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The Bullpen

from A Badly Broken Code by Dessa

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(Chorus)
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, fire from the hip
Talk a little shit, roll thick,
Whole clique
Let’s begin, like

It’s been assumed
I’m soft or irrelevant
Cause I refuse to
Downplay my intelligence
But in a room of
Thugs and rap veterans
Why am I the only one
Who’s acting like a gentleman?
Good form bad taste
Pity what a waste
All that style, not a thing to say
Looks to me like
A little of your true school
Is at the shallow end
Of the typing pool
All cloak, no dagger
Just smoke and swagger
I hope that your battery’s charged
Cause I found this here ladder
Now your ceilings don’t matter
Check me out,
Now I got glass floors.

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They love me, they love me not
Pulling pedals off my bike.
You gotta strike
While the irony’s still hot
No telling what the kids might like.
And I love this job,
But ah, good god
Sometimes I hate this business
It’s all love backstage
But then the boys get brave
Gotta say,
I hope your mother doesn’t listen.
Excuse me, where you going?
Doomtree, Minnesota
Population’s growing all the time.
And if you feel this
You know what the deal is
Grab a chisel tip and add one to
The number on the sign.

Chorus

Oh, just nonsense really.

Chorus

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from A Badly Broken Code, released January 19, 2010
Produced by Paper Tiger
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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