Fire Drills - Dessa

I’ve been Wendy

Living with the Lost Boys

Youth spent as a deckhand on the convoy

Moved every night to prove we were something

Got confused if it was from or to that we were running

I’ve seen Gibraltar

I’ve seen the Taj Mahal

Soweto, Hagia Sophia

Chefchaouen paints their walls blue

I’ve played to full rooms

I’ve played the fool too

Burning through the bottoms of a pair of new boots

Cut my hair, tape my tits down

A woman on her own must be from out of town

Funny, you don’t know the concessions that you’re making until you catalog em

And by then they’re many and you’re battle-hardened

Heat makes liquid of the asphalt

Keepsakes and parking tickets on the dashboard

I’m here to file my report as the vixen of the wolf pack;

Tell Patient Zero he can have his rib back

You can count my ribs

Wanna know what class I’m in

Count my

You can count my ribs

You can’t be too broke to break

As a woman always something left to take

So you shouldn’t try to stay too late or talk to strangers

Look too long, go too far out of range cause

Angels can’t watch everybody all the time

Stay close, hems low, safe inside

That formula works if you can live it

But it works by putting half the world off limits

You can count my ribs

Wanna know what class I’m in

Count my

You can count my ribs, my

We don’t say, «Go out and be brave»

Nah, we say «Be careful, stay safe»

In any given instance, that don’t hurt

But it sinks in like stilettos in soft earth

Like the big win is not a day without an incident

I beg to differ with it

I think a woman’s worth

I think that she deserves

A better line of work

Than motherfucking vigilance

Don’t give me vigilance

By definition you can’t make a difference

If the big ambition

Is simply standing sentry to your innocence

That’s not a way to live

That can’t be what a woman is

That gives her nothing to aspire to

What that is

What that is

Is just a life of running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills

We’re running fire drills