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Album: Not A Pretty Girl (1995)
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  • Squint your eyes and look closer
    I'm not between you and your ambition
    I am a poster girl with no poster
    I am thirty-two flavors and then some
    And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
    So you might want to turn your head
    'Cause someday you are gonna get hungry
    And eat most of the words you just said

    Both my parents taught me about good will
    And I have done well by their names
    Just the kindness I've lavished on strangers
    Is more than I can explain
    Still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
    Just so I would think they were not home
    And hid in the dark of their windows
    Till I'd passed and left them alone

    God help you if you are an ugly girl
    'Cause too pretty is also your doom
    'Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
    For the prettiest girl in the room
    And god help you if you are a phoenix
    And you dare to rise up from the ash
    A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
    While you are just flying past

    And I've never tried to give my life meaning
    By demeaning you
    And I would like to state for the record
    I did everything that I could do
    I'm not saying that I'm a saint
    I just don't wanna live that way
    No, I will never be a saint
    But I will always say

    Squint your eyes and look closer
    I'm not between you and your ambition
    I am a poster girl with no poster
    I am thirty-two flavors and then some
    And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
    So you might wanna turn your head
    'Cause someday you might find you're starving
    And eating all of the words you said Writer/s: ANI DIFRANCO
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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