Things I've Been Telling Myself for Years

[00:40.99] Things I've been telling myself for years
[00:52.27] I can read people, yeah
[00:59.29] Blushing peccadilloes, twisted bents, and buried fears
[01:06.34] Things I've been telling myself for years
[01:17.90] I'm the dashboard hula girl of nodding self-deception
[01:23.91] Here's to never accepting slight adjustment or correction
[01:30.39] Here's to a doting mother's voice assisting me in every choice
[01:36.11] Saying, "Chorister, binman, or barrister?
[01:39.12] So lucky, son, to have you"
[01:42.70] Here's to walking in every room like ascending for an Oscar (ooh, yeah)
[01:49.03] Kissing hands and shaking babies, Blackpool rock imposter (ooh, yeah)
[01:54.95] A cannon loosed, a golden goose, Leo, sayer of the unsaid sooths
[02:01.60] I'll fix you with a cosmic stare (ooh, yeah)
[02:04.42] I'll fix your life, go fix your hair, I dare you
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[02:31.82] Of course, I'll live to 96 and fix the welfare state (ooh, yeah)
[02:38.65] I'll build a house with these two hands, my face above the gate (ooh, yeah)
[02:44.92] I haven't paid for cabs or beers or met a cunt in 20 years
[02:51.26] Like all that outrun poverty, all I have was coming to me (ooh, yeah)
[02:58.20] Things I've been telling myself for years
[03:08.39] All of these things I've been telling myself for years
[03:23.05] Things I've been telling myself for years
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