Album: Tight (1999)

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• Molly was a good girl
  And she knew the reasons why
  So when she went back in the bathroom
  She would never come outside
  
  She was a good girl
  And it felt great to be a liar
  She's a good girl
  And it felt great to be a liar
  She's a good girl
  And it felt great to be a liar
  Oh, liar, oh, oh no, liar, oh oh
  
  Molly was a good girl
  And she knew the reasons why
  Molly was a good girl
  And she knew the reasons why
  
  She was a good girl
  And it felt great to be a liar
  She's a good girl
  And it felt great to be a liar
  She's a good girl
  And it felt great to be a liar
  Oh, liar, oh, oh no, liar, oh oh
  
  Molly was a good girl
  Molly, Molly was a good girl
  Molly, Molly was a
  Molly was a, Molly, Molly, Molly was a good girl
  
  And it felt great to be a liar
  She's a good girl
  And it felt great to be a liar
  She's a good girl
  And it felt great to be a
  (No good lousy mothafuckin stupid)
  Oh, liar, oh, liar, oh, oh no Writer/s: James M Euringer
  Publisher: JAMES IS A GIRL MUSIC C/O CITRIN COOPERMAN
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Comments: 10

• Weird Monster from From Under Your BedI thought this song was based on the movie "Angel"
• Crimson from Your Mom's HouseI thought it was abt this girl named molly who was a good girl because she never sh'd but then she went to the bathroom one day and sh'd and lied abt being fine
• K from No WhereI just thought it was a drug?? Like in the line ‘Molly was a good girl’ Can show how the user thinks the drug’s a great and helpful thing and that they always went to the bathroom to do it and got quickly addicted.
• Aj from Mental HospitalMy take on it is that Molly was the classic good girl who became tired of being the nice girl. So she went to the bathroom and did Molly (look it up). Afterwards she wasn't the same and got addicted to it and the lyrics "She went back in the bathroom, she would never come outside" shows how she would spend her time doing Molly and likely other things in their to get a sense of control over what was supposed to be a perfect good girls life. When questioned about she would lie about and deny that she was doing Molly. Afterwards, she became quite useless cause she was high all the time hence the "no-good lousy" lyric.
• Aiden from ItalyI've always thought it was about a trans boy who didn't have the courage to do coming out, so he kept pretending to be a cis girl, so this is why they would call him a good girl who felt good about lying. The lyrics " she knew the reasons why, so when she went back in the bathroom she would never come outside" might be about the fact that he knew that by coming out he would probably be victim of transphobia, and that whenever he went to the bathroom he spent a lot of time struggling with his dysphoria, so that's why he would never come outside, because he lost cognition of time since he was immersed in his dysphoric thoughts
• MillenaMy take on the song was something like this:
  Molly could have been the girl's name, and she was always the nice girl, living up to the expectations of everyone, but she got tired of it, so she ended up going to the bathroom and doing Molly, a form of ecstasy, so when they say that she never came out of the bathroom, my guess is she either overdosed, or she wasn't the same-the original Molly who lived up to everyone's expectations never came out. (As in she became a completely different person after it.)
  
  I don't know. Maybe that's just stupid sounding?
• Aj from Your MumI also know something about the thing Molly was doing in the bathroom was molly, a type of ecstasy.
• Dakota from Murder VileI like the song but I never understood the lyrics I just liked it for the beat. I’d like to know in a simpler explanation.
• AnonymousI don’t get what they meant about so “when she went back in the bathroom she would never come outside” what did they mean??
• No One :) from Somewhere Over The Rainbowi would like to add, that maybe the thing "Molly" was doing in the bathroom was molly, a slang term for certain types of ecstacy.

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