They Told Me Jump, I Said How High

[Intro]

The Sophs, The Sophs, The Sophs, The Sophs

[Verse 1]

I was twenty-two years old when I realized that if something is going to happen to me, I do not wanna be there for it

I wanna say something without saying it

Pray to whoever covers the tab

And retract into myself like a snapping box turtle whenever accountability rears its ugly mug

Mug, mug, mug, mug, mug, mug, mug in my hand at Silverlake Lounge

The only place in this city to get a decent toddy

My girl takes a break from talking about her cousin

Who she can't remembеr is either great at supеrficial interactions

Or great at making interactions superficial

She leans over the table, "Are you sick?"

"No"

"What's with the drink?"

"I don't wanna get sick"

Israela

[Verse 2]

Boyle Heights, on the corner of First and Via Las Vegas, there's a creature white-knuckling a cardboard slat

Every day it says something different

Today it says, "Looking 4 the cheapest way to kill myself" with the number 4 instead of the word four

I got to thinking if I were to die, I'd want it to be in an expensive fashion

Cybertruck hearse, Nobu catering

Check for blue checks at the door, and cue that red light whenever you feel the salt water well

Well, well, well, well, well, well, I protect my virginity with the neurotic vigilance of someone called a pervert on the internet

Unsheathing my horror stories and human resource lexicon like a hot steel sword

Stiff as a stimulated cock

[Verse 3]

Sex with you makes me feel like the first time I heard Sarah Nixey say, "Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it"

Sex with you makes me love talking 'bout my generation and a revolution being kept alive by Cocomelon graphics and landmine words too heady to look up

Sex with you could make me think I really care about what Didion says in Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Like I really saw myself in that baby on acid, soft belly exposed

Rolling around on that shag carpet like a piggy, pig, pig in a sty

Israela

[Verse 4]

Alright, I just started drinking

That's not a part of the song, I legitimately got nervous I wouldn't be able to write the rest of this if I wasn't drunk

Holly had some Tito's in the cabinet to the left of the fridge, and I mixed it with some Limoncello Lacroix

I'm a few sips in an honestly, it makes a world of difference

All that being said, we really gotta kill Netanyahu

Me? I'm as good of a Colin Powell as Tyler Perry

The spark of youth inside me reduced to a firewood log covered in warm asparagus piss

[Verse 5]

I was twenty-two years old when I realized that if something is going to happen to me, I do not wanna be there for it

I wanna say something without saying it

Pray to whoever covers the tab

And jack off in peace

Meanwhile, the radio's playing