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Decoy

from Bury The Lede by Dessa

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This is the song on the record that most reflects my come-up in indie hip hop. Lazerbeak’s beat is vibey and driving; the lyrics flex some wordplay and lean into a little swagger. (And, for those of you following along at home, this track contains the second Wizard of Oz reference: I’m like the good witch, bring the motherfucking house down.)

The verses are impressionistic: a quick self introduction, a sweep of highway rushing past, a free fall, and then a few verbal polaroids of the chaos of the world at large: drones overhead, a flood at the city’s edge, and the relentless call to get back to work, despite the perils:

There’s a speaker
in a decoy
at the heart of the mine
that rewinds
the same birdsong
Tell the back of the line
that the digging is fine
let’s get the third shift on

lyrics

Not a sidepiece
or a wifepiece
I’m a thinkpiece
If you’re done then
take your dishes to
the sink please
Wash to the right
dry to the left
mind is a kite
and the fall is a mess
Out of office
out of body
out of fucks to give
sorry not sorry
With a busted rib
ain’t a thing to do about it
just tape and time and then you take the turn again
Lean in harder
hope the road won’t burn
so bad this time
you read your curve
fast as fuck
fit to swerve
put the money to the metal come and get your girl
Til the lights blur
til the lines meet in the middle of the high beams
and the wipers
keep time with the heartbeat
Til you hit a nerve

I’m falling
don’t catch me
don’t touch me
don’t call me
Not much we
let go
even when we should and we know it
I walk the wall
with both hands open
I’d leave it all

Smokey eye because
the mind’s on fire
Break glass and pass the axe skyward
Stone the satellites
drones versus battle kites
Here goes
the next past life
There’s a speaker
in a decoy
at the heart of the mine
that rewinds
the same birdsong
Tell the back of the line
that the digging is fine
let’s get the third shift on
They say that a rising tide
when it comes in
will lift every ship
But they skipped
the bit about wildfire
how it burns every bridge
Panic tryna find
a little dry ground
big back ups everybody outbound
Not me
I’m like the good witch
bring the motherfucking house down

Looks like I hit a nerve
I hit a nerve

No patience I stay laced up and
I’m running
Learned a phrase in
every country
I’ve lived and died, been revived like this

That game you taught me how to play
I won it
Moved out East
and I stayed hungry
And when the magic’s on me, I can’t miss

I can’t miss

credits

from Bury The Lede, released September 29, 2023
Lyrics and Vocals by Dessa
Produced by Lazerbeak and Andy Thompson

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Dessa is a writer and touring musician based in Manhattan and Minneapolis. Quick wit, sharp pen, soft heart.

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