[CHORUS]
Dm Am
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Dm Am
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Dm Am
When you’re soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
Dm Am
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
Dm Am
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
[VERSE 1]
Dm Am
While my sister was on stage, killing it like a motherfucker
Dm Am
I was enraged, feeling it like a motherfucker
Dm Am
Bird in a cage, you would never know what I was dealing with
Dm Am
Went out separate ways, but I was happy she was killing it
Dm Am
Bittersweet, she was up, I was down
Dm Am
No lie, I feel good for her, but what do I do now?
Dm
Forget the records, off the record,
Am
I was going through some bullshit
Dm Am
Post-survivor, she on fire, who wanna hear my bullshit?
Dm Am
Meanwhile, this nigga putting his hands on me (...)
Dm Am
I swear y’all don’t know the half of this industry
[CHORUS]
Dm Am
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Dm Am
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Dm Am
When you’re soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
Dm Am
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
Dm Am
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
[VERSE 2]
Dm
And it’s almost been a decade
Am
I’m behind them black shades
Dm Am
Roll up like it’s all good, right up out that escalade
Dm Am
Fix my make-up, “get it together, Kelly, get it together”
Dm Am
Then we make up, “well get it together, nigga, get it together”
Dm
Kinda lucky, I was in her shadow
Am
Phone call from my sister, “what’s the matter?”
Dm Am
She said, “Oh no, baby – you gotta leave! ”
Dm Am
I’m on the kitchen floor – he took the keys
Dm Am
I was mad at everybody, I mean everybody
Dm Am
Yeah, her, her, her her everybody
Dm Am
Five years later, I got my shit down pat
Dm Am
Think I had it good, and they don’t know how bad
Dm Am
Fooled everybody, except myself
Dm Am
Soaking in this hurt, bathing in the dirt
[CHORUS]
Dm Am
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Dm Am
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Dm Am
When you’re soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
Dm Am
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
Dm Am
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
[BRIDGE]
Dm
So here I am in the spin cycle
Am
We’re comin and we’re goin’, nobody can know this
Dm
And I was trapped in his house, lyin’ to my mama
Am
Thought it could get no worse as we maximize the drama
Dm
Started to call them people on him, I was battered
Am
He hittin the window like it was me, until it shattered
Dm Am
He pulled me out, he said, “Don’t nobody love you but me
Am Bm C Dm
Not your mama, not your daddy and especially not Bey”
Dm
He turned me against my sister
Am
I missed ya
[CHORUS]
Dm Am
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Dm Am
Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Dm Am
When you’re soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
Dm Am
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
Dm Am
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry