Hope Set Free
I don't care if I sing off-key
I find myself in my melodies
I sing for love, I sing for me
I shout it out, like a bird set free
I don't care if I sing off-key
I find myself in my melodies
I sing for love, I sing for me
I shout it out, like a bird set free
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 and white yachts
But I'm not
Baby, I'm not
I've been tearing up town in my spotless nightgown
Twenty-four seven 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
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw
Born of confusion and a 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 (nights off, nights off)
There's a scream inside that we all try to hide
We hold on so tight, we cannot deny
Eats us alive
(Oh it eats us alive)
There's a scream inside that we all try to hide
We hold on so tight, but I don't wanna die, no
I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, oh
I don't care if I sing off-key
I find myself in my melodies
I sing for love, I sing for me
I shout it out, like a bird set free
No, I don't care if I sing off-key
I find myself in my melodies
I sing for love, I sing for me
I shout it out, like a bird set free
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
I shout it out like a bird set free
Now I fly, hit the high notes
I have a voice, have a voice, hear me roar tonight
You held me down
But I fought back loud (I fought back loud, oh)
There's a scream inside that we all try to hide
We hold on so tight, but I don't wanna die, no
I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, no
I don't care if I sing off-key
I find myself in my melodies
I sing for love, I sing for me
I shout it out, like a bird set free
No, I don't care if I sing off-key
I find myself in my melodies
I sing for love, I sing for me
I shout it out, like a bird set free