Song of the Day #173

Dessa- "Matches to Paper Dolls" from A Badly Broken Code

"I changed the locks

But your key, your key's still working

You can't train a moth, I guess

Uh, each beast gets her burden

So we circle this old flame

Too much at stake but too late to change

My nerves are shot, my reserves exhausted

It's a tired plot but we bought it

Now we're lost

Between love and cholera

Saccharine read, such a sentimental novel

Give you cavities if it doesn't drive you to the bottle

As for me, I'll take another kerosene if you got it

Something harder, look, like a moth you see

And I still get chills when you talk to me

But the years pass by now in twos and threes

These thrills ain't as cheap as they used to be

If you're asking

I can't say no

Just one more chapter

Our book won't close

And I know it's madness

To play these odds

It's like giving matches

To paper, to paper dolls

(I know it's madness, I know

I know it's madness, I know

I know it's mad)

Uh, tried sweet talk, tried dynamite

But I sleepwalk back to the battle site

Fight fire with fire but the fire won't fight

We just fly these circles like tired kites

And you flash some fang

And I bat my lashes

And we're back again

No end to this game with matches

We've been lovers and strangers and friends who get angry

Made mistakes and amends and brief moments of magic

We forgive and forget and give in to attraction

This whole thing depends on amnesia and madness

And I'd be leaving for good, I'd be looking for better

But I got this broken habit I keep gluing back together

The fever, the fire, the feathers

The fever defies measure

And good sense won't venture where the moth will go

If you're asking

I can't say no

Just one more chapter

Our book won't close

And I know it's madness

To play these odds

It's like giving matches

To paper, to paper dolls

(Just like, just like...

Just like, just like...

Just like giving matches to paper dolls

Just like, just like...

Just like, just like...

Just like giving matches to paper dolls)

If you're asking

I can't say no

Just one more chapter

Our book won't close

And I know it's madness

To play these odds

It's like giving matches

To paper, to paper dolls"

Song of the Day #20

You've probably not heard of Dessa unless you specifically look for female rappers, but she is definitely been one of my favorites the past the two years now. (Jean Grae, Nicki Minaj, Lauryn Hill being my personal top three.) And this track from A Badly Broken Code, is one of her best tracks. Lyrics are great, singing is nice, rapping is on point, and the beat behind it is insane. Love this track.

Dessa- "Matches to Paper Dolls" from A Badly Broken Code

"I changed the locks

But your key, your key's still working

Can't train a moth, I guess

Each beast gets her burden

So we circle this old flame

Too much at stake

But too late to change

My nerves are shot

My reserves are exhausted

It's a tired plot, but we bought it

Now we're lost

Bewteen love and cholera

Saccharine read...

Such a sentimental novel

Give you cavities

If it doesn't drive you to the bottle

As for me, I'll take another kerosene,

If you've got it something harder

Built like a moth you see

I still get chills when you talk to me

But the years pass by now

In twos and threes

These thrills ain't as cheap

As they used to be

If you're asking, I can't say no

Just one more chapter,

Our book won't close

And I know it's madness

To play these odds

It's like giving matches to paper,

To paper dolls

I know it's madness, I know

Tried sweet talk, tried dynamite

But I sleepwalk

Back to the battle site

Fight fire with fire

But the fire won't fight

We just fly these circles like tired kites

You flash some fang

And I bat my lashes

And we're back again,

Ne end to this game with matches

We've been lovers and strangers

And friends who get angry

Made mistakes and amends

And brief moments of magic

We forgive and forget

And give into attraction

This whole thing depends

On amnesia and magnets

I'd be leaving for good

I'd be looking for better

But I got this broken habit

I keep gluing back together

The fervor the fire the feathers

The fever defies measure

And good sense won't venture

Where the moth won't let it

If you're asking, I can't say no

Just one more chapter,

Our book won't close

And I know it's madness

To play these odds

It's like giving matches to paper,

To paper dolls"