That Beast - Pick Me Lyrics

Cautionary tale for all my femmes
Don't live your life for these men
Or it could happen to you quite easily
Caught up and treated as property
I let a man make me question my worth
Second guess my awesomeness developed from birth
Lordt lemme tell y'all, now I'm free
But he tried to make a pick me outta me
He tried to make a pick me outta me
Y'all I, yall I, I was so goofy and young (so goofy)
Lame boundaries quite strung along (oh my gawd)
Thought i had to earn his love and respect
Conform to patriarchy and all that mess (oh no)
Traditional ideas of femininity
Nothing wrong with them (well) but that just is not me
Rules of how a lady should behave (tell em girl)
Cooking and cleaning and everything shaved
'Tis such a shame to have to admit
Just how long I put up with that shit
Lordt lemme tell you tho now I'm free
He tried to make a pick me outta me
He tried to make a pick me outta me
Oh my oh my, The irony of it oh (What's the tea?!)
His mother was a (so say) fast-tailed ho
Her first child born at age fifteen (oh lordt)
And then came he at seventeen (I know you lying!)
One more baby at twenty-one
Marriage to baby daddy (ha!) there were none
But in his eyes she could do no wrong
And meanwhile other women, (ha!) you hear this song
Sexual autonomy wasn't his thing
Making choices for me never get me a ring
This nonsense I almost started to be believe
He almost made a pick me outta me
He almost made a pick me outta me
'Tis such a shame to have to admit
Just how long I put up with this shit
Lordt lemme tell you tho now I'm free
He tried to make a pick me outta me
He tried to make a pick me outta me
(One more time!)
He tried to make a pick me outta me