1. |
Focus
04:31
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Fountain pens and signature movements
Nodding heads, mistakes and improvements
I can tell if it’s forfeit by the way that you’re spelling it out
Don’t pretend, I’ll make you prove it
Hold your tongue
Or I'll hold it for you
Slow up
Do what you're told to
I'm not done
No not by a long shot, so follow instructions
Don't pull no stunts
Better give me your focus
Don’t get it confused, you won’t like the outcome
I stay dropping clues, helping you out some
Cuz baby I’m watching. Listen up close, I don’t like what I’m spotting
I know that you, you’re up to something
Hold your tongue
Or I'll hold it for you
Slow up
Do what you're told to
I'm not done
No not by a long shot, so follow instructions
Don't pull no stunts
Better give me your focus
Better give me your focus
All this pent up aggression’s
Got me messed up, obsessin
All this pent up aggression’s
Got me messed up, obsessin
Hold your tongue
Or I'll hold it for you
Slow up
Do what you're told to
I'm not done
No not by a long shot, so follow instructions
Don't pull no stunts
Better give me your focus
All this pent up aggression’s
Got me messed up, obsessin
I’m not done
No not by a long shot, so follow instructions
Don't pull no stunts
Better give me your focus
Better give me your focus
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2. |
Keep Your Hands Full
03:41
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Scrabble letters, scribbled notes
And scrambled treasures
Find the X and find the tether
Chaperoning our time together
This is your competition
Ballet moves in sleeping kitchens
Witty words to fill the dishes
If you want the trophy, make it glisten
Place your bets on this gamble
Pace yourself, keep your hands full
Keep your hands full
Place your bets on this gamble
Pace yourself, keep your hands full
Keep your hands full
Kindergarten crushes
Crushed up pills and crashing punches
Grab the clutch and keep it coming
We find our things in sprawling bunches
This is your best decision
A good proposal will catch my interest
Interviews for new positions
And follow-ups to grant admission
Place your bets on this gamble
Pace yourself, keep your hands full
Keep your hands full
Place your bets on this gamble
Pace yourself, keep your hands full
Keep your hands full
How about we just give up
Don’t bother me with who owes what
I much prefer to barter
How about we just give up
Don’t bother me with who owes what
If you fetch the stick, I’ll throw it farther
Place your bets on this gamble
Pace yourself, keep your hands full
Keep your hands full
Place your bets on this gamble
Pace yourself, keep your hands full
Keep your hands full
Place your bets on this gamble
Pace yourself, keep your hands full
Keep your hands full
Place your bets on this gamble
Pace yourself, keep your hands full
Keep your hands full
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3. |
Undo
04:11
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Rattle my bones
Unhinge all of my doors
We’re transparent illusions
We’re transparent
Undo me, I’ll undo you
Undo me, I’ll undo you
Undo me, I’ll undo you
Undo me, I’ll undo
The weave of your thoughts
The truth you base your reality on
We’re transparent illusions
We’re transparent
Undo me, I’ll undo you
Undo me, I’ll undo you
Undo me, I’ll undo you
Undo me, I’ll undo
Don’t we always want the upper hand
The upper cut, the upper jab
The left right left your heart for dead
The left right left your heart for dead
Don’t we always say we mean the best?
We’re mean at best
Don’t we always say we mean the best?
Undo me, I’ll undo you
Undo me, I’ll undo you
Undo me, I’ll undo you, you
Undo me, I’ll undo
Don’t we always want the upper hand
The upper cut, the upper jab
The left right left your heart for dead
The left right left your heart for dead
Don’t we always say we mean the best?
We’re mean at best
Don’t we always say we mean the best?
Don’t we always say we mean the best?
Don’t we always say we mean the best?
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4. |
Rethink and Redo
01:23
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Crossed out, circled, cut up and reglued
Penned over, swapped in that rethink and redo
Crossed out, circled, cut up and reglued
Penned over, swapped in that rethink and redo
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5. |
Tie Yourself to Me
03:18
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A spinning top
Will circle round until it stops
If you let it drop and no one sets it off again
Consider it the end
I’m wound up so tightly
Like good yarn and clenched teeth
I’m wound up so tightly
So don’t tie yourself to me
Adding up the conversations
I’ve unravelled constellations
Nebulously looped
In excuse after excuse
I’m wound up so tightly
Like good yarn and clenched teeth
I’m wound up so tightly
So don’t tie yourself to me
Is this skin
Enough to be wrapped up in
Is this skin
Enough to be wrapped up in
With fingers crossed and lungs unfolding
Body after body for the holding
But still I’m not beholden
Still I’m not beholden
I’m wound up so tightly
Like good yarn and clenched teeth
I’m wound up so tightly
So don’t tie yourself to me
Is this skin
Tie yourself to me
Is this skin
Tie yourself to me
Is this skin
Enough to be wrapped up in
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6. |
Remember
04:09
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Who bought off
Your steep debt
Soldered and struck
With cheap lead
From each mess I protect
With each guess I project
What was it I wanted
What was it I got from it
Fool’s gold, a promise
I expected cold but not this
You sold your soul, you sold your soul
You sold, you sold your soul
You sold
You sold your soul, did you profit
Did you get interest on it
You sold your soul, you sold your soul
Was it the fix you needed
Was it a relief when
I let go and you left
Was I easy to forget
Tell me
Be honest
Did you move on
Are you haunted
Cuz I’m still struck, soldered
With fool’s gold, a godsend
You sold your soul, you sold your soul
You sold, you sold your soul
You sold
You sold your soul, did you profit
Did you get interest on it
You sold your soul, you sold your soul
The rates stay steady
You can pick your currency
I’m buyin if you’re ready
Just remember what you’re selling
The rates stay steady
You can pick your currency
I’m buyin if you’re ready
Just remember what you’re selling
You sold your soul, you sold your soul
You sold, you sold your soul
You sold
You sold your soul, did you profit
Did you get interest on it
You sold your soul, you sold your soul
What was it I got
What was it I got
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7. |
Try Me
04:15
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The space between
the oven and the counter
The water rings
Beneath the potted flowers
Strands of hair
Echoes of our voices haunt the vents
Stale air
Circulation of our remnants
Try me try me
And I will prove
To be harder to remove
Than expected
This is definite
Try me try me
And I will prove
To be harder to remove
Than expected
This is definite
You only think you kept
The stains on your mattress
If I could collect
The phrases and masses
I couldn't carry with me
The traces that linger indefinitely
I'd let them decompose
Somewhere more peaceful
Try me try me
And I will prove
To be harder to remove
Than expected
This is definite
Try me try me
And I will prove
To be harder to remove
Than expected
This is definite
Inches thicken
Remembrance lessens
The only growth
is measured in regression
The only garden
A junkyard for parts unwanted
Heaped among the broken radiators
And utensils you never used
one day you'll make your
home here too
Try me try me
And I will prove
To be harder to remove
Than expected
This is definite
Try me try me
And I will prove
To be harder to remove
Than expected
This is definite
Try me
Try me
Try me try me
And I will prove
To be harder to remove
Than expected
This is definite
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8. |
Collateral
04:43
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I was never gon present an easy solution
I bet that no one can but you can keep lookin
I got caught up in the mix
You knew what you were doin
You knew what you were doin
I wonder if you felt the same when I left
But it doesn't matter, it doesn’t matter
Your hands know how to take
You's a steady grabber, ya steady grabber
I tried to call the shots but you do not answer
I tried to run away but you run faster
You're a slow cancer
You get what you want or its over after
Work yourself into a coma, you're more drone than mammal
Sequester all our dreams as collateral
Collateral, collateral
You put me in my place yet you still misplaced me
Took me out on dates, said we weren't dating
All I'm tryna say is you're pretty rude bae
You knew what you were doin
You knew what you were doin
I wonder if you felt the same when I left
But it doesn't matter, it doesn’t matter
Your hands know how to take
You's a steady grabber, ya steady grabber
I tried to call the shots but you do not answer
I tried to run away but you run faster
You're a slow cancer
You get what you want or its over after
Work yourself into a coma, you're more drone than mammal
Sequester all our dreams as collateral
Collateral
Collateral
Collateral
I ain’t never gon present an easy solution
You know what you’re doin
You know what you’re doin
I wonder if you felt the same when I left
But it doesn't matter, it doesn’t matter
Your hands know how to take
You's a steady grabber, it doesn’t matter
I tried to call the shots (answer)
I tried to run away (run faster)
You're a slow cancer
You get what you want, you get what you want
Work yourself into a coma, you're more drone than mammal
Sequester all our dreams as collateral
You knew
You knew
You knew
You knew
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Alexa Dexa New York, New York
Alexa Dexa is a XxgrandmacoreXx toychestral electroacoustic composer-performer operating in a do-it-yourself/do-it-together
capacity to deconstruct the harms of patriarchy using music as a tool of transformative self-care. Their collection of toy instruments
rivals a playpen.
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