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Dixon's Girl

from A Badly Broken Code by Dessa

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Oh someone taught
Your walls to talk
But if they ask me
I ain’t heard a thing…

(Chorus 1)
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 board
Again.

There was a snowstorm in Jackson
When you and I met
At a club called Saint Sebastian’s
But the sign said
Something different
I remember thinking that I
Didn’t have a shot at Mississippi
Television told us which
Roads they were closing—
There goes a rap show.
Everybody knew you
As the wife of a famous man
Everybody who knew said, ‘There goes Dixon’s girl again
Even the walls will lean closer
When she plays the
Piano real slow.’
I haven’t met too many women
In this business that I really like
But you could hold a little liquor
You could hold a conversation
You could hold your own mic
And even that night
I learned
The truth about your man
You gotta be big
To treat pretty girls bad.

(Chorus 2)
It’s not much,
But my money’s on you
It’s not much,
But my money’s on you
It’s not much, but my money—
Not much but my money—
Not much but my money—
My money’s on you.

Well I heard from the rest of The world you’re in trouble
Bad news moves like fire
That you fight on the phone.
And I’m too far away,
My well-wishing can’t touch you
But I think of you still,
More than you might suppose.
Everybody wanna see you
With your hair down
Wanna hear you hit the high note
Wanna know if they
Can get you for a little less
Girl, I don’t.
I know how the stones can fly
Had some hard goodbyes
Call me up
Day or night
Free drinks and bad advice.

Chorus 2
Chorus 1

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from A Badly Broken Code, released January 19, 2010
Produced by MK Larada
Recorded at the Marshall Larada Center for the Performing Arts

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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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