Verse Chorus + Outro
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[Am] x0221x [C] x3201x
[G] 32000x [D] xx023x
[D] xx023x [Em] 02200x
[G] 32003x
[D/F#] 2x023x
Verse 1
[Am] [G] [D]
I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought
[Am] [G] [D]
Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like all of these debutantes
[Am] [G] [D]
Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts
[Am] [G] [D]
But I'm not, baby I'm not
[Am] [G] [D]
No, I'm not that, I'm not
Chorus 1
[C] [D] [Em] [C]
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown, twenty-four seven, Sylvia Plath
[C] [D] [Em] [C]
Writing in blood on the walls 'cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
[C] [D] [G] [D/F#] [C]
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not, but at best I can say I'm not sad
[C] [G] [D/F#]
'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[C] [G] [D/F#]
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[Am] [G] [D]
[Am] [G] [D]
Verse 2
[Am] [G] [D]
I had fifteen-year dances, church basement romances, yeah I've cried
[Am] [G] [D]
Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums is the only love I've ever known
[Am] [G] [D]
Except for the stage which I also call home when I'm not
[Am] [G] [D]
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, Dad"
Chorus 2
[C] [D] [Em] [C]
I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown like a goddamn near sociopath
[C] [D] [Em] [C]
Shaking my ass is the only thing that's got this black narcissist off my back
[C] [D] [G] [D/F#] [C]
She couldn't care less and I never cared more so there's no more to say about that
[C] [G] [D/F#]
Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[C] [G] [D/F#]
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past
Verse 3
[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
[Am] [G] [D]
A modern day woman with a weak constitution 'cause I've got
[Am] [G] [D]
Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off
[Am] [G] [D]
A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off
Chorus 3
[C] [D] [Em] [C]
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown, twenty-four seven, Sylvia Plath
[C] [D] [Em] [C]
Writing in blood on your walls 'cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad
[C] [D] [G] [D/F#] [C]
They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not but at best, you can see I'm not sad
[C] [G] [D/F#]
But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[C] [G] [D/F#]
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
Outro
[C] [G] [D/F#]
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
[C] [G] [D/F#]
But I have it, yeah I have it
[C] [G] [D/F#] [C]
Yeah, I have it, I have
