every morning my mouth seals shut
i put up a front to absorb yr cut
it was always flimsy at best but i still put up a front to be yr secret smut
i just get by because a lil pig sty is
better than no sty at all
im just a square thing
no real rare thing
just a dumpster bitch rat
whats the matter
never get touched at all these days
but i put up a front cause i gotta be a nice gay
see if the energy feels right
but i put up a front because i might
be too forward
too needy
too horny
for you
be too forward
too needy
too horny
for you
why should u recieve affection
when you just cant behave
why should u recieve affection
when youre just so depraved
why should u receive love
when you toss out friendship for the lay
get some church pants on that ass
and ask the lord to get saved
i come flying up from over there
wearing my ex’s underwear
stomping on bel air and the valley
because the meek shall inherit cali
stomping in the roofs of men who
are jerkin off to my giant hen
exposing them and their great look of disgrace
when they skitter away
the noise we hear all day
until they crawl out from under their desk
and say wipe them out, leave no trace
and always with that reddish face
spinning on a pole
spread my ass for cameras
where i belong
elsewhere i get damned
ive seen the exploitation
i know what youll do if i
let out a peep from inside
i cant hold it in forever
before id raise some fuck to show you the power of our anger
to send a message we wont get fucked with again
but i put up my front
listen to you call me a cuntless cunt
cause i know at that time that if i tried
someone might go make sure that ive died
and id get harassed in the daytime never mind the night, get chased everywhere
hiding cameras inside my hair
what good is a taser if they only stare
ill just stay indoors and be nowhere
doesnt matter how long weve been around
doesnt matter what hirschfield ever put down
doesnt matter if we were in ancient rome or in ancient greece
doesnt matter if i even have titties
cause thats the way you mozey
if a spoiled cis white man says so
then thats the way you mozey
if it gets you paid if it gets you laid
then thats the way you mozey
or if it doesnt get you one or the other or both
then thats the way
uh huh uh huh
you mozey
im the ink marrow girl and i gotta spew
stuff nothing new but i still gotta hurl
spitting up ink
spitting it pink
spitting it blue like a fucking twink
if i spit it white then i got the flag
but why fuck with flags they just fuck us back
and stab through both tits
like a roasting spit
watch out! gonna rhyme this all with “shit”
i gotta poke where it hurts
ruffle up a rich white mans shirt
get erased from all walks of life and such
no shows no films the usual crutch
and they like to think thats its just a white thing
because the whites are the most alive
our black and brown siblings left in dust
we never reckon past memes and jokes
these are our siblings and we just leave them
when really we’ve got the means to protect them
some of us whites have got money somewhere
we could be using that to some good end we just dont care
we just dont care
we could be showing up but we just dont care
we just dont care
some of us try to care
but the ones with the pull and gold just glare
now i pull that gold from teeth and pocket
and smash the gold where theres planes and rockets
bitchzilla on rail skates,
skyscraper legs and powder kegs in her punch
on the hunt for conservative types
that throw a fit that were in their sight
run them over with their own car
that 69 jaguar
but once id just put up my front
cause im homeless and looking for a place to bunk
and if i meet the social criteria
the trans girl hosting me will do a query-a
have me join her trans polycule
where ill be called a good girl and fucked like a fool
oh shit, ASD is starting to show
they all have that look in their face like woah
i got big energy big obsessive
sometimes i can be big posessive
fidgety dissociative and spacy
and traumatized im fuckin crazy
the thing that scares them is this is no meme
the traits i exhibit are the real thing
i keep being left on the side of road
and i feel like theres no frog to my toad
ive left a long trail of folks that ive hurt
ive left beautiful faces down in the dirt
and ive been called every kind of word for it
cause thats the way they mozey
if a spoiled rich white man says so
then thats the way you mozey
if it gets you paid if it gets you laid
then thats the way you mozey
or if it doesnt get you one or the other or both
then thats the way
uh huh uh huh
you mozey
keep putting up that front
thats what everybody wants
in this town no ones blunt about it
just keep up that front
and go away
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