Album: Dance Fever (2022)
Charted: 54
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  • We argue in the kitchen about whether to have children
    About the world ending and the scale of my ambition
    And how much is art really worth
    When the very thing you're best at is the thing that hurts the most
    But you need your rotten heart, your dazzling pain like diamond rings
    You need to go to war to find material to sing
    I am no mother, I am no bride
    I am king

    I need my golden crown of sorrow, my bloody sword to swing
    My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology
    'Cause I am no mother, I am no bride
    I am king
    I am no mother, I am no bride
    I am king

    But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape
    Just when you think you have it figured out, something new begins to take
    And what strange claws are these scratching at my skin?
    I never knew my killer would be coming from within
    But I am no mother, I am no bride
    I am king
    I am no mother, I am no bride
    I am king

    And I was never as good as I always thought I was
    But I knew how to dress it up
    I was never satisfied, it never let me go
    Just dragged me by my hair, and back on with the show Writer/s: Florence Leontine Mary Welch, Jack Michael Antonoff
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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