Dessa - Rome (Official Music Video)

Listen/Support: Lyrics and vocals by Dessa Produced by Andy Thompson, Lazerbeak and Dessa Edited by Erin Busko (@buskowski) // giaw Concert footage by Keegan Burckhard // Iolar Films Additional footage by Matthew Levine // Cosmic Fox Media Follow Dessa: YouTube: Dessa - Topic Lyrics: Take your fronts out If you’re talking to me No VIP says VIP I’ve known powerful women And beautiful men, And none of em calling for bottle service settle down and settle in Mind your manners make a friend Motherfucker Where you been? How you living? Have a drink. It’s cash only But the staff knows me Tell em it’s the girl in the back Tab’s open. When in Rome You live by Roman code It used to be If don’t like it, you could leave But then the walls came down And so it’s all Rome now. You want a standing desk You get floating grave They say pound of flesh Ah, but then it’s metric--wait Hold up Tryna get the glow up Hope the bitcoin flip before the code rusts Middle class: the poor man’s poor man Disappoint the kids, bringing home the store brand Whole life with a stone against your shoulder Tryna flip the symbol over Get it equal to or more than Chekhov says you got a gun, you gotta use it. Guess they’re reading Chekhov downtown, in their cruisers Bang—catch the case we all lose Make Dixie look like Khartoum That Lady Justice ain’t blind yet Lens cap on the body cam – missed again, damn Make you wait While they run your name and St. Peter at the gate Says, tuck your chain in. When in Rome You live by Roman code It used to be If don’t like it, you could leave But then the walls came down And so it’s all Rome now. It was the golden age before the firewall blew Pictures pretty and the products all new But then the data got bigger than the beta test who ‘da thought, after all, looks like the wire wore you. And I think beauty fucks us up It’s like sugar—in the natural world, we’d never get this much So the appetite is bottomless Call Maybelline Anonymous Make narcissists of all of us We never get enough. It’s two-bit feminism Only says you’re better than Some other bitch-- That’s digging the same ditch One of us winning don’t fix the damn system Toes out, girls, back to second position The natural order is value neutral Culture institutes a few virtues Capital comes and brings moral confusion But do anything long enough And the body gets used to it When in Rome You live by Roman code It used to be If don’t like it, you could leave But then the walls came down And so it’s all Rome now. When in Rome You live by Roman code (Here in Rome) It used to be If don’t like it, you could leave But then the walls came down And so it’s all Rome now. When in Rome (Here in Rome)