[Verse 1]
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I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought
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Maybe Id get less stressed if I was tested less like
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All of these debutantes
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Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts
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But Im not, baby, Im not
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No, Im not, that, Im not
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[Chorus]
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Ive been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
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24/7 Sylvia Plath
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Writing in blood on my walls
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‘Cause the ink in my pen dont work in my notepad
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Dont ask if Im happy, you know that Im not
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But at best, I can say Im not sad
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‘Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
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Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
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[Verse 2]
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I had 15-year dances
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Church basement romances, yeah, Ive cried
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Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums
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Is the only love Ive ever known
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Except for the stage, which I also call home, when Im not
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Servin up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad
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Hello, its the most famous woman you know on the iPad
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Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, “Hi, Dad”
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[Chorus]
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Ive been tearing up town in my fucking white gown
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Like a goddamn near sociopath
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Shaking my ass is the only thing thats
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Got this black narcissist off my back
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She couldnt care less, and I never cared more
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So theres no more to say about that
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Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
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Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past
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[Bridge]
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Theres a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw
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Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly Ive known
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A modern day woman with a weak constitution, cause Ive got
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Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off
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A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off
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[Chorus]
~#**************#~
Ive been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
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24/7 Sylvia Plath
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Writing in blood on your walls
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‘Cause the ink in my pen dont look good in my pad
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They write that Im happy, they know that Im not
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But at best, you can see Im not sad
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But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
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Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
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[Outro]
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Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
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But I have it
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Yeah, I have it
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Yeah, I have it
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I have
