Wide Open (Foreword)

Are you lost little girl?

Where’s your mama? (Good Grief!!)

Skin thick as bricks

Was it karma? How old are ya?

Watch your back, watch your step, watch your weight, watch your words too

They’ll come at you with their teeth

and their rhinestone-covered sheaths

Word of warning:

Straighten up.

Tie your shoelaces up

There’s never time to warm up when the jungle cools down

It’s a god damn cornucopia

of your serpents and your scorpions

When you fall asleep baby, keep an eye wide open, hmm

Keep an eye wide open, hmm

All the wolves lick your cuts clad in Prada

with white grins, and tight grips,

blood oaths and loose lips,

smokin stardust

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Act like some pilgrims,

sing like some psalmists,

Kiss like its harmless,

I hope you listen,

there’re too many demons

So girl don’t you give in

to all of the voices around you

saying you can spread your wings

only if you spread those legs first, huh

That’s the bread and butter of this place.

B**ches with butterknives at the ready to spread the word to save their pretty face

So let these words be your saving grace

There’s a much longer trail to blaze

And it’s ours.

(so straighten up!)

Kamikaze

don’t get sloppy,

don’t get sloppy, mm

(so straighten up!)

and keep an eye wide open, mm

keep an eye wide open, mm