I've got this music in my head I've go...

[Verse 1: Dessa] This is a whisper into your satellite dish This is a death threat in cross stitch and I demand a hostage And then I want a motor boat And then I'll let your hostage go… It's like life is a death-bound train And every day is just a stop along t...

A wick with no candle A wheel with no axle I ride with no saddle No lift, then I’m dragging the kite A blade with no handle A brick for your window I’m fine but I’m single A dime and I’m the same on both sides You’re a stone-cold killer you say But you’re lo...