Hope

[00:00.60] I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought

[00:09.47] Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like

[00:15.73] All of these debutantes

[00:18.46] Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts

[00:26.71] But I'm not, baby, I'm not

[00:33.72] No, I'm not, that, I'm not

[00:41.72] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

[00:46.71] 24/7 Sylvia Plath

[00:51.21] Writing in blood on my walls

[00:53.70] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad

[00:59.97] Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not

[01:03.95] But at best, I can say I'm not sad

[01:08.46] 'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[01:17.21] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[01:42.96] I had 15-year dances

[01:45.46] Church basement romances, yeah, I've cried

[01:51.96] Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums

[01:55.94] Is the only love I've ever known

[02:00.47] Except for the stage, which I also call home, when I'm not

[02:08.69] Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad

[02:17.19] Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad

[02:25.93] Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, "Hi, Dad"

[02:34.18] I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown

[02:38.70] Like a goddamn near sociopath

[02:43.43] Shaking my ass is the only thing that's

[02:47.16] Got this black narcissist off my back

[02:51.93] She couldn't care less, and I never cared more

[02:55.67] So there's no more to say about that

[03:00.20] Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[03:08.94] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past

[03:17.68] There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw

[03:26.47] Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known

[03:35.20] A modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got

[03:43.94] Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off

[03:52.96] A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off

[04:00.92] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

[04:05.18] 24/7 Sylvia Plath

[04:09.94] Writing in blood on your walls

[04:12.47] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad

[04:18.68] They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not

[04:22.72] But at best, you can see I'm not sad

[04:27.46] But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:36.23] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:44.70] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:52.94] But I have it

[04:57.44] Yeah, I have it

[05:01.45] Yeah, I have it

[05:05.93] I have