One Of The Greats

Album: Everybody Scream (2025)
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  • I crawled up from under the earth
    Broken nails and coughing dirt
    Spitting out my songs so you could sing along, oh
    And with each bedraggled breath, I knew I came back from the dead
    To show you how it's done, to show you what it takes
    To conquer and to crucify, to become one of the greats
    One of the greats

    I kept a scream inside my chest, killed everyone I'd ever kissed
    Hung them on the wall like trophies, each name, a stain upon my lips
    I told the truth but could never see it through
    You see yourself hung on the wall but that song is not about you
    I wrote down all my fumbling visions transmitted by a television
    Got everything I thought I wanted and cried hungover in a hotel closet

    Did I get it right? Do I win the prize?
    Do you regret bringing me back to life?

    Arms outstretched, back from the dead
    Streetlights bursting overhead
    Arms outstretched, back from the dead
    Streetlights bursting overhead

    I did my best, tried to impress, my childhood dream made flesh
    And my dresses and my flowering sadness, so like a woman to profit from her madness
    I was only beautiful under the lights, only powerful there
    Burned down at thirty-six
    Why did you dig me up for this?

    Arms outstretched, back from the dead
    Streetlights bursting overhead
    Arms outstretched, back from the dead
    Streetlights bursting overhead

    You'll bury me again, you'll say it's all pretend
    That I could never be great being held up against such male tastes
    'Cause who really gets to be one of the greats, one of the greats?
    But I've really done it this time, this one is all mine
    I'll be up there with the man and the ten other women
    And the hundred greatest records of all time
    It must be nice to be a man and make boring music just because you can
    Now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan
    You're my second favorite frontman
    And you could have me if you weren't so afraid of me
    It's funny how men don't find power very sexy
    So this one's for the ladies
    Do I drive you crazy?
    Did I get it right?

    Did I get it right? Do I win the prize?
    Do you regret bringing me back to life?
    Did I get it right? Do I win the prize?
    Do you regret bringing me back to life?

    Arms outstretched, back from the dead
    Streetlights bursting overhead
    Arms outstretched, back from the dead
    Streetlights bursting-

    Too feminine to function
    A pile of bodies and a trail of destruction
    I will let the light in, I will let some love in
    I will be happy, it will be perfect
    I will let the light in, I will let some love in
    I will be happy, it will be perfect
    I will let the light in (arms outstretched, back from the dead)

    Streetlights bursting overhead
    Arms outstretched, back from the dead
    Streetlights bursting overhead
    Arms outstretched, back from the dead
    Streetlights bursting overhead
    Arms outstretched
    Arms outstretched
    Streetlights bursting
    Overhead
    Overhead
    Streetlights bursting
    Overhead Writer/s: Florence Welch, Mark Owen
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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