Fighting Fish
Dessa

Swimming in a snifter

pretty as a picture

don't get it twisted man, her bite is a b*tch

you can name, you can keep her

but take care when you feed her

you never can take the fight out the fish

chomping at the drill bit

never one to still sit

you can test my metal with a magnet and some tin snips

ink test all I see is canines and some wing tips

pilot pen in pocket, I'm riding instinct and ink jets

around here we don't like talk of big dreams

to stand out is a pride, a conceit

to aim high is to make waves, to split seams

but that's not what it seems like to me cause

I wanna try, I wanna risk

and I don't wanna walk

I'd rather swing and miss

I'm not above apologies but I don't ask permission

got a lot of imperfections but I don't count my ambition in them

Chorus:

Zeno's arrow never hits the mark

it's always hanging there over its shadow

safe from battle, waste of archer's time and trouble

waste of effort, waste of parts

if you don't aim for the center, it's a waste of the art

I didn't come looking for love

I didn't come to pick a fight

I didn't come to wave or take pictures

pander to some benefactor, ring on every broken finger

won't extend my wings to be clipped

I know the culture here is to stay humble, but sh*t

if we all go round bowed heads, button-lipped

if never none of us go for the belt, who wins?

my mother says I've loved too many men

but I took and left something in every single bed

The rook can look left, right—just turns his head

but the knight might rise up, investigate the grid

gender, genre, guess I'm on one

both the constructs

women, children let me tell you, I've been both

and it's a myth we all swim for the lifeboats

I didn't come looking for love

I didn't come to pick a fight

I come here every night to work

and you can grab an ax man or you can step aside

Chorus

Self taught, self made, bet self styled

self came

We march in Converse

own tools

my joints hold steady

Chucks laced ready

I travel by kite, travel

touchdown

I swallowed the dice

I make my own luck now

Zeno's arrow never hits the mark

it's always hanging there over it's own shadow in the dark

it's own shadow in the dark

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