Hope Is a Dangerous Thing For a Woman Like Me to Have - But I Have it

Album: Norman F---ing Rockwell! (2019)
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  • I was reading Slim Aarons
    And I got to thinking that I thought
    Maybe I'd get less stressed, if I was tested less like
    All of these debutantes
    Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels
    On white yachts
    But I'm not
    Baby I'm not
    No, I'm not
    That I'm not

    I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
    24/7, Sylvia Plath
    Writing in blood on my walls
    'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
    Don't ask if I'm happy
    You know that I'm not but at best I can say
    I'm not sad
    'Cause hope is a dangerous thing
    For a woman like me to have
    Hope is a dangerous thing
    For a woman like me to have

    I had fifteen year dances
    Church basement romances yeah I've got
    Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums
    Is the only love I've ever known
    Except for the stage which I also call home
    When I'm not serving up God in a burnt coffee pot
    For the triad
    Hello it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad
    Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say
    "Hi dad"

    I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown
    Like a goddamn near sociopath
    Shaking my ass is the only thing that's
    Got this black narcissist off my back
    She couldn't care less
    And I never cared more
    So there's no more to say about that
    Except hope is a dangerous thing
    For a woman like me to have
    Hope is a dangerous thing
    For a woman with my past

    There's a new revolution
    A loud evolution
    That I saw
    Born of confusion
    And quiet collusion of which
    Mostly I've known
    A modern day woman
    With a weak constitution
    'Cause I've got
    Monsters still under my bed
    That I could never fight off
    A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off

    I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
    24/7, Sylvia Plath
    Writing in blood on your walls
    'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad
    They write that I'm happy
    They know that I'm not
    But at best you can see I'm not sad
    But hope is a dangerous thing
    For a woman like me to have

    Hope is a dangerous thing
    For a woman like me to have
    Hope is a dangerous thing
    For a woman like me to have
    But I have it
    Yeah, I have it
    Yeah, I have it
    I have
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