Hope

[00:02.67] I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought

[00:08.78] Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like

[00:14.89] All of these debutantes

[00:18.36] Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts

[00:26.59] But I'm not

[00:29.25] Baby, I'm not

[00:34.03] No, I'm not

[00:37.75] That, I'm not

[00:41.74] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

[00:46.25] 24/7 Sylvia Plath

[00:50.76] Writing in blood on the walls

[00:53.15] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad

[00:59.27] Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not

[01:03.51] But, at best, I can say I'm not sad

[01:08.03] 'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[01:16.53] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[01:42.56] I had fifteen-year dances

[01:44.96] Church basement romances, yeah, I've cried

[01:51.59] Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums

[01:55.58] Is the only love I've ever known

[02:00.09] Except for the stage, which I also call home, when I'm not

[02:08.33] Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad

[02:16.83] Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad

[02:25.33] Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, "Hi, Dad"

[02:33.82] I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown

[02:38.34] Like a goddamn near sociopath

[02:42.86] Shaking my ass is the only thing that's

[02:46.84] Got this black narcissist off my back

[02:51.36] She couldn't care less, and I never cared more

[02:55.08] So there's no more to say about that

[02:59.86] Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[03:08.36] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past

[03:17.39] There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw

[03:25.63] Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known

[03:34.92] A modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got

[03:43.16] Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off

[03:52.47] A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off

[04:00.70] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

[04:04.95] 24/7 Sylvia Plath

[04:09.47] Writing in blood on your walls

[04:12.92] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad

[04:17.97] They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not

[04:21.69] But, at best, you can see I'm not sad

[04:27.00] But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:35.50] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:44.29] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

[04:58.11] But I have it

[04:58.37] Yeah, I have it

[05:01.03] Yeah, I have it

[05:07.14] I have