Dessa - Matches to Paper Dolls | Audiotree Live

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Dessa is the CEO and a core creative in the rap collective Doomtree. Her solo work highlights her dynamic vocal abilities backed by a full band. She’s a lyrical monster, stringing together lucid poetry in unique combinations. As a slam poet, short story writer, and forum leader, Dessa is deeply invested in the writing community. Her second full-length, Parts of Speech, was released in 2013 and a new Doomtree record is on the horizon. Dessa’s powerful, intelligent, and compassionate persona is a refreshing role for a front man. Call it indie Hip Hop, R &B, rap, or soul; Dessa can do it better than most.
Recorded on September 28, 2014 in Chicago, IL.
Visit the band's website -- www.doomtree.net/dessa/
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[@groke5897]

Dessa is a queen.

[@MoiraRussell]

WOW. So different from the album, but amazing! Always love to hear Aby and Dessa do their vocal magic together.

[@ChristineLSlocum]

WHOA. Favorite version right there. Wow.

[@BUBO26]

By far the best version of this amazing song.

[@nicolemarie6317]

I assume people have tried to sign you. You're so amazing! ❤thanks for being Minnesotas girl xoxo

[@rogermucroy750]

What an incredibly talented human being. This song gives me chills, that beat!

[@Antman15201]

Beautiful sounds.... good jam to listen after not hearing dess n a few years Wow girls getting it in!

[@yoohoodrinker566]

Glad she kept the sample

[@dumdristig]

Can you imagine losing someone as amazing as Dessa? Remarkably, I can. No idea how, but somehow I once had a chance with someone as incredible as her, which is saying a lot. And of course, I screwed it up. Like Dessa, she later went on to have a career in pop culture, although in Hollywood, not in music. I'd imagine the antecedent of "you" in this song feels similar to me. Possibly worse, since while her first big movie had some similarities to our relationship, I know it wasn't actually written about me, that was just coincidence (someone else wrote it).

[@riddler87]

goosebumps Dessa, GOOOOOOOSEBUMPS! Holy...

[@music15myHEARTBEAT]

[@jiyuzanandrewrockwell2676]

I changed the locks But your key, your key's still working You can't train a moth I guess Oh, each beast gets her burden So we circle this old flame Too much at stake But too late to change My nerves are shot My reserves exhausted It's a tired plot, but we bought it Now we're lost Between love and cholera Saccharine read - such a sentimental novel Give you cavities if it doesn't drive you to the bottle As for me, I'll take another kerosene If you've got it something harder Built like a moth you see And I still get chills when you talk to me But the years pass by now In twos and threes These thrills ain't as cheap As they used to be If you're asking, I can't say no Just one more chapter Our book won't close And I know it's madness To play these odds It's like giving matches to paper To paper dolls I know it's madness, I know Tried sweet talk, tried dynamite But I sleepwalk, back to the battle site Fight fire with fire but the fire won't fight We just fly these circles like tired kites You flash some fang And I bat my lashes And we're back again No end to this game with matches We've been lovers and strangers and friends who get angry Made mistakes and amends and brief moments of magic We forgive and forget and give in to attraction This whole thing depends on amnesia and magnets I'd be leaving for good, I'd be looking for better But I got this broken habit I keep gluing back together The fervor the fire the feathers, this fever defies measure And good sense won't venture, where the moth won't let it If you're asking, I can't say no Just one more chapter Our book won't close And I know it's madness To play these odds It's like giving matches to paper To paper dolls I know it's madness, I know

[@rakzaba2985]

Pretty far fetched, but listening to this amazing rendition of matches to paper dolls made me think about overture from jesus christ superstar. Just ordered her album.

[@amyernst7099]

0:09, 0:14, 0:24, 0:33, 0:51, 1:12

[@robertdelarosa7737]

I'm not worthy

[@sassiitalytours]

Robert De La Rosa me neither...but I will keep listening 👍.

[@carocozinha9545]

hah, laughed way too hard of this