Bathhouse Betty

"that's it, baby! when you got it, flaunt it, flaunt it!"

"this is the divine miss m and i'm here to share with you some rare and stimulating insight into my cosmic fabulosity. it's really very simple. i smiply believe with all my heart:"

I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, dammit!
I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, dammit!
I'm beautiful, so beautiful, i'm beautiful, dammit!
I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, dammit!

"go away, little girl," they used to say.
"hey, you're too fat, baby, you can't play."
"hold on, miss thing, what you trying to do?
You know you're too wack to be in our school."

Too wack, too smart, too fast, too fine,
Too loud, too tough, too too divine.
I said you don't belong. you don't belong.
Too loud, too big, too much to bear,
Too bold, too brash, too prone to swear.
I heard that song for much too long.

Ain't this my sun? ain't this my moon?
Ain't this my world to be who i choose?
Ain't this my song? ain't this my movie?
Ain't this my world? i know i can do it.

I'm not too short, i'm not too tall,
I'm not too big, i'm not too small.
Ooh, don't lemme start lovin' myself!
Ooh, don't lemme start lovin' myself!
I'm not too white, i'm not too black,
I'm not too this, i'm not too that.
Ooh, don't lemme start lovin' myself!
Ooh, don't lemme start lovin' myself!

I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, dammit!
I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, dammit!

It's time to call it what it is. don't play the naming game.
Become what you were born to be and be it unashamed.
"go away, little boy," i can hear them say,
"everybody on the block says they think you're gay.
Hold on, my friend, do you think we're blind?
Take a look at yourself. you're not our kind."

Too black, too white, too short, too tall,
Too blue, too green, too red, too small.
I said you don't belong. you don't belong.
Too black, too white, too short, too tall,
Too blue, too green, too red, too small.
I heard that song for much to long.

Ain't this my sun? ain't this my moon?
Ain't this my world to be who i choose?
Ain't this my song? ain't this my movie?
Ain't this my world? i know i can do it.

People always ask me,
"miss m, how did you get so far
On so little?" shut up!
Well, i woke up one morning,
Flossed my teeth and decided,
"damn, i'm fierce!" you look good!
You can be just like me! a goddess? yeah!
Don't just pussy foot around and sit on your assets.
Unleash your ferocity upon an unsuspecting world.
Rise up and repeat after me: "i'm beautiful!"

I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful!
Can you say that?
I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful!
I don't hear you!
I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful!
Louder!
I'm beautiful, i'm beautiful, i'm beautiful!
Hey!

That's it, baby, when you got it, flaunt it, flaunt it!

Aaaaaah!
Ain't this my sun? my sun! ain't this my moon? my moon!
Ain't this my world to be who i choose?
Ain't this our song? ain't this our song?
Ain't this our movie? ain't this our movie?
Ain't this our world to be who we choose?

I'm not too short, i'm not too tall,
I'm not too big, i'm not too small.
Ooh, don't lemme start lovin' myself!
Ooh, don't lemme start lovin' myself!
I'm not too white, i'm not too black,
I'm not too this, i'm not too that.
Ooh, don't lemme start lovin' myself!
Ooh, don't lemme start lovin' myself!
I'm beautiful, dammit!

I know that i'm no saint.
My head is in the clouds.
They called you a mistake,
But i still, i still say your name out loud.

They called me a stupid girl,
Just like my mom.
Too many men passed through my arms.
At seventeen i looked into your eyes,
Knew i could never comfort your cries.
Every april still reminds me of you.
The child i never knew.
My lullaby in blue.

It all goes by so fast.
How lovely you must be.
Why you've reached the age at last
That i was when your daddy lived with me.

How i wish we could meet somewhere,
Talk it through.
There is so much i would say to you.
There are others, i'm not alone.
A younger brother you've never known,
And a baby girl who so reminds me of you.
The child i never knew.
My lullaby in blue.

As the years go by,
Try not to think of us sadly.
Believe it if you can,
I wanna see you so badly.
On your birthday, mama's thinking of you.
The child i never knew.
My lullaby in blue.
My lullaby in blue.
My lullaby . . .

Howard, the strangest things
Have happened lately when i
Take a good swing
And all my dreams
They pivot and slip.
I drop my fists
And they're back, laughing.

Howard, my intentions
Become not to lose what i've won.
Ambition has given way
To desperation and i,
I've lost the fight from my eyes.

Boxing's been good to me, howard.
Now i'm told,
"you're growing old."
The whole time we knew
A couple of years i'd be through.
Has boxing been good to you?

Howard, now i confess
I'm scared and lonely and tired.
Everyone says i'm made of clay,
That i've had my day,
That i'm not cut out for this.
I just know what to say.
And i say,

Boxing's been good to me, howard.
Now i'm told,
"you're growing old."
The whole time we knew
A couple of years i'd be through.
Has boxing been good to you?

Well, sometimes i punch myself
Hard as i can.
Yelling, "nobody cares!"
Hoping someone will tell me how wrong i am,
Howard.

Boxing's been good to me, howard.
Now i'm told,
"you're growing old."
The whole time we knew
A couple of years i'd be through.
Has boxing been good,
Has boxing been good,
Has boxing been good?

Mmmmmm, you talk about you and only you
And the things that you do for you.
You say you're not a lean cuisine.
So i wanna see whatcha got on the menu.

Now, if you think you're the man the only man
With an exterior you feel is superior,
Just give miss b a little peek
And see if you really can deliver.

Your tendencies are short, my expectations are long.
And as i see it now, there's not much to go on.
It seems you dug a hole that you can't crawl out.
Now i truly see what you're all about.

Don't brag about the diamond rings
Or the expensive clothes you wear,
'cause i could care less for what you possess
And your attitude needs repair.
Don't brag about your body, baby,
And say that you're packin' a lot,
'cause all i see besides your big feet
Is that you got big socks.

Let's just say that there's something lackin'.
A flea shouldn't have the nerve to be braggin'.
So pack up your little gift and get to steppin'.
Return it back and put it in the kiddie section.

Full figured in a place that can deliver?
Ha ha, not from what i've seen.
I can't trace what's below your waist.
There's too much space to be inside those jeans.

Don't brag about the diamond rings
Or the expensive clothes you wear,
'cause i could care less for what you possess
And your attitude needs repair.
Don't brag about your body, baby,
And say that you're packin' a lot,
'cause all i see besides your big feet
Is that you got big socks.

Bye bye, baby, bye bye.
It's time to wave the white flag
Now that the kitten has been let out the bag.

Don't brag about the diamond rings
Or the expensive clothes you wear,
'cause i could care less for what you possess
And your attitude needs repair.
Don't brag about your body, baby,
And say that you're packin' a lot,
'cause all i see besides your big feet
Is that you got big socks.

Don't brag about the diamond rings
Or the expensive clothes you wear,
'cause i could care less for what you possess
And your attitude needs repair.
Don't brag about your body, baby,
And say that you're packin' a lot,
'cause all i see besides your big feet
Is that you got big socks.

Live at five and cnn
Keep us all abreast
Of breaking stories that can tend
To make us anxious and depressed.
Problems with no answers
Hang on like some chronic cough.
And every day some brand new issue
Rears it's head to piss you off.

Bad guys win.
Optimism's wearing thin.
Things are spinning out of control.
Cynicism's all the fad.
World events could make us mad
As hatters.
Almost every day
Some underpinning slips away.
These aren't laughing matters.

Time bombs tick.
People keep on getting sick.
And a nickel's not worth a cent.
Widckedness and greed abound.
Just as peace is gaining ground
It shatters.
Hate is here to stay,
And justince goes to those who pay.
Friend, these aren't laughing matters.

The truth is scarrier by far
Than anything that stephen king could write.
The stories in the paper are
The daily small decline and fall
Spelled out in black and white.

Oh, what to do, what to do?
How to take a brighter view
When your noodle's totally fried.
Human spriits need to be
Leavened by a little levity.
So take those blues
And bounce them off the wall.
Keep your humor please,
'cause don't you know it times like these that
Laughing matters most of all.

Oooooh. oooh-hoooh.
Ooooo-hoooh.
It's such a mystery
How he found something in me
That i never knew was there.
He uncovered it so easily.
He turned me like a season
And i began to change.
He wrapped himself all around me,
Now i'll never be the same.

That's how love works.
That's how love moves.
Like a river running through you.
Sometimes it lifts you
As high as heaven.
It consumes you, that's a given.
That's how love moves.
Ohh, that's how love moves.

I've seen walls that could never be broken
Come a-tumblin' down, oh yes i have.
I've heard the voice of love calling
Without making a sound.
See, i was touched by an angel
The day he took my hand.
I know that he's the miracle
That makes me eveything i am.

That's how love works.
That's how love moves.
Like a river running through you.
Sometimes it lifts you
As high as heaven.
It consumes you, that's a given.
That's how love moves.
Ohh, that's how love moves.
Woah, love.

Sometimes it's a whisper,
Oh, sometimes it's a storm,
Sometimes it reaches forever
With it's everlasting arms.

That's how love works.
That's how love moves.
Like a river running through you.
Sometimes it lifts you
High as heaven.
It consumes you, yeah, that's a given.

Ohhhhhhh!
That's how love works.
That's how love moves.
Like a river, yeah, like a river
Running through you, running through your heart and soul.
Sometimes it lifts you
As high as heaven.
Heaven!
It consumes you, that's a given.

That's how love works. that's how love works.
That's how love moves. that's how love moves.
Like a river running through you. like a river running through your heart and soul.
Sometimes it lifts you
As high as heaven. heaven!
It consumes you, that's a given.
That's how love moves.

That's how love moves.
That's how love moves.
That's how love moves.
That's how, that's how, that's how.
That's how love moves.
That's how love moves.