Tyranny by Dessa
Tracklist
| 1. | Tyranny | 2:04 | 
Videos
Lyrics
The self-made man 
with the brand-name watch 
the fame fever 
and the fast lane pox 
crowns himself Caesar 
and the known world scoffs,
but if we can’t beat him
the whole thing’s lost.
 
Tyranny x 16
The oval office or the locker room
water cooler gossip, propaganda, or the honest truth—
it all depends on who you’re talking to 
the Paris Accord? Fuck it, pardon my French, don’t really parlez vous.
Cut the EPA
edit a better hurricane 
keep Kellyanne just a call and a con away 
gut the fourth estate (trade war!)
yeah, of course mistakes were made, paid for 
by good people on both sides, 
so they got a torch and a chant and a hand sign,
our reports say we still got a chance at a landslide.
You’re short on mirrors long on smoke—
all that Hydroxychloroquine cut with Diet Coke.  
Under oath and unprovoked 
I think your dog whistle broke
cause we can all hear it: 
post a white power clip claim you missed what they were cheering
hearing’s fine, so you must be hard of spirit, running interference
cap lock on 
spellcheck off
the Teflon Don 
gets his feelings hurt by basketball 
United Nations gets a stand-up show
your race relations is a taco bowl. 
 
This is not partisan; I think reasonable people can disagree.
 
But nobody stuck on a wall likes the way that things end,
it goes: “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men...”
Tyranny x 16
Credits
Vocals and lyrics by Dessa
Produced by Lazerbeak
Additional production by Andy Thompson
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic Mastering
Art by Kai Benson







