Rome

Take your fronts out if you’re talking to me
No VIP says VIP
I’ve known powerful women and beautiful men
And none of em calling for bottle service settle down and settle in
Mind your manners, make a friend, motherfucker
Where you been? How you living? Have a drink
It’s cash only, but the staff knows me
Tell em it’s the girl in the back, tab’s open

[Chorus]
When in Rome
You live by Roman code
It used to be
If you don’t like it, you could leave
But then thе walls came down
And so it’s all Rome now

You want a standing desk, you gеt a floating grave
They say pound of flesh, ah, but then it’s metric--wait
Hold up, tryna get the glow up
Hope the bitcoin flips before the code rusts
Middle class: the poor man’s poor man
Disappoint the kids, bringing home the store brand
Whole life with a stone against your shoulder
Tryna flip the symbol over, get it equal to or more than
Chekhov says you got a gun, you gotta use it
Guess they’re reading Chekhov downtown, in their cruisers
Bang—catch the case we all lose
Make Dixie look like Khartoum
That Lady Justice ain’t blind yet
Lens cap on the body cam – missed again, damn
Make you wait while they run your name and
St. Peter at the gate says tuck your chain in

[Chorus]
When in Rome
You live by Roman code
It used to be
If you don’t like it, you could leave
But then the walls came down
And so it’s all Rome now

It was the golden age before the firewall blew
Pictures pretty and the products all new
But then the data got bigger than the beta test who
‘da thought, after all, looks like the wire wore you
And I think beauty fucks us up
It’s like sugar—in the natural world, we’d never get this much
So the appetite is bottomless, call Maybelline Anonymous
Make narcissists of all of us, we never get enough
It’s two-bit feminism, only says you’re better than
Some other bitch -- that’s digging the same ditch
One of us winning don’t fix the damn system
Toes out, girls, back to second position
The natural order is value-neutral
Culture institutes a few virtues
Capital comes and brings moral confusion
But do anything long enough and the body gets used to it
(Do anything long enough and the body gets used to it)

[Chorus (x2)]
When in Rome
You live by Roman code
It used to be
If you don’t like it, you could leave
But then the walls came down
And so it’s all Rome now

When in Rome
You live by Roman code (Here in Rome)
It used to be
If you don’t like it, you could leave
But then the walls came down
And so it’s all Rome now

When in Rome
(Here in Rome)