Speaking of Dessa (and the Queen)

I haven’t met a locked door yet
That I couldn’t beat
On a chain around my neck
I keep my skeleton key

Don’t waste your worry on me
I always find what I need
Come and go as I please,
I’ve got my skeleton key

By now it’s just a simple trick
Not much to see
You hear the tumblers catch and click,
Then turn the key
But I’ve found work and welcome
Everywhere I’ve been
‘Cause everybody’s got someplace
They wanna be let in

Don’t waste your worry on me
I always find what I need
Come and go as I please,
I’ve got my skeleton key

Don’t waste your worry on me
I always find what I need
Come and go as I please,
I’ve got my skeleton key

Along the way,
The old men call me by mother’s name
She looked just the same, they say
The children wave or hide behind
Their mother’s skirts afraid

Strangers here still seem strange
They hear the accent, know
I’m from nowhere near
But I speak the language
And I know the customs here
I come from over the horizon
Pass through every dozen years
Go home, tell of my arrival
The skeleton key’s here

Don’t waste your worry on me
I always find what I need
Come and go as I please,
I’ve got my skeleton key

I’ve got my,
My skeleton,
My skeleton key
I’ve got my, got my, got my
My skeleton, my skeleton key, yeah

Don’t you go waste all your worry on me
‘Cause I’ll make my way with
My skeleton key

Dessa
Skeleton Key
Parts of Speech, 2013

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Yes – I’ve posted about Dessa. And this song before (I think).

No – I don’t care.

She’s amazing. And this song is it.

I’ve learned, through my joy and hardship, how to help people unlock doors …inside and around them.

I’m handy to have around.

And it’s my greatest asset.

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“Look, I don’t dance now
I make money moves
Say I don’t gotta dance
I make money move
If I see you and I don’t speak
That means I don’t fuck with you
I’m a boss, you a worker, bitch
I make bloody moves”

Cardi B
Bodak Yellow
Invasion of Privacy, 2018

Shit… Bitch I need to eat, too.

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Here go some haterade, get your thirst quenched
Style’d on ’em in this Burberry trench
These birds copy every word, every inch
But gang-gang got the hammer and the wrench

Nicki Minaj
Chun-Li
Queen 2018