Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It Chords

[Verse 1]
      G                       Bm                     A
I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought
G                           Bm                   A
Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like
              Em
All of these debutantes
G                         Bm                              A
Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts
    G              Bm
But I'm not, baby, I'm not
    A             Em
No, I'm not, that I'm not
 
[Chorus]
          G                            A
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
 Bm         Em
24/7 Sylvia Plath
G                       A
Writing in blood on the walls
                     Bm                   Em
'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
       G                    A
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not
       Bm                     Em
But at best I can say I'm not sad
       G                   Bm                      A
'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
G                   Bm                      A
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
 
[Verse 2]
      G
I had fifteen-year dances
       Bm                      A
Church basement romances, yeah I've got
G                         Bm
Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums
       A                   Em
Is the only love I've ever known
G                             Bm                   A
Except for the stage, which I also call home, when I'm not
G                         Bm                 A      Em
Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad
G                           Bm                    A
Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad
G                                Bm              A
Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say "Hi, Dad"
 
[Chorus]
          G                            A
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
       Bm         Em
Like a goddamn near sociopath
G                       A
Writing in blood on the walls
                     Bm                   Em
'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
       G                    A
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not
       Bm                     Em
But at best I can say I'm not sad
       G                   Bm                      A
'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
G                   Bm                      A
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
 
[Bridge]
          G                 Bm                   A
There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw
G                     Bm                 A                 Em
Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known
  G                       Bm                        A
A modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got
G                       Bm                     A
Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off
  G                     Bm                      A
A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off
 
[Chorus]
          G                            A
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
 Bm         Em
24/7 Sylvia Plath
G                       A
Writing in blood on the walls
                     Bm                   Em
'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
       G                    A
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not
       Bm                     Em
But at best I can say I'm not sad
       G                   Bm                      A
'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
G                   Bm                      A
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
 
[Outro]
G                   A                      Bm
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
    G
But I have it
        A
Yeah, I have it
        Em
Yeah, I have it
  A
I have
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