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Seamstress

from A Badly Broken Code by Dessa

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(Chorus)
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
She was doing good
Until the cat got her.

I came to write a letter
But my pen was full of hymns
I came to drown a sorrow
It seems they learned to swim
Mouth full of pins
Heart pumping gasoline,
It’s late
I’m still at the sewing machine
Stitching up strays
For fifteen years,
But this one’s mean.
I picked you up
When they said
You were past repair
And I stitched you up
I thread a needle with my hair
And I fixed you up
When you were still
A common sparrow.
But look who’s on the shoulder now
When the road goes narrow.

Chorus

Well I’m putting you
Out of my misery,
We ain’t got much, but
We’ve got history
It was a mercy kill, nah
It was a suicide, nah
It was an accident, nah
Well at least I tried.
With soft drugs and a seam ripper
Tough love and tape measure.
Stitching up boys
Is different that way
You fix a bird, you buy a cage.
You fix a man and
You fix a man and he flies away.

When I ran out of thread
I couldn’t let go
But that’s not sewing that’s
That’s just poking holes.
And it’s a strange breed,
A different kind of creature
Looks for love
Through the eye of a needle
But the creed of the seamstress is
That you’re pretty in pieces.

Chorus

Take a seat
And let me get a look at your face
Busted, back’s been broke for days
Not much,
Little something for the pain
Don’t fuss or I’ll never get
A seam to lay straight.
I keep it clean as I can with just
Just the machine and a mattress plus
I never did need for a pattern, Just some good restraints
And my bedside manner.

When I ran out of thread,
I couldn’t let go
But that’s not sewing that’s
That’s just poking holes.
When I ran out of thread,
I couldn’t let go
But that’s not sewing that’s
That’s just poking holes.

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from A Badly Broken Code, released January 19, 2010
Produced by MK Larada
Recorded at The Birdcage

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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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