Lana Del Rey - hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it

[00:00.72] I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought [00:08.93] Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like [00:15.63] All of these debutantes [00:18.62] Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts [00:26.17] But I'm not [00:29.92] Baby, I'm not [00:33.73] No, I'm not [00:37.43] That, I'm not [00:41.68] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown [00:46.45] 24/7 Sylvia Plath [00:51.09] Writing in blood on the walls [00:53.74] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad [00:59.39] Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not [01:03.57] But, at best, I can say I'm not sad [01:08.28] 'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have [01:16.98] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have [01:25.20] [01:42.70] I had fifteen-year dances [01:44.93] Church basement romances, yeah, I've cried [01:51.67] Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums [01:55.76] Is the only love I've ever known [02:00.36] Except for the stage, which I also call home, when I'm not [02:08.41] Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad [02:17.14] Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad [02:25.62] Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, "Hi, Dad" [02:34.07] I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown [02:38.61] Like a goddamn near sociopath [02:43.15] Shaking my ass is the only thing that's [02:47.08] Got this black narcissist off my back [02:51.53] She couldn't care less, and I never cared more [02:55.49] So there's no more to say about that [02:59.95] Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have [03:08.56] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past [03:17.11] There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw [03:25.88] Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known [03:34.87] A modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got [03:43.49] Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off [03:52.11] A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off [04:00.30] I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown [04:04.72] 24/7 Sylvia Plath [04:09.39] Writing in blood on your walls [04:12.46] 'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad [04:18.02] They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not [04:22.23] But, at best, you can see I'm not sad [04:27.15] But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have [04:35.71] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have [04:44.51] Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have [04:52.74] But I have it [04:56.71] Yeah, I have it [05:01.04] Yeah, I have it [05:05.12] I have [05:06.87]