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I was reading Slim Aarons and I
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got to thinking that I thought
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Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like
All of these debutantes
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Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on
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white yachts
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But I'm not baby I'm not
Am G D
No I'm not that I'm not
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I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
Em C
/7 Sylvia Plath
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Writing in blood on the walls
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Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
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Don't ask if I'm happy you know that I'm not
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But at best I can say I'm not sad
Am G D
Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to
have
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Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
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I had fifteen-year dances
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Church basement romances yeah I've cried
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Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums
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Is the only love I've ever known
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Except for the stage which I also call home when I'm n
not
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Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad
Am G D
Hello it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad
Am G D
Calling from beyond the grave I just wanna say Hi D
Dad"
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I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown
Em C
Like a goddamn near sociopath
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Shaking my ass is the only thing that's
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Got this black narcissist off my back
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She couldn't care less and I never cared more
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So there's no more to say about that
Am G D
Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to
have
Am G D
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past
Am G D
There's a new revolution a loud evolution that I saw
Am G D
Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly
I've known
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A modern day woman with a weak constitution 'cause I've
got
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Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off
Am G D
A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights
off
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I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
Em C
/7 Sylvia Plath
C D
Writing in blood on your walls
Em C
Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad
C D
They write that I'm happy they know that I'm not
Em C
But at best you can see I'm not sad
Am G D
But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to
have
Am G D
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
C G D
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
C G D
But I have it
C G D
Yeah I have it
C G D
Yeah I have it
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I have