Terry Gross - Dessa

Ever since I was a little predator

Mom’s like, don’t get ahead of her

I was on the hunt for something better than the regular

And I knew there was candy at the register

So not about to settle for the vegetables

Full grown, still got a sweet tooth

Still tryna climb all the walls I can see, you

Take your influences wichoo

Everywhere you go

Mine were Carmen Sandiego

Lauryn Hill and Terry Gross

But I’ve been playing hard to keep:

Kiss and teleport

Dark roots where the bleach won’t reach

Man, that’s gotta be a metaphor

But I’m still tryna storyboard it

Call me back if it’s important

If you’re looking for me

On this Tinder shit about partners in crime

Seems like Bonnie’s working little harder than Clyde

When it comes to the heist, doesn’t feel like a partnership

Cuz my accomplice is completely incompetent

I don’t need a drink menu.

I’ll take a white wine.

Through a Twizzler.

Great.

Thanks, man

Two bars walk into a joke

First is a gold bar, other is soap

Yo, lemme get the punchline I’m worth most

Gold says with a glass too full to toast

But Soap makes her voice go real low

Leans close

Rarely one to go boast

But when the banks hit the button, the credit goes down to nothing

And the flood waters come in, then let’s see who floats

Watch for unintended consequences—those you don’t see

The initials of your girlfriend could kill the fucking oak tree

Nothing in my pocket but the body heat

Travel light, and mind your manners, man

That’s my foreign policy

I’m that Netflix chick

See the pieces on the ceiling—

The strategy above me

All the moves when I’m competing:

I’ll arrive by lightning bolt

Leave by cannonball

The china’s fine, man

The bull’s mechanical

Before we continue this conversation, I just have to make sure you’re not a

robot.

Here, which one of these pictures have buses?

Robots will never be able

to figure out buses

A base hit is the son of a pitch

A tanning bed is the sun of the rich

Son, keep your knuckles up, front of the fists

Don’t go broke, looking for something to fix