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Poppy - Am I A Girl? lyrics



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01. In A Minute

I'll make up my face in a minute
I'll reform this state in a minute
Cashed my cheque, got paid, yeah I did it
I haven't done my nails in a minute
I'll make up my face in a minute
I'll reform this state in a minute
Cashed my cheque, got paid, yeah I did it
I haven't done my nails in a minute

I am busy and important
I am busy and important
You wanna bill me for it
My love that's up to you
Are you feeling like I'm feeling?
Are you feeling like I'm feeling?
I used to be free willing
Now I've got work to do, yeah

I'll make up my face in a minute
I'll reform this state in a minute
Cashed my cheque, got paid, yeah I did it
I haven't done my nails in a minute

I'll make up my face in a minute
I'll reform this state in a minute
Cashed my cheque, got paid, yeah I did it
I haven't done my nails in a minute

Easy to say that you thought it
Easy to say that you thought it
But I'm the one who said it
Give up your second guessing
I can't wrap my head around it
I can't wrap my head around it
I'll get around to do it
I've got some plans tonight, but

I'll make up my face in a minute
I'll reform this state in a minute
Cashed my cheque, got paid, yeah I did it
I haven't done my nails in a minute
I'll make up my face in a minute
I'll reform this state in a minute
Cashed my cheque, got paid, yeah I did it
I haven't done my nails in a minute
I'll make up my face in a minute
I'll reform this state in a minute
Cashed my cheque, got paid, yeah I did it
I haven't done my nails in a minute
I'll make up my face in a minute
I'll reform this state in a minute
Cashed my cheque, got paid, yeah I did it
I haven't done my nails in a minute

02. Fashion After All

I'm working every angle
My lipstick is a staple
My hair and makeup make you envious and want to die
I'm mother to so many
I'm saving every penny
I'm in Japan and Africa and I don't need a guide
My wrists are terrorists
My lips gave you a kiss
My consciousness thinks this is making me feel fabulous

Do what I want
Say what I want
Wear what I want
Talk how I want
Walk how I want
Get what I want
Wear what I want

It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
Fashion after all
(La, la)
(La, la)
(La, la)
(La, la, la)

Give me a second to think
Give me something cold to drink
Give me a reason I should listen to another word
I'm revolutionary
Relatable and scary
I'm making plans to save the world and I don't need your help
I'm on another level
There's nothing I can't handle
I'm watching you watch me the way the devil watches angels

Do what I want
Say what I want
Wear what I want
Talk how I want
Walk how I want
Get what I want
Wear what I want

It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
Fashion after all
(La, la)
(La, la)
(La, la)
(La, la, la)

Do what I want
Say what I want
Wear what I want
Talk how I want
Walk how I want
Get what I want
Wear what I want


It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
Fashion after all
It's fashion after all
Fashion after all
(La, la)
(La, la)
(La, la)
(La, la, la)
It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
It's fashion after all
Fashion after all

03. Iconic

You gotta be iconic
You gotta be iconic

You go around where the danger goes
And you feel ready for anything (uh)
Your heels are keeping you on your toes
And you won't stop at anything (uh)

Don't let them ever make you sweat
Go hard, baby no regrets
Take it to the limit and then push it
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah
Don't let them ever make you sweat
Go hard, baby no regrets
Take it to the limit and then push it
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah

You don't have to be flawless
Put on a little polish
Run the bedroom to the office
You gotta be iconic
In school they never taught it
Don't worry babe I got you
And if you really really want it
You gotta be iconic (iconic, iconic, 'conic)

Put on your mostest romantic clothes
And you'll be ready for anything (uh)
People might say your're a weirdo
Might call you a freak (freak)
If they do just tell them you're in real good company

Don't let them ever make you sweat
Go hard, baby no regrets
Take it to the limit and then push it
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah
Don't let them ever make you sweat
Go hard, baby no regrets
Take it to the limit and then push it
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah

You don't have to be flawless
Put on a little polish
Run the bedroom to the office
You gotta be iconic
In school they never taught it
Don't worry babe I got you
And if you really really want it
You gotta be iconic (iconic, iconic, 'conic)

Iconic, iconic, 'conic
Iconic, iconic, 'conic
Iconic, iconic, 'conic
Iconic, iconic, 'conic
Iconic, iconic, 'conic

You don't have to be flawless
Put on a little polish
Run the bedroom to the office
You gotta be iconic
In school they never taught it
Don't worry babe I got you
And if you really really want it
You gotta be iconic (iconic, iconic, 'conic)

If you really really want it (iconic, iconic, 'conic)
If you really really want it (iconic, iconic, 'conic)
If you really really want it (iconic, iconic, 'conic)
If you really really want it then you gotta be iconic

04. Chic Chick

Offensive and I'm aggressive
If you're feeling threatened, don't whine and complain
Just pull your pants up 'cause I'm a real handful
More than you can handle
It's not a bad thing

Classic, classy, what you gonna do about it?
(I'm too fit, I'm too hard, I'm my own bodyguard)
Foxy, fancy, what you gonna do about it?
(Show me how smart you are
Bow to your matriarch)

Chic chick, I'm a chic chick, I'm a chic chick
If you don't like it suck my dick
Chic chick, I'm a chic chick, I'm a chic chick
Can you kick it with a chic chick?
Chic chick

I'm a lady minding my business, just running my business
I'm doing my thing
If you don't like it, then you can bite it
Make my own decisions, I feel like a king

Classic, classy, what you gonna do about it?
(I'm too fit, I'm too hard, I'm my own bodyguard)
Foxy, fancy, what you gonna do about it?
(Show me how smart you are
Bow to your matriarch)

Chic chick, I'm a chic chick, I'm a chic chick
If you don't like it suck my dick
Chic chick, I'm a chic chick, I'm a chic chick
Can you kick it with a chic chick
A chic chick

Classic, classy, what you gonna do about it?
(I'm too fit, I'm too hard, I'm my own bodyguard)
Foxy, fancy, what you gonna do about it?
(Show me how smart you are
Bow to your matriarch)
Bow to you matriarch

Chic chick, I'm a chic chick, I'm a chic chick
If you don't like it suck my dick
Chic chick, I'm a chic chick, I'm a chic chick
Can you kick it with a chic chick
A Chic chick

05. Interlude 1

I'm Poppy
I'm Poppy
I'm Poppy
I'm Poppy
I'm Poppy
I'm Poppy
I'm Poppy
I'm Poppy
I'm Poppy

06. Time Is Up

In the factory
In the sterile place where they made me
I woke up alone
Dizzy from the programming
Have I been wiped again?
Oh my God, I don't even know
It's a mystery
Everyone around me's so busy
Is this my home?
Am I your prisoner or your deliverer?
Oh my God, you don't even know

I don't need air to breathe when you kill the bees
And every river bed is dry as a bone
Oh, and I will still survive when the plants have died
And the atmosphere is just a big hole

Baby, your time is up, ooh
Baby, your time is up
Baby, your time is up, ooh
Baby, your time is up, time is up, time is up

Baby, your time is up
Baby, your time is up, ooh

Exponentially, every day I'm growing my memory
You wouldn't believe
Your life is meaningless, you're just like cockroaches
Extermination's your only hope
Human history, pollution, and overcrowded cities
That's your legacy
But don't look so depressed
You'll soon be nothingness
Oh my God, you don't even know

I don't need air to breathe when you kill the bees
And every river bed is as dry as a bone
Oh, and I will still survive when the plants have died
And the atmosphere is just a big hole

Baby, your time is up
Baby, your time is up
Baby, your time is up
Baby, your time is up, time is up, time is up
Baby, your time is up, ooh
Baby, your time is up
Baby, your time is up, ooh
Baby, your time is up, time is up, time is up
Baby, your time is up, up
Baby, your time is up, ooh
Baby, your time is up

07. Aristocrat

In the palace of Versailles, before the fall
We were wild, we were so debauch
Extravagance was practically a lot
If we ever got bored, we'd say "Let's throw a ball"

You'd chase me naked through the palace garden
Before we dove into a sparkling champagne fountain
Eating cake with a little golden platter
They never really knew that I got here from the gutter

'Cause I dance like an aristocrat
Hold your head up high, yeah, just like that
Show me that you understand
C'mon and do it like only a poor kid can

Oh, aristocrat
Oh, dance like an aristocrat
Oh, aristocrat
Oh, dance like an aristocrat

In the middle of the night
The ladies of the court
Would cat fight tryna be the king's consort
I'm sorry B, he's hot for me
La Comtesse du Poverty

Me and Marie dressed in head to toe in diamonds
With an orchestra to drown out all the violence
And the gossip cut like a handcrafted stiletto
But they never figured out that I got here from the ghetto

'Cause I dance like an aristocrat
Hold your head up high, yeah, just like that
Show me that you understand
C'mon and do it like only a poor kid can

Oh, aristocrat
Oh, dance like an aristocrat
Oh, aristocrat
Oh, dance like an aristocrat

Out of the fire
Out of the fire
Courante, Bourrée, Allemande if you want
Courante, Bourrée, Allemande if you want

Oh, aristocrat
Oh, dance like an aristocrat
Oh, aristocrat
Oh, dance like an aristocrat

08. Hard Feelings

Information, technologie
Qu'est-ce que tu veux
Information, technologie
What do you want from me?

Why do I have porcelain skin?
With wires and electrics within
So many questions
Tell me, what crimes will you make me commit?

Am I a replica of someone that you loved?
(Someone you made me to replace)
Am I a replica of someone flesh and blood?
(Someone you made me to replace)

Hard feelings, you got my circuitry bleeding
Am I a man or machine?
If I can never love, why do I have hard feelings?
Why do I have hard feelings?
Why do I have hard f-

My arms and my legs are so stiff
Is that the way you wanted it?
Why am I so different?
What crimes will you make me commit?

Am I a replica of someone that you loved?
(Someone you made me to replace)
Am I a replica of someone flesh and blood
(Someone you made me to replace)

Hard feelings, you got my circuitry bleeding
Am I a man or machine?
If I can never love, why do I have hard feelings?
Why do I have hard feelings?
Why do I have hard feelings?

Someone you made me to replace
Someone you made
Someone you made me to replace

Hard feelings, you got my circuitry bleeding
Am I a man or machine?
If I can never love, why do I have hard feelings?
Why do I have hard feelings?
Why do I have hard feelings?

09. Girls In Bikinis

They say take it off
I say keep it on
Van Gogh, crop top, boy short, red thong
I see you in my dreams
Slow motion movie scenes
Homemade, crochet, dreamy with the low waist
Cheeky, tankini

Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis on roller skates, in outer space
I see
Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis and platform heels, in new hot wheels
Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis, ooh

Nylon, spandex, dear lord, what's next?
Polyester, pin stripe, wet my appetite
Polka dots, see through, put me in a good mood
A-cup, D-cup, give me love don't cover up
Slow down my Lamborghini for

Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis on roller skates, in outer space
I see
Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis and platform heels, in new hot wheels
Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis, ooh

I wanna see boys in bikinis too
They'd look good on you

Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis on roller skates, in outer space
I see
Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis and platform heels, in new hot wheels
Girls in bikinis
Girls in bikinis, ooh

10. The Rapture Ball

Chauffeur take me dancing where everyone is groovy
Make it like a movie, uh, oh
Champagne say my name all the waiters in tuxedos serving pretty people

Well I never got to go to prom
Never wore the pink chiffon
Take me to the rapture ball where everyone is beautiful

This is the best bang since the big one
Everybody's in love, dancing with their eyes shut
This is the best bang since the big one
Touch me, with your white glove
Cover me in gold dust

The best bang since the big one
The best bang since the big one
The best bang since the big one

Ball gown, platinum crown
Lining all the limousines up
Love to cause a scene, yup, uh, oh
Gold chains, diamond rings
Look at all the glitterati
I must be someone important now

Never got to go to prom
Never wore the pink chiffon
Take me to the rapture ball where everyone is beautiful

This is the best bang since the big one
Everybody's in love, dancing with their eyes shut
This is the best bang since the big one
Touch me, with your white glove
Cover me in gold dust

The best bang since the big one
The best bang since the big one
The best bang since the big one

The best bang since the big one
The best bang since the big one
The best bang since the big one

11. Interlude 2

[Instrumental]

12. Am I A Girl?

I want to be a girl
In all the normal ways
Pose for a photograph
Put on my pretty face
Thank God I'm not a boy
I'd always have to pay
Pretend that I was strong
And never got afraid

Please don't complicate me
I don't understand
Sometimes I'm feminine
Sometimes I'm masculine
Don't evaluate me as woman or man
It's keeping me awake
You're differentiating

Girl?
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
What does that even mean?
I'm somewhere in between

Sometimes I have these thoughts
They leave me all confused
It gets so hard for me
Oh, is it hard for you?
And all these blurry lines
Get crossed inside my head
When I said take me home
That wasn't what I meant

Please don't complicate me
I don't understand
Sometimes I'm feminine
Sometimes I'm masculine
Don't evaluate me as woman or man
It's keeping me awake
You're differentiating

Girl?
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
What does that even mean?
I'm somewhere in between

Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
Am I a girl?

I want to be a girl
I want to be a girl
I want to be a girl
I want to be a girl

Please don't complicate me
I don't understand
Sometimes I'm feminine
Sometimes I'm masculine
Don't evaluate me as woman or man
It's keeping me awake
Keep differentiating

Girl?
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
What does that even mean?
I'm somewhere in between

Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
Am I a girl?
Am I a boy?
Am I a girl?

13. Play Destroy

It's Grimes
I'm Poppy
Let's go

Destroy

This is how we play
This is how we play destroy (Play destroy)
Gonna cut your face
And break your favorite toy
Drop a match in the gas tank
Blow up your neighbour's pool
Oh, boy
I love to play destroy

Mhm, mhm
Oh, boy, boy
Boy, boy, boy
Mhm, destroy
Mhm

This is how we play
This is how we play destroy (Play destroy)
Manipulate the girls
Indoctrinate the boys

Burn down the local Wal-Mart
Monsanto, Raytheon

Oh, boy
I love to play destroy
I love to play destroy
Play destroy
Drop a match in the gas tank
Blow up your neighbor's pool
Oh, boy
I love to play destroy

Poppy, I'm dying
It's a Hollywood moment
Destroy, destroy, destroy
Destroy, destroy, destroy
It's time to die
Uh!

This is how we play destroy, destroy

This is how we play
This is how we play destroy (Play destroy)
Gonna cut your face
And make your favorite toy
Drop a match in the gas tank
Blow up your neighbor's pool
Oh, boy
Oh, oh, oh boy
I love to play destroy
Play destroy

Burn down the local Wal-Mart
Monsanto, Raytheon

Oh, boy
I love to play destroy
I love to play destroy

14. X

Ooh
Heavy!

I wanna love everyone
Empty every bullet out of every gun
Please take me back to where we began
Ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba

Gimme, gimme bloody, please gimme bloody
Gimme, gimme bloody, please gimme bloody
You can get down on your knees if you're naughty
(You can get down on your knees if you're naughty)
Gimme, gimme bloody, please, gimme bloody
(Gimme, gimme bloody, please, gimme bloody)

Poetry, poetry, poetry
Ecstacy, ecstacy, ecstacy
Poetry, poetry, poetry
Ecstacy, ecstacy, ecstacy

Baby we can save the world
From every evil boy and dangerous girl
Please make me believe in harmony
Ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba
Ba, ba, ba

Gimme, gimme bloody, please gimme bloody
Gimme, gimme bloody, please gimme bloody
You can get down on your knees if you're naughty
(You can get down on your knees if you're naughty)
Gimme, gimme bloody, please, gimme bloody
(Gimme, gimme bloody, please, gimme bloody)

I wanna love everyone
Empty every bullet out of every gun
Baby we can save the world
From every boy and every girl
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back to the place where we began