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I Am Pupa

from Reef Walker by Rosa Bordallo

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lyrics

"I'll take you far away from here"
said the man to the girl as he steered
Her away from humble beginnings
In a small and dusty old town
“Don’t look away, hold your gaze steady”
And she did and it vanished from the rear view
I had hoped my little story
Would calm her down

I was wasted
in the van
I was missing
My head in the sand
I was shanghai’d
I never saw land
I was hustled
at the captain’s command
I was shunted
Before my time
I was sinking
had such a heavy load
I was shanghai’d
In the blue sea
I was plundered
No pride or pedigree
I was lifted in the van
I was gifted
To a girl I’d never met

When the spider-ling eat their mum
Do they think “my, how far we have come”
When you are young life’s so bloody you could taste it
And this girl fought hard for what was left of hers
Until the space around her got tighter
And the light she had left got fainter
Her whole world had been like a diner
And her fate just one greasy menu

I’m a collector and a junk heap
A walking hovel of her debris
I am magnetic like a vortex
A walking dead man, a deep state snitch
I am pupa and a pontiff
I am a peasant burning witch
I am beetle in a rock band
I am a shut-in and oh so grand
A producer on a Hollywood set
I am a shogun, a thug, a shill
I am pupa and a pontiff
Celebrity wrangler, a working stiff

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from Reef Walker, released October 18, 2019

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Rosa Bordallo New York, New York

Rosa Bordallo f/k/a Manett is a singer-songwriter and musician based in Brooklyn. She is a CHamoru from the island of Guam in the Marianas, an archipelago in Micronesia. She came to New York at the age of 19. She was a member of the band cholo.

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