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It turns out Tortured Poets was a secret double album, but if you're like us and super overwhelmed, let's take it slow and process the excellent lyrics in part 1.
1. And I love you, it's ruining my life / I touched you for only a fortnight / But I touched you
2. I scratch your head, you fall asleep / Like a tattooed golden retriever / But you awaken with dread / Pounding nails in your head
3. My boy only breaks his favorite toys / I’m queen of sandcastles he destroys / 'Cause it fit too right, puzzle pieces in the dead of night
4. I felt more when we played pretend than with all the Kens / 'Cause he took me out of my box
5. How dare you think it's romantic / Leaving me safe and stranded?
6. I kept calm and carried the weight of the rift / Pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away / My spine split from carrying us up the hill
7. I didn't opt in to be your odd man out
8. And my friends said it isn't right to be scared / Every day of a love affair / Every breath feels like rarest air / When you're not sure if he wants to be there
9. You swore that you loved me, but where were the clues? / I died on the altar waiting for the proof / You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days
10. Too high a horse for a simple girl to rise above it
11. Screamin', "But Daddy, I love him / I'm havin' his baby" / No, I'm not, but you should see your faces!
12. Growing up precocious sometimes means not growing up at all
13. I'll tell you something 'bout my good name / It's mine alone to disgrace / I don't cater to all these vipers dressed in empath's clothing
14. If all you want is gray for me / That's just white noise / That's just my choice
15. Swirled you into all of my poems / Now we're at the starting line, I did my time
16. You can beat the heat if you beat the charges too
17. So I did my best to lay to rest / All of the bodies that have ever been on my body / And in my mind, they sink into the swamp / Is that a bad thing to say in a song?
18. Am I allowed to cry? / I dream of cracking locks / Throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks / Crashing into him tonight, he's a paradox
19. My bed sheets are ablaze / I've screamed his name / Building up like waves crashing over my grave / Without ever touching his skin / How can I be guilty as sin?
20. The who's who of "who's that?" is poised for the attack / But my bare hands paved their paths
21. So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street / Crash the party like a record scratch as I scream / "Who's afraid of little old me?" / You should be
22. I was tame, I was gentle 'til the circus life made me mean / "Don't you worry, folks, we took out all her teeth"
23. Put narcotics into all of my songs / And that's why you're still singin' along
24. His hands so calloused from his pistol / Softly traces hearts on my face
25. Who's gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames / If we know the steps anyway?
26. Still alive, killing time at the cemetery / Never quite buried / In your suit and tie in the nick of time / You low-down boy, you stand-up guy
27. You shit-talked me under the table / Talkin' rings and talkin' cradles / I wish I could unrecall how we almost had it all / Dancing phantoms on the terrace / Are they second-hand embarrassed / That I can't get out of bed?
28. I'm combing through the braids of lies / "I'll never leave, never mind" / Our field of dreams engulfed in fire / Your arson's match, your somber eyes / And I'll still see it until I die / You're the loss of my life
29. He said he'd love me all his life / But that life was too short
30. I cry a lot, but I am so productive / It's an art
31. You hung me on your wall / Stabbed me with your push pins / In public, showed me off / Then sank in stoned oblivion
32. You didn't measure up in any measure of a man
33. I would've died for your sins, instead, I just died inside / And you deserve prison, but you won't get time / You'll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars
34. You said normal girls were boring / But you were gone by the morning / You kicked out the stage lights, but you're still performing
35. 'Cause the sign on your heart said it's still reserved for me / Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?
36. This town is fake, but you're the real thing / Breath of fresh air through smoke rings / Take the glory, give everything / Promise to be dazzling
37. Crowd goes wild at her fingertips / Half moonshine, full eclipse
38. The crown is stained, but you're the real queen / Flesh and blood amongst war machines / You're the new god we're worshipping / Promise to be dazzling
39. Beauty is a beast that roars down on all fours / Demanding more / Only when your girlish glow flickers just so / do they let you know it's hell on earth to be heavenly
40. "You look like Taylor Swift / In this light, we're loving it / You've got edge, she never did / The future's bright, dazzling"
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