I Know Girls (Body Love)-Mary Lambert

[ti:I Know Girls (Body Love)] [ar:Mary Lambert] [al:Letters Don't Talk - EP] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Know Girls (Body Love) - Mary Lambert (玛丽·兰伯特) [00:30.58]Know girls who are trying to fit into the social norm [00:33.34]Like squeezing into last year's prom dress [00:36.20]I know girls who are low rise mac eyeshadow and binge drinking [00:40.57]I know girls that wonder if they're disaster and sexy enough to fit in [00:45.51]I know girls who are fleeing bombs from the mosques of their skin [00:49.24]Playing russian roulette with death; it's never easy to accept [00:52.56]That our bodies are fallible and flawed [00:55.61]But when do we draw the line [00:57.92]When the knife hits the skin [00:59.61]Isn't it the same thing as purging [01:01.48]Because we're so obsessed with death [01:03.54]Some women just have more guts than others [01:06.91]The funny thing is women like us don't shoot [01:09.84]We swallow pills still wanting to be beautiful at the morgue [01:14.08]Still proceeding to put on make-up [01:16.07]Still hoping that the mortician finds us f**kable and attractive [01:19.70]We might as well be buried with our shoes [01:22.01]And handbags and scarves girls [01:24.57]We flirt with death everytime we etch a new tally mark [01:27.62]Into our skin [01:28.69]I know how to split my wrists like a battlefield too [01:31.30]But the time has come for us to [01:33.11]Reclaim our bodies [01:34.80]Our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and collateral [01:38.17]Offering this f**kdom as a pathetic means to say [01:41.48]"I only know how to exist when I'm wanted" [01:47.72]Girls like us are hardly ever wanted you know [01:51.53]We're used up and sad and drunk and [01:55.33]Perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up [01:58.38]And tell us that we did good [02:01.38]We did good [02:06.66](I know I am because I said am my body is home) [02:22.85] [02:39.35]So try this [02:40.60]Take your hands over your bumpy lovebody naked [02:42.77]And remember the first time you touched someone [02:45.84]With the sole purpose of learning all of them [02:48.77]Touched them because the light was pretty on them [02:51.71]And the dust in the sunlight danced the way your heart did [02:54.96]Touch yourself with a purpose [02:57.23]Your body is the most beautiful royal [03:00.41]Fathers and uncles are not claiming your knife anymore [03:04.34]Are not your razor no [03:05.83]Put the sharpness back [03:07.34]Lay your hands flat and feel the surface of scarred skin [03:10.95]I once touched a tree with charred limbs [03:13.51]The stump was still breathing [03:15.44]But the tops were just ashy remains [03:17.44]I wonder what it's like to come back from that [03:19.81]Sometimes I feel a forest fire erupting from my wrists [03:24.12]And the smoke signals sent out are the most beautiful things [03:26.80]I've ever seen [03:32.04]Love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet [03:35.04]And brother arm wrapping shoulders and remember [03:37.66]This is important [03:39.48]You are worth more than who you f**k [03:41.59]You are worth more than a waistline [03:43.65]You are worth more than any naked body could proclaim [03:46.78] [03:49.41]In the shadows more than a man's whim [03:52.03]Or your father's mistake [03:53.47]You are no less valuable as a size 16 than a size 4 [03:57.59]You are no less valuable as a 32a than a 36c [04:02.14]Your sexiness is defined by concentric circles within your wood [04:07.26]Wisdom [04:08.26]You are a goddamn tree stump with leaves sprouting out [04:15.37]Reborn