Dessa - The Crow

Song written by Astronautalis & Picnic Tyme
Piano: Chad Stockslager
Guitar & Bass: John Congleton
Strings: Daniel Hart
Backing Vocals: Rookie Sensation Mike Wiebe
Additional Drums by: McKenzie Smith
Additional Synths by: Sean Kirkppatrik

Produced By John Congleton

The River, The Woods

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THE BENDS
Produced by Cecil Otter
Additional production by Lazerbeak
Vocal sample by Will Humphries, Guitar by Jake Hanson, Additional vocals by Joe Mabbott and Isaac Gale
(Dessa)
Leave when the snow melts / on the first clear night / River runs deep / walk against it / Walk til the Southern Cross peaks on the west edge / of the brine lake at the dredged end / Ruts in the mud, then gravel, then a paved one / left at the Amoco, right at the station / First train—wait / take the second headed east
/ window seat, pretty girl with the gold teeth / has a hotel key with your name on it / Stay on it til the train hits the border in the morning / Duck the conductor, leave through the back door / wait for my sign on the platform / Smoke on the skyline / welcome to Delphi / They’ll come with questions / answer what you can / everybody knows the new oracle’s at hand
(Hook)
Oh, there prolly ain’t another way / and I watch so amazed / and float through everyday / hoping I don’t float away / that I don’t float away
(Stef)
Cold world, no blanket / dark nights, no Batman, what up? / I keep a nail in the hand and a hammer on
the nightstand / locked in, no B plan / Keep the mouth shut, let em stay lost / radio up, radio off / Either
no guts or it’s so what / rather read up then trust my neck to the blood suck / Full moon, hand fulla silver bullets / high noon all day with these assholes / How soon is too soon to pull it when I doubt they count they paces at all / So fly took a bullet in the wax wing / so high but didn’t get the chance to melt / so tight how when he came down didn’t even look scared / just eased on back into the veldt
(Hook)
(Sims)
The woods are deep / yeah them woods are deep / I was drinking that cheap shit to fall asleep / and really solely to hold my feet / because these days I’ve been taking that heavy so lightly / that I might float away completely / in my psyche I’m the natural man in a Black Friday stampede / LED murder spree for cheap / and the video screams Worldstar War Z / I’m feeling dirty but feeling so good I just smile at the thieves / fold up a note in the breeze / I’ve got a few miles to go before I concede
(Hook)
(Cecil)
You got it wrong, but you got it made / a lot of weight but you gotta wait for a lot of aid though / and I’m not a maid or amazed by the raise in your payroll / ergo silence the offers / High-wire walkers, child actors / ain’t vying for your father figure fodder / Otter out, we outta town, you outta line you lil faulker / taut line from the dock to the Oscars
(Mike)
And I’m reading like a Rorschach / hiding lines in the pantomime, allegory in a smirk / Where my eyes won’t take you my moves do that work, a nonverbal creep / Where the O.G.s weep / slide, slip, test glide / Connect like catchin rec like R-E-S-P-I-R-ation from the Westside / Now it’s strong in the Midwest in my own nation
/ got a fam and we crewed up in sub-clans, no subjugation / with the wings and the chops, put the beans
in the pot / like the seeds to the crop, Doomtree No Kings cut the top / head em off at the neck, better off dead, dead em all / better them than you, right? / Forever type shit
(Hook)

DOOMTREE "The Bends"

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Sunlight on the city floor
Warm pulse asking for more
Bassline lifting my feet
Every note a little heat

Turn it up
Let the music fill the air
Lift it up
Feel the groove everywhere
Turn it up
Let the heartbeat take the lead
All we need
Is the sound we share and breathe

Soft horns spilling gold
Smooth keys shining bold
Hands clap into the night
Every spark turning to light

Turn it up
Let the music fill the air
Lift it up
Feel the groove everywhere
Turn it up
Let the heartbeat take the lead
All we need
Is the sound we share and breathe

Move slow, move free
Let the rhythm carry me
Let the rhythm carry me

Turn it up
Let the music fill the air
Lift it up
Feel the groove everywhere
Turn it up
Let the heartbeat take the lead
All we need
Is the sound we share and breathe

Turn it up

Produced by Paper Tiger

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LYRICS
I heard they prey on weak / I heard they play for keeps / I feel em grabbing at my feet / I heard them say don't speak / I just hit another level / watch em try to pull me down / with the petty, with the heavy / put the devil in the crown / what can I say to you? / I’m too right brain for you / Twain my communique / you are what's in supreme / fuck boy starter pack / I’m Huck Finn, huck shit, Hassoi / living art in fact / I see deceit, I see em back stab / I’ve got no need for that / I’m sliding off like the god damn pizza rat / I’m out, I’m out, with that free that I just found / my sound and it bumps / look at what amounts from the jump / and I’m never coming down

I am living lawless thinking I won’t come down, come down / I am flying high now thinking I won’t come down, come down

all the doubters, they can shout from the towers  / I just laugh, I just stay up / what a way to waste your hours / I’m not wastin, I'm not wastin / boy I'm racing,  got no patience / I ain't stressing count my blessings / I go right into it / burn the brightest til It’s done  / right into the sun
more cognitive than dissonance / they call me Icarus /I am stretching my whole frame out / they’re readying their takedowns from safe ground / pulling all their blades out / cut me up, cut me up, what they really gonna take? / cuff me to the truth of failure ay that's okay / why you’re living like a stowaway, I go my own / far from perfect but let no person put a verdict on that, no way / cannot touch me, cannot touch me / I am beauty I am ugly / I am living art / play your part

More Than Ever

"Icarus"

Dessa - Seamstress

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CREDITS:
Written by Dessa
Produced by Cecil Otter
Recorded at The Birdcage
Featuring Jessy Greene on violin

LYRICS:
Fifteen years from tonight 
You have to make a decision 
The greatest love of your life
Is gonna call during dinner…
From the home of the girl 
That he’s living with now. 
The guilt he’ll say is killing him
He’s wilted in the middle and 
He knows how bad he acted
Knows he can’t have you back
But the fact is he can’t be happy 
When you’re angry and you’re so angry 
He says you stayed so mad. 
He heard it on the street that 
You moved back in with your dad
You were drinking something awful 
And that makes him sad.
Then he says it’s good 
To hear your voice again
And that it’s hard to ask it, 
But he’s calling with a question. 
He’s been working real hard
Tryna make a new start
An honest-to-god fresh beginning 
So maybe you could try to 
Finally find in your heart
To forgive him. 

(Chorus)
You’ve already been here before 
You already know where it goes
You chose this, you know 
It’s supposed to be over. 
Refrain. 

He hung up the phone
You listened to the dial tone 
And you stared at the stove 
Until the beeping started 
You read some love letters some threats 
And some you couldn’t tell apart
That you keep under the bed 
At the apartment, and then you did 
What he asked you to do
You opened your heart up 
Right there on a napkin on the carpet
And part of it was frostbit
But you’ve always been a smart kid 
Could still distinguish
The blood black as pitch
Valves had gone stiff
Veins and scar tissue 
Four chambers just a standard issue 
But none had room. Forgiveness is huge
And you had two full of ice water
One fulla salt, one packed with coal 
Eager and ready and willing to find fault. 

Chorus

Then, with your heart in your lap
And your head in your hands
Suddenly you had a plan.
Wrap the mess in newspaper
Headed west on Hennepin,
Heavy with a huge favor  
For a kid that just turned ten.
A flat-chested gap-toothed girl
Was the best that I’ve been so far 
And now I’m too big to forgive him
I need just a moment with me,
A moment when I was still little.
I used to sing on the roof 
Outside my windowsill and
I came hoping some ghost of me 
Would be here still 
And here you are 
Stick figure and a busted grin
Still ignorant of the all trouble 
I’ma get us in.
Hoping we could trade, just for tonight.
Like I could borrow your heart and I could leave you mine
It’s not much for collateral,
Tattered and battle-scarred,
But I can promise you solemn
That I will be back for it tomorrow.
I only need yours this evening,
So I can call an old friend.
And I can tell him 
That we’re finally even.
That we’re finally even. 

Chorus

A Badly Broken Code

Mineshaft II

Dessa "Mineshaft II"

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