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Painted Skeletons
“This is our mansion of cards
There is no food, the beds are hard
You can stay in the rain
Try to cover the pain
Of the speckles in your skin
Or you can come on in
Take the brush, and wear your mask
Taste the paint and you won’t go back
We are the girls with the pretty faces
Splattering paint trying to hide our braces
Guess your girls were never ones to draw
Guess your girls don’t care what the boys saw”
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“All of the glittering masks can stare
At the radioactive rags we wear
Watch their plastics dolls earning roses on TV
Covered in spray paint
Brushing over yellow teeth
You can keep your painted skeletons
And I’ll keep my fun.
The jack and the king and the queen of hearts
Pieces of paper, that’s all they are
Try to put me through their factory
No, me and my girls will be fine free
Take your dye and your painted clowns
We’ll watch from the gutter when your cards come tumbling down”
They are the girls with the pretty faces
Splattering paint trying to hide their braces
Guess my girls were never ones to draw
Guess my girls don’t care what the boys saw.

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