Body Love, Pt. 1 Lyrics - Welcome To The Age Of My Body - Mary Lambert

Know girls who are trying to fit into the social norm 

Like squeezing into last year's prom dress 

I know girls who are low rise, mac eyeshadow, and binge drinking 

I know girls that wonder if they're disaster and sexy enough to fit in 

I know girls who are fleeing bombs from the mosques of their skin 

Playing Russian roulette with death; it's never easy to accept 

That our bodies are fallible and flawed 

But when do we draw the line? 

When the knife hits the skin? 

Isn't it the same thing as purging 

Because we're so obsessed with death 

Some women just have more guts than others 

The funny thing is women like us don't shoot 

We swallow pills, still wanting to be beautiful at the morgue 

Still proceeding to put on make-up 

Still hoping that the mortician finds us fuckable and attractive 

We might as well be buried with our shoes 

And handbags and scarves, girls 

We flirt with death every time we etch a new tally mark 

Into our skin 

I know how to split my wrists like a battlefield too 

But the time has come for us to 

Reclaim our bodies 

Our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and collateral 

Offering this fuckdom as a pathetic means to say 

"I only know how to exist when I'm wanted" 

Girls like us are hardly ever wanted you know 

We're used up and sad and drunk and 

Perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up 

And tell us that we did good 

You did good 

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I know I am because I said am 

I know I am because I said am 

I know I am because I said am 

My body is home 

My body is home 

I know I am because I said am 

I know I am because I said am 

I know I am because I said am 

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