Rome - Dessa

Take your fronts out

If you’re talking to me

No VIP says VIP

I’ve known powerful women

And beautiful men

And none of em calling for bottle service settle down and settle in

Mind your manners make a friend

Motherfucker

Where you been?

How you living?

Have a drink

It’s cash only

But the staff knows me

Tell em it’s the girl in the back

Tab’s open

When in Rome

You live by Roman code

It used to be

If don’t like it, you could leave

But then the walls came down

And so it’s all Rome now

You want a standing desk

You get floating grave

They say pound of flesh

Ah, but then it’s metric, wait

Hold up

Tryna get the glow up

Hope the bitcoin flip before the code rusts

Middle class: the poor man’s poor man

Disappoint the kids, bringing home the store brand

Whole life with a stone against your shoulder

Tryna flip the symbol over

Get it equal to or more than

Chekhov says you got a gun, you gotta use it

Guess they’re reading Chekhov downtown, in their cruisers

Bang — catch the case we all lose

Make Dixie look like Khartoum

That Lady Justice ain’t blind yet

Lens cap on the body cam — missed again, damn

Make you wait

While they run your name and

St. Peter at the gate

Says, tuck your chain in

When in Rome

You live by Roman code

It used to be

If don’t like it, you could leave

But then the walls came down

And so it’s all Rome now

It was the golden age before the firewall blew

Pictures pretty and the products all new

But then the data got bigger than the beta test who

'Da thought, after all, looks like the wire wore you

And I think beauty fucks us up

It’s like sugar—in the natural world, we’d never get this much

So the appetite is bottomless

Call Maybelline Anonymous

Make narcissists of all of us

We never get enough

It’s two-bit feminism

Only says you’re better than

Some other bitch

That’s digging the same ditch

One of us winning don’t fix the damn system

Toes out, girls, back to second position

The natural order is value neutral

Culture institutes a few virtues

Capital comes and brings moral confusion

But do anything long enough

And the body gets used to it

When in Rome

You live by Roman code

It used to be

If don’t like it, you could leave

But then the walls came down

And so it’s all Rome now

When in Rome

You live by Roman code (Here in Rome)

It used to be

If don’t like it, you could leave

But then the walls came down

And so it’s all Rome now

When in Rome

(Here in Rome)