Wide Open (Foreword) - NIKI

Are you lost, little girl?

Where’s your mama?

Good grief

Skin thick as bricks

Was it karma?

How old are ya?

Watch your back, watch your step

Watch your weight, watch your words too

They’ll come at you with their teeth

And their rhinestone-covered sheaths

Word of warning

Straighten up

Tie your shoelaces up

There’s never time to warm up

When the jungle cools down

It’s a goddamn cornucopia

Of your serpents and your scorpions

When you fall asleep, baby

Keep an eye wide open, hmm

Keep an eye wide open, hmm

All the wolves lick your cuts clad in Prada

With white grins, and tight grips

Blood oaths and loose lips

Smokin' stardust, mmm

Act like some pilgrims

Sing like some psalmists

Kiss like it’s harmless

I hope you listen

There are too many demons

So girl, don’t you give in

To all of the voices around you saying you can spread your wings

Only if you spread those legs first, huh

That’s the bread and butter of this place

Bitches with butter knives

At the ready to spread the word to save their pretty face

So let these words be your saving grace

There’s a much longer trail to blaze

And it’s ours

(So straighten up)

Kamikaze

Don’t get sloppy

Don’t get sloppy, mmm

(So straighten up)

And keep an eye wide open, mmm

Keep an eye wide open, mmm