We argue in the kitchen about whether to have children
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About the world ending and the scale of my ambition
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And how much is art really worth?
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The very thing youre best at is the thing that hurts the most
~#**************#~
But you need your rotten heart, your dazzling pain like diamond rings
~#**************#~
You need to go to war to find material to sing
~#**************#~
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
[Chorus]
~#**************#~
I need my golden crown of sorrow, my bloody sword to swing
~#**************#~
My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology
~#**************#~
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
[Verse 2]
~#**************#~
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape
~#**************#~
Just when you think you have it figured out
~#**************#~
Something new begins to take
~#**************#~
What strangе claws are these scratching at my skin
~#**************#~
I nеver knew my killer would be coming from within
~#**************#~
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
[Chorus]
~#**************#~
I need my golden crown of sorrow, my bloody sword to swing
~#**************#~
I need my empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology
~#**************#~
’Cause I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
~#**************#~
[Bridge]
~#**************#~
Oh
~#**************#~
Oh
~#**************#~
Oh, ooh
~#**************#~
Oh
~#**************#~
[Outro]
~#**************#~
And I was never as good as I always thought I was
~#**************#~
But I knew how to dress it up
~#**************#~
I was never satisfied, it never let me go
~#**************#~
Just dragged me by my hair and back on with the show
