Marina & The Diamonds Album

Use to be a major scale
But the melody went stale
Musical cacophony let
Insy Winsy spider free

Your a rich little boy
Who's had to work for his toys
You've got all sensibilities, oh
Of an upper class guy

No, no, I'm not your little slave
No, I don't twist and turn that way
Only got bad things to say

You're always asking what is up, up with me
Could never tell you what happened the day I turned seventeen
The rise of a king and the fall of a queen
Oh, seventeen, seventeen

Oh, you were embarrassed of me
'Cause I used my tongue freely
Bet you wish I couldn't speak
'Cause when I do you know
I tell you why you appear weak

You wanna have some free life
Go get your upper class wife
Now she's got all personalities of a lemon
That has been truly sucked dry

You teach me how to behave
I felt you question the way
I was brought up as a baby
Well, you don't know fuck about my family

Could never tell you what happened the day I turned seventeen
The rise of a king and the fall of a queen
Oh, seventeen, oh, seventeen, oh, seventeen
The rise of a king and the fall of a queen
Oh, seventeen

Never felt like a princess
I use to kill myself in this dress
That it was just how things were meant to be
Oh, seventeen, seventeen

You are a horror, you are a horror
You are the same, same, same horoscope as me, yeah
You're like a zebra, even a tea-bra
You're like a zebra and a tea-bra, or a Libra like me, yeah

I hoped you were a Gemini
But I thought, well I'll give him a try
I never fell in love with other Libras
They were too flashy and be just like zebras
They reminded me of me (they were just like me)
Caught by the buffaloes feasted on for all to see

The weighing scales they broke my back
That's what imbalanced me
I fell in love but I didn't look back
To see if he was looking back at me

Oh I'm a horror and I'm so nervous, you have seen
That I'm a horror, no you're not horrible like me

You are a horror, you are a horror
Why did you have to be the same horoscope as me, yeah
You know I'll make you, you know I'll break you
I know you can't cope with my instability, yeah

Well I hoped you were a Gemini
But I thought, well I'll give him a try (try)
I never fell in love with other Libras
They were too flashy and be just like zebras
They reminded me of me (me, me, me)
Caught by the buffaloes feasted on for all to see (do you see)

The weighing scales they broke my back
That's what imbalanced me
I fell in love but I didn't look back
To see if he was looking back at me

Oh you're a horror are you're so nervous, I have seen
That you're a horror, you're just as horrible as me

The weighing scales they broke my back
That's what imbalanced me
I fell in love but I didn't look back
To see if he was looking back at me

(that's funny)

Yeah, I feel I'm watered down
Whenever he's around
I put on the crown of clowns
And melt slowly to the ground

Yeah, I feel it coming on
When I've been static for too long
And an explosion comes in time
Before I go and cross the line

They say you used to be so kind
I never knew you had such a dirty mind

Well, I, I went to the doctors believing
The devil had control over me and
I was finding it hard to breath and
Finding it hard to fight the feeling

Well, my heart just burst like a glass balloon
I let it fly too high and it shattered too soon
I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
I broke my glass balloon, I let go off my glass balloon

They call him Hermit the Frog
He's looking for a dog
Did you find your bitch in me?
Oh, you're abominable socially
You're just a little bit too much like me

She said she used to be so kind
Well, baby, I give you your dirty mind

Well, I, I wanna tell you a secret
You can take your double standard love and keep it
I can't help the devil likes to make my heart a double bed
And I can't help, he sometimes like to come and rest his little head

Well, my heart just burst like a glass balloon
I let it fly too high and it shattered too soon
I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
I broke my glass balloon, I let go off my glass balloon

Oh, my heart just burst like a glass balloon
We let them fly too high and they shattered too soon
Now we're the wrong damn people in the wrong damn room
We broke my glass balloon, we let go off my glass balloon

We broke our glass balloon
Let go off my glass balloon

Grandpa was a minor
And he gave me my black heart
Bitter rivers of black coal dust
Tore our country apart

Covered in coal dust
Waking up too early in the morning
Covered in coal dust
Waiting for the moment the canary sings

Mama was a mermaid
And a Carnaby Street gal
She could have been a model
But she spent her life mopping up spilt milk

Covered in sea salt
Would he, could he, be home when the stars came out to party
Covered in sea salt
Yeah I know it was my fault
That he always ran away because he didn't want me

Oh, daddy was a sailor
And he gave me a black heart
Oh, daddy was a sailor
The only man that could tear me apart

Daddy, daddy, daddy

Sister dances salsa
And she chants just like a queen
I was a non-believer when she told me I was free

Auntie Emy was a medium
And she worked the Ouija board
Seeking out the lost souls
And taking men back to the Lord

Oh but daddy still was a sailor
And he gave me a black heart
Oh, daddy was a sailor
The only man that could tear me apart

Daddy, daddy, daddy

Lately I have realised
That I need to simplify
Thoughts pass like ships in the sky
Do, or do not, there is no try

Chorus:
Life became complicated
When modern times arrived
Board games are underrated (Monopoly is underrated)
I want a different life
They say, well get out of the city
We say, well there's no such thing
As a house in the country (in the country)

I am trying to rectify
Habits that clog up my mind
No time to be meek and mild
Live simply like a child

(chorus repeat)

Simplify, your life
Simplify, life

I have let you melt me down
Into a plastic rainbow
And I have left myself to hang
In a halloween sky

I let you tattoo a frown
Onto a face of white snow
Now I see footprints of a man
Running through my eyes

Do I despise these perfect lies
I tell myself each night and day
Go kiss by blackened heart goodbye
I'm running out of things to play

Hey, see I need to forget
That I've become a plastic rainbow
And I'm melting in the sun
And I have fallen from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies

I've had enough of your ideals, ideals yeah

I'm gonna break her like a Barbie Doll
Push her face down in the dirt
Blue Maybelline mascara
Is running down my favourite shirt

And whoever thought that messing with me
Was ever gonna hurt?
Your plastic swords, too many times
In black suspenders and her mini-skirts

Do I despise these perfect lies
I tell myself each night and day
Go kiss by blackened heart goodbye
I'm running out of things to play

Hey, see I need to forget
That I've become a plastic rainbow
And I'm melting in the sun
And I am falling from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies

I've had enough of your ideals, ideals yeah

Yeah, I became a plastic rainbow
Yeah, I fell from the sky
In a million multi-coloured lies
Your commerce helped for a while
But now all I seem to do is...
Smile

Do I smile.