Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it

[00:00.39] ...

[00:00.64] I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought

[00:09.20] Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like

[00:15.23] All of these debutantes

[00:18.23] Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts

[00:26.52] But I'm not, baby, I'm not

[00:33.30] No, I'm not, that, I'm not

[00:41.34] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

[00:46.11] 24/7 Sylvia Plath

[00:50.87] Writing in blood on my walls

[00:53.39] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad

[00:59.15] Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not

[01:03.42] But at best, I can say I'm not sad

[01:07.95] 'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[01:16.75] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[01:42.12] I had 15-year dances

[01:44.62] Church basement romances, yeah, I've cried

[01:51.15] Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums

[01:55.17] Is the only love I've ever known

[01:59.93] Except for the stage, which I also call home, when I'm not

[02:08.22] Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad

[02:16.76] Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad

[02:25.31] Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, "Hi, Dad"

[02:33.34] I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown

[02:38.11] Like a goddamn near sociopath

[02:42.88] Shaking my ass is the only thing that's

[02:46.65] Got this black narcissist off my back

[02:51.16] She couldn't care less, and I never cared more

[02:55.19] So there's no more to say about that

[02:59.45] Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[03:08.24] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past

[03:16.78] There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw

[03:26.07] Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known

[03:34.60] A modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got

[03:43.40] Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off

[03:52.18] A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off

[03:59.97] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

[04:04.74] 24/7 Sylvia Plath

[04:09.51] Writing in blood on your walls

[04:12.02] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad

[04:17.80] They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not

[04:22.07] But at best, you can see I'm not sad

[04:26.84] But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:35.64] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:44.16] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:52.45] But I have it

[04:55.98] Yeah, I have it

[05:00.63] Yeah, I have it

[05:05.41] I have