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Allow me to set the scene
Our story begins at 2:27 a.m. on a rainy night in Paris, cue the thunder
Autumn leaves blanket the concrete, the sky is dark
A woman in her late twenties walks from a bar to her hotel
She has no umbrella, she is seven Negronis deep
And she nurses a hole she is desperately trying to fill
Her eyebrows were plucked, she worе fake eyelashеs and a red dress
Yet no one at the bar would notice her efforts
Though disappointed, she is no stranger to rejection
She has weathered many storms, that she herself has become the girl under the grey cloud
As she was walking alone in the rain, chin to her chest
Arms wrapped around her waist, a perfect storm was brewing
This night in November would prove to be the catalyst, a culmination, the perfect recipe
For the girl under the grey cloud must finally make way for the rain
Ingredients as follows:
Her loneliness, the vermouth
The scratching of the zip on the left hem of her dress
The echo of a belittling assessment she had received from a man earlier that day
And a voice note from her grandma that would say
Call me, please, we need to pray

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I'll overcome (She will, she will, she will, ooh)
I'll overcome (Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed, she will)
There's a thin grey veil over her horizon
The wall between hope and despair
She exists behind it
She will overcome

Five hundred steps left to make it to the front door (Mm)
My red high heels click, click, four many too drinks
I feel my backbone threaten to greet the concrete below
I mean, who wants to bе in Paris drunk and alone?
Where thе phantom of a past love lingers in the cracks of
The cobblestones that I march on and it haunts me, and it taunts me
And su-su-su-suddenly, in a reflection of a Chanel boutique window
I can see the old me and I hate her
I feel syrup strands of blue moonlight pour through the clouds
To find me out like a spotlight, as if Heaven's watching down
To illustrate briefly the state of my mind
I have black cat-eye glasses, so I look chic as I cry
And it's funny, some people say I remind them of Amy
Some spit through their keyboards, I'll never amount
And the evil in insults, the arrows from your tongue
Is the same devils you tortured her with
Anyhow, I

I'll overcome (She will, she will, she will)
I'll overcome (Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed)
When this wicked world wants to whisper
"You cannot, you won't be, you will not
So go home and shut up, and go sleep"
This is a song to remind me, since I needed one
I will overcome

There's a thin grey veil over her horizon
The wall between hope and despair (Yes, I will, yes, I will, yes, I will, yes, I will)
She exists behind it
She will overcome
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I will, oh

Five hundred steps back and I was doing so well (So well)
Whilst scrolling, I sighed (I'm so jealous)
Of everyone online who is so much happier
And content and complete (To feel better, I shall arrange a sad little feast)
Where I will jump up and down on my bed in my grief
And I'll play Edith Piaf, and I'll dance and I'll
Eat chocolate cake and I'll have no regrets till I
Wake up and hate me now, I must know, anyhow
I will keep on

I'll overcome (She will, she will, she will)
I'll overcome (Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed)
When this wicked world wants to whisper
"You cannot, you won't be, you will not
So go home and shut up, and go sleep"
This is a song to remind me, since I needed one

Five hundred steps left, maybe I have lost count
My battery died, so I'm not sure if I turn left or turn right
As my eyes gathered tears, it's as if it was staged
How all the night skies above start to thunder and rain
Like a Hollywood movie with some sad exceptions
No lover to kiss, or promised happy endings
I'll swing 'round this street lamp, and I'll give you a story
You may say I look crazy, but I won't even care
Aren't we all broken people? Just perfect how to hide it
And life's guarantee's that we're all going to die
So am I going to live like this all of my life?
I'm not okay right now
But I'll get there somehow, I

I'll overcome, I-I-I, I-I
I'll overcome (She will, she will)
When this wicked world wants to whisper
"You cannot, you won't be, you will not
So go home and shut up, and go sleep"
This is my song to remind me, I needed one
I will overcome, oh, oh, oh

There's a thin grey veil over her horizon
And it is the wall between hope and despair
She exists behind it, she will overcome

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Deep in the heart of the South London concrete jungle
There lives a strange creature
Beware, the South London lover boy (Ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha; Ah)

Girls, stay safe out there
Best you stay prepared
He's a South London lover boy

(Oh, uh-uh-uh, uh, uh, uh) Beware
(Oh, uh-uh-uh, uh, uh, uh) And be wary
(Oh, uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh) It's, so, so scary
(Uh-uh, uh-uh)

He'll Lime Bike to your doorstep (Ooh)
Spliff hangin' off his lips (Ooh)
He'll grab your arse and squeeze it (Ooh)
Before he leans in for a kiss (Uh-uh, uh-uh)
He's just so charismatic (Uh-uh-uh, uh, uh, uh)
And he talks as if he's doing road (Uh-uh-uh, uh, uh, uh)
And he says, "I'm too toxic for you, darling" (Uh-uh-uh, uh, uh, uh), "But when we kiss, it feels like home" (Uh-uh, uh-uh)

Beware (Won't you beware?)
The South London lover boy (The South London lover boy)
They'll know where to find you (They'll know where to find you)
Especially early when you're home alone too
Beware (Beware, beware)
He'll pull up on you in an all-black car
And start reading poems out the window
He's not looking for a heart, just your pillow to rest his head

Girls, stay safe out there
Best you stay prepared
He's a South London lover boy

(Oh, uh-uh-uh, uh, uh, uh) Beware
(Oh, uh-uh-uh, uh, uh, uh) He's so aimless
(Oh, uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh) It's, so, so dangerous

Well, there's another side to this story (Ooh)
For there's a mean kinda beast a lurking (Ooh)
And it hunts these streets, and it may call you by a whistle (Ooh)
If it finds you, pretty woman, the first thing, uh (Tuh-tuh-tuh)
Take care not to antagonise it
Do-don't offend its fragile ego
Stay calm and kind and polite, oh, darling
Or else the outcome could be lethal

Beware, eh-eh-eh-yeah (Won't you beware?)
The South London lover boy (The South London lover boy)
They'll know where to find you (They'll know where to find you)
Especially early when you're home alone too
Beware (Beware, beware)
He'll pull up on you in an all-black car
And start reading you poems out the window
He's not looking for a heart, just your pillow to rest his head

Girls, stay safe out there (There)
Best you stay prepared (Ooh)
He's a South London lover boy

Alright, girls (It's so, so, so scary)
Wherever you're listening
In your house, in your car (And so, so, beware)
Walking home from work after dark (It's so, so, so scary)
I need you to repeat after me
Stay wary, girls, it's scary out there, sing (Uh, uh, girls)

Girls, stay safe out there, sing (Girls)
Girls, stay safe out there, sing (Sing, girls)
Best to stay prepared, sing
Best to stay prepared, sing (It's wild out there, sing)
Girls, stay safe out there, sing
Girls, stay safe out there, sing
It's best to stay prepared
Uh-uh-uh, we think she needs the drums
Girls, stay safe out there
Girls, stay safe out there
Best to stay prepared
Best to stay prepared
Oh, girls, stay safe out there
Girls, stay safe out there
Best to stay prepared
Best to stay prepared (Oh)
He's not looking for your heart, just a pillow to rest his head
Ooh, that boy is a South London lover boy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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Once upon a time there was a (Girl)
Girl, and there was a serpent (Serpent)
Oh, and her name was Eve (Eve)
And she took a bite from the apple (Apple)
And the story ain't this dissimilar (Yeah)
Many, many, many, many moons later
She'd be deceived by her very own traitor
And he weren't even my type on paper
Such sweet poetry he would write
"The WhatsApp Shakespearе Killer," we call him
Lies just to climb into your bеdroom door
Now you're fighting for your life on your bedroom floor
And, and a devil did send him
Heart of blue, black venom
My mother knew when she met him
Wolf in sheep's clothes, oh, but in this case, denim
Uh, cold-blood felon

Oh, how Mother would then mourn the ghost of her daughter
As he lured me in like a lamb to the slaughter
Yeah, yeah, sounds very dramatic, don't it?
A modern-day tragedy, I call it
It's a true story, it happened

Oh, how he'd romance (Romance) on me, on me, on me
He'd WhatsApp call me, call me with a
"Wherefore art thou, true love?" (He strikes again)
Oh, he's a cursive kisser
He'd romance on me, on me, on me
Romeo, oh, no, I was a fool to love you, damn
Juliet must run, Juliet must vanish
Damn it, cut him off, savage, he must be banished
The WhatsApp Shakespeare killer

I was still breathing, baby, just barely (Barely)
Grandma had to bring her Bible (Bible)
Sister wanna hunt him down
But only Jesus can save him now
Like-like-like Lazarus, I did rise
What a miracle she could survive
Last text sent in the dead of the night
When the light in her eyes left with him
Hold sis earrings, go get him

Oh, how Mother would then mourn the ghost of her daughter
As he lured me in like a lamb to the slaughter
Yeah, yeah, sounds very dramatic, don't it?
A modern-day tragedy, I call it
Not with thy flesh, but with thy words, he would

Romance (Romance) on me, on me, on me
He'd WhatsApp call me, call me with a
"Wherefore art thou, true love?" (He strikes again)
Oh, he's a cursive kisser
He'd romance on me, on me, on me
Romeo, oh, no, I was a fool to love you, damn
Juliet must run, Juliet must vanish
Damn it, cut him off, savage, he must be banished
The WhatsApp Shakespeare killer

Run, Juliet, run, Juliet, run
Silence all notifications
Forward this text to at least ten people, please
Thy words I plead from thy tongue
His weapons of mass seduction
My midsummer night nightmare
Don't end up like me

He's still out there, Romeo Fraud
He's a 6'2" sick mother— five months minimum recovery
From a sweet lie to the all-out Shakespearean voice-note-ery
Though I'd like to clarify
No one did die in the story
But I did inside when I found out

I was one of seven other leading ladies
Starring in the new romantic thriller

Presenting the WhatsApp Shakespeare Killer
Ooh, he's a cursive kisser (Romeo Fraud)
He'd WhatsApp call me (Call me, call me with the, wow), mm-mhm
"Wherefore (Ooh) art thou (Mm), true love?" (Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na) Oh (Ba-bum, ba-bum, dum)

He would romance
Where once I lived in the palm of his hand
And at the time, how could I understand?
Why now, I ask you to forward this message or face seven months' sadness

You better run
Stick it to the man
You better run while you can
Fact, your Uber's outside
Must learn the art of airtime
You never must reply
You must escape the clutches of this fake Prince Charming
A.k.a. the WhatsApp Shakespeare, darling, dun-dun, dun-dun-dun

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Picture me, I am a silhouette ('Uette—)
I am a sob story, standing in the rain in a summer dress
Only so much the heart can take (Take—)
I thought he had plans to love me
But it seems I made a grave mistake
Watching them from far away
He wrapped his arms, I'd die to live inside
Around her perfect, little, tiny waist
A sucker punch into my chest
I'll see myself out, I'm going home
To cry in private by Uber Exec

Don't call me, you can send a text
And pull up at this petrol station, please
So I can buy a pack of cigarеttes
Crying in a stranger's car
Have fun with Alicе at the bar
Maybe I'll become the Queen of Hearts

Cold girls get by, cold girls won't cry
I'll become the winter woman
I'll wear floor-length fake fur coats
In the middle of July, baby
I'll be sad and beautiful
I will be sad and beautiful
And I'll wait and pray for warmer days to come
Until then, I'm numb and

Life goes on, life goes on
She gets her money, then a taxi home
She hunt alone, hurts alone
In her castle on the hill where no one comes or no one goes
Yeah, and her heart is blue, dress is red
Your text is green and left on read
Yeah, just like roses, violets are blue
Regret is a bitch, I have a feeling
You'll be meeting her soon
Picture me, I am a silhouette
I am a sob story, standing in the rain in a summer dress
I know I won't be sad forever
Tonight, I kissed a bottle on the lips
'Cause desperate times require desperate pleasure

I don't need another friend
Pull up at this petrol station, please
So I can buy a large bottle of gin
Crying in a stranger's car
Have fun with Alice at the bar
Baby, I'll become the Queen of Hearts

Cold girls get by, cold girls won't cry
I'll become the winter woman
I'll wear floor-length fake fur coats
In the middle of July (Baby)
I'll be sad and beautiful (Baby)
I will be sad and beautiful
And I'll wait and pray for warmer days to come
(Now he must watch her now walk)

Now watch her walk in slow motion, watch her walking away
Her hair will dance in the wind, she'll be the girl you wish you had
Give me a night to cry my heart out, and a day to re-brand
As I remind myself, I am the girl I think that I am
She keep it pushing, sadness suppression
She hides her scars under silk presses and crimson dresses
No more paragraph confessions (Yes), she learned her lessons (Yes)
An arctic breeze blows from the west
She vows an oath to make her name a word you won't forget
Until, then

Life goes on (And then)
Life, life goes on
There'll be no more paragraph confessions
She vows an oath to make her name a word you won't forget

Picture me, I am a silhouette ('Uette—)
I am a sob story, standing in the rain in a summer dress
Only so much the heart can take (Take—)
I thought he had plans to love me
But it seems I made a grave mistake
Watching them from far away
He wraps his arms, I'd die to live inside
Around her perfect, little, tiny waist
A sucker punch into my chest
Tonight, I kissed a bottle on the lips
Since desperate times require desperate pleasures

I don't need another friend
Pull up at this petrol station, please
So I can buy a pack of cigarettes
Crying in a stranger's car
Have fun with Alice at the bar
As I become the Queen of Hearts

Cold girls get by, cold girls won't cry
I'll become the winter woman
And I'll wear floor-length fake fur coats
In the middle of July (Baby)
I'll be sad and beautiful (Baby)
I will be sad and beautiful
And I'll wait and pray for warmer days to come
Until then, I know that

Life goes on
Life goes on
She gets her money, then a—
Life, life, go, go, on, on, on, on
On and on, and on, and on
Life goes on
Life goes on
She gets her money, then a taxi home
Life goes on

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Did you know the odds to be born on this Earth's one in four hundred trillion?
I conquered those odds, yet I can't conquer leaving this house
I eat, sleep, scroll, and work, but there has to be more than just merely existing
In fact, I was thinking there's not enough wine in the fridge to unleash me
And this feeling fiends for some feminine healing
By that, I mean

I call my girls and said, "SOS, pick a dress
Pick a time and an address
For we are going out tonight"

Send the call out, send the call out
Calling all my baddest women, it's about to go down
Click, click, click, clack, symphony, I need that
Click, click, click, clack, symphony, I love the sound of it
Who let the girls out? I did, I did, darling
She's empowered by the sound of us marching
Her legs are hurting, but her back is still arching
And this sound reminds me that it's going to be alright

And I never could have guessed I started my morning in tears
Got a great waterproof mascara I can recommend
I should try my luck in Hollywood and find some auditions
Because the way I fake this smile could pay the mortgage and the rent
I climb into my lovely drama before my TV
I feel alone, I feel like no one really needs me
So thank you, Carly, for having a sixth sense
And for calling to remind me
We don't settle for depression on a Friday night

I need a pep talk, I need a hug, I need a dance floor
I got one little life, I need to get out the house more
And really start living it
Heavy is the burdens that are weighing on me
I will lay them down under some pink and blue lights
Call my girls and said, "SOS, pick a dress
Pick a time and an address
For we are going out tonight"

Send the call out, send the call out
Calling all my baddest women, it's about to go down
Click, click, click, clack, symphony, I need that
Click, click, click, clack, symphony, I love the sound of it
Who let the girls out? I did, I did, darling
She's empowered by the sound of us marching
Her legs are hurting, but her back is still arching
And this sound reminds me that it's going to be alright

Jim-Jimmy Choo, it's time to open up the closet
It's a sad sight to see Manolo Blanik gather cobwebs
Why I'm like an alien in every dress I try?
Sigh, let me turn my music louder and pretend it's fine
Everything that's hurt me, left and gave up on me
Am I just a product of everything that was done to me?
Done to me, come to me, someone bring the sun to me
I can see the glimmer of the girl who once believed

(She just needs) She needs a pep talk, she needs a hug, she needs a dance floor
She's got one little life, she needs to get out the house more
And try and start living it
Heavy is the burdens that are weighing on me (Me)
I will lay them down under some pink and blue lights (Pink and blue lights)
Call my girls and said, "SOS, pick a dress
Pick a time and an address
For we are going out tonight"

Send the call out, send the call out
Calling all my baddest women, it's about to go down
Click, click, click, clack, symphony, I need that
Click, click, click, clack, symphony, I love the sound of it
Who let the girls out? I did, I did, darling
She's empowered by the sound of us marching
Her legs are hurting, but her back is still arching
And this sound reminds me that it's going to be alright

Though this season of her life had been cold, lonely and tough
Though she slipped back into a darkness she had hoped by now to have overcome
She had learned a beautiful lesson
And she kissed her girls goodbye and thanked them for getting her out the house
That maybe everything was going to be alright
And even if only for a moment
Everything is going to be alright
Yeah, it's going to be alright
Going to be alright

Send the call out, send the call out
Calling all my baddest women, it's about to go down
Click, click, click, clack, symphony, I need that
Click, click, click, clack, symphony, I love the sound of it
Who let the girls out? I did, I did, darling
She's empowered by the sound of us marching
Her legs are hurting, but her back is still arching
And this sound reminds me that it's going to be alright

Then she put her headphones in
And there she danced under the weight of her clouds
But for the first time in a long time
She believed that one day, she would again feel the sun
She must be patient
She must have faith in the seeds that are planted beneath the snow
She must hold on and she must let go
She'll be alright, no riding, shining, armoured knight
She will save herself this time
And in fact tonight, she did confirm
The cold never lasts, my darling
It just teaches the heart how to burn

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I can see you're standing on the edge
Your legs step on the ledge of life's afflictions
I know you're a master of disguise, you are
Underneath that soft and gentle smile you put on this morning
You give when you have little left to give
You ballroom dance with hollow "How are you's?" (How are you, how are you?)
Your body aches from marching up your mountains
But you always keep pushing on (Ooh)
You always keep pushing on (You always keep pushing on)
I know life can be a bitch, some call her "Monday"
And I'm thinking of you, dear, I hope you're okay (Yeah)
Maybe there's a hole you're hiding somewhere
And you hide it so well, you do, I must say

But I, I know you're hurting (Ah-ah-ah)
And deep down there something's burning (Ah-ah-ah, deep down there something's burning)
If you need two more arms to hold these burdens, I am here (Ah-ah-ah)
I said a prayer for you, I hope it's working (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Please, my dear, don't stop believing in miracles, ooh

You always find some kind words for a stranger
I wish that you could find some for yourself, ah-ah
You claw yourself apart in private moments
And over bruises you put plasters on
Where life has dealt another losing hand (Ah)
You bite your tongue and tense your thighs to stand (Ah)
You know that you can't be so strong alone all the time
So please stop trying to be so strong all alone, all alone
You don't have to do this all alone
Even though I know

Oh, I, I know you're hurting, I know
That deep down there something's burning, I know
If you need two more arms to hold these burdens, I am here (Ah-ah-ah)
I said a prayer for you, I hope it's working
Please, my dear, don't stop believing in miracles, oh-oh-oh-oh

I know it's hurting (Hurting, hurting)
It's just 6:30 (Just 6:30, 30)
I know it's hurting (It's hurting, hurting)
Pray Lord has mercy (Mercy, mercy)
I know He's working (I know He's working)
Oh (I know He's working)

I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know it's hurting
It's just gone Thursday
Ain't this some damn feeling?
Ain't all of us just looking for some healing?
And while we wait for it
For the sweeter days to find us
Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shake off the devils that's lurking
And close your eyes and let this music get to working

If you're listening to this, I need you to hear me now
Don't you give up on your life
Stay with me now
Oh, don't give up on your life
It's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright
It's gonna be okay (Ah-ah, da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da, ah-ah, ah)
It's gonna be fine, it's gonna be alright
It's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay
It's gonna be okay, ah
Ah, oh (Da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da, ah-ah, ah)

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Don't work too hard, have a rest
And never give up
Never give up, never (I'm living, not giving up, giving up)
Givin' up yet, I'm not giving up yet, I'm not givin' up yet
Don't know how I'll get there
I'm not givin' up yet, I'm not givin' up yet, I'm not givin' up yet
Say it, say, "I'm not giving up yet"
I'm not giving up yet, I'm not giving up yet
I'm not giving up yet, I'm not giving up yet
He sees you
I'm not giving up yet (Ich geb' jetzt no nik uf), I'm not giving up yet

Don't know how I'll get there (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not giving up yet (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not givin' up yet
I'm not givin' up yet (I'm not giving up yet)
Don't know how or when, but (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not giving up, nah
I'm not givin' up, yeah
I'm not givin' up yet

Cried myself an ocean
Tryin' not to drown in it
Tryin' not to drown in it
Tryin' not to drown in it (I'm not giving up yet)
Lord, send me a lifeboat
Something I could cling to
Something I could cling to (I'm not giving up yet)
Something I can hold on

I don't know how I'm gonna do this
But I know I'm not givin' up
I'm not giving up yet
I'm not giving up yet
I'm not giving up yet
I'm not givin' up yet (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not giving up yet
I'm not giving up yet (I am not giving up yet)

Don't know how I'll get there
I'm not givin' up yet
I'm not givin' up yet
I'm not givin' up yet
Don't know how or when, but
I'm not givin' up, nah
I'm not givin' up, said
I'm not givin' up yet (I'm not giving up yet)

Many people have pains in their lives
They've been so disappointed, so broken
Almost lost the desire to even live
Been rejected many times, I've been disappointed many times
I've been failed many times
Whether you're going through darkness, there is a future
There's a way forward
There's, there's hope

Don't know how I'll do this (We will make it)
I'm not givin' up (We will make it)
I'm not givin' up (I'm not giving up yet)
(I'm not giving up yet) Don't know how I'll get there
I'm not givin' up (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not givin' up (I'm not givin' up yet)

You cried yourself an ocean
Tryin' not to drown in it
Not to drown in it
We might not believe
You might not believe it
But I need you to speak it (Never give up)
Say it like you mean it

I'm not giving up yet
Say it again
I said I'm not giving up yet
I'm not giving up yet (Woah, woah)
I'm not giving up yet
I'm not giving up yet
He sees you (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not giving up yet
I'm not giving up yet
This life ain't easy, no (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not giving up yet
But I'm not givin' up yet (I'm not giving up yet)
Say it (I'm not giving up yet)
Say it (I'm not giving up yet)
Oh, let it go

Don't know how I'll get there
I'm not givin' up yet
I'm not givin' up yet
I'm not givin' up yet (I'm not giving up yet)
Don't know how or when, but
I'm not givin' up, nah
I'm not givin' up, said (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not givin' up yet
Don't know how I'll get there
I'm not givin' up yet (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not givin' up yet
I'm not givin' up yet (I'm not giving up yet)
Don't know how or when, but (I'm not giving up yet)
I'm not givin' up, nah
I'm not givin' up, said (And I'm not giving up yet, neither are you)
I'm not givin' up yet

Oh, Lord, in the Heaven above
I need you to send me a lifeboat, oh
Oh, hey

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This song is called "I Hate The Way I Look Today."

I hate the way I look today
I hate the way I look today
I hate the way I look today, so I
Know it seems so sad to say
But today, it's true and it was such a shame
That I looked into the mirror and I cried, mm
I do detest my wicked mind
I must admit, I'm so unkind
To myself, to myself, I'll be so mean
Man, if only I was pretty
I'm okay to be lonely if I'm lonely and skinny
I have such silly self-loathing thoughts, it seems
Da-da-di-di-dun, dun

Oh, because some girls are so beautiful
(Effortlessly, endlessly, perfectly so)
Today, it's not giving beautiful
It's giving train wreck, it's giving unfortunate

See, I hate the way my arms do this
I hate the way my legs do that
But I realise my destructive state of mind
I have to learn to work with it
And accept what I've been given
So maybe I should have a shower and wash my face and give it a try

Okay, boys (She hates the way she looks tonight)
Okay, boys (She hates the way she looks tonight)
If you hate the way you look tonight, turn it up, yeah (She hates the way she looks tonight, she does)
Da-da-da, da-da-da-da, dum-dum-dum (Oh, she hates the way she looks)
Ba-da-bum, ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da, ba (Hates the way she looks)
Tonight, hey (Hates the way she looks tonight, hey)
(Oh)

(Hey, hey)
(Oh) Ooh, that's nice, hahaha

Yeah
Graeme Blevins on the saxophone, woo

Well, I can't shake this, I can't fake this
I should just pay to rearrange this
Why can't that girl's face and mine trade places?
My look so plain, my look so basic
I wonder why I'm so miserable
With all my airs and disgraces
Self-love at an all time low
(Uh, a little more positive this time, please) What?

Words of affirmation must repeat till I believe it
I must let the nice words in, I must try harder to believe it
If someone will insult me, then I must block it and delete it
I must try it to like me, must try to like myself, myself
She'll like (Will you try again?) the way (Will you try again?)
She looks (Will you try again?) tonight (Will you try again?)
She'll try somehow to like the way she looks tonight

Though it isn't simple as it sounds
But when self-love lets you down
You must never sigh and fret
Get a grip, that's what I said
You must change the way you talk to yourself
There's only you that can do it, only me that can try
To love the way I look tonight
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh, woo, yeah

Beautiful, I think we got it guys (Yeah, yeah, yeah, so fun)
Alright, everyone have a cup of tea now (Woo, woo)

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^{All RAYE Al Green}
This is a sad song

Hello, how are you? I hope you're well we have to say goodbye
Tears falling from our eyes
I pray it won't hurt like it does tonight
Through my window (Yeah, yeah)
I don't want you to go

I hope (You're happy now) (And I wish 'em love, I said)
Still in love, still in love, still in love with him
Don't forget, don't forget, don't forget (Oh, my, my, my)

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This is a song about the greatest heartbreak I have ever known
This song is called "Nightingale Lane"

On a street in the South London suburbs
Where my first love kissed me goodbye
His lips were thin (Thin) and beer-stained (Beer-stained) and tear-stained
Was a pain that made me colder now
After the oceans I cried, I'm made of steel
Just floating now, mm-mm

But when I drive (When I drive) down this road (Down this, oof)
I reminisce (Lose my mind), I drive slow
I've let him go now (I, I, I), just see a ghost town
And sometimes at red lights (With closed eyes)
I tell myself, I dare myself
To go on, just say

Somebody loved me once (Loved me once)
And someday, somebody will again
Like the way you loved me (Take me back in your arms, oh, my love, just tonight)
On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)
Although we never made it
Stranger, you showed me it's true
I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you
It was right there (And it was), early June (Right next to)
Next to Old Park Avenue (On Nightingale Lane)
Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away
Da-da, woah-woah

Took me long, hard years to get over you
It was an aching I refuse to feel again
And looking back now
We never were quite right for each other, baby
But in the absence of passion in my life
I remember how alive love once was

And I sigh when I drive (When I drive, when I drive)
Down this road, yeah (Down this, oof)
I reminisce (Lose my mind), I drive slow
I've let him go now (I, I, I), just see a ghost town
And sometimes at red lights (With closed eyes)
I tell myself, in fact, I dare myself
To go on, just say it

Somebody loved me once (Loved me once)
Someday, somebody will again
Like the way you loved me (Take me back in your arms, oh, my love, just tonight)
On Nightingale Lane (Nightingale Lane, Nightingale Lane)
And though we never made it
Stranger, you showed me it's true
I'm capable of loving someone the way I loved you
It was right there (And it was), in June (Right next to)
Next to Old Park Avenue (On Nightingale Lane)
Standing in the rain, I watched him walk away

Yeah-yeah-yeah, ayy, yeah-yeah, da-da-da-ayy
I've, I've dabbled in love since
Maybe every other summer
It never lasts long
They never stick around
I'm made of steel now (I'm made of steel)
I believe someday, someone gon' come along
And knock them walls down (Down, down)
And knock them walls down (Knock them walls down)

When I drive down this road (Road)
I'm reminded, though I've let him go now
Right here in this ghost town
Right here on this ground is where
Someone once loved me
And someday, someone will again
Someone will
I know, I know it, I know it
Someone will love me
Like the way you loved me
On Nightingale Lane

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Just skin (Just skin), and bones (And bones)
And lungs (And lungs), and a heart (And a heart)
Two eyes (Two eyes), and a liver (And a liver)
And a nose (And a nose), and no brain
He's insane ’cause he thinks he can make love
Without having to love me

Ah, oh-oh
Ah, oh-oh

Hey, excuse me
I'm so sorry to bother you (Bother you)
Was wondering if you could
Point me the direction of (The direction of)
A gentleman (A gentleman)
So few and far between this land
This one just text to cancel plans

It's the audacity, for me
Supposed to pick me up in forty-five minutes
My hair is looking lovely
My dress has been selected
Are the standards this low?
Well, he suggested skipping dinner
"My place for dessert?"
The bar is on the floor now, bar is on the floor now
It’s the wild, wild, wild, wild, wild west
For a single woman, I can confirm
All he want is that

Skin (Just skin), and bones (And bones)
And lungs (And lungs), and a heart (And a heart)
Two eyes (Two eyes), and a liver (And a liver)
And a nose (And a nose), and no brain
He's insane 'cause he thinks he can make love
Without having to love me

Ah, oh-oh
Ah, oh-oh

"Hello, sweetie"
With your non-exclusive text proposal
Oh, you boys so greedy
You want your cake and eat it
You want your cherry on top
You want to want and need me
And then to up and leave me
And then to maybe call me in a week
But you'll see how you're feeling

It's the au—, the audacity
Supposed to pick me up in forty-five minutes
My shoes are by the door
My makeup is a renaissance
Now you wanna hang out in my living room
And try it on
The bar is on the floor now
It's the wild, wild, wild, wild, wild west
For a single woman, I can confirm
All he want is that

Skin (Skin), and bones (And bones)
And lungs (And lungs), and a heart (And a heart)
Two eyes (Two eyes), and a liver (And a liver)
And a nose (And a nose), and no brain
He's insane ’cause he thinks he can make love
Without having to love me

Ah, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

He thinks (Ah, he can make love to me)
Without (Without having to love me, ah)
He can make love to me (How he’s tryna speed it up, speed it up)
Without having to love me (Ah)
Yeah, you think you can make love to me
Without having to love me (Ah)
He can make love to me (Ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, without having to love me)
It's the wild, wild, wild, wild, wild west (Oh-oh)
He thinks we should make love (Ah, oh-oh)
I think he should leave
It’s the wild, wild, wild, wild, wild west (Oh-oh)
He thinks we should make love (Ah)
Wild, wild, wild, wild, wild west (Oh-oh)
For a single woman, I can confirm

All he want is that
Skin (Just skin), and bones (And bones), oh-oh
And lungs (And lungs), and a heart (And a heart), oh-oh
Without having to love me
Two eyes (Two eyes), and a liver (And a liver), oh-oh
And a nose, and no brain, oh-oh
Without having to love me (Ah)

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Baby (Woo-hoo), where the hell is my husband? (Woo-hoo)
What is takin' him so long to find me? (Woo-hoo)
Oh, baby, where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another? (Woo-hoo, yeah)
Tell him if you see him, baby (Baby)
If you see him, tell him (Tell him)
He should holler

Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old?
Why he already testing my patience?
I only fear he taking time with other women that ain't me
While I've been reviewin' applications
Wait till I get my hands on him, I'ma tell him off too
For how long he kept me waitin', anticipatin'
Prayin' to the Lord to givе him to my lovin' arms
And despite my frustrations

And he must need mе (He must need me)
Completely (Completely)
How my heart yearns for him
Is he far away? (Is he far away?)
Is he okay? (Is he okay?)
This man is testing me, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh
Help me, help me, help me, Lord
I need you to tell me

Baby (Woo-hoo), where the hell is my husband? (Woo-hoo)
What is taking him so long to find me? (Woo-hoo)
Oh, baby, where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another? (Woo-hoo, yeah)
Tell him if you see him, baby (Baby)
If you see him, tell him (Tell him)
He should holler

I'm doing lonely acrobatics, unzipping my dress at 2 a.m.
And I'm tired of living like this
He must be out there getting ready, tryna fix up his tie
Uh, huh-huh, uh, hello? This where your wife is
Wait till I get your heart goin', I'ma turn it up too
For how much I'm 'bout to love ya, no one above ya
Prayin' to the Lord to hurry, hurry you along
Baby, I intend to rush ya

And he must need me (He must need me)
Completely (Completely)
How my heart yearns for him
Is he far away? (Is he far away?)
Is he okay? (Is he okay?)
This man is testing me, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh (Help me)
Help me, help me, help me, Lord
I need you to tell me

Baby (Woo-hoo), where the hell is my husband? (Woo-hoo)
What is taking him so long to find me? (Woo-hoo)
Oh, baby, where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another? (Woo-hoo, yeah)
Tell him if you see him, baby (Baby)
If you see him, tell him (Tell him)
He should holler

Tuh, tuh, tuh, tuh
Tell him I'm mm, tell him I'm mm with the mm-mm-mm
Tell him I'm kind, tell him I'm 5'5"
Tell him I've got brown eyes and a growing fear
That if he doesn't find me now
I'm gonna die alone, so can he
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh (Hurry up here, sir)
Uh-uh, uh-uh-uh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
I want it, want it, want it, want it, want it
I would like a ring, I would like a ring
I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger
I would like a big and shiny diamond that I can wave around
And talk, and talk about it
And when the day is here, forgive me God, that I could ever doubt it
Until death, I do, I do, I do, I
Is he about it, 'bout it, 'bout it?

This man is testing me, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh
Help me, help me, help me, Lord
I need you to tell me

Baby (Woo-hoo), where the hell is my husband? (Woo-hoo)
What is taking him so long to find me? (Woo-hoo)
Oh, baby, where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another? (Woo-hoo, yeah)
Tell him that my grandma said it, tell him grandma said it
"Your husband is coming"

I would like a ring, I would like a ring
I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger
I would like a big and shiny (Woo)
Diamond (Yes)
Diamond (Yes)
Diamond (Yes)
Diamond (Yes)
Diamond (Yes)
Oh (Oh)
Where is my husband? (Ah)

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^{All RAYE Grandad Michael}
It's been a long time since we talked

You see (Free)
Like a child, rolling down a hill (Rolling down a hill)
In a field of golden and green
Where every burden that weighs on me (Ah) fall into a stream (Stream)
In a field of golden and green (Green)

I wanna be rid of the nothingness that waits for me in the living room you see (Free) I just wanna be free (Free)
Hello, Rachel, it seems to have been a while since we've actually spoken
Spoken like a true poet, Grandad is a songwriter, you see?
He, I, wrote, and he, I, wrote till his, my, hands racked with pain
Then he said something to me and brought these tears to my eyes "Who will hear my songs when I die?"
And I told him, "Grandad, so long as God gives me life ("For music is medicine", she cried from her soul)
I don't wanna be crying (I don't want to be crying)
(As she set sail with her team, for a tour of the world)
I don't wanna be sad no more (And never forget, my love)
I just want to feel glory, Lord
You'll always be grandad's little girl

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^{All RAYE Amma Absolutely}
I declare and I decree

Oh, I don't usually tend to cry

There's a war in your mind

I may cry through the night

Though I may cry in the night, but my joy comes in the morning

Oh, more joy, need more joy, need more joy

Though I may cry in the night,

but my joy comes in the morning

Let me see you clap your hands and help me sing

I declare I am somebody, say, I declare I am somebody (I say)

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Somewhere on a Saturday morning, there's a girl in a window (Girl in a window)
Watching people passing by as she clutches on her aching heart (On her a-aching heart, heart)
She's a sweet coffee sipper since life has been so bitter
She's learning how to live without the man who gave up on her now
Love let her down
I need the band, I need the band, hm
Somewhere in the traffic on Bond Street, a middle-aged man was driving his van
He's been awful low of late, but he'll never show his mates
He's a man's man
Working like a dog, a pile of bills to pay
The last lonely pint at the bar will be the highlight of his day
And every day the same (Still, still, still, still)

Still, he must believe, happier times ahead
Life is not fair, life can be hard
But we only get one (We only get one)
Whatever may come (Whatever may come)
Find a little faith to hold on, my friend
There will be happier times again
Oh-oh, yeah, yeah-yeah

Somewhere in the middle of England
Auntie Jean is up crying again
After sixty years of marriage
Her Roger has left her alone in the land of the living
Ooh, she's cried a hundred seas
No one understands
The only one who'd get it, isn't here anymore to hold her hand
Oh-oh, hand (Oh, hand, oh, hand, oh, hand)

Still, she must believe, happier times ahead
Life is not fair, life can be hard
But we only get one (We only get one)
Whatever may come (Whatever may come)
Find a little faith to hold on, my friend
There will be happier times again (Happier, happier, yeah, yeah)
Oh-oh, yeah, huh

It can't rain forever, oh, 'ever
I don't know how, I
I don't know when
I don't know how or when
I don't, I don't
There must be happier
There must be happier
There must be happier times again

Repeat after me, happier times ahead
May you be loved, and may you feel joy
May you know peace that surpasses all understanding, I wish you this
And as I said, happier times (There will be happier times again)

Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, oh
Oh-oh
Happier, happier
Happier, happier, happier, oh-ah
There must be happier
Happier, happier
Happier, happier, happier, oh-ah
Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, nah
There must be happier
Happier, happier
Happier, happier, happier, oh-ah
Da-da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da
Happier times are coming, don't you give up, just hold on
Happier times are coming, alright?
The sun exists behind the clouds, it's right there
Just hold on to happier times, alright, darling?

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I had hoped you'd find your way to this piece of music
And that would mean, oh my friend, we have made it to the end
I hope inside this you've found something beautiful
She had hoped you'd make it to the seventeenth song
And if to dance or then to cry or to just sing along
We hope inside this you've found something beautiful
My complete gratitude for taking time out of your day
To hear the melodies and words we have to play and to say

And I wanted to finish this album like this
With a musical hug and an orchestral kiss

H-A-P-P-I-E-R T-I-M-E-S (Happier times)
I wish you the best
Only joy in this life that we tread
And now I'd like to leave you with an unapologetically
Dramatic and powerful, this last metaphorical summary
For it's life's guarantee that we're all going to die
Come rain or come storms, we've got one little life
The sun has promised to shine
All four beautiful seasons, even if we can't see it
Hope must always exist, is just above the clouds
To conclude there, and so it goes
And as it says on the tin, in the winds, This May Contain Hope
If you didn't find it, then might I advise it
I'm asking polite that if hope didn't find you, my friend
We advise you to listen again

Thank you for listening
Until next time, lots of love, RAYE

Roll the credits!

All right, thank you to Grandma, Grandad Michael, my sisters Amma and Absolutely
My co-producers Mike Sabath, Tom Richards, Chris Hill, Pete Clements, Jordan Riley, Toneworld, Punctual, Hans Zimmer and his team at Bleeding Fingers, Hendrik Büenck, Russell Emanuel
And a special thank you to Al Green and Matthew Johnson, and Mr. Reverend Charlie Hodges
Thank you to Alex Robinson, my engineer, Tony Maserati, Jon Castelli, and Andrew Dudman on the mixing
Thank you to additional vocals, Katy Hill, Patrice Copeland, and Layla Ley
Thank you to the band, Matt Brooks, Liv Thompson, Daniella Bernard, Pauly Murray, Joe Webb, Graeme Blevins, Mike Cordone, Ivan Malespin, Matthias Simmons, Dan Ellis, Augie Haas, Oscar Stieler
The string players, Kirsty Mangan, Dan Oates, Matthew Ward, Paloma Deike, Sam Kennedy, Emma Owens, Rachael Lander, and Richard Phillips
The big band, Ed Richardson, George Hogg, Mike Davis, Tom Dennis, Tom Walsh, Ryan Quigley, Callum Au, Nichol Thomson, Andy Wood, Trevor Miers, Howard McGill, Mike Lesirge, Paul Booth, Jon Shenoy, and Jesse McGinty
The London Symphony Orchestra, John Mills, Clare Duckworth, Ginette de Kuiper, Lauren Dixon, Maxine Kwok, William Melvin, Stefano Mangoli, Lauren Cannell, Harriet Rayfield, Olatz Ruiz de Gordejuela, David Ballesteros, Sylvain Vasseur, and Grace Li, Thomas Norris, Miya Väisänen, Helena Bucki, Matthew Gardner, Naoko Keatley, Alix Lagasse, Belinda McFarlane, Iwona Muszynska, Csilla Pogány, Paul Robson, and Elena Fagg, Eivind Ringstad, Julianne Haddo, Malcolm Johnston, Thomas Beard, Herman Clever, Steve Domen, Julia O'Riordan, Sophia Silva Sousa, Robert Turner, Liz Varlo, Laure Ludonte, Alistair Baden, Daniel Gardner, Amanda Truelove, Joanna Twaddle, Peteris Sokolovskis, Anna Beryl, and Henry Hargraves, Paul Kimber, Patrick Laurence, Thomas Goodman, Ben Griffiths, Philip Nelson, Evangeline Tang, Elizabeth Burley, Bryn Lewis, Gareth Davis, Imogen Royce, Hannah Grayson, Rosie Jenkins, Chris Richards, Tom Lessels, Janae Albrecht, Daniel Jemison, Philip Munns, Daniel Curzon, Timothy Jones, Olivia Gandy, Katherine Saunders, Andrew Sutton, James Fountain, Adam Wright, Katie Smith, Toby Street, James Davison, Simon Johnson, Jonathan Hollick, Paul Milner, Dan West, Ben Thompson, Nigel Thomas, Patrick King, David Jackson, Jacob Brown, Mark Bouzie
Additional instrumentation, Distant Cowboy, Yasmine Al-Masidi, Rita Andrade, James Maddren, Tom Cawley, Hal Ritson, Aaron Emanuel, Aaron Janik, Uncle Kofi
Flames Collective, Andy Gilbert, Alex Balabanov, Angel Lunda, Bella Hales, Colbie Ashby, Daphne Michaelides, Dia Day, Diya Sohi, Ella Mae Torbert, Emily Batt, Emre Nalbantoğlu, Imiah Summers, Isabelle Mettle, Joanna Georgiou, Katie Jones, Leo Huie, Lina Oviosa, Nad Etzioni, Naomi Simon, Olivia Rochester Holness, Oshane Thompson, Promise Kadree, Rachel Mukasa, Rashad Cayenne-Davis, Ruby Langthorne, Scarlett Cecil, Shanay Lynch, Shelbee Sophia Trotman, Tiger-Lily Jonathan, Victoria Ho
Technical team, Antoine Klein, Charlie Howe, Neil Dawes, Chris Parker, Mike Hillier, Jules Bonnet, Mollie Crammond, Harpaal Sanghera, Joe Brice, Sanjana Walia, Mat Bartram, Paul Norris, Cecilia Griffin, Matis Herbouze, Roland Gerodent, Soledad Poussielgues Melia, Henrique Andrade, Clay Jones, Scott McEwen, Liam Nolan, Noah Urrea, Raymond Breiterbauer, Jenna Felsenthal, Bleeding Fingers, Marsha Bow, Harsha Thangarella, Fineline Music Service, Nashville Music Scoring Orchestra, Alan Armstead, Nick Spezia, Alan Meyerson, Charlie Paxson, Roman Soto
And finally, thank you to my team, who are literally my mum and my dad, Lucrezia, Scarlet Sharp, Alexandra Dairo, Mikey Robbins, Aliyah Otchere, and, uh, Sibling, my team, ah, I love you guys

Thanks for listening to this album
Can't believe it, I can't believe it
It's finally yours, it's finally out there, it's finally yours
All right, just take care of it and listen to it again and again and share it with your friends and just know that I really love making music
And I wanna do this for the rest of my life
And thanks for supporting me, and thank you
I love you, I love you
This is the album
Oh, and thank you to my distribution, Human Re-Sources and J. Erving
Shout out you guys who believed in me when literally no one else would take my first album, so thank you for taking it and making a second one with me, I love you guys
I love you, the end