Raising the Skate - Speedy Ortiz

Heaven have mercy on the hypnic jerk

You're blamed for your speech

Walk around the block again

Wait 'til I feel cool and straight

With the direst on undertaking

Carefully steady

Are we steady

Cool and ready

I'm not bossy I'm the boss

Shooter not the shot

Of the fit to execute

I'm chief not the overthrown

Captain not a crony

So if you wanna row you better have an awfully big boat

Boat boat boat

Holding a package from a total stranger

Who claims to know me

No you never knew me man

Not even a fraction

You just glimpsed your own reflection

In a gold sheen

I'm not bossy I'm the boss

Shooter not the shot

Well-composed with keys to raise the skate

I'm chief not the overthrown

Captain not a crony

So if you wanna throw you better have an awfully big stone

Stone stone stone

Stone stone stone

We could hang out for the summer while you wait for your girl

Dip a toe until it's sunk and freezing

But just because I let you kill time dangling me from the quarry

Doesn't mean that I won't land on my feet

That's cause I'm the boss

Caller of the shots

Sutanejo never spit to me

Chief

Play my own right hand

Not haggish but the hag

How naïve to trample

She who's running from the stampede

I'm raising the skate

Look I'm raising the skate

I'm raising the skate

I'm raising the skate

Look I'm raising the skate

I'm raising the skate

Oh oh oh