Monica Darling
there’s nothing I can do
Monica Darling
To bend the truth for you
Monica Darling
there’s nothing I can do
Monica Darling
And you don’t have a clue - how it feels
Getting sick of what you thought you needed
smaller hopes, more of the formatted
that’s the bad dream they like to call the future
it’s the same for you
Bigger words shining in the gutter
bigger crooks, exquisite manners
be a good girl it's all for the better
and they'll make it true
CHORUS
Stuck in the life you have always hated
fewer friends, bitter and defeated
this is the hand that first strokes and then
will beat you black and blue
All the signs we have never heeded
paradise getting overheated
mother of storms is angry and it's coming for me and you
CHORUS
Getting sick of what you thought you needed
smaller hopes, more of the formatted
be a bad girl and break out from cover
while you still can get through
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