Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[00:01.77] I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought

[00:10.27] Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like

[00:16.64] All of these debutantes

[00:19.56] Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts

[00:27.80] But I'm not, baby, I'm not

[00:34.70] No, I'm not, that, I'm not

[00:42.94] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

[00:47.45] 24/7 Sylvia Plath

[00:52.23] Writing in blood on my walls

[00:54.63] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad

[01:00.73] Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not

[01:04.72] But at best, I can say I'm not sad

[01:09.23] 'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[01:18.00] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[01:44.03] I had 15-year dances

[01:46.16] Church basement romances, yeah, I've cried

[01:52.53] Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums

[01:56.78] Is the only love I've ever known

[02:01.56] Except for the stage, which I also call home, when I'm not

[02:09.80] Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad

[02:18.03] Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad

[02:26.80] Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, "Hi, Dad"

[02:35.03] I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown

[02:39.81] Like a goddamn near sociopath

[02:44.59] Shaking my ass is the only thing that's

[02:48.05] Got this black narcissist off my back

[02:52.83] She couldn't care less, and I never cared more

[02:56.81] So there's no more to say about that

[03:01.02] Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[03:09.79] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past

[03:18.55] There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw

[03:27.58] Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known

[03:36.35] A modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got

[03:44.85] Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off

[03:53.62] A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off

[04:01.58] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

[04:06.37] 24/7 Sylvia Plath

[04:11.15] Writing in blood on your walls

[04:13.80] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad

[04:19.65] They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not

[04:23.63] But at best, you can see I'm not sad

[04:28.61] But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:37.37] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:45.87] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:54.11] But I have it

[04:58.36] Yeah, I have it

[05:02.61] Yeah, I have it

[05:07.12] I have