In "DEAD" by Tezzus, the rush of pills, back-to-back shows, and casual sex flattens into a single numb refrain. The repetition of being dead after every success turns pleasure into a kind of erasure, where even intimacy collapses into disposal, a woman loved and then buried. The foreign fling and talk of marriage feel weightless against the constant self-description as gone. The song sits inside that contradiction: chasing every high while already feeling absent, celebrating a life that sounds more like a disappearing act.
DEAD Lyrics by Tezzus
I pop two Percs, I’m dead (I’m dead)
I’m puttin’ in work, I’m dead (I’m dead)
I rock two shows, I’m dead (I’m dead)
And I fuck two hoes, I’m dead (I’m dead)
I’m dead (I’m dead, uh-huh)
I’m dead (I’m dead, uh-huh)
I’m dead. uh-huh I’m dead (I’m dead, I’m dead)
I rock two shows, I’m dead (I’m dead)
And then I done got me some head (Uh-huh)
I talk to yo’ ho in my bed (I’m dead)
My lingo get her wet (Uh-huh)
Why you talkin’ out my head? (My head)
Lil’ nigga, I ain’t talkin ’bout Nett (Nett)
Dead, dead (Dead)
I lost that ho out West
I fuck me a bitch in a foreign place (Woah-woah)
She told me, “Let’s go to America” (Hold on, hold on)
She told me, “You want me to marry her” (Marry her)
She roll me, then love me, then I bury her (I’m dead)
Bitch, you dead
I been on Apollo Red
I’m just pour a lil’ purple
Purple got geeked all day (Dead)
Red got me geeked like earth
Two cups up, I’m dead
Bro geeked up, he dead (Uh-huh)
We dead, dead (Tripski)
Dead, dead, dead (Woah, woah)
I pop two percs, I’m dead (I’m dead)
I’m puttin’ in work, I’m dead (Uh-huh)
I rock two shows, I’m dead (I’m dead)
And I fuck two hoes, I’m dead (I’m dead)
I’m dead (I’m dead, uh-huh)
I’m dead (I’m dead, uh-huh)
I’m dead, uh-huh I’m dead (I’m dead, I’m dead)
I rock two shows, I’m dead (I’m dead)
And then I done got me some head (Uh-huh)
I talk to yo’ ho in my bed (I’m dead)
My lingo get her wet (Uh-huh)
Why you talkin’ out my head? (My head)
Lil’ nigga, I ain’t talkin ’bout Nett (Nett)
Dead, dead (Dead)
I lost that ho out West
I fuck me a bitch in a foreign place (Woah, woah)
She told me, “Let’s go to America” (Woah, woah)
She told me, “You want me to marry her” (Woah, woah)
She roll me, then love me, then I bury her (I’m dead)
Bitch, you dead
Dead (Woah, woah), dead (Woah-woah)
I lost that ho out West, dead
I lost that ho out West, dead
