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The Crow

from A Badly Broken Code by Dessa

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That old crow
Came back today
Sitting in my window
Like a prophet
out on the fire escape to say
Anger
Is just love
Left out, gone to vinegar
You wake up a stranger
To yourself and then you
Learn to live with her
Sit in her clothing til you
Fill out her figure
You know life’s no
Bella telanovela
The tightrope bows with
Your weight in the center
The slide show don’t put
All the pictures together
You try to do it right though
Right though
Until you let the kite go
Death and romance:
The riddles of our lifetimes
Tryna get a slow dance
Middle of a knife fight
You get up and you
You give blood.
Even on a good night
Even on a good night out.

You send signal,
You listen for an echo
At the first splinters,
You run to tell Geppetto
And in the worst winters,
The whole thing feels untenable
Crow took me by the shoulder
And he told me ‘Honey,
Don’t let go.’

(Chorus)
Nobody fears the height,
You all just fear the fall
Go to the edge sometime
And prove your body wrong
You land badly
But you crash standing
You land badly,
But you crash...

He took me to the workshop
Showed me where
They built the bodies
A blacksmith, a mason,
A carpenter
And in the darkroom,
Where the whole assembly started
All the clothesline
Where the hearts hung to harden.
You come as fragile,
Soft machines
And you’re bound to fast,
You’re bound to grieve
But you’re built to
Balance on two feet
So why you living this last year
From your knees?

Oh please put me down again.

I know you lost a bet
G’head and catch your breath
But when the worst relents
You learn to live on less
You duck some,
You take some square
Your luck runs out,
You’re there in midair
And when the big one comes,
You’ll know by the snare roll
You can be too careful,
Ignore all the scarecrows.
Time flies like the crow does
No regard for the grid
I can’t ask you to show love
But would it kill you if you did?

Chorus

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from A Badly Broken Code, released January 19, 2010
Produced by Lazerbeak
Recorded at the Hideaway

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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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