Hope
[00:00.40] I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought
[00:08.65] Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like
[00:15.40] All of these debutantes
[00:17.90] Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts
[00:26.15] But I'm not, baby, I'm not
[00:33.40] No, I'm not, that, I'm not
[00:41.41] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
[00:46.16] 24/7 Sylvia Plath
[00:50.91] Writing in blood on the walls
[00:53.16] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
[00:59.40] Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not
[01:03.16] But at best, I can say I'm not sad
[01:08.16] 'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[01:16.66] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[01:42.15] I had fifteen-year dances
[01:44.65] Church basement romances, yeah, I've cried
[01:51.15] Spilling my guts with the Bowery bums
[01:55.40] Is the only love I've ever known
[01:59.90] Except for the stage, which I also call home, when I'm not
[02:08.40] Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the Triad
[02:16.65] Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad
[02:25.15] Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, "Hi, Dad"
[02:33.91] I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown
[02:37.91] Like a goddamn near sociopath
[02:42.90] 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
[02:55.15] So there's no more to say about that
[02:59.65] Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[03:08.40] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past
[03:16.90] There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw
[03:25.91] Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known
[03:34.65] 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
[03:51.90] A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off
[04:00.15] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
[04:05.40] 24/7 Sylvia Plath
[04:09.40] Writing in blood on your walls
[04:11.90] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad
[04:17.65] They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not
[04:21.90] But at best, you can see I'm not sad
[04:26.90] But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[04:35.40] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[04:44.15] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[04:52.41] But I have it
[04:55.65] Yeah, I have it
[04:59.90] Yeah, I have it
[05:04.16] I have
