Everything Floats

[Hook: Dessa & Cecil Otter]

Everything floats down here

Anything that sinks from up there

Floats down here

Like she did her mask

Like she did her smile

The future is a bitter past

Everything floats down here

Anything that sinks from up there

Floats down here

Like she did her mask

Like she did her smile

The future is a bitter past

[Verse 1: Cecil Otter]

She keeps her mind closed

For repair on broken dreams

She won’t let us in like it’s our fault

She wrote them scenes and played the part

She’s got this aching heart

That just can’t wait to start breaking apart

Vacant parts of her body

To begin making art

Introducing its bloody sound to critics

And anybody wild that beats its sickness

To a bloody pulp

See it’s nobody’s fault her inner child drowned

In a river while she cried it deeper

I think I’ll swim awhile

I think I’ll think awhile

While drinking in this pile of leaves

Jump off, then go home cocked

The hope runs wild

They tore them down

Burn them at the stakes of my flames

And work the snakes in my veins like

[Hook]

[Verse 2: Dessa]

I got hella elegant etiquette

It’s only indelicate when

They fuck with the sedatives

But, she’s got a side with a thorn in it

And they say with some scorn in it

Like maybe she was born with it

And maybe it’s Maybelline

They say that what’s the matter with me

“It runs in the family”

But I’m just trying to get my ever-after happily

Avoid the modern maladies of vanity and apathy

I’m looking for a voice in the white noise

I’m trying to make a choice with the right boy

To lay me down into bed

Leash the hounds in my head

Somebody (somebody) to finally see me through it

Somebody to remind me that I’m the quantum unit

Of a treaty and a handshake

An audience and fanbase

A culture and a cause

A movement and a mob

I said a culture, a cause, a movement, a mob

[Hook]